The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-28
Mac Saturday Chat

In fact worked all the reforms in and
out of the profession necessary to the
welfare OF this community
! III n lack OF material is the cause OF DR..
Beatty's inactivity and he wishes to do
something really heroic, let him turn
his attention for a few moments to tho
condition under which his subordinates
operate In the discharge of the clerical
duties of the Secretary of the State Board
OF Health.
A day or two ago n local newspaper
man, commenting on this situation, said;
About the most unique curiosity that
could DO devised by human ingenuity Is
the condensation of space In order TO
| provide for the Office OF the Secretary of
the State Board OF Health. This Is To-
| Gated In the Mercantile block at the
corner OF Main and Third South. IL is
| hardly proper TO refer to IL as q room,
being In fact subdivision OF an ordi-
nary room, and is about the size of one
| end OF n cattle car, In this sub-dlylded
! apartment young man and a young
! woman find quarters. One window of
five In the Health department IS ap-
| portioned TO them. In the room DR..
| Beatty has his private Office as Score-
| tary OF the board, using by far the larger
part of the space, approximately twenty
feet square. for which the State pays $25
| month,
THE curiosity OF the arrangement is
an enclosure hedged in by screens in one
| feet square, within which tho two clerks
| labor. Talk about one being cramped
| Tor space. TO say nothing of tho unsani-
| tary condition. This workshop OF the
| State Board OF Health is entitled to be
| advertised as the qulntcssence of econo-
my and an undisputed rival of the con-
| gested quarters Of the late lamented
CHINATOWN In San Francisco II looks
| like child's playhouse yet therein toll
| TWO faithful clerks after making space
| ior TWO chairs, a desk. n typewriter q
| table, seals books, filing cases etc An
| ordinary bathroom would contain oceans
| or room in comparison. | want TO tell
| you that If there is any one In Salt Lake
who desires to see something really
laughablc and ludlcrous. when the fact
is taken into consideration that this Is
tho headquarters of the State Board Of
Health let him pay visit to DR., Beatty
and see for himself, And yet, Dr. Beatty
poses as an exponent OF sanitation the
champion Of hygienic rules and laws
ana Is especially Jealous In his work OF
preventing cruelty to animals" This nov
el description OF the headquarters OF
the State Board OF Health suggests that
Dr. Beatty might throw off his lethargy
FOR short time and file a charge or two
against himself. 1t Is probably a cinch
that the State Medical fraternlty-or
Whatever 1t is called-would sustain his
charge with promptness and with salts
faction.
What sneakng. hypercrltical incon-
sistent old thing the Herald has become.
During the Morris administration when
that brilliant and ferocious Chief OF Po-
lice, william j. Lynch, was dreaming OF
the Mayoralty and permitting hts depart
ment To go to the demnition bow-wows,
the thugs and hold-ups and black-lcgs of
Salt Lake reveled In a carnival of crime.
Yet tho Herald gave but the most passing
attention TO tho multiplicity OF crimes,
and one of its chief moguls consorted
with the puny Mayor In trying TO round
up the lawless element in a fruitless
cndeavor TO again cinch municipal con-
troll.
Men were sandbagged under the very
nose of Lynch, the black-legs and the |
demi-reps of the city were Systematically |
blackmailed in order TO keep the public |
Golfers full The most shameful acts OF |
municipal coDnlvance with crime came |
TO the public attention day by day but |
the Herald and It's coterle of Morrisite !
hangers-on had not word OF condemna- |
uon 10 utter. The lawbreakers Of the |
city were their lawbrcakers then; their !
crimes not sufficiently offensive 10 crltI- |
clZe nor TO condemn,
NOW, however, the Herald goes out of |
It's way TO side swIpe the present police
department because, forsooth two or |
three saloons have been held up and the
onenders have escaped. What were these |
hold-ups compared 10 the hold-ups OF /
the Morris-Lynch administrations VIII !
the gamblers who have been forced TO
lice the town answer? VIII the saloon
men OF Salt Lake step forward and tell
how they were grated In season and out
OF season by members OF the Morris
Lynch administration?
Salt Lake mover had a better no1ice
department than II has now 1t never
mad more competent nor n more yiei-
liant chief than il now has. The city has
not In years been so free from crime as
IT Is and there is not mining center in
all the country where there is less public
crime than in Salt Lake today
Sure. there were hold-ups and there
Will be hold-ups, there were murders
and there VIII be murders, but the people
OF this city will have nothing but con-
tempt for newspaper that beholds only
Tue hoat IN the eye OF an opposing
party when the beam in Its own is so
we'll developed
And speaking Of former Chief Lynch's
administration compared to that of
present Chief Sheets. what a travesty
one was! Why, the criminals OF Salt
Lake played hide and-seek In Lynch's
immaculate presence. He was no more
htted for Chief OF Police than he would
be for an Episcopal bishop. 1t would be
necessary to rake Salt Lake with the
proverbial nne-tooth comb to locate
man as united as was Lynch. His de-
partment was dlsorganized and demoraI-
lied. He either did not know it or was
too intent In looking out for himself TO
care rap about II.
As servant OF the smoot-Cutler ma
chine Lynch, however, is a stalwart Not
because OF his following, however, The
last municipal campaign showed that
without the boost which the apostle SEN
alor gave him he would not have had n
corporals guard, But Lynch knows how
to fawn. He was the worst beaten man !
for Mayor the town has had He ac-
eepted nomination that was given him
for no apparent reason than that it Dur
posed hoodwinlSlng GentIles. The Lord
knows II would be a very weak brother I
indeed who would pick William j. Lynch ,
out for Mayor, IL a competent Mayor was c
desired, with such excellent timber as