The Salt Lake Herald

JUBILEE SALOON SEEKS TO ESCAPE
NOTORIETY BY CHANGING ITS NAME

Oblivion has claimed the Jubilee saloon at 26 Commercial street. It was an old and notorious landmark in the cluster of resorts in that thoroughfare, but yesterday those who looked for the gleaming, familiar red sign of the saloon looked in vain. The place is now known as the Alamo, and there are now two signs, one green and the other red, to tell of the change.

Although the resort in other ways remains unchanged, the new signs show that even in Commercial street there is much in a name.

The old sign of the Jubilee Saloon told of years of strange wayfarers who have floated into Salt Lake and then out again, all the odds and ends of western humanity, some merely hard drinkers who were wifeless, childless, homeless, without hope and ambition, others with shifty eyes and pasts which they dared not bare to the gaze of the world.

"Clareis" synonymous for "Jubilee saloon" is slang and is not to be found in any dictionary.

"Tip" Belcher, the man who found a hiding place for Joe Garcia, the porch climber, and one of the men wanted for the murder of Policeman Ford, was a bartender at the Jubilee. There Joe Sullivan, fugitive robber and murderer, met Joseph Owen and planned the Continental saloon robbery the night after Sullivan was released from the state prison. It was there that Sullivan also met Joe Garcia, the skulking house robber, and planned the campaign of roguery which ended in the killing of Policeman Ford.

This dark story came out after Owen and Belcher were arrested on the day following the shooting of the policeman. And it resulted in the wiping out of the name of the Jubilee saloon. The resort still exists. The change was merely to cast off the burden of unenviable notoriety and to give the place an opportunity to win a new reputation under a new name.