New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-17

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Ths fIt & sos'ss 8 sSs sssins<y count y
libel, based npQn H. 16llowin& pablicattca;
Even tho proetitutes aro dissusted With
Crosby's. assfenation house. There were
oniy s score s. $ q woInen q the Monday
night exhibition Of sores and pustules"
The seventh count and the eighth arc IN
common form, reaverring that which has
beon stated as to the first, and others, and
applied az to the seventh to Mr.. Crosby per
sonally, and rs to the eighth, to him Is pro
prietor of tho Opera House. These are
based upon the following item, alleged to
have been published:
How long will artists and caterers for
respectable people remain under the roof
that covers such filth as does CrOsby's assig-
nation house Let them look out that they
do not get caught in the coming storm"
Tie ninth and tenth counts are special.
They allege that one Mr.. Ziegfeld had or
ganized, and was conducting in the Opera
House, school for instruction in music,
and was in possession of certain apartments
in the building known as Crosby's Opera
House, as plaintiffs lessee. Being SO in
possession, it is charged the defendants, to
iniure plaintiff in his reputation and bust
ness, published the following:
at appears that a concern called the
Chicago Academy Of Music occupies rooms
in the Crosby designation house, and has
invited parents to send their sons and
daughters into that den of prostitution for
musical instruction.! 1t is not likely that
many parents will do this Tl0C can not
do it with safety. Certainly none will do it
who would preserve tllir children from
danger of contamination. If there be
parents who doubt as to the use to which
the so-called Opera House has been con-
verified by its proprietor, let them inquire
and see if the Times does not pronounce .
timely warning. For months it has been i'm.
possible to walk it's halls without liability OF
encountering parties notorious to designation
under it's roof; 1t is not alone the theatre
which has fallen into utter vileness; the
whole house is foul with the hnclean assO-
Citations which peryade it.
"The Director of the Chicago Academy
Of Music is advertised to be one Ziegfeld. Is
this person ignorant of the character Of the
place int which he invites innocent chill
drenY Is he a stranger in Chicago! 1t ia
charitable to believe 80, for it can not be
imagined that if himself be reputable he
would establish himself in the midst of such
surroundings, in the expectation of decent
public patronage. If he have q good name,
and would keep it, and would have the sup
port of honest people, let him hasten to
change his abode"
The next article complained of is specified
in the eleventh and twelfth counts:
Chicago ought to adopt, in part, the St.
Louis plan of handling a certain evil. Let
Chicago insist upon the registration Of
certain class Of the inmates of the Opera
House."
The inuendoes explain that the city of
St. Louis had, at the time of the publica-
ton Of the item, adopted regulations for
the registration Of houses of in-fame, which
registration it was, BY. the publication,
recommended to extend to the Opera
House, to it's and its owners damage.
The thirteenth and fourteenth counts
bring matters back to the connection of MIR.
Ziegfeld with the Opera House. The
alleged ibelOus matter in this case is as
follows:
ssThe person who advertised the estab-
lishment in Crosby's designation house, Of
concern called the Chicago Academy of
Music, has procured the Chicago Tribune
to say that the Times has contained an out
rageous article directed against Mr.. Zieg
field. Herein this person has procured the
Chicago Tribune to tell a lie. The Times
has not directed any sort of an article
against Mr.. Ziegfeld. In what the Times
has to say of his having opened school for
boys and girls in a disreputable locality,
it treated Mr.. Ziegfeld very tenderly-more
so, as now appears, than it should have
done. The Times, simply as a matter of
duty, warned parents against sending their
children into Crosby's Opera House, which
has become simply an designation house, at
the invitation Of MIR. Ziegfeld, or at the in
vitation Of anybody else. The Times has
now further to say that Mr.. Ziegfeld, since
it is certain that he is informed Of the char
acter of the house, is guilty Of very scan
dalous conduct, for which he deserves to
suffer in the public estimation. The sO-called
Opera House is an unfit place for any
respectable woman, and unsafe place for
any innocent maiden to enter. 1t is in the
knowledge of this that Mr.. Ziegfeld invites
respectable women and innocent maldens
into the house. This is the simple fact, and
that Mr.. Zegfeld may himself always have
borne good name does not mitigate the
fact"
Notice of the intention to commence the
proceeding above recited, was served upon
the attorneys for the proprietors of the
Times, on Saturday. Pursuant to notice,
not only prccipe was handed to the clerk
but also the declaration, which is docu-
ment of some eighty pages.