The Jersey City news., 1891-08-26
TO SAVE YOUNG GIRLS.
Newark's Police Compelled
to Interfere for
Them.
FLOCKING TO NIGHT PICNICs
A Mothers Pathetic Story of How Her
Daughter Was Brought to
Shame.
sDeoiai to The Jersey cItv Nelul.

special TO the Jersey cIty Eesul
NEWARK, Aug. 90, Is91.-Superintend-
ent of Police Brown has been considering
for some time past as to the best form of
protecting young girls vino keep late
hours. and who are practically beyond
the control Of their parents, A number
of cases have been reported of late where
girls have gone astray because they would
not take heed OF their parents COM
mands.
The picnic park and cheap excursion
barge are the chief attractions for young
girls, aud are stepping-stones to the back
rooms, side doors and disreputable houses
in this city.
The Superintendent will issue an order
TO all the police captains. instructing
them TO warn or cause the arrest OF all
girls under the age of consent found at
picnics, excursions, or on the streets after
nine O'Clock at night, unless they are
accompanied BY their parents or proper
guardians.
IL is not measure intended in any way
to repress the liberty of girls, but merely
as precaution for the protection of the
girls themselves. This move it is thought,
will be very gratefully received by the
| parents of children
A HEART BROKEN MOTHER.
Recently the Superintendent received a
letter from the mother OF a girl who said
that her daughter, age fifteen. was ruined
The woman, who was respectable. was
nearly heartbroken, and had no desire
| for the disgrace which would follow an
exposure, but is silently suffering with
the nope that other mothers may escape
| such troubles.
There have never been so many young
girls seen on the public streets at late
| hours as there are in Newark this sum
mer, but it seemed to be nobody's busi-
ness, and no action was taken. Mayor
| Hynes has on frequent occasions spoken
about the matter. and it was his idea TO
establish O sy stem BY which incorrigiDle
children could be controlled without the
disgrace Of dragging their names before
| the public.
Tue Mayor says, and truly, that once
arrested the fact follows q child thr ouRh
| life, and it is for this reason tn Super
| intendent Brown and the Police Commits
1 noners Issued an order that City Home
cases be kept from the police blotter.
| Every day some child is taken TO Police
Headquarters because the parents have
| lost all control.
FIocKs OF cHIPPTEs..
| At dance ''hell." which is run on
| Market street during the winter mouths,
| more than half the girls who attend are
not more that sixteen years Of age, and
| many could be seen rushing there with
out their hats, because they escaped
from the house without their parents
| consent. Hiding a girls clothing will
| seldom keep her in the house, aud il the
| the police act as Superintendent Brown
| orders them, great danger will be averted
and parents will be thankful
| There are several young girls well
| known on Market street whose parents
think that they are working during the
| day, but who spend their time in deQra-
| dation, and then bring home 50 or 81 TO
| their Innocent parents on Saturday.
| Newark is a visiting place for girls from
all the surrounding country, and one
wretch, who is known well, is said 70
make trips to Paterson, Easton. Phfla-
| delphia and other places TO bring young
victims here.
Only recently Detective Cosgreye res
| cued two young girls, one OF whom had
| been traced here from Paterson by her
parents, and the police have frequently
| been requested by heartbroken parents
| to secure the return OF their runaway
| daughters.
The superintendent is to-day consulting g
with Chief Hopper about the matter, and
/ il is probable that the rules which viii be
established will enable the department. to
| arrest girls, and, after reprimand. re
| turn them to their parents without any
/ publication or disgrace.