The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-20
MAYOR D0RANs VISITED BY AN
OTHER DELEGATION FROM
THIRD STREET.
THEIR HOMES ARE INVADED,
WHILE THE BUSINESS oFsONE FIRM
HAS FALLEN OFF FIFTY PER
CENT.
ASKED TO PURGE THE STREET.
He Says It's Too Bad. He's Sorry,
and That's AII-Referred to the
Grand Jury.


over the wholesale removal of disrepu-
other parts Of the city, especially To
West Third street. Friday, the mayor
was waited on by another delegation Of
the residents of West Third street and
asked if he could not put stop to the
dlsgraceful state of affairs which exist
on that thoroughfare. He was informed
that people who lived on the street and
were engaged in business were placed
to great disadvantage owing to the
condition of affairs. Those who have
for the past few years resided on West
Third street are annoyed every time
they happen to go out doors, especl-
ally in the evenings, and are insulted
by gangs of men, some of them
drunken, who roam up and down the
street from early evening until early
morning
A lady who has resided in the VI
cinity for the past two years stated to
the mayor that her daughters were
daily insulted by individuals who
seemed to have the impression that
any female who walked on the street
was an inmate of one of the numer-
Gus resorts which line both sides OF
the thoroughfare. One evening last
week, the mayor was told, a domestic
employed by one of the residents was
followed by two men, who, not salts
fed with insulting her, followed her
into the building and up stairs The
husband of the lady making the COM
plaint happened to be at home and.
hearing the noise in the hallway came
to the servants rescue and with bodily
force threw the intruders down the
stoit
plished until the men had raised row
and called the occupants of the house
all manner00f vile names. The mayor
was also Informed that IT was imposSi-
bic for persons to sleep in the neigh
borhood owing to gangs. of drunken
men running up and down the street
from one resort to u the other. and
making night hideous with their CT
rCusings.
a business firm occupying quarters
on the street was also heard from,
and the mayor told very plainly that
1t had reached a stage where the vol
ume of business done had fallen off
fifty per cent since Chief Goss had per-
mitted the street to be turned into a
disreputable haven. The question with
the firm was now, whether they had
better move or go out of business. They
did not think it was, or rather thought
1t should not be necessary for them
to quit a legitimate business in order
to allow persons conducting such re-
sorts to ply their calling.
Mayor Doran listened to the COM
plants and told his visitors that it
was "too bad, too bad" and expressed
sympathy with them in their misfor-
tunes and said he would endeavor to
have the resorts removed from the
street as fast as possible His honor
intimated that the administration was
locking up another location for the re-
sorts and as soon nag a suftable one
could be found they Wouldttbes scompell-
ed to move. He stated that he had
given orders that the colony should
not be reinforced by any additions, but
he was quickly told that if those were
his orders they We're being violated as
the number of disreputable resorts was
increasing rather than otherwise.
The callers on Mayor =Doran called
on another official, but were told by
him that the grand jury would be in
session shortly and that the best way
to get rid of the Objectionable neigh
| bcrs was to lay the matter before that
body
While Mayor Doran apologizng to the
delegation for the action taken by the ad-
| ministration in his private office, another
phase of the question was being discussed in
the police court. William B. Miller, private
messenger to his honor is also burdened with
the position ofQmajor domo in charge of the
disreputable resorts in the atty. Miller,
while nominally police ofFi5a-, odoes not wear
uniform, but keeps Wataln in the mayors.
oflce and also keeps Books sbPwing when
raigned in the police court to- paY1 fines.
Yesterday afternoon in tie course of his
duties not. however, as4 pIsNatai messenger,
Miller appeared in the- police court and
with him we're four females, whom he hal
notified to come into colrt and be- fined for
keeping disreputable resorts. City Attorney
D2rragh, who chanced 20. he III the court
room, took a hand in the proceedings, and
inquired of the clerk if the women to be
fined this month numbered only four. He
was referred to Private Messenger Miller for
the desired information. Miller Immediately
became very naughty and stated that 1t Was
none Of the city attorneys business how
many keepers were brought UP. All that
was required of the city attorney was to
prosecute the cases when they were brought
before the court. To this Mr.. Darragh ex-=
planned to the court that nc did not think