Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-24
EVOLUTION OF
COMMERCIAL ST.
AIT the Old Notorious Landmarks
Are Now Steadily Being
0bliterated.
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BUSINESS DIsPLAlc[5Es VICE a
BUSINESS DIspLAlc[3Es VICE.
Strong Efforts to Clean Up the Street
And Make II q Sic for
Commerce.

Commercial street rs undergoing a.
process of evolution which in a short
time IL is hoped. will obliterate all
5he landmarks Of vice that for SO
tnalty years made thesstreet notorious.
Of'thc many dens where crime ran
rampant only three now remain and
K they are under better control than ever
before and 1t is only u question of "a
short time when they NiI be gone en-
tirely.
The den,i-nonde The male parasite.
the dope tiend, the gambler and the
begger and their associates have left
The street Most of the first named
have gone 10 the rstockade. while
some have scattered throughout the
CITY. A trip through the street al this
9t time is of particular interest. but only
& by contrast with conditions that ex
lsted a few months ago. The clang of
the "tinpar'' pianos the sound OF
drunken braWls. the mlrthless laugh OF
Z women and the appeals Of dope fiends
snre no longer&t there as In former times.
ATTAINING sPECTABTLIrY.
Strong efforts are being made to
clean up the street and make it a
business thoroug hfare. Those OF the
underworld have, gone, or nearly all Of
them. The American house il still
the refuge of@""ln desirable citizens and
Is two women of the town conduct what
they claim to he Jroominghouses Aside
v from these places. the buildings are
either empty or occupied by concerns
doing Ultimate business The saloons.
or places here liquor was sold are,
now scenese Of thrift There are sew
8sritl stores, cardE ~ parlnrs, shnemak-
4rrs' shops. barbershops and res
EHurarts. w } S5
itt Detective Sheets and two assistants
made a so-called raid on the street
this week but found nothing there to-
warrant 5intereference. they did not
!, take action against the American
(, house. the eolorcd club where galnbl-
ling Is going on day and night, or the
houses; run by Camille Williams, 30s
Bafid Grace EULER, ~. Al 81 two
4 E'ranch women operate u srooining-
house s555 All
LEGITIMATE CONCERNS.
AL No. 3,there is a " atch repairer's
I shop while across The street. No. 2, Is
q d chilli !parlor and Just below that, Is
4 the Commercial street entrance to the
4 Angeleua roominghouses 10 one Can
get a. shave for i've cents The tom
klt't ttie
been there about month while tho
others mentiofafl. more than a year.
9ggAt No. 10. the. olnuteers hold forth
4 md the bawdy house formerly run
4anpstairs isSnsed as Acknowledgements by
E5 the Volunteers Next door there Is a
ss$taior $ hop and next to that a saloon,
n. II os ae and 20 are saloons but the
rooms upstairs re vacant. At 2S there
Sissila clothing store and ut 80 another
stftilor's shop. They have been uperat-
ling about a year. At "a is IA shoe
makers shop and upstairs there Is "a
l'oominghouse conducted by d colored
woman.
HS| "A candy store and pool hall Is los.
gated at No. 81 1t Is run byEJaps and
they claim they have been there for
u four years There ls another store at
B5 and a second -hand store at IS, but
y HE lipstair ROOMS are empty. No AZ
" Is d cigar store but the upper rooms
iare vacant Another store is located
Sat AZ and has boon 4 open Just two
lnonths. At So there Is the notorious
Americus club. The old Green Light
stby colored men. The old Green Light
x saloon Is still there but all the up-
stairs part of the building and al IS Il
Y Is empty, deserted by the women who
Il have scattered or gone to, the stock
5tate,'5 Tho same condition OF affairs
exists at 60 and G. and the place where
Ada Wilson had n resort, 3S, is empty.
n, & Gradually business interests are TAX
Ing foothold onthe street and 1t is
predicted thatghefore long 1t VIII, be-
come really respectable.