The advocate., 1895-12-11
IGNORANCE AND FALSE THEORIES LEAD
TO VICIOUS PRACTICES.

quired much notoriety throughout the
country, by his peculiar style of cru
sade against vice. At the beginning
Of his career in this missionary field
the Reverend Doctor disguised himself
as a common city bum evidently not
difficult disguise and visited all the
lowest dens where miserable victims
of our social system are wont to con.
gregate, In order to gain the informs'
tlon necessary for the great service he
proposed to render to humanity and
to the cause of Christianity which is
30 dear to his heart. The reader is
familiar with his work thus far.
Recently he and his disciples have
adopted new tactics which entitle them
to more newspaper advertising,
and more notOriety. The new work
is in the hands of the City Vigi-
lance League. Chairman Dwight of
the Twenty fifth Assembly District
League, speaking Of certain streets
in his beat, to representative Of the
New York Herald said:
The condition OF these streets, as far as these
women are concerned, is something abso-
lutely disgraceiuL The women driven away
from this district after DR.. Parkhurst began
his crusade have returned in droves, and they
are bscomingso bold that we must teach them
another lesson.
The plan adopted to teach these bold
women the needed lesson is for the
members of the league, who, by the
way, are all good church going people
whose highly sensitive natures are
shocked at the boldness and immoral
Ity Of the women Of the town, to dis
guise themselves and parade the streets
In search of victims. The Herald Of
November "a says:
Chairman Dwight began his work last night.
deeming 1t an excellent opportunity, and he
went at the task in q very radical, determined
way. dozen Of the league members dressed
themselves so that they might be mistaken
for college boys or their admirers. What little
hair they had was so carefully pulled down
over their Poreheads that the effect seemed to
be the height of csrelessness. Big yellow
chPysanthemums or immeese punches OF vlo-
lets decorated their coat lapels, and most Of
them carried streamers Of the rival colleges.
So attired, they mingled with the gay throng,
Po06ty Cor "a rn1Ohk haFNll kham
A Herald reporter met Chairman
Dwight at the West Thirtieth street
station about midnight and reports
this as part of his interview:
He said to me that, as fac as he knew, his
men had not caused any arrests and that 1t
was not his expectation that they might do
so. This was the frst night, and they were
out ain the swim" more to equip themselves
for future action than to make their presence
felt AG once.
It is necessary to get "in the SWim,"
you see, before beginning active opera.
tions, in order to entrsp as many un-
wary victims as possible when the
proper time comes.
A New York World reporter speaks
Of this new crusade in the issue of No.
Vember "a as follows:
DR.. Parkhusts society has new scheme to
clear Broadway and other well-lighted
thoroughfares in the Tendsrloin precinct Of
the scarlet women who patrol the streets
every night with the same regularity as In the
old times before Dr. Parkhurst made his first
crusade.
The Twenty-ffth district branch OF the City
Vigilance League does Its work In the Tender
loin. To this organization has been delegated
the work Of purging the streets Of soliciting