New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-27
finest structure for the use of society that to
be found in the United States. But now brown
stone edifce is quite out of the fashion,"
MAKING THE STREETS DECENT.

stone edifce is quite out of the fashion,"
MAKING THE STREETS DECENT.
sIxTy-sIx WOMEN ARRESTED IN THE TWENTY
NINTH PRECINcT--CAPTAIN wIILLAMs's vIRTUOUs
RESOLUTIONS
sixtysix women were. arrested in the streets of
the Iwen N PrecinSt Monday evening by
cells of the police station during the night Many
of them wept bitterly and bcmoancd their condi-
Jefferson Market Police Court beforee Justice
Bixoy curious crowd scanned the prisoners mar
5cwly as they filed into court under police escort
directed by Captain Williams. The women in many
instances We're gaayly decked with fnery. Several
perieuce in court others looked de6antly at Judge
a pl officers and st2iidly awaited developmen!s.,
wasng the sheets Of s precinct roissn nightly Each
was fined S3. Several men III court offered to pay
v e o their MeG not afsad ye
women with night-wakpg in Broadway and Fifth
ave: Each vas fined Slo toc Y.; Thomas
man rushed forward and claimed her as his wife.
lie added that he wanted to lind his child, who
not recognize him. Justice Bixby toid the man that
he must seek redress in higher court, and then
cases the women were fined 49, So, or $I0.
CAPTAIN Williams, of the Twenty-ninth Precinct,
playing domiuoes. A TRIBUNE reporter asked him
the significance of the arrests When the game was
the et sap s Sp these sfP the
women arrested on charge of vagrancy, and
Justice BIxby supports me in my action in timing or
Furnishing all except two of the prisoners Hitherto
these women have sometimes been arrested by
officers, but although the policemen in citi-
zens clothes they were recognized by the women
after time and were consequently on the lookout
for. them. Hereafter policemen viii be. sent out
with orders to arrest the streetwalkers in the pre-
cinct on sight The charge will be vagrancy with
no visible means of support, and officers must have
seen such as they arrest several times in the
street before taking them in. think this is some
thing that has never been done before, and fancy
il will have very salutary effect in the precinct.
arrested
hours of and IL, and after that the streets were
comparatively deserted"
w hat obstacle prevents your closing the dis
orderly houses i'll your precinct
=" 1t is very hard to get convection in the case of
dlsorderly houses You must prove them to be u
nuisance and an annoyance to passersby 1t is also
next to impossible to get person to go to court and
convict on police evidence. A house of low charac-
ter must be proved to be NUISANCE to the neigh
borhood-a place where frequent fights aud rob
oeries occur and which is the resort of thieves and
other bad characters"
dvesp
BY taking the off the street you get at
nep hr S sy RAID Sf
of those places In one place were six
women instead of the usual hundred or more,
There was one woman in another place and four in
another. Those people cant exist with such slim
patronage, and they will have show if the
women are arrested on going to ard from these
"is the number of dsordery houses increasing or
diminishing in your precnctY
"While was away they increased"
Isn't it ags inst the law for girls to be employed
as walters IN drinking place u
ais there a tendency for disorderly houses tc ac-
cumnlate in this preclnctg"
The people who run such places follow the hotels
where the travellers put up. They live Oft the
10000 strangers that come to New-York every
twenty-fOur hours There are twenty-e ght hotels
IN this precinct in the usual acceptahon of the
wordIpot counting any, liquor stores where a
fourteen places of amusement, two three more
are now building, and new opera house is going
up All these places furnish patronage to the
houses. The women being driven out of
Greene, Wooster and Mercer-sts., and stores and
warehouses are taking the places of disorderly
houses. They also leaving this precinct and
gong further uptown. black streak might be
pital walls in Church st.the avorite resort of such
persons thirty years ago. coming right up the West
Side the line will continue uptown as the centre of
out al the abandoned women from the precinct.
YSn can only keep them Oh the street where respect
Cannot citizen complain against disorderly
house on the ground OF information and bcefW
lie can, but information and belief won't con-
"Woud not the charge that disorderly houses
depreciatea properly IN the precinct be valid COM
AS matter of fact property is not deprecated.
Houses that would ordinarily rent for 81 200
let for - 800 for bad purposes If there were one
disordery house III block the block would be de-
preciated. but the owner of the house would be the
gamer"
How many houses of this character are there in
| your precinct and what proportion OCCASION
About thirty -tve. but they are all quiet as n
rule Ii row occurs in any OF them the officer on
post is instructed 10 send round To the police station
for help to pull it. The proprietors know this,
and consequently keep very quiet"
" Do you propose to arrest street-walkers every
! night 7"
81 shall continue to do as long as get support
| from the police courts"
In the talk reported in yesterdays TRIBUNE with
Captain lyman about the for the existence of
low resorts in this city, the statement was incor-
rcctly made that the law forbds the employment of
women as walters in liquor shops. Liquor shops
should read "concert saloons" The prohibition
| extends only to concert saloons and places
of amusement. Any mere liquOr-seller may employ
as many bar-maids as he desires.
| SUMMING UP FOR THE COMMISSIONERS.
| The arguments of the counsel for the Police Com
| missoners, who are charged with neglect of duty
in failing to clean the Streets begun Yesterday
| before the Mayor. There few persons pres
| ent. A. j. VanderpOcl began the argument. He
declared that IA the act placing the street cleaning
under the control of the Police Board had been re-
| pealed by the Legislature, which originally passed
it, all proceedings against the Police Commits
sioners for alleged neglect of duty while that act
was in force must necessarily be discontinued. lie
his assertion. Mr.. yanderpoel was followed by
| he did not think that anything he might say would
Mayor had preiudged the from the start The
the dirt leased from u person and charged at
a raft ham ntn llv poaA In HI,