The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-24


ii idup our attention between the glowing red sunset
across the Hudson aud the string of homewaropouna
automobiles the broad parkway Suddch'y hugo
black touring marked with big letters r. u
Y. " shot past.
fJoy.ridipg again in of tho city's cars, re-
marked thought the last Police Department shake
up had put stop to that
sspc-baps il has, returned Kennedy 'Did you see
who in the car? :,
..6o hut sec il has turned and is coming back -
0t1t yvas Ipspector-T mean First Deputy o 'Connor
! thought he recognized he whi1zed along, and
7 ouess he did, too. An, congratulations oOonnor:
haven L had a chance TO tell you before how pieaseo
was TO learn you had been appointed first deputy IL
ouch, IA have been commissioner, though, audcp
Kennedy.
..Conrratulatiops nothing rejoned O'Connor'
=. lust another new dea-clection coming on, mayor
must make show of getting some reform done, ana
all that sort Of thing. So he began with tho fonee
Department and here I am, first deputy sut say
Kennedy be added. dropping his voice, i've httio
lob on my mind that d like to pull off IN about as
spectacular fashop as 1--as you know how want
ia make good copspicuousy good, at the start-nnder
stands Msybe / III be broke for it and sent 10
poundup the pavement of Dismiesalville, but don
care I'll take chance. On tho lovel, Kennedy 1t
4 big thing and IL ought TO be done Will you help
me Lut it across9'
'whst is it!'' asked Kennedy with twinkle IN
his eve at oConuor estimate of tho security OF bis
tenure of office.
O'Copnor drew us away from The automobile toward
the stone parapct overlooking tho railroad and river
far below and Of earsbo of the department chau
feu-. 81 want to pull off successful raid op tne
Vesper Club he whispered earnestly scanning our
faces.
.sGood heavens man. 1 CALCULATED "don Z you
know that Senator Danficd is interested IN
'Jameson interrupted 'Connor reproachfully, 81
said on the level few moments ago and L meant
il Senator Danfieid Bowel, anyhow, if don 7 do
il the district attorney will, with the aid OF the
Bowling law and going TO beat him to it that
u.. haO 1pSt
Club ANYHOW. 1t won i hurt Danficld to be taught
lesson not to such Phony game. / may iiEG Ike
ben~I Won I say don T. but this thing of Danfields
has got beyond all % Is hS sg e Sos
they tell of losses there And SO beasty aristoeratic
TOO Read that
dainty pcrfumed and mopogramcd little missiye ad-
dressed in feminine hand 1t was such q letter letter as
year, though seldom from ladies OF the smart set;
Dear Sir: | notice in the newspapers this morn,
commissioner of police and that you have been
ordered to suppress gambling in New York For
mother, listen to the story Of mother worn with
anxiety for ber ory son, and if there is any jus
tice righteousness in this great city close MP n
gambling hell that is sending TO ruin scores of
our finest young men. No doubt YOU know or
unknown in New York Perhaps YOU have also
beard Of the losses of my sou PereiIaI at the
talk of our set. am not rich, Mr.: Commissioner,
as human AS a mother in any station of life and
oh if there is any way close up that gdcd society
resort that is dIsPatng our small toTtIue ,%U rnns
groy.haired widow, worthy of protection as any
mother of the poor whose plea has closed up Il
little poolroom or low policy shop;
MRS. JULIA NJ DcLoNG
p, S.-Please keep this confidential-at least
from my Percival.
ter 80 OConuor if YOU do it, II take back all the
hard things we ever said about the police system
hSI I.durp aJS n IN
verst until he expelled for that last mad prank
q uh but o the ia Of ~eaS
ever como in contact with How are you going, TO
pull pull, off your rads H. to be down through the sky
Kennedy replied 'counor in the same reproach-
m in earnest You know the yespcr Club is barred
and barricaded like the National City Bank, 1t ism I
protection on what we cali box doors rs proof
against all the old methods Axes and sedge hammers
would make impression there"
Your predecessor had at opening doors
with hydraulic Jack, believe, in some very difficult
"a hydraulic jack wouldn I do for the Vespcr Club,
IN afraid remarked o'Counor YEARLY, "Why, sir,
SIR You remomber receuty the socaliod gamBers
war in which rivals exploded a bomb on the
than to the club. However can get past the outer
door think even if j. is strong But i9side-yOu
inches thick, made of armor plate It's no use to
Try it at all unless pass that door with
able quickness All the evidence shall get will be
of innocent social clubroom down The gam
bling is all on the second floor beyond this door. in
ROOM without window in it. Surely YOU we heard
Of that famous gambling with perfect system
OF artificial ventilation and electric lighting that makes
it rival uoonday at midnight, And don t tell I've
to got the other side OF the door BY strategy
either. 1t is strategy proof. The system Of ookous
perfect No, force is necessary but it must not be
destructive of life propertyor by heaven d drive
up there aud riddle the place with a fourteen inc b
gun exclaimed Counor.
"H M. unused Kennedy as be flickcd the ashes off
train on the railroad below US There goes car
loaded with tons aud tons of scrap iron. You want
10 seIap that tbreeinch steel door do youf''
I" Kennedy, l II buy that particular scrap from you
at--almost its weight in gold. The fact is, have a
secert fund at my disposal such as former commits.
sioners have asked for in vain. can afford TO nav
you we'll well any private client, and 7 hear