The herald., 1895-08-14
USED FOR BASE PURPOSES
The City Hall Park and Rear
Entrances
SOME ACTION IS NECESSARY
One Fence Which Would Not Be Oh.
jected To
&pr.lk1street Resorts Which Are Assisted In
Business Way by the Munici-
pal Authorities
SOME ACTION IS NECESSARY

The city is now and has for some time
past been an alder and abbetor of the
grossest kind of imm orality, the result of
the little bit of park ana the rear en-
frances in the exits from the city hall
building.
The park gates are seldom If ever closed
and the entrances and exits to and from
the building are for half the day and far
into the night used bv persons of both
sexes for the purpose of visiting the ques-
tionable resorts which are situated direct
ly in the rear of the municipal building.
The designations thus made are being
carried on more openly now than ever be-
fore. Any one sitting for a period OF half
an hour near the window in the head
quarters of the fire department. can count
from six to ten persons OF both sexes
who use both the park and the building
egress for the purpose of visiting the re-
sorts stated. The park driveway has late
ly come to be used by men and women
in hacks who are driven TO their destina-
tion, after which the vehicles return to
Broadway empty.
A couple OF reporters stood upon the
steps in the rear of the city hall about
O'Clock yesterday afternoon discussing
the evil. Both OF them had just taken
their station when woman, quietly
dressed in black, came around the corner
from Broadway through the park. She
smiled as she passed the young men and
walked hastily through the rear end into
a saloon, the principal features of which
are its sleeping rooms upstairs. She
had no sooner passed out of sight than two
fairies, made up to suggest the female
summer fashion plate. turned the corner.
They, too. were bound for the lodging
house saloon through its rear entrance,
having used the city's property as blind
for their intentions. Both of these last
females tried hard to inyeigle the inno-
cent reporters into accompanying them.
In the rear of the saloon mentioned, the
Anheuser. there are private boxes. and it
is this feature which is the magnet which
draws the spiders and the flies to the
scene.
( The people who use this means OF in
gress and egress are daily becom-
Ing bolder, and it is now no unusual sight
to see hacks with men or women or both
Irving through the park in broad day
for the purpose of keeping or making
yuch designations as have been related.
Mayor RAIDER, when seen yesterday, in
formed a Herald reporter that he had
repeatedly called the attention of individ-
complained of. Women utilize the thor
ougbfares at times by pretending that
they have visited the library. They en-
ter the city hall carrying books under
their arms, and by the time they have
reached the saloon the books are we'll out
of sight.
One of the owners Of property in the
vicinity some time ago decided to fence
in his possessions. The fence would have
shut off the rear room traffic. 1t has
never been Duilt and the owner of the
property mentioned is said to be receiv-
ing a regular monthly stipend from one
of the landlords of the evil resort, as the
results of his charge of heart.
City Clerk Lucken bach, who is the GUS
todian OF the city hall, will in few days
be authorized to erect board fence run
ming the whole length of the rear end of
the city hall lot. This improvement
would end the evil complained of. Moth
ing else will.
The supply committee of the council
recommended last February that fence
be erected to reach from the Los Angeles
theater building to the natatorium. This
was done at City Clerk Lucken bach's
earnest solicitation. The free and easy
councilmen voted the thing down with
out ceremony.