The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-26
THE SOUPS In FULL SWING
THE POLICE MAKE NO MOVE
AGAINST THE NEST OF TICE.

Complaints of the Neighbors--A Police
man Who Can See No Evidences of
Immorality-Why Chief Murphy Does
Not Act.
When THE JERSEY CITY NEWS insti-
tuted the crusade against the iniquitous
soups at the Mara Foundry, on Grand
street, the manager of the den deluded
himself with the belief that the war was
prompted by feeling of vindictiveness,
mained mute on the subject he was safe
to pursue his vile business unmolested.
1t is true that the neighbors made no
outward demonstration of their diSsatis-
faction, but they felt it nevertheless.
TIE NEIGHBORS SAY.
made q canvass of the neighborhood
this morning. There are very few houses
there and consequently but few tenants.
No. 1893 Grand street adjoins the open
space in front of the foundry on the
north.
A very quiet family lives on the floor
above. The male members were all at
work when / called. and the old lady was
very reticent. What knowledge she had
was only from hearsay, but she believed
from that. that the foundry was not the
best place in Jersey City for respectable
young men and girls to spend an even
The old lady's daughter the wife Of
prominent mason, had heard from her
brothers that the place was bad one.
A little son of hers had visited the place
once, and told on returning home of an
exhibition of immortality he had seen
there. She would not allow her children
to visit there again.
Mrs. Meyers, who lived on the top floor,
thought the place bad one for young
girls to visit.
The house on the south of the lot is
undergoing repairs and is untenanted.
The houses on either side of these are too
far removed from the place to subject
their tenants to ANNOYANCE from the
swings. The crowds of unruly boys and
girls though who assemble there, owing
to the presence of the swings, are annoy
ing and are voted nuisance
WHY THE CHIEF DOESN'T ACT.
Chief of Police Murphy, when asked by
JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter this morn
ing if the police were taking any steps
toward driving the soups from the city,
said:-
"When we dislodged them from Mercer
street it was on the complaint of resident
citizens, who protested against the noise
occasioned by the gathering OF such q
crowd. There were no complaints made
to the police concerning the immortality
J
tendency is toward immortality. No COM
plants have reached us since the man
ayers took up their quarters in the old
Mara Foundry"
''Is the officer on that beat not cog
INFANT of what has been going on night
after night" queried the reporter.
II presume he is" answered the chief;
but he has made no complaint. We all
ways take cognizance of what is being
said by the press on all such matters, and
we have been investigating the soup busi-
ness. So far we have not acquired suf1i-
cient evidence to warrant us in ordering
them to move out
BLIND DETECTIVE.
"Who is making the investigations"
the reporter asked.
"That can't diyulge."
isn't what has been illustrated in The
JERSEY CITY NEWS sufficient evidence to
clear them out?"
81 can't recall any specific charges
made in the reports. Probably / have not
read them carefully"
would you move them out on charges
brought by the reporters Of The JERSEY
CITY NEwS?"
Eyes But they must prove that the
place is a resort for vile and disreputab1e
people.