Evening star., 1895-06-12
RESULT OF DALEY'S RAIDS
Sixteen Prisoners in the Dock TODAY
Charged With Vagrancy
They Presented a Variety of Excuses,
but Most of Them Were
Sent Down.

Fourteen women, twelve colored and two
white men stood in row before Judge
Kimball this morning and answered a
charge of vagrancy, it being alleged that
they were persons of evil life and fame
The sixteen prisoners represented six raids
made on houses last night in Louise alley
and on Maine avenue Sergt. Daley and
Policement Baur, Shannon, Schraeder and
others made the raids. The white men
found in the houses are William, better
known as "Bill' Saddler, and Martin
Hogan. Saddler is married man. who has
a wife and children on Capitol Hill, and he
vas found in a house occupied by colored
women Of the lowest order Martin Hogan
was released from Jail only yesterday, and
he went to the house where he had lived,
he says, to get his clothes, and was rest
ing himself when the raid was made.
When it was whispered about the alleXs
that the police were a raiding expedi-
tion the men and women in many of the
houses departed, and went in other sections
of the city to remain for the night.
In the houses where the raids were made
there were some exciting incidents, caused
by an effort on part of the men and women
to escape, and one man managed to reach
the roof of the house, where the police
found him.
A Variety of Costumes.
When the party of prisoners stood in a
row before Judge Kimball there was va
riety of costumes. Matte Brown wore
pink skirt and blue waist, while fragments
of lace curtains served the purposes Of
lace, while Louisa Blackburn, a 3OO-pound
colored woman, was attired in a green
dress with the regulation large size sleeves.
Ella Wilson, otherwise called Hogan, wore
fowery costume that had the appearance
Of having seen better days in a more
fashionable resort. Other costumes were
made up OF all colors.
Sergeant Daley and Officer Baur were
the principal witnesses for the govern
n,ent and they told of the condition of the
defendants and their mode of living. The
character of the defendants was in aueS-
tion and Sergt. Daley said he had heard
the girls call to men on the street Come
In, darling
Several Excuses Made.
Mollie Russell, one of the white women
admitted that she had done wrong in the
past. but said she had reformed and Is
now behaving herself. She explained that
she was in the neighborhood of her cid
stamping ground last evening, but was
there for legitimate purpose.
Martha Spencer had served a term in the
Jail for keeping disreputable house, and
she claimed that since her release she has
done nothing wrong. There were numer-
Gus excuses made by the girls and only
two of them admitted their guilt.
houses were arrested. none of them were
charged with keeping a bawdy house. This
was done because the police think they
would rather so to Jail than to the work
house.
Personal Bonds Taken in Two Cases.
VIM. SaddIer succeeded in getting off. He
was released on his personal bonds because
he had only been out of Jail one day. Five
of the women were given thirty days each
and the others were given three months.
John Cohne, an inmate of Soldiers Home
charged with vagrancy because he
had rented room in one of these houses
He promised to leave there and his per-
sonal bonds were taken.
The sHOrse and buggy" Brigade.
To the Editor Of The Evening Star:
All your correspondents who are calling
public attention to the slovenly manner in
which our street cleaning Is being done
are aiming blows in the right direction
when striking at the Commissioners and
the street sweeping department. OF course.
if they allow contractors, inspectors and
other responsible parties to do about as
they please, inferior results must follow.
But 1 wish to PROFOUND a few plain. prac-
teal, business questions to the Mystic
Three" as you very appropriately dub our
| rulers, the Commissioners, suggested by
'Inquirers' reference to what is becoming
quite generally known the Horse and
Buggy Brigade of the street sweeping de-
partment.
Why does the work of looking after
eighteen men who clean alleys require the
services of three inspectors, each provided
with a horse and buggy? And why employ
four inspectors, each with horse and
buggy, to look after the street sweeping?
If l am correct. this is an increase Of one
inspector and two horses in the alleys, and
two inspectors and four horses In the
sweeping branch over that employed year
or two ago. If there were then but four
inspectors and one horse and buggy to do
very nearly much work as is now done,
where the necessity for seven inspectors,
each with horse and buggy?
When Col. Wright did the sweeping, be
lieve it required but one inspector to look
after the work. and his duties were per-
formed on foot. He received no pay for
Sundays nor for week days unless he actu-
ally rendered service. l understand it Is
claimed that one inspector with a horse
and buggy can easily do the work of two
inspectors not privileged with such an out
fit. There is nothing unreasonable about
that, and let 1t be conceded, but then
the work has by no means quadrupled
since Col. Wright's day, why make the
force of inspectors eghtfold larger? Then,
inspection of street sweeping cost $3.50 a
day, excluding Sundays and week days
when no sweeping was done. Now, each
for himself and 81 day for use of horse
and buggy, making a total of slS and they
are allowed pay for every day in the year.
But conceding that four street inspectors
and three alley inspectors, each provided
with horse and buggy, are necessary, and
that it is legal to pay them for six days
in the week, whether they render any ser
vice or not, don't you think it vioIative of
law and common community interests to
keep the superintendent office open Sun
days? This is a Sabbath respecting COM
munity, and the belief is growing among
all well-meaning citizens that it is kept
open in order to give a show of right to
pay its officials for services that otherwise
they could not have the slightest claim for,
as they are per diem employees, from super
intendent down, and perform no manner of
work those days that could not Just as
well be done Mondays. This Sunday ser
vice costs the taxpayers Of Washington
close on to $1,000 year. for which they re-
ceive no equivalent whatever, and would
not be tolerated If we had a municipal
government controlled by the suffrages of
the people. If the other wrongs referred
to cannot be stopped, this should certainly