The herald., 1895-06-09
"Well. What Are You Going to
Do About IT,"
SAYOFFICERS AND VAGRANTS
And Long.Suffering Public Is
Helpless
Champagne parIor Houses Growing lore
Numerous In the Respectable Portions
VI the City and Nothing Is Done

'Well, Wnat are you gums " w 49,"
it?" OF Boss Tweed OF New York, is al
most as famous as the The public be
dam'd" of that New York aristocrat' the
late and lamented Mr.. Vanderbilt. And
the former remark is the language OF the
painted courtesan and her lecherous male
com panion of this city. while the latter
is certainly borne out bv the (ln)actions
Of the police department controlled by
the police com m ssioners.
The members OF the finest are dumb on
the subject. The chief is willing TO do
his duty and the men are writhing un-
der the aspersions cast upon them OF
boodling and cowardce; but the COM
missoners, whose executive silent ana
inactive chief is, seem to think they
have all the arrogance OF certain COM
mittee of three whose dark rule in An
cient Venice comes down through the
centuries and warns every Tree COM
munity not TO put too much power into
a few mems hands. certainly not as mucn
as the committee of five that meets IL
the mayors office seems to think it en-
Joys. However. that is depression.
The m after in hand Is the gradual
migration of certain class OF women
from the borders of the tepderloin dis
of the city When the agitation against
the soiled doves was begun by the good
ministerial association and others some
time ago. the long headed of the threat
ened element began preparations for
"respectability. The crib" women,
perforce must live or die by the action of
the authorities SO also would the par
lor- house" prostitutes and kept wo-
men ''up town" on the borders. but that
the latter are more intelligent and better
versed in the ways CT the world and
know how to talk to the said author
ities."
They also know another trick, and by
exercising it they are putting numberless
honorable women to shame and supiciun
by their similarity of living and their
proximity to respectability.
In the residence portions of the city
on, and within easy reach of the trunk
car lines, numbers of notorious uptown
managers. They are missed from
their usual haunts and the manager,
husband or everyday mac" greets the
inquirer with What, old friend, used to
know her in San Francisco" to call upon?
and then gives every information as to
street, number ana what car to take.
Look. for instance, at a certain quiet
home on the East Side where mice.
old widow lady and her three lovely
daughters" reside. They live quietly and
only the swift men of the neighbor-
hood know the inside story OF their resi-
dence there; the young women go fire.
quently to the city, but they ARE great
society girls' as mama explains and
that's why so many en- cali to see them.
The fact is, the creatures are in great
big ring that has formed a trust on all
the welldresseds respectability it can
muster and by calling and going out
lust like society people, they succeed
1xr tDr oil l. IN hn ac- ~
keeping up the show. Then there is a
mice, quiet home" out in the West End
mot lar from the University cars"
where dear Mrs. Tenderloin lives.
Such nice lady, with two lovely
daughters" During a recent annexa-
ZIONIST meeting at University one vir-
tuous old gentleman wanted to get into
the city SO that that and other houses
outside of the limits could be driven
away by legislation. But younger man.
evidently familiar with the class, told
him 10 see what legislation had done for
Alameda street and thereby blocked the
argument. The West End and Univer-
tocratic' class, who are con nstantly
scheming to graduate" from the hurly
burIy of uptown life to the quiet and
secluded home of rest and respectablty
their N anagers will provide for them
among the lawns, mal nolias and orange
II.
then the good husband goes down
town to work, hangs around the hotels
and saloon, purlieus and drums up high
class. paying trade for select house, -
returning home and managing everything
TO the entire satisfaction of unsuspect-
ing neighbors. "Oh, he is city ag,nt for
a private corporation" and nobody
questions him.
And to make the thing impregnable TO
suspicion, the vealy young man or the
coarse old rounder who perhaps not IN
willingly feels it is necessity imposed
by nature that he must sink his self-rss-
pect TO crafty the 1eshly deisrss is
too weak to curb, must either 5e known
to mama and the girls, or must have
his credentials from papa, 50 that the
family can remain select and "zDoTe
suspicion. The neighbors OF the -ood
{ people near the city line will all sxez.
that the young men of the vicinity arg
growing up in demoraliZation within :
stones throw OF vice, and many oi the
young men wink the other eye and sr1 i.e
significantly as though they were tami-
liar with something real deyilish and
blooded. And even the kicks OF the vail
ant Freeman g., who swears their pres
ence exhausts his private funigator. fre-
quently cannot get them moved. Thei,
cases have been aired before and they
have demonstrated their ability 10 hold
their positions. by exhibiting deeds OF
ownership to the property they occupy.
In the case OF one particular house that
exhibited such a deed, detective sent
to investiagte discovereu that the deed,
though legally drawn, meanG nothing,
the property not having been paid for al
all. 1t is presumed the owner had side
agreement and was piling up great
rental. or else was keeping the woman.
A house on Twenty i5iirth street, near
Hoover. was thrown open 10 suspicion
recently. but was cleared of attaint by
the police comm ission, so is used merely
as an example OF what might have been
The neighbors yet positively aver that
it is private house of prostitution WORKED
on the sly, and say il is one of the par
lor houses just described. Anyhow, the
house would perhaps have remained 9
long time unsuspected hdd not one of the
ladies of the family gone mad and done
improper things.
In the early morning of May % last
the attention of the neigh borhood was
ATTRACTED to sight such as artists depict
Saint Anthony avoiding. There were
few Autnonies in the neighborhood, SC
il was well obser ed. A woman apnar-
emily in the prime of life rushed naked
out into the back yard. and falling down
in the dust, began praying God to for
give her. etc. She was in frenzy from
excessive use Of whisky and MORPHINE
and seemed suddenly taken with great
remorse for something or other. The
hastily SUNNI oned patr,l wagon took he,
to the rece wing hospital. but instead OF
the staid and natronv name of Mrs.
Douglas of Twenty fourth street, the har-
dened police were shocked to learn tba,