The semi-weekly miner., 1882-03-25
0moAoo'e sHAln.

0a1QA0O'S SHANE.
The Chicago Antes~O Ocean has beer
waeing an unrelenting var AGAINST tn
v.rio,,s ..hells'' in that city. 1t did moi
.c.rrence too soon II the half 10 true
vh,ch II tells. II IL time the Augear
.t.hle vas cleaned. A correspondent o.
that journal presents the following
which depicts state Of affairs In thai
CITY that may we'll enlist the sympathie'
and command the services If every mis-
sionary in the land to correct them:
.srhe CITY Of Chicago covers and takes
In 3,l4O acres. or thlrty.slx u 1mse ~. )
miles. It has $50 miles Of streets. Tht
three divisions, known as the West
South and North Divisions, contain, &C
cording to the last census reports, 2 pop
ulation Of 5O3, ,3OO persons. = The Soutll
Division, the G9sinees portion, contains
Ia. .988; the West Division. residence
,,.nmfsctnri"c. and lumber district
contains 28G. .S2l; the North Division
contains 90,717. From the report OF inc
Factory Inspectors we learn tnat tnete ;'s
are probably lW,@ coilaings Ln
the city. The lalor,ng Ph,. Pop1h!,s,
tion Of our city numbers probably
S5O. .oOO persons. From the report of the
9unerintendent Of Schools of the county
Il learn that Chicago has somewhere
ahout .O(k: school teachers. and expends
for schools, annually. some 81. 9O: :'HN).
Chicago has also a police force Of about
five hundred men, costing the city be.
tween five AMI six hundred thousand
dollars annually. Chicago has also 3N
churches or places for religious worship,
and probably there are some four hun
dred c.ergvmen. evangelists and lay
preachers in the city. Now, putting all
of these lust instrumentalities for saving
the 0uth of our city together and count
ino them, and you have only about 3.|n0
Alongside of this place the fact that in
Chicago to-day the doors Of s. .443 liquor
saloons stand wide open. OF this mum.
ber the South Division, with her small
population Of little over 127 ,0OO in.
habitants, has 2,12O, or,
THREE TIMES AS MANY SALOONS
~ Providence, r. ]. The North Side,
with her population Of 81, III. has ,033,
and the West Side has 500. The Black
Hole. a. heretofore described in the In
ter Ocean has, by actual count, 4e4 IL
uuor saloons and an even 600 places
where liquor is sold. Chicago has 12d
dago shops, IL variety theatres, $50 con.
cert saloons, over 100 gambling houses
in full blast, and, incredible as It may
appear, vet 1t is nevertheless so, there
are ,000 places of ill-rcpute, that might
properly be called houses Of ill-fame;
800 po0l-ro0ms, $50 snide cigar shors,
with lace curtains. and 100 places desig-
mated - eating houses, bakeries, etc.,
noted as rendezvous for prostitutes and
fast men. And with this there are about
6.6O prostitutes. making over 1900
of these places and persons whose lives
are devoted to the destruction Of the vir-
tue Of the youth Of Chicago.
Think Of it! only 800 churches in our
city, and ), ,2242 liquor saloons. Only 400
and over 5.OOO bar-tendeys.
ONLY 1.OOO school teachers, and over
6 900 prostitutes. Only half q dozen art
galleries, and $50 variety theaters.
About score of missions, and 198 dago
shops, and over l .MO houses Of ill-famc.
What an army Of destruction il to bt'
found in these 1880 instrumcntalities
Of sin and crime. all tending to blast the
life of every young man and woman in
our city. l ask, Is there any way given,
under heaven or among men, whereby
this fl0Od-tide Of sim threatens to 30 un-
dermine the morals Of the people Of Chi
cago 20 to render her name q reprOach
can he stopped: WHY, placing these
places side by side, and allowing each
Dne only ten feet front, and you will
have
TWELVE NILES OF THESE INTERNAL
dealing out death and destruction. Her.
:ules killed the monster GorgOn for
having three b0dios and three heads.
md having ed his oxen on human
1esh. But we have in our city twelve
miles Of the most infamous and aban-
1oned resorts that ever disgraced civil
lied people: places that ancient Greece
md Rome would have stamped out of
existence as unfit for the patronage of
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