Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-06-11
sum ~ s3o,0oO worthy their attention,
either to support or to oppose. Only about
one voter in three went 70 the polls.


One of the most pitiabls, end at the same
time revolving sights tat Il has been our
misfortuse 10 hook upon. co now he seen
only few rods ssutheast n the Santa Fe
freight depot IN this city. II is young
woasn wrecksd in misd and body, who
now lies alone Esd neglected on banch Of
dirty rags ont upon ~ opes common
with nothing 70 protect her from
the heated rays OF the sun or chilly
blast Of evening but an old piece Of can
vas carelessly thrown across some
poles, thus afording her but slight protcc-
ton from the elements. She gives her
name az Della Smith. Says that she is nine
teen years old, and was born In Fayette
county. Illinois, aud is of Christian parent
age. like many another young woman. she
years ago fell victim to the tempter and Is
to-day reaping the reward that is always
sure to follow u life Of shame. For some
time she says she was mistress Of q bawdy
house near Riverside park, but suf-
fering from foul and loathsome
disease she became incapacitated
for combat with life, was taken to her bed,
and rs is always the case with women OF
her class, when adversely came her friends
deserted her, and to-day we find her in this
deplorsble condition, summed by all man.
kind, and even the dogs steal TO her tent,
sniG the air and retreat with dropping tail
and : dismal howl. Preachers may preach
and moralizefs may write Of the great
social evil. but were the minister possessed
of the eioquence OF . DemOsthenese and
the moralizer write in burning words
OF fire, it all would fall tame and
insipid before this startling, living iIlustra-
ton Of what il in store and must surely be
the portion of her who gives her life to
shame. This yOuhg woman IL no doubt the
child Of respected and Christian parents,
whom she claims are dead !; but she says she
has married sister living near Arkansas
name. And here she lies, total wreck
her person covered with cancered sores,
the results Of most FOUL and lOathsome
disease that impregnates the air all around
with its offensive odor. Her face is raw
and liberated sore, presenting a revolving
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she raises her bleared eyes they look direct
into the windows Of = large and preten-
tious house, whose shadows fall aslant her
ragged coach, 1t being only few rods dis
tant, aud whose inmates are following the
same trecherous road that has brought her
to this condition. She is cast out even
from this hell hole Of prostitution, and well
may people, who have read glowing ac-
counts Of the Queen City Of Southwest
Kansas, as they pass through the city on
the cars, look from the windows and
see lying in the shadow of this
brothel this C. st-oH girl, will exclaim, ''And
this is Wichita, the Queen City of Kansas,
which allows such things within its corpor-
ate limits acd under the very nose OF its Of
Gcials, and so publicly that all who will
may see.''
Is II not about time that the proper OFF,
cials wake up to their duties and suppress
these houses and care for the very girls
who pay their fines into the city Golfers. Or
are they to be neglected and these brotbels
allowed to run in open defiance of law in
the heart Of our city, entrapping aud lead.
ing on to misery the youths Of our city: