The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-22
BABIES WELCOMED
IN FLAT HOUSES
Salt Lake Landlords Have Not
Reached the Point of Bar
ring the Infants.
ONE LONE BACHELOR
AGAINST LITTLE TOTS
On the Whole, However, New
cOmers Fare Well in Apart
ment-H0uSes of Zion.

| During the past year the young cou
! pies Of Zion, the couples who love
/ ease, comfort ana enjoyment at mod
crate outlay of hubby's salary, have
been rejoiced By the news that soon
very soon, Salt Lake will have some
more model new apartment-houses.
"a fat, to the average bride, has an
irresistible fascination, Some of the
tiny ones give her little girl feeling
OF playing house. Butt is no par
ticular good news for the mother of
a family, for she feels that her "bless
lngs' bar her out; that children, no
mater how dear. are not welcomed in
a fiat house Arc they not welcomed in
Zion fat houses7
All over the Eastern States this oues-
tion of q couple with children securing
flats or downtown houses is serious
one. In very few flats in Gotham are
children allowed, while the rooming-
houses absolutely bar the little darlings.
A canvass of the flat houses of Zion
shows that here in Utah. where babies
arc so plentiful and so welcome. there
are very few restrictions placed upon
their presence in su apartment house.
At the Bransford. the Keith apart
are seen all about the place, well-be-
havcd, well.dressed little youngsters, it
is true. but still babies
AT the Keith apartment-house as long
as child is not nuisance, behaves
in decetn fashion and doesn Z do any
solo work during the night hours. there
is no objection made. At the Wiley
apartments two or three baby cabs at
the entrace show that the proprietor is
not hard-hearted and the janitor com
placent. The Bransford shelters sew
is surprising, broad mindedness
shown by proprietors and managers Of
fat houses In Salt Lake,
Barred by Bachelor,
But there is one apartment house
here, whose agent is bachelor. where
babies and dogs are absolutely barred
And the worst of il is, that when the
old stork gets absent~minded and
leaves rosy, pink little bundle in ono
Of the fats, the bundle hasn't begun
to smile before the tenants who have
the bad taste to offend this way are
informed that they must go.
The rooming- house keeper is an in
stinctive foe to children, She doesn t
want them around and a couple who
have little boy or girl have trouble
renting rooms.
1.-The truth is that child in a room.
ng-house is great nuisance said
one landlady. 80 1ou see, it is not the
Youngsters fault at al, but the fault
of the room. A child confined in four
walls: with never q change, becomes
fractions, fretful and destructive. A
small boy or girl who has no place to
play except the bedroom, no place for
his toys or games, is going to get ir-
rltable and our furniture and rooms get
the benefit of this condition
Occasionally, in a tender~bearted
mood, | have allowed children in the
rooms, only to BIO very sorry for it
afterwards. My carpets ruined by chill
dren trailing fod over them, everything
scratched up and fnger-marks over
think you will find that nearly every
rooming- house keeper in Salt Lake
City feels the same way
Strangely enough the ban is confined
more strongly TO the small modern pri.
vate houses than to the fats. It Is
difficult for the mother of couple of
children TO secure brand new house,
one built in up-to date style. "No,b
said real estate owner who has re-
Gently erected a number Of small, coy
cottages and intends putting up some
in my houses 1t doesn' t take them
long to mar the nice floors, scratch
the woodwork and do other damage that
must be repaired before another tenant
will take the house. ] have 4 house
on Eighth South street built but a few
short years ago A family with sever.
al children rented it and lived there
for number of years. When they left
the interior was sight to behold, 1t
cost me several hundred dollars TO re-
pair the ramage done by children of
parents. 7 don t care to
rent to people with children
In rooming house on State street.
there are three little babies, one of
them born in the house. But they are
models Of their kind Never a cry
comes from the wee throats at night
and all of them are healthy, dimpled lit
tie things, the pets of the entire house.
No Objections.
~ should say T don t object 70
babies, said the landlady. holding one
Of the squirming infants in question.
Why, we would be n dull house in
deed, without these youngsters to keep
rs amused, OF course, sickly, squal- !
ling child would be a bother, but our
babies are nothing like that
In the Wilfrey apartment house there
are two babies under three months old. |
r few tots of about three years and
several school children Yet there is
never any complaint made by the fiat
holders who are all adults,
In connection with the subject of
babies in flats there is peculiar story
Of superstitution attached to one par.
ticular fat in certain apartment
house. -Four babies have been born in
the fiat during the past four years,
each baby coming 10 different family
and all of them delighting the hearts
of very young mothers The ianitor is
a puzzled man. He can account for it
by no theory and scouts with scorn
that there is any influence cxerted in
the flat
CIT sure is funny, thought he mur-
INJURED. 50 A baby comes, the people
move out, in comes another family and
before you know it there's another
baby. Whenever any one comes TO
rent the fiat l tell them the reputation
of this fiat for | feel that thev should
be warned, so to speak.
Salt Lake apartment house owners
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