Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-03
The "MINER's" EXPOSE DROPS LIKE A
BOMBsHELL AMONG THEM.

article in question. st is shame that low
and abandoned women should be per
mitted to ply their refarious vocation in
one OF the most imposing buildings in the
city, and it ia time that they should be re-
moved to the district set apart for their
slant eyesOre to decency. Their
OF the Lizzie Block does not enhance the
business OF the merchants in its vicinity.
Decent ONE do not care to go shopping
in a district where they are constantly La
ble to hear or see something that would
make them blush for their sex. Parents
prohibit their children from visiting such a
locality. and men tell their wives, sisters
or sweethearts 10 shun it as they would a
lazar house. A natural result OF all this is
q gra iual failing.oii in the amount OF bust
ness transacted by those merchants who
wholly or partly handle goods in demand
by womankind. The business men OF this
end of town will enter no protest against
the publication o: the Lizzie Block. You
may depend OF that"
CLERICAL COMMENT.
"Let the good work 60 or," was the re-
mark OF one Of Butte's prominent divines
who dropped into The MINER office last
night. 1.-The deceRcy Of the city demands
that the necessary evil, as it is called, shall
not be Aaunted in the face Of virtuous
womanklnd and innocent childhood. The
mon who framed our municipal laws for
the protection OF order and morality
wisely defined certain limits within which
the deni-Monde can reside and ply their
nefarious traffic, and it ID plainly the duty
OF the police to enforce the law and confine
the women to these limits. It would be a
herculean task to entirely suppress prosti-
tuition in Butte, but it is child's play to en-
force the laws framed for the regulation of
the social evil. Let The MINER continue to
assist the police in the righteous work, and
it's course will receive the hearty approval
the city"
IN THE LIZZIE BLOCK.
Yesterdays MINER dropped like a bomb
in the Lizzie Block. Old Sol is usually
high in heaven before he is peeped at ~
the frail denizens Of the Lizzie, but when b.
up from the east yesterday his
penetrated several rooms in the
block from which it had on many occasions
been barred by closely-drawn blinds. The
OF shady reputation who reside in
The Lizzie generally go to bed early lin the
morning) and rise late, and they have no
use for the sun-not because its rays might
affect their complexion, but because sun
is not conducive to steady slumber.
Something more detrimental to sleep than
was the bright orb OF day struck the Lizzie
Block yesterday morning, however. That
something was The MINER. Its expose
was read, disested and unanimously con-
1t affected one lady so deeply
that she immed. ately moved her trunk to
boudoir within the limits deinedfo for pros
and straitened finances only pre-
Others from following her example.
She never would be missed, nor would all
other male and female strumpets who
reside "outside that portion OF the city
and lying south of the center OF
Blocks Nos. u and %, and east OF Main
OF said city," and that portion of
id city in Blocks Nos. 81, ~, AZ, 80 and
50, known as Chinatown"
THE aEAND CENTRAL.
Naturally there was a visible flutter in
about the Grand Central during the !
afternoon, many OF the occupants being in
he habit OF sleeping rather late. The orig
building is only a fraction OF the entire
odgingt1oase. It has been erected several
and there have been one or two adj
built on the side since then by other
but all Of them are under the same
management, and the group is commonly
under the n caption, the late ad-
having no other distinctive name.
OF the inmates were seen during the
Lfternoop, and in each instance they gave
xpression to any but pleasing glances, and
their thoughts gave way to
ather forcible language. Nothing new was
developed in the way OF exposures, but
here were several revelations made by va
ious parties which very strongly corrob-
what has been eaid. The other resi-
.ents OF the quarter who have no fellow
in the matter seemed well pleased
18th tho ahnwiru.n I'M ~ thu o0nl,4;4~ 80 ~, !
and anxiously await further
which will bring to light the
rue character OF the premises which are in
he same vicinity, and pass under the gen
title OF lodging-houses.
OTHER SHADY HOUSES.
The Lizzie and Grand Central Blocks are
OF by any means the only houses in
Ordinance No. Al has been and is
ow openly violated. The police have
pom their list several other buildings in
espectable localities in which fornication
practlced, and the police are not alone
4 their knowledge OF the fact. It. is the
uty Of the police to pull these houses,
nd it is al open secret that they are liable
D be raide at any moment. With the
s%sistance OF The MINER, the police intend
. give decency such ar inning in Butte as
meyer had before, and The MINER is
lways on deck for decency.
That thereafter and on the thirty-frst
ay OF January, 1855, the said defendant
we'll knowing the premises,
Id compose ard publish in sail newspaper
t and concerning the plaintiffs and the
lid premises h%ereinbefore particularly de. !
the additional false aud deialna-
Dry matter following, to.wit:
THEY ARE GOING.