The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-19
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taken care not to repeat. made the
women move upstairs and ordered that
the lower rooms should not be occu-
pied for the purpose intended.
AS the upper room must be entered
by q staircase leading from the lower
room, Smell, the proprietor, had a bril-
liant idea. He reasoned that the wo-
men who wished TO live on the alley
could not enter the upper rooms with
out passing through the lower, SO he
made an order that women wishing to
rent an upper room must also rent the
lower, so as to provide a means OF
passage. The women had to comply
with this, although the lower room is
of no use to them, and they trust to
drunken miners and school boys TO
make up the deficit.
1T is true said one of them that
We pay Shell 81 a day for a room. We
also furnish our own light and heat
linen and bedclOthiDg, and we also, OF
course, board ourselves. We have to
make at least S. a day. but that isn't
so hard TO do. If a girl can't make
that much money she had better get
off the row, for Smell don't want her
Yes, 1 have kids visit me. I would
rather catch a kid than three men, for
know that if one comes he will bring
others I'm not ashamed OF myself;
lost all such foolishness as that long
ago kids money is just as good
10 me as anyone else's. l can buy food
and coal with it. I can pay Smell my
room rent with it, and Chief Paul,
acting for the city, will take it when
l go to pay the $40 a month required
as 4 license. The police call it a fine.
ITO make any kind of a decent lfv-
ing, 1 have to take in more than 500
q month. Smell takes $50 for rent. the
city takes SO for fine, coal and light
cost me from IS to SO, board is $50,
and then I have to dress myself and
have spending money for cigarettes
and beer
In addition to this, the woman in
question probably has TO support a
male friend. who lives off her and re-
pays her with abuse.
Hole of Corruption.
Since the murder of the miner, Dan
| lei Ryan, in the alley a few days ago,
the place has come to the notice of the
public, and people are wondering that
such things are permitted by the police
department of the city and by its aU-
/ thorities. Many persons were unaware
! that such a hole of corruption existed
/ in the heart of the city, and now that
they do know, are resolved that it shall
be cleansed. The remedy, it is assert
ed lies with the police, and has always
been with them. but for some unex-
I
to close his eyes to the condition that
the alley was a resort for thieves Of al
descriptions. that the women were of
! the most abandoned type, and that it
| was breeding place for crime. When
/ It was suggested that he should clean 1t
! out, a look of blank amaZement crept
/ over his face, and he shook his head.
| 1t has been suggested that perhaps the
/ city needs the money which it collects
/ from the women, and that the latter, IN
/ perpetrating their thefts, consider 1t
/ only a case of ''robbing Peter to pay
Paul.
/ Law Covers the Case.
There is on the statute books of the
! city an ordinance which Chief Paul
has hitherto. by his actions, designated
/ as imperative and obsolete. This Or
! dinance is to the effect that any per-
/ son in the city of Salt Lake who is the
/ owner of any building or tenement, the
4 whole or any part of which is used Cor
] immoral purposes, or who has control
of such building or tenement as
/ agent OF, lessee, and who, on notice of
/ such improper use of the building shall
/ fail to suppress the same by removing
! the occupants thereof. shallSbe liable
/ for such offense to a fine not exceeding
] 500, or to Imprisonment for any term
not exceeding three months, or TO both
/ fine and Imprisonment.
Z A sufficient defense under prosecution
( for violation of this ordinance can only
/ be had, when the defendant shows al
/ trial that he has diligently used the
power which the law gives him to sup
! press the improper use of the building
! concerning which the charge is made.
! Joseph J. Smell can make no such de-
! Tense. He visits his tenants personally
/ to collect his rents. and knows exactly
{ what they are and the manner in which
1 they secure their rent money. Instead
I of attempting to suppress them, he is
! constantly on the lookout for other ten
/ ants of the same ilk. The two rooms
! made vacant by the arrest of Mary
! Jane Smith and Madge, Ray for the
/ murder of Daniel Ryan he has already
! filled with new occupants. Only one of
J his rooms is now vacant, and it will be
/ filled as soon as some woman on
! plane morally with the other deniZens
4 of the alley can be found to occupy it.
1t is thought that some day Chief
/ Paul will wake to the fact that he has
| a duty to perform as chief of police and
enforce the city ordinance which GOV
ers the case. Meanwhile the painted
! women in SHELLS alley will continue to
debauch children and rob and murder
| strangers who come to the city