The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-11
SENSATIONAL ATTACK
ON GAMBLING IN OGDEN
Head of Congregational Church breaches Sermon in Which He
Gives Names and Dates and Does Attempt to Shield Any
One Not Even City Counclmen City Officials
Amusing Recital of a Raid on
Gambling Den.

gate at the right and there you are Cor
| was the other nignt) right in the
midst of what you want and II you
want to get all four Of them, repeat the
same process at
800 25th street, over the White Ele.
phant saloon.
And at 3OS 25th street, over the Ele-
phant saloon.
And 2S6 25th street, over the St
Louis Beer Hall.
At 800 25th street, when upstairs.
turn TO the left instead Of to the right
At all four of these places you will
find some or all OF the games / men
toned a moment ago.
And yet, Isn't It rather foolish OF me
to set down these facts? Isn't It like
carrying Goals TO Newcastle2
/ have used the expression, PRO
tected by the police" use 1t because
/ don't know how else To put It, Let
ME tell you a story of q raid upon
some gambling houses which didn't
occur in Paducah Ky, or in Hunts
VILE, | hasten to add-and then you
draw your own conclusions.
One night, after had been in every
gambling house In town-there were
more them met two officers upon tho
street | snail not name them because
that would serve but little purpose. I
shall. however, designate them Officer
Y and officer Y, OF Mr.. X and Mr.. Y
They knew what / had been doing
and so discussed with me the Difficult
ties of contending with such a dis.
tressing situation because 1t was i'm
possible for the eager officers to gain
access to these "pernicious dens OF
lawlessness." l don't mind saying
mad beautiful picture Of the Ogden
officials frothing at the mouth In their
wild desire to punish these law-break
ers. But these officers were game and
suggested a raid That word has
wild sound. You can hear already tho
sound of crashing doors and the heart
less handling Of a terrified and dis
tracted mob seeking egress but finding
none and submitting finally TO a merci-
less fate. Well, that may be one kind
of raid. but the one / got into that
night was a sort Of pink tea affair. 1t
took place in this wise: The officers
asked where the fire OF our guns should
be first directed. We were in close
proximity to the st. Louis Beer Hall
and so ] suggested tnat we train it on
that architectural nightmare. In other
words, Creighbaum &c Peterson were
to be honored with our first call.
These gentlemen kept in that day
peculiar kind of open house At the
head OF the stairs was a peek nole. 1t
had n wonderful outlook About as
dreary as some of the views which
Jacob Riis mentioned the other even
ing.
Callers were to be scrutinized by
the artist But the peek hole man
didn't fancy his looks / imagine-for
the door didn't open. There we stood
the three Of us-out In the cold. We
ratified the door. No answer. For
moment we listened to the merry whirr
of the balls and the coppers alighting
on the piles of silent chips Then we,
broken hearted and crushed, plodded
down the inhoSpitable flight There,
Elderltln, YOU see how it is," they
sighed. | could have bawled out for
sympathy. The reception was pitt
fully cold. These were good men-and
didn't merit such a welcome
That was section one of the raid.
Comes now section two, our next
place Of attack. | had been In the
Elephant club rooms a moment ago
and had seen much merriment and
felt that here our greeting would be
more cordial. But here again was
peek hole. We were beginning to un-
derstand the thing. Now the game
was to get that covered. So ! was sent
ahead to cover the ugly thing and into
the jaws of death rode courageously.
gained the heights and covered. Up
the stairs came laundering the officers
like Roosevelt at San Juan.
Just at that precise moment, nice.
ly dressed young man came up and we
stood facing each otner, The window
over the stairway was open and one
could hear every call to the disobedient
dice. The interior was alive with law
abiding citizens at feverish excitement.
You understand | had been in this
place 20 minutes before. l knew it
was a gambling house and running full
tilt The officers were on the landing
now and we proceeded TO enter, but
found an unexpected obstacle In the
nicely dressed young man who saio
there was nothing going on inside, TO
which we replied that we had not In
timated that there was. He had mis-
interpreted our silence. We were dis
cussing a question which in reality
had not been broached. Sucn conver-
sation, then, YOU see, was really idiotic.
The weather would have been a filter
subject TO detain our wriggling
thoughts. But not wishing TO discuss
that prolific subject the young man
behind the diamonds started down
stairs. Now l mad seen him emerge
from a gambling house and so in my
innocent foolishness, demanded that
the agreeable party be placed under
arrest. We were raiding. you under