Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-06
WILL GO AMONG THEM.
Francis Murphy Will Personally Call
on the 0utcasts.
HE WILL ASK THEM TO HEAR HIM
At q Meeting to Be Held Exclusively for
Their Benefit.
A LEGAL OPINION ON THE QUESTION

Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle,
will at noon to-day, in company with an
officer, visit the disorderly houses of the
city and will personally and verbally invite
the inmates to his meeting at Lafayette
Hall during the afternoon. The meeting
will be held for the special benefit of the
untortunates No others except the repre-
sentatives of the press will be admitted and
Mr.. Murphy will talk to them about
abandoning their resorts and their occu-
pations.
MIR. Murphy determined to visit the dis
orderly houses to extend the invitations
last night after his meeting closed. Super
intendent O'Mara, however, had gone
home, and the evangelist was unable to
secure the services of policeman. His
midnight visit was therefore delayed until
noon to-day, when he Will make vigorous
effort to have full attendance at the meet
ing to be held two hours later.
"We expect good meeting and we hope
to have good attendance" Mr.. Murphy
said last night. ''I will do all can to have
the women attend and after we get them
there we will talk to them in secret"
Still Considering the Mayors Letter.
Interest in the conflict between the
Mayor and the Department of Public
Safety over the proposition:to suppress the
disorderly houses is still unabated. While
a truce has not even been suggested from
either side, both sides were inactive yes
terday. The Mayor, who claims that he is
through with the whole business, spent all
the afternoon at a banquet given by the
graduates of Elders Ridge Academy. Chief
Brown spent most of the day in consulta-
tion with his political and official associates
and his attorneys. He said he had not yet
decided what course he would pursue in re-
gard to the last letter written to him by the
Mayor. He said that he would decide upon
q course within day or so.
No letters passed between the two Off
cials yesterday. cts too dark to write
letters to-day" Superintendent O'Mara
said yesterday when asked what was doing
by the police in regard to disorderly houses.
In the absence of any original letters
Mr.. O'Mara gave out for publication let
ter written him by Rev. Donehoo Just after
the last report of the Department Of Public
Safety was. issued. The document is ap-
pended:
Praise From Rev. Z. R. Donehoo.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Sept. %.
J; Q: Brown, ESQ.,. Chief of Department of Public
Safety:
DEAR SIR-You have very kindly sent me
a copy of the last annual report of the de-
partment over which you have the honor to
preside, for which please accept my most
cordial thanks. Your reports are always in.
teresting to me for the valuable in
formation which they afford, and 1
would only be repeating what 1 have
tion of the concise and satisfactory exhibit
which you have made of the work OF your
department for the past year. By the ad-
mirable method adopted and carried out in
idea of the function. of the department and
be led to appreciate the great value of such
q department. for the peace, safety and
health of our great city.
With no thought of making an invidious
comparison, l cannot refrain from COM
mending the most excellent report of your
superintendent of Police. His views on that
as yet insoluble problem of the social evil
am not ready to indorse his conclusions on
the subject am yet constrained
to congratulate you on having an
evils, which in past days brought sorrow to
the hearts of all who honored virtue ana
decency, to the minimum.
In Advance of Other Cities.
realize the fact that our city is very far
in advance OF large number OF our Ameri-
can cities in suppressing the offensive
features of this most humiliating and deeply
to be deplored of all the many evils which
vex society. Sincerely yours.
E. R. DoNEHoo.
Mr.. Donehoo said last night that his con-
gratulations we're exte ded to Superin-
tendent O'Mara on that part of the report
which indicated that the police had sue
ceeded in keeping disorderlv women off the
streets of the city. Mr.. Donehoo said that
he is still ready and willing to congratulate
Mr.. O'Mara ON the wsrk he did in that di-
rection.
The United Presbyterian ministers, at
their regular weekly meeting yesterday,
discussed the social evil, and by a resolu-
ton the action of the Mayor was heartily
The resolution was thoroughly
discussed before its adoption.
The outcasts have been invited to 90 to
room. and 6, at No. 1o4 Grant street, at
any time if they desire help.