Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-06
Movement Arainst soclal Evils.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
Movement Against Social Evils.
New York, October 5th.-A social evil,
similar in some of its natures to the Chi
nese quarters in San Francisco, is now
being taken IN hand here by property
owners. In the district included by Broad
way, Twenty-ffth street, Seventh avenue
and Ihirty-third street, covered with sub
stantiai buildings, are some of the worst
forms of vice in the city, in the shape of
gambiing-roonls and houses of prostitu-
ton. They range from the highest haunts
OF immorality down TO 0ens and dance
houses, and are nightly thronged by black
and white visitors. The injury to property
in the neighborhood has been enormous,
and the effect upon business of stores and
other shops in the vicinity of a once fash
ionable place is paralyzng. The pocket
nerve of the New Y or1ers has been touched
at last An association has been formed of
respectable property-owners having for its
object the purification of the streets by
moral, financial, and, if necessary, legal
means in the civil and criminal Courts
The association proposes not only to oust
dlsorderly tenants, but also TO punish re-
fractory owners with the severest penalty
provided by the statutes against the pro-
prietors of evil resorts and public nuisances.
The newspapers are aiding the work
The Tribune says: Houses whose occupants
We're never asked unpleasant questions al
ways had high priced tenants, while owners
who would not let their buildings for evil
purposes saw their property greatly de-
preciated in value. Decent people near by
could work no reform. 1t has finally be-
come evident that this neighborhood is to
ha inI Ehn ntta e H.
must be directed toward Twenty-seventh
street and real estate owners, some of
whom live in highly respectable quarters,
but whose income is drawn from sin and
shame. Elsewhere i'll this paper will be
found the names of owners OF some of the
houses on West Twenty-seventh street used
for the lowest purposes.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, October 5th.-The Gov
ernor of California has notified the Secre-
tary of the Treasury that he has designa-
ted DIR. w. f. McAllister as Commissioner
of Emigration at the port of San Francisco.
A. b. Dickerson, of New Jersey, has been
appointed chief of division in the office of
the Comptroller of the Currency, vice +. A
Miller, resigned. Dickerson was recently
appointed chief of division in the Sixth
Auditors office.
increased demand for small c1rrency,
which is regarded by the ofiiciasl of that
Department as q sign of revival in the
business of the country.
The Commissioner of Customs has in
structed the customs officers TO make re-
turn at the close of each quarter of all I'M
claimed merchandise in public store,
bonded warehouse or custom-h house, of
which returns appear in the accounts ofthe
Collectors as now rendered.
The Court of Commissioners of the Ala
bama Claims met this morning after the
summer recess, and resumed consideration
of current business.
Minister Foster called at the State De-
partment this forenoon, and spent an hour
with the Secretary and Assistant Secretary
of State. The exact nature of his errand
cannot be learned from official sources, but
there is reason to believe that he has come
to'N Nashington to report what the Spanish
Government is willing to do in the matter
| of a purely commercial treaty, and that he
has not made or entertained, on the part of
this Government, any proposition for a
new reciprocity treaty
1t has been ascertained that az engrossed
bill, authorizing the Attorney General to
begin proceedings looking to the annul-
ment of patents obtained through fraud or
papers relating to the measure, has disap-
peared from the files of the Senate. 1t was
passed at the last session by the House of
Representatives, and referred by the Senate
to the Patent Committee, but was not
brought before the Senate for final action
The New Jersey Tornado
New YORK. October 5th-The tornado
which struck little jersey town yesterday
is the closest call this city has had vet from
the cyclone region. Dwellers in our tall
buildings read with curious interest of
houses demolished and trees bodily torn up
by the roots, the air filed with stones and
fence rails, all within twenty niles from
here. West Brook contains 800 inhabitants,
and is on the New Jersey and New York
Railway. All the phenomena of Western
Tomatoes were present in yesterdays Wis
itation. Two black, balloon-shaped clouds.
moving with great velocity, twisted trees
and fragments of rail fences were inter
woven in the bulging part of the kissing
mass. The first building in its path was q
new school-house, for which the village
paid $1,000. 1t was crushed like an egg
shell, and every timber, except the floor.
was carried with the bowling wind-cloud
The village church got the full force of the
cyclone. 1t was lifted thirty feet in the air
and fell on its side, jumble of Jagged
raiters, boards and plaster. Barns and out
houses were gathered up and great trees
torn up by the roots. Several people were
injured 1t is estimated that $4,000 worth
OF property was destroyed.
The Wyoming 1Iassacre-New Light
Thrown on the affair.
GREEN BIvER, October 5th.-Some testi-
mony of startling character, given to the
Grand Jury to-day, is calculated 10 throw
new light on the transactions at Rock
Springs during the recent riot there.
Rev. Timothy Thirloway, Congrega-
tional minister, who resided at Rock Springs
with his family during the riot, made a
sworn statement showing that the Chinese
set fire to their own houses, in order to pre-
vent the white men from robbing them OF
their money, which was buried in the
ground underneath their dwellings. Sub
sequent events have shown that this was
the case, for as soon as the Cinnamon re-
turned 10 Rock Springs they commenced
excavating under the ruins, and in one in
stance over 5000 was found.
Timothy Thirloway, being duly sworn,
made the following statement | am
minister of the Gospel. and was residing at
Rock Springs on the I'd of September last
on which day the riot occurred, and in the
vicinity of Chinatown. On that day heard
there was large number of men moving
around toward the north end of Chinatown
with guns, clubs and other weapons. /
stepped out of my house with my wife, and
saw the first two houses that were set on
fire. While we were standing there
could see a number of white men ca
the north side of Chinatown, and at
the same time four Cinnamon came oat
Of house in the southeast part of the
town. only short distance from us. They
were some 200 yards from the white men.
The four Cinnamon had not moved more
than twenty yards from the house with
their bundles, when some one called them
back, and they remained in the house two
or three minutes before coming out again.
In the meantime yolley was heard on the
north side of Chinatown. and almost in
stantiy the Cinnamon rushed out of the
bniiding. They bad hardly left when we
saw that the building was on Ere. No
white men were to be seen near the house,
and it was apparent that the house was
fired by the Cinnamon themselves. My
daughter, who talked with some Of the
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