Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-02
A WASHINGTON WISHART.

n WHOHINu JUN WlO1hhIs
The Efforts of the District Commissioner TO
.' oap'a' spying Into Inc
manner drinking Resorts Are Conducted
Gamblers Driven Our md sr.,L.F,.x
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Froprictors Made 10 Tremble.
IFRoM A srAFF coRRrspoNnpxr
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w inr aa,. June we are Just now De-
ing ueiugeu py wave OF morality such as
the Capital City has never before witnessed
We do not usuaIlv hotba- o,,r.oIo. - ,n,h
trivial THINGS hnt =. :, sa.s 80
who,,,.s s', Du' IL Is Iorceo on US no"
"ne'ner we will or not, and it is even amusing
w .noSe VINO suher most when they are good
We ara
late r,oraIs 80, -n@s IL - Possioie W ieso
be made operative hv tho aYsor,ins ar,or;tie.
We are proving that IT is ali ..nonnvcockn 20
say that laws as To who, va s,.,i ~ nj drint
and wear and otbarn,;sa re- ard A. ~ suf,ar
cannot be enforced. II only reouiras the ripbt
kind of enforcing power.
We have 1t here.
It is district commissions,
We have had d,stric. comnissionsrs before
many of them. but none of this iIk. by a long
shot.
MS name Is Robert He Is little man, with
httie stomach, and little blood. and Is there
fore as chock full of morality as an egg is of
meat. 1t is easy for weak stomach to reject
all forms of excess The ideal reformer is al
ways something of a dyspeptic. though be NAV
not show it. He condemns the things that the
wlckedly healthy enjoy goes nos1ng around for
wrongs, and wants to force asceticism upon
mankind as the only proper conaition. / don,t
say it isn't, tor I'm rather inclined to think it is
m only stating fact
brother Robert, who is known as the Engi-
m q I'M ~.F i
his seat few weeks when he began to find that
Washington was conducted in a yery loose
way, especially at night. When he was younger
Lnan he is now as an army officer suspect he
discovered how productive the night is of
carousals that would not be funny by day az
all. Most army officers have made this discoy-
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Lesseuiur the IJceu.e.
Jusr vbv .h.
'Ae nnsineor commissioner snoulo
Suppression of the immoral elsment do NOT
know unless !, ia th.t =. -. sS..S
streets and sa~,s- ~ Aeo '.o o,eis,sus "
1ooL IT,. -, .e"es' Nnu oeems IL ms outy TO
oeen here but q short time when he began to
Unange Things. He put check on the
been the nousol nr,o.i OF hcenses that mad
Bottomn and "Swawnned,o,i d sIs,seu nes
Rayn and "Hooker,s Diyjsionv IN ,areo,, u
disguise, after the manner of the more or Iess
famous Caliph. Haroun al Raschfd, believe it
hs i baar 20 see wnat MS people were doing. Did
of the citv ona n,cht tha 1sus IN any sectiSn
was on the oronnd 10 And o,t az LIE miSns W
the place from observation. In rough clothes
AM and at All hours of the night he would enter
s,e aehs KEPT ny the lowest types Of the blacks
that iden,isa Ta 1he Guy WIN an easy familiarty
the Inmates and darGai 81 s ~ ss ohe VIII t
a license or a yzithdraw.I 81 Hdanse ~ ~ had 20
been granted. was usually the resnit
While Commissioner Doueiasa one of the
convention OF brewers making a speech i'm sun
port of the drinking of beer rather than the
spirituous LIQUORS Commissioner Robert was
visiting houses where LIQUORS were sold and of
all grades of that kind. chatting socially with
the inmates, and noting every detail of the con-
duct of the various places. One of his friends
who accompanied him on some of these excur-
sions tells me of some erotesoue scenes that
were enacted by those who aid not dream of
his presence, and who besought him to be lib
eral in his expenditures for the merchandise of
such shops; but the wine was always sold at a
price that seemed to be bevond the nurse of
the Commissioner
Pa,ro. Dali.
OF COURSE IL was Dut little while until
these visits began to be noised about.
Then there was a nrettv row Tba nor.or =,
he Commissioner was not known to the deni.
,.E&
.e y. snese iocaIsies ms photographs came
20 De IN demand at any price, FAR above what |
had ever been offered for the picture of Mrs. |
cleveland or any OF the male public celebrities. |
rney could not De had The willy little Com
n.ssiei nau iooAeu ou1 !or tnis, ana an at
p W S"sen nis pelsonanty' even Win tne
ooles anu Insioious oetective cameras, we're
4 Il ius'raOeo' minute personal descriptions OF
Inn were procured by inmates of all the
houses under the ban of Ilegality, but
IS such descriptions described no end
u otner ordinary looking men, they
'nly served to get innocent persons into
rouble. Strangers even family answering the
lesription of the Commissioner would be treat
I'd with freezing contempt, or incontinently
ired out, or subjected to an excessive familiar
ty that was worse than ALL Everybody In these
,enighted regions became suspicious OF every
body else. Only the most Indifferent and dar-
ng of the former patrons would frequent their
I'D haunts. The pulling of few doggeries
lead silence OF comparative virtue fell from
heaven and enveloped with her comparatively
potless mantle the Washington night,
If the night be yet somewhat less innocent
han the day 1t is nevertheless revolutionized.
Even those places which were won't to keep
pen all night from time immemorial are now
losed at u o'clock. Drink as you may before
,lace open but your own home, and you go
,otations if thew have besn too daen Of of
tself is great boon to those who are the better
Al