The evening world., 1894-04-24
PARKHUaST'S LETTER.
He Denounces Capt. Martens for
Alleged Neglect Of Duty.
All Over Corcoran's Resort, Only
Five Doors Away.
Calls 1t tho Very Worst of All Inn
moral Pest Holes.

Not content with bringing Capt.
Frederick W. Martens. OF the East
Thirty-ffth street police station. before
the Board Of Police Commissioners to-
day to answer charges Of alleged neg
! lect of duty in falling to enforce the
excise laws. Rev. DIR. Parkhurst has
stuck another iron in his sou and
given 1t a twist that nay prove fatal to
the Captains official existence.
The latest Parkhurst attack Is In the
shape of a letter written to the Cap
tain asking him why he doesn't sup
press Joseph Corcoran'e saloon. with an
alleged dive annex on the southwest
corner OF Third avenue and Thirty-ffth
street. five doors away from Capt. Mar
tens's station-house and only a block
and a half from DR.. Parkhurst's resi-
dence.
Capt. Martens received DR.. Park
bursts letter yesterday. but declined to
make It's contents public. With con-
siderable anger. which later CAV way to
tears. he declared that since Corcoran
had opened his place in November last
he had arrested him three times for vio-
lation Of the Excise law. Twice he was
49, 0Afe Jaw hSSth2
The Captain said that Corcoran occu-
Dempsey, with her niece. occupied the
other floor. He declared that the house
was all right, Inc that he was being
bounded by DR.. P%arkhurst.
Or. Parkhurst this morning consented
to give out a copy of the letter he had
sent to Capt. Martens. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
ITO F. w. Martens, Captain of the
Twenty-first Police Precinct.
Sir: Our object in this communica-
ton is to call your attention to the
filthy resort which you are tolerating
at Corcoran's saloon, southwest corner
OF Third avenue q T%hirty-hfth street
It would hardly seem necessary that
your attention should be called to the
place. however. as II Is situated close
by you-almost under the shadow OF
your own station-house, In fact-so that
information from us ought to be the
last thing in the world that could be OF
service to you.
There are but few resorts which our
detectives have visited that are reported
by them as being so open and unblush-
ingly vile. Being less than thirty PAGES
from the station-house. your officers,
Of course, are continually filing past 1t,
and 1t would be an insult to your powers
Of d~iscernment, as well as theirs, to i'm.
agine that you are ignorant of the mat
ter, at least in its general features.
Niciousness under elegant DISCUSSES may
have its apologists, but in the resort re
ferred to there are no DISCUSSES about it.
1t is a den OF frank. brute animalism
and 20 know it: of course you know 1t.
We have been trying to conceive
what sort of instincts you are animated
BY that you can enjoy or even endure
the close proximity Of a hole that is SC
i~ngenuously filthy. We have observed
the like proximity in the instance OF
certain other station-houses. Perhaps
you can tell us whether there Is any
special Significance attaching to such
proximity. We do not mean to imply
that the Department considers such q
resort a necessary adjunct of the Off
cial headquarters of a precinct; still, an,
nan is a fool that supposes that Corco'
his saloon and run 1t up SO close to your
office without there being a certain
amount of understanding between thu
two institutions.
instincts are outraged by the proximity
OF such a nest Of nastiness. by wha,
sedatiye considerations are we to sup
pose that those instincts are kept tran,
quill under the severe and constant
~aggravaton? We merely want to know
what controversial you avail Of Il
p e9ss s"., the w,s sqG palInd yno of S 70 .,s sis d,s
tracing irritations OF corcoran's dive
1T Is an interesting feature OF tn,
case that although Commissioner Mac
Lean was known to have taken step
last Friday looking to your investigation
before the Board your %neighbor on tn
corner, and other %neighbors only a lit
tie more remote, were rushing thei
lecherous traffic with the same opennes
and enthusiasm Friday ey ening that the,
had been in the earlier part OF the week
all Of which. at least, suggests the conn
dence which you have in the bulk OF tn
Commissioners.
THE Society for the Prevention o.
evil is going to be entirely eradicated
but there are depths of sexual brutality
that no man that has not become alto
gether a beast can contemplate with
stitution OF hat character you are toll
Grating II not protecting at the place
specified.
quivocai terms IN which we hay
ing with a CAPTAIN who, has re
Gently been convicted OF shabby dis
: charge OF official duty. and there ar
times when language that is, impas
stoned and indignant. is the only mod
OF address which self-respecting. me
have either the power or the right I
; employ couu,,os.
1T. d. KENNESON.
FRANK MOSS.
= Rooms of the Society for the Proven
building. April %. 1894"
DR.. Parkhurst also declared that HI
agents had reliable information that dis
orderiy-house keepers all over the cit.
were preparing to resume their nefarlou
kbusiness as usual May l in the variou