The herald., 1896-03-30
quarter is curiousiy interesting in the light

quarter is curiously interesting in the light
Of final results.
1t may be promised, however, that the
cribs on the west side OF Alameda street
are not included in this survey of the work
of the 'Wbite Crusade" except in an in
cidental way. The hapless individuals who
inhabit them are, as they have been, free
lances operating outside the jurisdiction of
the autocrats who have ruled Little
Paree." On the eastern side of the street,
however. high fence originally hid from
the gaze of pedestrians, or travellers on the
passing trains, the pustulous sore on the
body polite which was behind. That fence
was perpetual offense to the Ministerial
union, eager in its attempt to extirpate the
evil altogether, and after much waste of
eloquence the police commissioners took
action, with the result that the fence was
taken down. The Shafer brothers, who
owned all the land upon which "Little
Paree" stands. had leased most of the
property to Theodore Bauer, who laid his
plaOs for carrying OH business on an ex-
t,cnsiye scale. Two building permits were
issued to the Shafer brothers by the SUPER
inlendent Of buildings, but it is generally
understood that Bauer paid the bills for
both building the cribs and furnishing
them. 70 this. however, there was one ex-
ception, for Blanche Labord and Joseph
Wyott leased the ground upon which twenty
cribs were built abutting on Alameda
street, and lying south from the entrance
TO the little kingdom. The corresponding
block of fourteen cribs to the north of the
entrance, as well as the two blocks of
twenty cribs each, inside, were and are
controlled by Bauer.
With the abolishment of the secretive
fence it will be remembered that the agita-
ton for reform did not cease. The min
listers of the city displayed good staying
qualities and the pool of iniquity was kept
constantly stirred 10y discussions in the
council. Finally the fat of the police COM
missioners went forth that the whole thing
must stop. SO far at least as Alameda
street was concerned. Officers were de-
tailed to act az watch and ward. The re-
sources of the department are none too ex-
tensive and SO beginning in enforcing the
new order OF things was made with just
one portion of "Little Paree.'' At this
time many of the cribs recently erected
were lacking tenants, and indeed, the only
block that was fully occupied was that
leased by Blanche Labord and Joseph
Wyott, and probably for that very reason
ton of the territory that had been pro-
nounced taboo.
Even to the individual totally unen-
lghtened as to economic laws and their
actual operation it will not appear strange
that the frail and unfair tenants of the
Labord block, finding themselves harassed
by the police should seek immunity by
moving over to the Bauer property. The
tenants IN block number three transferred
their few belongings also to the vacant
cribs i'll blocks numbers one two and the
trick was done. Blocks three and six are
destitute of tenants and the dictum OF the
police commissioners that no cribs
must remain open on Alameda
street was carried out. If in the operation
Blanche Labord and Joseph Wyott we're
crushed to the wall and Theodore Bauer
very much benefited in a financial way
we'll that was merely an incident in carry
ing out the law that Alameda street must
be cleared. True, to the unsophisticated
onlooker the mere fact that long line of
cribs still extends along the west side of
Alameda street, where tho tenants still
continue business at the old stand, under
the supervision of Jean Lennert, seems 10
give very practical contradiction to the
contention that Alameda street has been |
cleared. Indeed, if report speaks not un- |
truly, the present solitude reigning in the |
two blocks on the east side Of the street is |
only OF temporary nature. The traffic |
in souls has not been brisk lately, and |
then there are five vacant cribs in the |
two blocks on the Bauer property, but |
when these are filed, the cribs in block |
No . are to be refitted and again occupied. |
On Saturday. too, the lease of the Labord |
block was surrendered and the denizens of I
Little Pariee" claim that it, too, will be |
Included in the Bauer concessions,