The evening times., 1896-03-03

The reform movement that began Sat
| urday with the prohibition of the sale
or Intoxicating liquors In the Division
| has been extended 10 the women throughout
the First precinct, who maintain estab-
2shnents for the alleged purpose OF Civ
| ing ma ssage. vapor and electric baths.
All the women advertising such a bust
ness have been notified by the police to
| shut up shop or submit to a raid, with a
| police court denoueInent, md all, with more
| or less good grace, accepted the inevitable,
and prepared TO move.
Today it is impossible to get even a
| legitimate massage bath, for the order did
| not discriminate. Good and bad alike
were told to quit.
within the past few months places of
| this description have become rather nu
| merous. and their numbers seemed to be
continually increasing. Most of them came
| fiom New York. Philadelphia or Boston,
| and some from Chicago or other Western
| cities.
COMPLAINTS POURED IN
| They settled In the central part OF the
| city, advertised their baths and start
| cd In TO do n rushing business. Soon. how
| ever, complaints began to be received al
headquarters. becoming more frequent as
no attention was paid 10 them.
| Finally Major Moore had a consulta-
ton with the commissioners. and then with
Lieut.. Amiss OF the First precinct. where
most OF Tie places were situated.
| The ma or decided that it would not be
| proper 10 send his sleuths into the places
| TO see who were and who were not
| doing a legitimate business. He thought
such procedure would reflect discredit
| upon them. and possibly bring about
| repetition of the Proctor scandal. So 1t
/ We. dad n xT-hn LA m
discriminatory applying to good and bad
alike. should be issued, and all OF the
| places closed up.
New York was originally the hotbed
| for establishments OF this sort, and there
| the same sweeping method was adopted
to rid the city OF them. They were driven
out, and went TO Philadelphia, Boston, and
Cincinnati.
When they became too numerous in Phila-
delphia they were summarily raided, and
those who We're not conducting "A legiti-
| mate business were punished. lr Boston,
too. they werc broken up pretty generally,
and the Western cities have adopted va
rious methods to keep them within bounds.
THE ORDER GIVEN OUT.
The order of Major Moore was placed in
the hands Of Sergt. Schlling yesterday
afternoon, and, accompanied by a couple
of patrolmen. made the rourd of the bath
tstibltSi1ltul>. All Oh tue
We're notified that they must close up at
once and cake no more customers after the
visit Of the policemen. The order was read
to them in order I hat there might be no mis-
understanding, and, reg retfully and some
times tearfully, they promised to comply.
There are probably two or three legfti-
mate operators among the ones who were
visited by the police, and few who gave
the massage baths in connection with mani
cure or chiropody. The latter were told
that they could continue to pare and trim
the hands ard feet of patrons, but they
must refrain from bathing them.
They treated US better here than in
other cities said one of the women, after
being notified. I'm Philadelphia and Boston
and sometimes in New York. they railed us
first. and then told us to stop taking Gus
toners. Some of the women were sent to
prison.
We will have to stop and go away.
There's nothing else for us to do here, and
even if the legitimate ones were allowed
To continue. the people will be afraid to
patronize them, for fear of being caught in 4
raid"
Among the women notified to shut up
their places were Nine. Lawrence of No.
1i0S Pennsylvania avenue, Miss Chase aud
Mrs Fisk, No. 529 Thirteenth street north
west; Nine. Blanche De Duvall, No. 915 II
street; Mrs. J. Hamilton and Miss Willard,
No. 1907 G street; Mrs. E. c. Curtis, No.
702 Ninth street; Nine. Burnette, No. 72S
Eleventh street; Mrs. May of No. o23 Thir-
teenth street; Mrs. Adie Sullivan OF No.
1929 New York avenue, and Mine. Colford
of No. 1210 F street.
A close watch will be kept on all the
houses by the police for the next few days
in order to insure the carrying out OF the
order. If any violations of it are discoy-
cred the house will be raidcd and the Of
tenders rounded up in the police court.