New-York tribune., 1900-03-11
PARKHURSTRAKES GARDINER
A SCATHING LETTER TO THE DISTRICT
ATTORNEY-"SAPHO" IN CONTRAST
WITH WORSE THINGS.

meeting of the Executive Committee of the
Society for the Prevention of Crime was held at
the headquarters of the society yesterday after
noon, and the following letter, addressed to Dis
trict Attorney Gardiner was adopted:
To District Attorney Asa Bird Gardiner, New-York
Sir: The public heart is deeply and tenderly
purify the histrionie atmosphere of this city. as
evinced by your dealings In the matter or Sapho
OF the public is due not so much to your action In
this particular case as to the SYMPTOMS that that that
pose by which you are mg.Yed In your does or
too. at a time when so much criticism has been
passed your official conduct, a criticism that
charges that have been lodged against you, pro
thereby in stili broader light and more beauteous
conspicuity. 1t seems an Indication that you are are
friends may criticise or foes may revie. 1 should
not be dealing with you in entire frankness II
We're for time shared in by the members of the
Nbc for the ha1e Seen of moving
in suppressng what is alleged as the indecorum at
effect of what in other connections might be called
and If # we have been e ha smoog cogef
OF your office, it is honorable our part even If
and applaud any evidences which you offer that
distrust was mistaken one . 49,, -
dauntiessy taken and avaing myself Of the .a op,
pSruny which this pr Presehmt ,he EseeniTe com
mittee of the Society for the Prevention of Crime
in which seem to have escaped your rnerclless
researches. That such places should exist without
your knowledge Is not addueed here as any re.
dection upon the eagle-eyed ubiquity or yourseit
and your assistants: and let me suggest turther
that lust the guilelessness of your nature may
have operated to hinder the execution OF your
own purposes for good, for IL is only rogue that
has the genius for catching rogues and perhaps
by putting into your position attorney a man
of that unsuspecting nature that always goes
with purity and simplicity of life we have really
created degree of immunity for the very crimes
that II would be the joy and pride OF your heart
to suppress. - -
to be the ethical gallantry of your recent assault
on Waacks Theatre, We would like to suggest
the places enumerated below resorts / know
YOU will be grateful for having pontedly called to
YOUR attention Our office IS well Informed in re
gard to the detailed features OF those places, and
feel that your stalEart purpose as a man
and an official will be neither obstructed nor en-
barrassed by any considerations that stand aloor
from the main point. / have no personal knoWl-
edge of the play you have just been the means OF
calling the bar of judicial and popular Judgment
but even II the worst reports current as TO its
character must be believed, should say for your
possible guidance, that Walacks Theatre with
'.Sapho" on its boards Is heaven compared with
what you are going to find in the resorts sub
all as compared with the young women by whom
Won will there welcomed and entertained.
The specific resorts to which your official atten-
ton is called the Tivoli, No 145 West Thirty
ATHEIST: Haymarket, No. 492 to 1876 Sixth-ave; !;
McGurks, No. 295 Bowery, and many more of a
your attention to the foregoing, shall be greatly
pleased to help discover Yours truly,
c. H. PARKHURST, President.
T. d. KENNESON, Secretary