The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-03
RLiladelp1la, 0ol IEalau SO.
An Emphatic Protest from the
Wicked Village or Bridgeport
By One who Lives There.

bRIDoEPoRT, ", May "a, 1919.
E,lItGS intelligence:
One year ago We were best with the
observance Of law and order. Now we
are cursed with the Observance Of new
law and the disorder resulting therefrom.
Last year the secular business Of the
week could be closed on Saturday eve,
and we could retire to q preparation for
the Lords Holy Sabbath in peace and
quiet. Young men presented themselves
to the public on Sundays with clean, I'M
SCARED and bright Countenances, indica-
tive Of decency and respectability. Nov
another planet rules our public economy
and pandemonium renders Saturday
fearful. To-day young men are standing
on street corners With bleared and disfg.
uted faces-eyes floating in The lachfy.
NAL Secretions Of Gale, Vine and beer
their entire appearance and department
testiiying that they have lately enlisted
at our Rep regime recruiting stations for
the army Of damnAtion, and are on q
double quick march 10 Hell. Had a
stranger approached cur town last night,
he would surely have turned back, for II
he was gifted with any degree Of imagin.
alton, he would have fancied himself
within the territories Of Pluto and the
pups Of Cefbcrus gnashing their Jaws,
and shining their thtoaLs 10 deyOur him.
II was ftightful, dangerous, revolving, dis
gushing, damndbIe a.
The night was dark az darkness. Men
and boys we're rushing up and down the
streets, cttsing, swearing, fighting, beat
ing, shoOting-cFies Of 6G-d d-h you,
/ will stab yOu"-"Oh, don't slAb me-
"Oh, don't shoot me, don't shoot me-"
"stop your stabbihg here" II eM stab
him, d-n him, III til him Add to this
the screaming and Bhriekihg Of women
running to and fro; hunting sons OF hus.
bands In the darkness Of midnight, and
Imported" women cufsing and swearing
like spirits damned, and ynu may form
an approximate idea OF the outrageous
character Of The street Satutnalia!
Where was the Mayor Of the cofpora-
ton with his necessary police totre7
Why are The peaceful and orderly portion
Of the community forced TO endure these
nightly intoads Of drunken fowdyism on
the streets, and deprived Of that peace
and fest--that security Of person guatGn.
iced by Che laws Of civilized society?
Ah, Well; l suppose our guardians Of
the public peace thought they are
.. HBiaek spirib and white,
Rcd ltiFita and gI1y,
Mihgle minsle, miGgle;
All that mingle, may"
"But "A for tis, we and our houu will
not Inihgle more than we can help, and
public deCOrum and society in genetal
may look out for themselves"
II matters not, however, what ihdiVid-
uals may think or say, this | know, and
am not afraid 10 publiSh my sentiments
that the citizens Of bridgeport are very
much imposed upon, and 10 such de-
gree that endurance l. no longer Viftue.
We have no pOlice iorce here, and the
fetfogre@iVe actA Of our late legislature
lmost wonderful steps towards Prefesai
feiorm) have thrown M into an exposed
position, afFordihg an advantage for any
Thing immoral or unpopular enough TO
b kicked out Of Wheeling Of elsewhere
to ly 10 the river towns Of Ohio iof q
refuge, where, ii the underestimate they
place upon Bridgeport, they think they
can carry on their outfages against de-
cency with impunity in our midst. Hence
our streets must BE- rendered unsafe and
unfit Tor the passage Of ladies from neigh