Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-02
PETITION OF TENANTS.

The petition referred to is as fol-
lows:
TO the Honorable Mayor and City
Council, Salt Lake city, Utah--We, the,
undersigned, Taxpayers and proprietors
Of business houses situated on the
south side Of First South street, be
tween Main and West Temple. having
been informed that an application FOR
a license is about to be made TO con-
duct a saloon at No. % west FIRST
South, do earnestly protest against the
granting Of said license. There are
already four saloons on the south side
of said block. and these have become
a nuisance and detriment TO the busi-
ness interests of the undersigned. We.
therefore, respectfully pray that your
honorable body refuse the granting of
said additional license.
Some of the signatures which were
attached follow: Fl. DinWoodey Fur
niture company, Bennett Paint & Glass
company. a. D. Tobin Furniture COM
pany, Washburn Furniture company,
futile Bros, agents for property In
the Dinwoodey neighborhood and to
the Dinwoodey property, Fl. w. Law
renee, agent for the Kimball estate
owning property upon which the kim
ball block is located. l.. E. Ritter, agent
of the Ritter estate owning ground west
of the Dinwoodey company, tenants
We'll Jewelry company, tenants. White
Taylor, Romney & Armstrong. proper
ty representatives, A. Richter, the
Kimball Van company, ]. e. Jennings
of the Jennings estate. owning the Jen-
nings block on the lower corner of Masn
and First South, the Utah National
Bank company and the saltair Beach
company, tenants of the Jennings
| blocks and others One institution To-
| Gated to the west of the Saltair Beach
| company's offices is the Utah IjlertriC
| company and it refused to sign the pc
| tition, explaining frankly that its rea-
| son for refusing was 1T had been given
| the contract to rcwire the old Hamlin
| quarters by the brewery company. pro-
| posing to open q saloon therein, Ersk-
| inc Bros. plumbers signed the petition
regardless OF what contracts might be
| still to be given out. DR.. Num-, vet
Urinary surgeon. p. G. Ho.<is: COM
| pany, the Zion Fa!.ais and Lunch
Room ana others signed the petition.
FIVE SALOONS. ALREADY.
These prop lrty owners and tenants
| occupy every 'oot Of ground along the
south side of thc street, with the eS-
ception Of the ground occupied By the
| Utah Electric concern and the fol-
| lowing saloons: The Germania, 10
! west First South, wholesale and re-
| tail, q Salt Like Brewing company
beer station; he New Family Resort,
| SO west First South. u Fisher station;
the Ped Top Res,rt So west First
SorCh: and Sindar's place, 501s west
| FIRST South, y. Salt Lake Brewing sta
! ton. AS can be seen. the west half
! of the block is plentifuly supplied.
I his Is on the south side, only too.
IT can he seen that a big sum of
taxes collected by the city comes from
| the men who are asking a small favor
such a small favor-from the city.
All they want is to keep the neigh
! borllood from having to tolerate the
odor Of more beer stations. AS bust
ness men and business institutions,
| they are asking that women and
| children can continue to reach their
| place of business without having to
! pass dives. There Is row but one
| path left free of these, and an appli-
| cation is now before the council to
open beer distributing station in
! the clean neighborhood. If. as OK
! planned, the council says Yes 1t will
| be a slap at dozens of the city's big
| gest business men and taxpayers
MAYOR AND THE SALOONS.
Mayor Bransford when asked for a
| statement in regard to the saloon queS-
| ton generally. said: In my opinion
! there are not too many saloons in Salt
| Lake. providing they are kept under
| proper control, considering the popula-
| ton of the city and the number of sa-
| looms usually found IN cities of similar
/ size in the country. | suppose appii-
cations for saloon licenses will continue
to be granted as long as conditions
seem to justify men in going into the
| saloon business The city has no au-
! thority to grant one man a license and
| refuse license to another man. 1t
| would be unjust in my estimation to re-
| quire one man to close his saloon and
| allow another man to keep his saloon