Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-05
: DAYS NEWS FROM DALLAS.
H. RESERVATION AS a Torio OF
DISCUSSION.
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Dallas. TEX, Jan. l.--The report OF
he grand jury in regard to the as
brders on the route OF the Oak Clih
tlectrical railway through the Reser-
yatlon has set all of Dallas to talking,
Is ID has brought up a subject that
has long been expected to bob up Sc
renol,, by the older heads of Dallas
hnd cause no end OF discussion.
Mayor Barry. being approached on
Tho Subject, said;
4This is In one sense legal ques-
<10u The state and county authors
1o8 already have authority to prose
Lite and punish breaches OF the peace
and dlsorderly conduct that would
6istlrb or annoy passers on South
Uefkerson street, as persons anywhere
lnRlthe city. In several matters the
stote and county authorities have eN-
clisive jurisdiction, to-wit: For theft,
sWlhdling, aggravated assaults, agra
waited assaults and battery, keepers or
exhib OF such games as are pro-
|Efhfted by law and those involving
of1cial misconduct'--and the city can
moi TRY and punish such offenses. The
kitty court has exclusive jurisdiction only
orer 'disorderly houses and female va
xrHfits.' / believe jurisdiction over all
thcee matters should be concurrent IN
both tribunals, so that each authority
could punish and aid In the punishment
or these as well as other offenses, and
Hith that view I believe the city char
ffrsshould be amended.
III is well known that that part of
fho4 city defined as the Reservation
BY the city council several years ago
had already in fact become 'reserva-
<ion; and while we tolerate the exist
ence of such a district. We should not
f0lcrate violations of law there or else
Whefe: and l know that city officials
chHrged with the execution OF penal
laws have in the past endeavored to
execute them, as explained by Chief
or Police Arnold.
II take II that It would violate our
duty and that It would not become us
70 ray to persons that they can be dis
orderly and so exhibit and conduct
themselves as to annov pnssers on
other streets except Jefferson. Hence
Vt Is with us a question Of law and or
der. and in enforcing this l hope the
county authorities, and especially the
Grand jurles, will take part"
alderman O'Keefe in whose ward
narjly not puzzled to take position
on any public matter, but this South
Jen'erson street problem seems to dis
concert him. He said;
~ know that the condition mentioned
hyiIthe grand jury exists, but what
can we do about It? The social evil
cannot be eradicated from Dallas any
moro than It can from any other city.
We are trying to isolate and control 1t
na Best we can. Under present regula-
lions all that can be done is to keep the
district under strict police surveillance
and punish offenders whose conduct
'is fagrant and open. But with the
small police force OF Dallas little sur
|veillance is possible for South Jefferson
I,or any other street In the Reserva-
tion. There is no other part OF the
:ity where the character OF people liv-
Ing in the observation would be less
5bjcctionable than where they are now.
.ith to be regretted that women and
<hildren riding on the Oak Cliff car
.olne are subjected to the sights they
. witness in passing over South Jeffer-
ION street; but the Rapid Transit line
I3assengers are subject to similar ex-
Durience in passing through South
hAustin street. IF we except South
rfefferson street from the Reservation.
| hen a demand will come TO also except
V5outh Austin street. So what is the
. rity council to do? A reservation IS
fapsolutely necessary. Where can less
,bjet tionablc one be found in the city
nimits than the one now set aside? 1
Ike every other member of the city
government, am anxious to do the
3eat possible for the city's moral well
'arc, but the South Jefferson street
strusnde Is too hard for me Just now
| " Alderman Kahn said that It was q
matter easy enough TO spring, but hard
. o splve. Not long ago, he said, this
a:ity went to work and rounded III
Inshe fallen women and placed then
IN NAT quarter of the city, which wa,
set apart as their reservation. 1t woult
.saot do TO scatter lem again; they
saertainly could not be bodily trans
,erred to another quarter of the city
! aor rfas there any way of getting rio
nofit them. and still more difficult woult
n / be- to reform them.