, 1879-05-01
REFORM NEEDED.
Decency and Order Should Be
Preserved on the Streets.
a Subject which Deserves Mayor Har-
risou's Early Attention.
Disgraceinl Condition of state Street and
Other Thor0nglfares.


Other Tioronglifares.
There arc aome things going on IN Chicago Of
which the city authoritit:os orc in all probability
unadrtacd. 1t must be so, for otherwise tliese
things would be stopped. MaYor Harrison has
been 80 long absent. labor!nE on the banks Of
the Potomac in tho service OF not.alwuys-
ungratctul Republic, that he may readily bn
EXCUSED for not being thoroughly posted Is to
the contravcntl0ns OF the statute law aud tha
ordinances OF Chicago which orcur daily Ia the
city Of hts adoption. Com!nE from a land
where every plan owns fast horse and every
woman wears No.. slippcrs, and being not 10
The manner born. Mayor Harrison should Ger.
tainly DO excused for ignorance ns to tic daily
-and nightIy-happeninGs IN Chicago.
For Instance, be cnnnot be e1pected 10 kpog
lint
THE RlEssr STREET IN TINS c,1r
Of ap!endId tborou0hfnrcs Is owned and con-
tro1ted. from a{oproo street south as far as a
pedestrian would care 10 20, BY prostitutes,
th!orcs, keepers OF "European hotels, Italian
restaurant men, bcer-eardcn proprletors, pawn
brokers who hayc been ten times. indicted, nnd
whose premises nro searched threo timGs week
for stolen property, keepers Of houses Of ILL.,
fame, and such ike persuns, liz cannot know
that ssato street forms the nightly beat Of an
army Of prostitutes, who Lie In walt on every
corner for Tho passcr.by, nnd address him In
lloneyed terms Of endsaEment, coupled with
reouc't to set up the drinks. He cannot
"somo things which are not yet enrolled in
market ltsta ARE bought and aoll," AMI that on
State street % III the unymarket, "eyery night
Is markesenight." Nor can ho know, at least
lives on thu West slde-.hnt no mau can pass
along Stntc. Clark, Madison or Randolph
streets nttcr the shades OF evening have fallen
without being nccostcd on every corner mud at
every step bT women Of the vi1cst character.
But Mr.. Harrison Is not aboye learning, oven
from the newspapers, which hare pulled feathers
from the wings Of his eagIo and dcridcd TINT
noble, although cratic, monarch nf the air. lie
has recently taken control of tho Mun!cipal Gov
ernncnt: llc has told the Council and tho gsr-
erat public that he will suppress the Bridgeport
stenches and protect llo a.one!l lactortcs-that
he will put down il.e Communists nnd maintain
The right Of the citizen to bear artns. II ought
not, therefore, TO he hard Tor him to suppress
the open manifestations ot prostitutes upon tile
public streets, even whIlu projecting tho I" un-
fortltnatch classes In the pursuit Of their voca-
tton.. Mr. Harrison should therefore feel great
ly obliged to TnE TRIBUNE for directing his At
tGnlton to certain matters pertaining to the
government Ut this city Of which lie may, aud
no doubt Is. as Jet unaavlsed.
For tho DufpD6c OF BcnlnE what tyna E.pfnr on
In tllc town, md with vfow. OF course, to the
@ aus tsansmTasoh te 9! iacts 10 INC uow Mayor,
Fcpoltef o. IHR lRthuhE spent eepcsa! holra
laat iiiEM1 IN lueH4lg ap state street, the avc-
nucs, c!arK stseet, ana othef thofouRhlarcs'
THIS Is WHAT HE FOUND.
He found that Immediately opposite the
of thieves, piInps, and prostitutes, aid Tint It
belonged to the cIass known as ttallnn rcsrar-
rants. He fouu1 in the next block roupIo
Of Vun Hurrn strent l1n Inst
count, Every othcr huiIlinc contninnI
ratncrng.nucu for the cinsses referred to-
mi nbout one In three Ind thrtr unncr fonrs
tlnvntcti 10 Hfnrnishcil ronn,s i Thers IL noIh.
in,r essentially tmmnsat nGnrt furni*hea ponms aT
hiit It tiocanit jof,k we'll in hnvc va,,,,s wn,nnn
a. tho strect-door to show erpcctant iotirars thn
WAY IN. "7'-s''N' ~4''S'o S''e
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