The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-06

to do with the closing measure, and
that the alliance had taken no official
action in the matter. The association
| had not even expected such thing,
and the news of the police crusade was
/ a. very agreeable surprise to them Inc
/ ministers, at their last meeting, dis
cussed the matter of saloon closing
and the gambling matter, but the as
ISOLATION had postponed any action IN
/ til next Monday.
made any petition to Chief Hilton in
regard to public morals, and mad not
attempted to influence the city author
titles in the matter of closing gambling
/ houses at all.
/ A party of Christian ladies are al
| legged to have made a trip through the
| saloons end gambling dives Of the ave
/ nue. yesterday afternoon. 1t IS said
they found a party of women INDUCING
/ in gambling games, and stirred up
some lively excitement in the place by
! lecturing the women and attempting TO
! get them out of the house. The women
/ found in the place were denlZens Oh the
/ alley.
/ The women continued their search
/ through every house on the avenue,
going through the saloons and gam
bling houses, inspecting everything as
they vent. This trio, followed SO
closely by the order from the police TO
close up. it is said, was one of the
causes of the belief among the gam
blers that the crusade against them
WIS the result of the work OF church
In addition to the order closing the
gambling houses, the mayor directed
that the maisons de Joie on Commercial
street be instructed to take down their
fiaring electric signs and TO keep their
window curtains drawn. All of this
was a complete surprise to the sport
ing fraternity and to the members Oh
the councils police committee Inc
or
the matter at all and several OF ITS
members expressed much surprise that
they hadn't been taken into the may
/ Ors confidence.
Notified BY Detectives.
1t was S:25 last night when Detec-
tiveS Sheets and Janney were told OF
the work that had been cut out for
them With PatrOlman Jim Williams
as body guard they Immediately
started on their rounds. The gamblers
were fairly taken off their feet. Not
one of them had had any intimation as
to what was coming. Only Monday, the
Sheep Ranch had deposited 500 at the
police station by way of a fine in ad-
vance for q month. The place was re-
opened on Saturday, after a shutdown
of several weeks
The men who make their living from
the other side of the table were too
paralyzed to protest. Indeed, sheets
didn't give them time TO talk Shut
| up your place" he would say, ap-
preaching the proprietor.
''Wh-a-a-at?" the man would STAN
mer.
"Shut it UP or come over to the hall.
That's the order" Then the place
would be closed and that's all there
was to it. Gamblers generally know
when they are up against the real
! thing" so nobody was arrested. Inc
disorderly houses were equally philo-
sophical- They took down their red
lights without a murmur and at 1:3O
last night Comm ercial street, from all
exterior appearances, couldn't have
been told from the most respectable
business street in Salt Lake.
Thompson will kill the town dead
erin a door NALL said one of the
unemployed. II can't understand what
he's driving at. We haven't broken
out of bounds lately that l know of.
; OF course I don't think its going to
> la st. There's bound to be gambling.
, If it isn't on Commercial street, where
: l the police can look after il, it will be
in other places where they can L
! That's all there is to it, These things
will happen every now and then, out
; think within a month or so things VIII
: be running the same as usual"
What It Costs.
1t was estimated by one of the sport
! ing authorities last night that nearly
300 men, drawing an average of about
/, So a day, have been thrown out If en-
plOyment by the mayors order. There
are dealers. boosters, porters, look
? outs managers and other employees
about gambling houses and the total
I foots up to a good-sized figure They
are all paid every day and they spend
I their money freely
. The shutting off of this amount is
{ but one item. At police headquarters
/ last night il was said that the gamb-
lers put $1,700 in fines into the city
4 treasury every month. Then there are
= eight saloons on Commercial street
= that depend almost entirely on the
{ gamblers for sustenance- They pay
> $500 per month license in the aggregate
! These saloons are likely to be forced
out of business unless the ant-gamb-
| ling dictum is abTogated. Thus $4,000
per year Will be taken out of the city
. treasury.
Another item is the rents of the
places used as gambling houses. 1t is
. d character of property that tenants
= cannot readily be found for and sc
y certain prominent citizens who derive
: revenue therefrom may have to cut
: down their living expenses.
Here is a list of the places closed by
z Detective Sheets: Lone Star, COmbi-
: nation, Cripple Creek, White Front
u Green Light and Sheep Ranch on Com
. mercial street; the Commercial club
: poker room in the d. +. Walker build
l ing, William Keating's poker room ir
. the Walker bank building, Comstoch
. saloon poker game on Second South
i street, poker room in the rear of the
Z Walker House billiard room, Powell's
l poker room on Second South street.
There is hardly a saloon in towT
{ where dice shaking and card playing
e for drinks are not permitted. These
Z were all instructed TO quit or suffer ar
y rest.
= Nobody knows how long the unusua
> order of things will last, but number
of gentlemen care very much and will
. keep on caring until they find out.