Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-12-10
CINCINNATI.
The Wicked Places Of Pork
op0lls.
A Street That's so Disreputable That There
, is a Demand for a Change OF
Name-Dens of lniquity-
Frayne's Frolic.
A THEATRICAL KILLERS ADVERTISER

he circulation of the Cincinnati newspa-
ners who have not heard of Longwortn
street. It is named after one OF the wealth.
lest and most distinguished families oil TINS
c;tv--tbe father of one OF the Judges OF the
Court of Ohio; but it Is probably
the most disreputable thoroughfare,
for four squares, in the whole corporation.
The efforts pending in the City Counci 70
change its name, or at least to give part
of ita new name, makes it subject OF
Longworth street runs west
from Vine street, between and parallel WITH
Fifth and Sixth streets. From Vine street
10 Central Avenue -four squares) it IS the
abode of sin. West of Central Avenue it is
inhabited by respectable people. and the y
are anxious to be known as residents OF
Carlisle Avenue, leaving the old name
Ionpwoorth to the tainted portion OF the
street. Let us take a trip through this
Main Avenue OF Debaucbery,
apy time after nightfall, and see why the
dangers of the further western squares
want change. Starting in at the Grand
Opera House the street is so narrow that 1t
might be mistaken for vide alley. Ine
buildings run back considerable distance
on this square. Passing the stage ooor OF
the theatre YOU come to several buildings
on the north side which have a respectable
club. house look about them; on the west
side are two or three billiard rooms and
of the cheap variety, and two
or three windows with red curtains, In
evitably marking places OF prostitution.
The Crevier Club, building, new and very
handsome establishment, is the redeeming
feature of the square. The Club is one OF
the largest and most respectable in town,
and it is not easy to understand why such
a location was selected. We pass on to the
next square, which at night is dark and dis
NAL enough, unless the moon should be
respondent. 1t is made up
mainly of cheap boarding houses, low Dor
dellos, and apartment houses occupied by
street walkers. The saloon element is not
without representation. We have now
reached Elm street. Here l,ongworth
street widens, and from Elm west two-thirds
of a square it is semi-respectable. AS you
come near Plum street, however, you en-
counter nest which would disgrace BUCK
town. Lewd women stand boldly on the
sidewalk in groups of half dozen or more,
and openly solicit passers-by to accompany
them to their rooms in the buildings
in front of which they put themselves up
st auction, or in the adjacent alleys, The
of the police are closely
watched, and when copper approaches
fires the signal, and the misera-
BILE prostitutes disappear in their dives
Now we cross Plum street, and encounter
scarcely anything but
Dens OF Iniquity
till we reach Central avenue. The monot-
onous wickedness OF the square is relieved
by one or two stables on one side, and the
establishment of colored artist in white.
wash on the other. Nearly all grades OF
houses of prostitution may be found on
both sides of the street There are several
buildings which are said to be
conducted on high-pressure principles, but
there are more places where the shameless
women stand in the front door-ways, or
throw their angling lines from the win
dows, advertising their business to every
body who may pass that way, excepting po-
licemen. A woman recklessly displaying
the ruffled and embroidered edges Of her
and wearing low slippers that
reveal artistic designs in stockings, is more
enticing to the man of animal inclinations
than the abandoned female who poses in
the statuary tableaux in the variety the
aires, in nothing but tights and scanty
piece of illusion goods bound around her
hips. The Longworth street women study
closely the effect of "white goods" so to
speak. They appear at their street doors
in raiment which, technically speaking,
passes muster" as attire proper for public
display, but which in reality is more sug-
gestiye OF being half.dressed. About half of
the doors on the very wicked square l have
described, display the white flag, as il were,
throughout the night. In warm and cold
weather alike, the brutal lardladies keep
their half-dressed girls standing in front as
signs, changing them, possibly, as fire.
quently as captives are taken in, or as the
meteorological rigors compel. Longworth
street. in short, is so dreadfally notorious
that the many decent people on the street
have positive right to retire. They know
that there is something in a name.
Frayne's FrOlic.
You have, of course, long since had the
particulars of the shooting of the actress
Annie Won Behrens by Frank Frayne, the
sensational actor. Frayne does the ancient
William Tell business, shooting an apple
from woman's head. At the Thanksgiv-
ing matinee at the Coliseum he shot lit
tie low, and pumped bullet through
Miss Won Behren's brain, killing her almost
instantly. The. printed accounts of the
affair have been made up largely of
gush and mush. The accident, as it I'M
doubleday was, is said to have grown out of
an undiscovered defect in the gun, though
there have been rumorS that Frayne's aim
bad become uncertain on account of i'm
paired eyesight. Frayne was arrested, and
after an examination discharged. About
the only ground upon which he could have
been held was violation of the law in
pointing firearms at people, but his at
torney adroitly put it that the gun was not
pointed at Miss Won Behrens, but at the
apple which was raised to point about six
inches above her head by means of high
hair dressing and a high gap. FraYne
probably could not have been legally held,
but there was an unnecessary quantity of
dogberry gush about his discharge. Frayne
was represented to be broken dowA with
grief, but l have the truth from people who
saw him in the privacy of his room, and
who testify that his extraordinary exhibit
tons of sorrow was merely "acting up"
He talked with shocking abandon about re-
Stunning business, and was really not much
moved. tits reasonable to suppose that he
was comparatively Indifferent. A sordid
NISbCh VIM Will cuuduSeI Tile lllc VI WI
man eight times a week for mere pay, has
not the common humane feelings. The
Legislature Of Ohio should pass a law pro
viding for 'railroading" such people to Co.
lumbus.
Jimmy O'NeiI,
the man who took the part of Christ when
the Passion Play was produced in San Fran
cisco, has been playing in Cincinnati this
week in IAN American King" and a "Cele-
brated Case" Jimmy used to be q boy
in Cincinnati, and is said to have been q
very tough citizen"-so tough, indeed,
that hesitate to tell how much Of "sky-
larker" it was who esssyed the role of the
SAVER. had talk with Jimmy the other
night. He is genteel looking, rather &C
complished man with an unmistakable mi
lesian cast of countenance. He is still en-
thusiastic on the Passion Play, and regards
Sslmi Morse's scheme as practicable and
proper.
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