The morning call., 1893-07-15
A Strong Effort to Close
Side Entrances.
HE CRUSADE FOR PURITY.
w. ]. Gavigan Attacks the Police and
He Is Called to Crder-The
New Ordinance Offered.

Critics has stimulated the friends OF purity
and virtue TO renew efforts for the sup
preston OF those forms of an evil which
threaten the peace of families by throwing
temptations in the path of respectable
wives and daughters.
The latest effort in this direction was
made at the meeting OF the Health and TO-
lice Committee of the Board OF Supervisors
yesterday. When the meeting was called
TO order there were present: Chairman
Kennedy and Supervisors stanton. hels,
Dundon, Ryan and Forman. Alter tue
members of the committee had taken theIF
seats the sergeaut-at-arms announced tnat
a number of women and men were waitln g
permission to address them. They were
admitted imm edlately upon tne oiuei "a
the chairman.
These in attendance included representa-
tives from the Citizens Anti-Dtve Assorla-
ton, the Women's Western Addition Anti
Ladies' Entrance League. the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, the San
Francisco Council of Women, the Womans
Alliance, the Daughters of the Good Shep-
herd and the San Francisco High License
Association. Carroll Cook was also pres
emit as the attorney for several downtown
saloons, which thrive upon their patronage
of private rooms and side entrances.
After the reading of the proposed ordi-
nance, W. }. Gavigan, attorney for the
Women's Western Addition Anti Ladies
Entrance League. read substitute. which
was published in The CALL OF yesterday.
Attorney Gavigan then proceeded to ad-
minister a severe verbal castigation to the
Police Department. He referred TO the
published charge from the lips of Chief
Crowley, placing the responsibility for the
existence Of houses Of i'll repute upon the
Board of Supervisors.
II deny the truth of this statement in
toto" proceeded Mr.. GavIgaD. The
present Board Of Supervisors is he'most
honorable ever elected in this county. l
can show that it is Chief Crowley alone
who is responsible for the continuance of
these houses Of i'll fame.
Chief Crowley has authority under sec
ton SIS of the Penal Code to drive his
patrol wagons to the door of every house
of i'll repute in San Francisco and arrest
the inmates"
Mr. Gavigan then read and commented
upon the statute with reference to the
duty of the police in the premises. At
this point he was Interrupted by Chair
man Kennedy, who said that the commit
tee did not care to hear further charges
against the Police Department at this
time.
Supervisor Stanton remarked that the
speakers statements concerning Chief
Crowley were untrue.
The ladies present were then given an
opportunity to address the committee and
they lost no time in availing themselves of
the permission. Brief but pointed ad-
dresses we're made by a number, and the
truths which they spoke were plain but
uudeniable.
Mrs. Bowley. vice-president of the San
FIncsco Council of Women. was the first
Wake the floor. Sse referred 10 the good
z oft q
National Council of the organization she
represented, composed of many of the best.
brightest and most intelligent women in
America. The council locally was enlisted
on the side OF every reform, particularly
wherein women were effected. The most
practical reform needed at present in this
interest would be covered by the adoption
of the ordinance which had been presented
to the committee and she hoped the Super
visors would adopt it.
Mrs. French. representing the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, followed.
She called the attention of the committee
to the fact that there were saloons on every
side of the building wherein the city's
affairs were administered. In almost all
these rumshops the shameful ladies
entrance" signs were Haunted before the
eyes of every respectable woman who
passed by. She Endorsed the ordinance
submitted and urged the attention of the
board to the fact that young girls often
frequent the back rooms of saloons with
out an adequate idea of the dangers sur
rounding them. She knew Of saloon on
Mission street, called the Kindergarten, !"
a common resort for boys and girls IN their
teens.
Mrs. Abbie L. Ballou said that the sa-
loon side entrances were the worst blot
upon the reputation of this city. SO long
as they were allowed to exist San Fran
ois n ht. a
The question OF their suppression rested
upon the proposition that the daughters OF
citizens should be protected from evils, the
extent of which they did not realize. She
quoted statistics TO prove that crime FOL
lowed dissipated womanhOod and that
drunken mothers beQueathe1 heritage OF
vice to their offspring
Mrs. NJ. z. TheaR. on behalf of the
Daughters of the Good Shepherd. urged
the committee to prompt action before
another murder like that of Mrs. Critics
was committed.
Mrs. Spencer of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union urged the Board of
Supervisors to protect young girls and in
nocent matrons who we're not wise enough
to protect themselves by removing this
flagraat form Of temptation from their
path.
Mrs. G. y. Ballentne of the Woman's
Alliance said that these women-traps
should be closed at once. Sue told the
committee that she knew of young men of
the high school who were In the habit of
inviting schoolgirls to the back rooms of
saloons. These places promoted vice in
its most hideous form, and all decent men
should urge in their suppression. No citi-
zen knew when his own home might be
ruined by this pernicious influence.
Mrs. Bradstreet of the San Francisco
Council OF Women asked the SUPERVISORS
present how they would like their own
daughters to enter saloon on the way
home from school. Even if they did not
think the evil could effect hem they should
take the warning lesson home and pray
God thai the saloon habit should never
faint wife. sister or child of theirs.
Carroll Cook addressed the committee
Oh behalf of number of property-owners
who would be financially affected by the
passage of this ordinance. He said his
clients probably paid more taxes than all
the members of the societies interested in
the proposed order. AS this ordinance
would injure their property, they desired
TO be heard before definite action was
taken. He believed that there would be no
trouble In framing satisfactory ordinance
to cover the case, without adopting such
radical measures as urged by the previous
speakers.
ID. J.. Gear. attorney for the Citizens
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