The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-22
LEFT SOUBRETTE ROW
Tenderloin Buds Moved Away by
the Score To-day,
0ispssssss Proceedings Condemn.
ed In Vigorous Language.
Miss Griffin Proposed that All Go
and Horscwhip Hammond.


Tenderloin. "soubrette Row" In West
Thirty-ninth street Is no more
The Evening World" last week pub
lished exclusively the fact that dis
possess warrants had been served on
all the tenants OF the fiat buildings $50,
25l, 254, 2o6. 266 and PCS West Thirty
ninth street.
The tenants, who were for the most
part young women who are more or less
well known In the Tenderioin district,
were given until tomorrow to move,
but the exodus began this morning, and
from o'clock until the street In front
Of the addresses mentioned were almost
impossible because of the furniture
vans and trucks.
"Soubrette Row" IL owned by David
korn, who Is now under indictment for
renting houses for immoral purposes.
1t has not yet been made entirely clear
whether the wholesale evicting Of the
"Tsnderloin Buds (as Mr.. Goff calls
them is que to desire to purify the
Of ifsssss st @ss' who
leased the property from korn and SUB
let II to the occupants, has failed 10 pay
30 and $1,000. The latter is said to be
the reason.
At any rate, the dispossessed tenants
blame Hammond for the whole trouble
and they did not mince words In saying
| 10 this afternoon wnen an Evening
Worlu'' reporter talked with them IN the
| sidewalk, as they watched their furni-
'r The Sidewalk was crowded with
women ranging In age from twenty
TO nifty years. Most OF them wore Snort
ana asssss tse ss.st
OF fashion, and who treated the matter
of "r1aminond having done them" as
more or less Of Joke;
was Miss Griffen, and that she resided
the t,rst noor Of is West Thirty- ninth
was a.. more oStspSken ina. neat. ~,
hitting black tailor-made suit, with :
mannlph coat, shirt and four-in- hand tie
In her ears diamonds as Bug sA hazel,
a erea s With diamond nom n rings. s'' ".
She said: II don't care much abou,
this thing myself ! intended to move
Oct four ys.r. % snk move
that the way Hammond has treated his
tenants Is outrageous. Most. IL not all
e the have PAID their rent up e
more in advance than that. To many
this moving on few days notice Is q
great hardship, and as there seems to
20 with them down to Hammond's Of.
nee and horsewhip. him until he cannot
to show up in this neighborhood to-day.
1t was learned that Miss BaDcock. who
resided on the first floor of No. 2ss, hat
not only paid her rent for a month n
| advance, but had n few days before thu
dispossess warrants were Served on hei
papered the Nat In which she lived at hei
own expense.
II is also alleged that Agent Hammond
|
month from some of the tenants, afteI
the disP9ssess warrants had beer
rants were only bluffs to help Owner
thorities.
who, but few weeks ago arrived from
Paris, Is sick In bed. It is said. and pro
duced a physicians certificate to show
that she was too ~ to move; .,-
dresser e ros Of No. o. 5ss , told The Even
Ing World" reporter that he would a
orc swear out warrant for Ham
Mr.. Fabians said ne did not cnre mucl
for the amount he lost by being dis
possessed. but that he considered Ham
n;nhd's action an outrage;
for several weeks past been renting nat
at greatly reduced prices. as II he an
ticipated taking the action he has.
telling to where they were moving
Some of the more prosperous LOOKING
and the biggest diamonds, said with
drawl that they would store their furni
ture for a time and go to some OF tn
h way hotels until place could b
fosAd.
| Y ..ers said they were going to NOV
into other flats In Thirty-eighth an
other near by streets. and one remarked
"Oh. guess Harlem will be goo
enough for me after this. They tell m
that Harlem beats the Tenderloin now.
A few OF the women forgot their ange
against Hammond to pay their respect
, | to DIR. Parkhurst.