The herald., 1895-07-28
THE SEAMY SIDE
81. OF LOS Angeles
What Was Revealed by a
Summing Tour
ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE FENCE
The Most Unsavory Creatures
of the City
THE STREET NOW GIVEN
OVER TO THE HAbITUES
The Conditions That Surround the Denizens
Of the Half World
J. Harry johnson and William II. Bosqui
Have Done nuch to Abate the Evil
But 1t Is Not by Any neans
The Most Unsavory Creatures
of the City
THE STREET NOW GIVEN
OVER TO THE HABITUES
The Conditions That Surround the Denizens
Of the Half World
J. Harry johnson and William H. Bosqui
Have Done nuch to Abate the Evil
But 1t Is Not by Any Heans
Fully Restricted

When the assignment to this series oil
articles was given to me. | undertook it
with the temerity horn of ignorance; l
continue it with the courage born of con.
viction. Truly one-half the world knows
not how the other half lives; or, know
ing. cares not enough to enquire into the
cause and seek for some remedy that can
be of real, definite and lasting avail. For
countless generations men have said
'license is mine, and their will has pre-
vailed and will prevail, probably, for gen.
efations to come. emotional women and
ministerial unions and social purity
leagues to the contrary, Notwithstanding.
That half of the world, the globe over.
comprising respectable men. women, and
city. county and state officials. have tao
Itly countenanced the dolngs of the rest,
the demimonde or half-world, made up
or the dlsreputable women and men. too.
who through heredity. or environment,
force of circumstances or bringing up. or
all com bined, follow q course that is ever
downward and the more degrading as
month follows month and year follows
year. The world does not, cannot stand
still, it is either progression or retrogres-
sion, with what has passed into history
the man and woman of today has nothing
to do, except as lie or she learns from
that past what can be done with the pres
ent, what may be done for the future.
Every man and woman that lives today
has and should feel his or her share OF
moral responsibility. not only for indi-
vldual good, but for the good of all; and
just so far as he or she be endowed with
mental. moral or civic superiority. in ex.
actly that ratio will he or she be held re-
sponsible for his or her accom- plishment
toward that end.
n WI Int+ I, &c.
age is held to be essen TALLY and especially
. progressive one. yet social and moral
problems are continually forcing them
selves into notice, demanding solution:
and how and from what direction, IN
spite of all the strides made along va
rious lines of thought and action does
there come guiding ray of light to
promise anything like a more satsfac-
tory adjustment of such questions than
have obtained in the past? Much has
been said of late concerning the new wo-
man, supposititious creature that no
one seems able exactly to define occa-
sional references there have been, too,
to the new man.
Are they to be evolved from past con-
ditions to right this sorry scheme of
things. entire. and remould 1t nearer to the
hearts desire?'' Even so, that will in
deed be the millennium ana lies far. far
ahead, in the time when woman. having
awakened to the fact that she must first
teach herself that she may be competent
to teach her children when men, hav-
ing realized that they must first be true
to the m selves. can hope to be Just to 9TH
ers. and when both have learned that it
Is only he that is without sin who is priv
ilsged to cast stone.
1t has been said of Los Angeles that
nowhere else are sin and vice so tiagrantly
open or displayed so brazenly. The fact
that the assertion was so bitterly con
demned and contested at the time it was
made, would seem to be good evidence
that the blow hit home. Be that as it
may, at that time the principal railroad
ingress to the city passed between two
rows of those habitatons known in police
annals as cribs, and occupied by the
m ost degraded and hardend denizens of
the half world, abandoned women.
Abandoned. desolate word at best, and
when applied to women. meaning that
they are so, not only by the rest OF their
sex. but by all the good and pure and
noble instincts and traits with which
each atom of humanity is endowed at