Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-12-07
War on Women.

Frail women are held to a strict
account while the men who are their
partners in Objectionable living are
left go uncondemned. The Law and
Order Society of Pittsburg has made
a move to abolish tho social evil
houses in that town. Last Thurs
day, Decembcr 1st, a general move
through the city was made on houses
of that kind which is related by de
spatch as follows:
The closing of the 25S disorderly
houses of this city by the Police De
partment has caused sensation sec
ond only to that following the battle
at Homestead, July 6.
Over one hundred women, inmates
of the houses, who have been ordered
to leave the city, marched in q body
to the office of Mayor Gourley on
Thursday, December 1st The Curl
Gus procession OF gaudily dressed fe-
males attracted general attention.
They were headed by Cora Hastings,
Arriving at the Mayors office, they
demanded shelter. They said if
they stayed in their houses they
were liable to arrest, If they tramp
ed through the streets they would
be taken up for street walking.
HAVE THE MAYORS SYMPATHY.
In the rotunda of City Hall, May
or Gourley delivered speech to
them which is about tho only thing
the homeless creatures can get. The
Mayor said: Il am very sorry for
you women. l sympathize with you
from the bottom of my heart. L did
not close you up for 80 months of
my tenn for the reason that I did
not think it would help the evil.
When the ministers of the city, wives,
mothers, sisters and brothers came
to me to insist on the law being
lived up to, L had to issue the order.
l know what you can do. I have
nothing to offer you. 1 think that
MIR. Brown's order was too hasty. 1
DO not believe in hurrying you out
in the streets like dogs. Some con
sideration should be given and 10
days would not be too long time
HOMELESS AND NO FRIENDS.
Miss Cora Hastings then stepped
up and said: Some of these wom-
ell, in fact a great number of them,
live away from here. They have no
money and no friends, and what are
they to do?"
4 That do not know said the
Mayor, :,but will try and sec what
the ministers will do, and let you
know by tomorrow afternoon"
BEsIEGED A PREACHER.
| Several hundred women, white and
black, called at the house of Rev. j.
L. McCrory, the leader of the clos
ing movement. Some of them, fall
/, ing on their knees, begged and en-
treated him to do something toward
finding shelter for them. He
turned them away and demanded
police protection to keep the women
from his house.
, NO SHELTER UNTIL REFORMED.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Pheulan, of the
Catholic Church, is the only minister
who has offered to assist the women.
He has ordered the House of the
Good Shepherd thrown open to re.
ceive them. After giving them shell
ter he will try to reform them.
The Protestant ministers want the
women to reform first and take the
shelter afterward.
WILL FIGHT FOR THEIR HOMES.
Some of the women who own their
own houses will apply for an injunc-
ton restraining the police from in
terferiDg. Nora Lee sold her S15,-
900 house for $4,000. Another wo-
man, who ran dive on Second ave-
nue., has announced that she will
} open a boarding house and will keep
her girls for walters.
All the outgoing Western trains
are rrying the women away. Many
of thel. are going to Chicago, Gin
cinnati and st. Louis, but the ma
jority will find refuge in the small
nearby towns, hoping the ways of
morality will soon blow over.
ALLEGHENY WON'T TAKE THEM.
The women thought they could
find homes in Allegheny City. In
this they were disappointed. A de-
cree was issued, closing the houses
In the First ward and forbidding any
OF the Pittsburg women from locat-
ing there.