St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-23
LADIES' SUMMING TOUR.
MEMBERS OF THE TEMPERANCE CON-
GRESS SEE CHICAGO BY NIGHT.
MADE SICK BY THE SHOCK.


by Two Detectives and Two
Other Gentlemen-One Drunk
en- Man Insisted on Dancing
With the observation-disclosures of
Material for Coming Lectures.
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-Seven members
of the Women's Christian Temperance
congress, which closed Its session
Saturday night, will carry away from
Chicago knowledge of its darker side,
which will 10 doubt become the foun-
datlon of many addresses in advocacy
OF social purity and temperance. The
experience which the crusaders gained
was found in series of ''slumming"
under police protection the slevee" dis
trlct OF Chicago. The party comprised
the following we'll known members of
the Indiana Women's Christian Tenn
perance union: Miss Mollie Hay, of
Indianapolis; Mrs. E. l.. Calkins, of
South Bend, vice president of the
station union; Mrs. Ella Moore, of
Lakeville; Mrs. Emily Tompkins, of
Elkhart; Mrs. Addie Fields, of
Indianapolis; Miss Leonora Ayers, of
Indianapolis; Mrs. L. Mendhall, of
Richmond; Mrs. Gertrude Fulton, of
Richmond. They were escorted by two
detectives from the central station and
Charles l.. Stevens, of the "levee,"
and K. S. Fulton, of Richmond, Ind.
The party met at Harrison street sta
tion at l o'clock this morning, and at
once started out to visit the most no.
toriouS dives. At the first place they
were denied admission, because too
many people were there already, but
received an invitation to come again
and they would be shown through the
place. AT one place all the man save one
fed from the house. This man was
drunk, and insisted upon having a
dance with one of the missionaries. He
was finally Squelched by one of
the officers. The trip occupied
three hours, and at its close
Miss Hay, who has done missionary
work In the slums before, said: ~
have been through every part of New
York, and have seen life in its worst
forms. This doesn't compare with
what there is there. 1t is bad enough,
however. 1t was an experience which
the ladies who were with me will never
forget, and from which some of them
will not recover for some time. Not
that they were made i'll, but the shock
they received on beholding such scenes
Of vice was very distressing to many of
our party. l have seen but one of the
ladies today, and, on inquiring as to
low the rest were, l received the an
swer that few of them had slept at all
last night"
The information gained will enable
the ladies TO conduct with vigor and in
teiligence the warfare against the evils
of vice and intemperance.
The tour of the w. G. T. y. women
through the dark districts Of Chicago
was made known to Lady Henry Somer-
set, vice president at large of the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union,
II know nothing of the expedition up
to this time," said she, although l am
not surprised in the least. While can
not be certain i'll the matter, | take it
that the women undertook the eXcur-
sion, acting on their personal desire,
and not any recommendation of the un-
ion.'
"Would you not know if the conven.
ton had taken any action on the SUBJ
ject?"
II certainly should, and yet L cannot
state my opinion authoritatively, as l
have not followed the meetings closely,
1 have often recommended that such
work be taken up. and have made a
thorough investigation of this social
purity problem myself. Such an IN
vestigation as this should be recognized
by the uniCn, but | am sure that it was
not authorized by that body"