The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-07

/ floor; in the morning they viii be given
a breakfast of simple fare and the next
night maybe, they will be back ana
| maybe they win have found some more
congenial place.
'Ting-a-ling."
1t is the telephone again.
What's that family rOW-5I7 West
First South street-there's shooting
down there-all right"
Mike C0nyers. they're raising hell in
! GreektOwn. Slide down there and see
! what's dom"
Police Griffin comes in with his re-
port Of the fight on South Temple
| street.
Just a bunch scrappin'. Roy Condie
/ soaked some other guy in the nose and
sent the bunch home. Condie said
| he'd be in Monday. That fellow had
| blood all over his clothes.
'Ting-a-ling.'
"CIough-aI -tomorrow's
Sunday-don't get so fresh"
''Ting-a-ling."
''HaTvey-all right"
PatrOlmaH COnyers comes in with the
report that there's 'nOthin' dom " in
Greektown. A couple of excitable for
eigners had a quarrel and there was
some shooting, but nobody hurt.
claimed a girl who came quickly in and
appealed to the desk sergeant with a
directness that showed familiarity with
the customs of the station. He's been
missing since yesterday and he had
S25.'
What's his name" asked the ser
geant. Lost brothers and husbands are
always i'm demand in the desk sergeant's
/ office
"Wtn sorenson."
"All right. Wen look him up" says
| the sergeant
Then there came into the station a
man who was pitifully old, pitifully
dirty, pitifully ragged and pitifully
weak The old voice quaVeTed as he
asked:
can I stay tonight?"
what? You back again, uncle?" in
I quires the sergeant in a tone of as
sUmed surprise, but in which there is
nothing of unkindness.
But the old man is assigned to a
| bench somewhere downstairs where it
| is warm. To the casual observer the
| sergeants question may have appeared
/ lacking i'm sympathy, but that same
/ question has been repeated scores Of
times to that same old man, and each
time the sergeant's voice carries just
the same amount of shocked surprise
| The old man has grown to like it. He
is a regular.
A patrolman brought in a man who
gave the name of AlOnzO Simms. The
| sergeant showed no interest in the ar
rival, other than that exhibited in the
remark: you have not been in to see
us for almost a week"
Simms is a man with a long, droop-
ing, woTried-lOOking mustache and
tired eyes He was drunk. He had a
long, scrawny neck, long, scrawny arms
and an excitable nature. When he gets
excited, his Adams apple seems to be
having heart throbs. AlOnZO was calm
until he was searched. When the pa
trolmen took a small bottle of patent
medicine from his pocket, he wept and
begged that it be given back.
It's the only thing that has kept me
alive for years he cried.
Patent medicine jag" grOwled Ser
geant Spears disgUstedly. His remark
interpreted means that the prisoner
had reached his state of ecstatic hilari-
BUSINESS by means Of remedies sold in
drug stores, containing a percentage Of
alcohol.
AIonzo was led cellward singing
Rocked in the Cradle Of the Deep" He
continued to sing long after he was IN
the "drunkhOuse."
IF can't have my msddycine. I don't
want to be locked up. 1t was cold in
there the last time" whined Alonzo to
the patrolman.
"Then you go and git locked up
Somewhere else" suggested the patrol
man as ne banged the big iron door.
AT times there are noises resembling
the bOmbardment in a boiler factory.
This is caused by the "drUnks, who
finding the "dIunlhDuse" little to their
liking, spend the greater portion of tire
night in beating upon the cast-iron
door.
In a little while two well-dressed men
walked into the station. Both appeared
rather the worse for a might out"
Want to Be Arrested.
I'VE want to be arrested calmly an
nounced one of them.
Fer the luv Nv hivin, exclaimed
Denny Sullivan, reverting to the Irish
he always uses when excited.
Sergeant Spears grinned amiably.
Whats the CHARGE" he inquired.
Anything, replied the visitor. You
see, we've stayed out too late and if we
start home now we get might get held
up. Now, you've got a nice, neat place
here and we can stay till daylight and
go home in safety.
You'd better see the lieutenant" said
Spears.
The lieutenant walked out of his
sanctum firmly. like a man who has
duty TO perform. and is going to per-