The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-21
NEW ORLEANS DENs CLOSED.
A Foreign Wnr Needed to Shut Up tn,
Worst Dives in the United States.

A Foreign Wnr Needed to Shut Up the
Worst Dives in the United States.
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 20.-The stay here OF the
Second and Ninth immune regiments. the one
white. the other colored. Is responsible for rid
ding New Orleans OF one OF its greatest nui-
sances-the negro dancehouses that infected
Dahomey. the negro quarter Of the city. Just
back Of the old city, the pieuI cdrre Of Bien-
vile. are the negro slums OF New Orleans,
which have been described ms without excep-
ton the vilest places on this continent.
and only to be edualled elsewhere In
Cairo. 1t Is a grating OF negro on
Caucasian vice. with the worst vices of both
races. The headquarters of this section
are the so-called warehouses. "honky&onks."
as the negroes call them-a combination Of
drinking houses. gambling saloons. and dance
halls for tho lowest grades Of negroes. To
them the half-naked negro roustabouts rush
the moment their steamers arrive to spend or
throw away their money. and strangers are al
ways taken to this part OF the city when It is
desired to prove the wickedness OF New Or
leans. Indeed. when a number Of Washington
correspondents came here some years ago. a
special dance in their honor was given in one
OF the worst OF these honky-tonks. and they
vent home to write lurid pictures OF the New
Anumber Of legislative acts have been aimed
at these establishments, which have been car
p TiS4 an Snd 9p pen6iva largely n b 9$bS fh Of p %aTs sup p1p-
hibitcd under any circumstances. hut they have
hh9urished nevertheless. for eight years since.
are n relief to the city. concentrating all the evh
in one section: They are certainly 2 great con-
ture Of a negro criminal the simplest matter
In the world. Whenever a negro - wanted
k Iar %G WHERE or to OT Pat tRe GF 6 PSSdGsrg On tR him. 0lHif lie
is in Dahomey-:he never thinks Of. going any
whore else-,enioying the fruits Of his crime.
Tina nnIin hnVn N IN nIrn n dnanRNNftNn -
him to the keepers Of tho several dancehouses
and the man they are looking for is turned
clergy of New Orleans have denounced them
insisted that Ia they faS were were 9 safety sS ' Salye as a enS P sIdsd
IN the enforcement OF law no influence could
'' But Then fSe presence of two regiments of i'm
munes here. one white, the other black.
changed matters; There has been trouble be-
since the latter have been hero. and that
trouble has more than once threatened to be-
very large element OF rough men. The second
IKiche'sl, was raised in Texas. mainly on the
s MSf sdHen %nfG%tieE' H re %f%2 Inth 1co %H9y E soSsisss
mainly of New Orleans negroes. A few days
ago Riches Texans became Involved in a quar-:
in to clean them out. One was reided. and the
mob OF soldiers, several hundred strong. wore
Commander, Coi. Rich es' was s saDm for. i9 Thro onSl5
bic personal, appeals order was finally estab-
ilnheus 1He i.uuHcs, nUu JilelT passes stopped
afterward rs the only means OF preventing
trouble In the dancehouse district.
A day or two later more trouble followed in
the same dqncehouse section with the colored
immunes. 4 number OF tho men got drunk,
and carried things with q high hand. One OF
them. named Garrett. who was Grazed with
soon assumed q, race form. CARROTS compan-
ions regarded him asa martyr. and some two
hundred Of them decided to march from their
to the city and avenge his murder. The
white troops. between whom and the negroes a
very bitter feeling preyails. heard az this and
promised 20 meet the negroes. Good manage
ment on the part OF the officers prevented what
might have been a riot. and the negro troops
were kent in camp.
These facts We're probably laid before the !
War Department and the danRerof keeping The
troops here longer shown. for the colored i'm
munes were ordered ut once TO Santiago by tho
Berlin and tho white immunes TO Galveston,
But the experience OF the soldiers showed that
danger to tho city that the Mayor. in spite OF
the oppositlon OF the police. ordered them to
would the evil have been brought 80 forcibly to
foreign war to get rid OF Il,