The sun., 1900-11-26
RED LIGHTS UNDER COVER.
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DisfRtfI ~ 4 WAX.
A. Decent 10 Appearance 's''erds, .. An,
The Lighthouse. Have Vanished. I'm.
morni Resorts Are ssntinciied snd the
Landlord. Are Goins Ia JAN when susht.


II whss O'Clock on sunday morning week
ago s'erday that police captain I 1i'ue no,ed
Into the Red light district. ana N tiUt time
ho has done what police captain alter POLICE
CAPTAIN has failed 10 do In n.ontls cf mum
I bency Of that Iost Vice las not teen driven
out Of the district hy uny means There Hre
probably nearly ~ many women oi o. uoisl
character In the precinct Hs lefof" 1iius o1ne.
and there are no fewer houses of III fame. hut
vice has been driven TO cover and Yesterday
| Il was buried so deep that a wall. through the
precinct. In what have always teen tie worst
streets. revealed nothing wrong Ia tie eye ~
the casual Iusser SuCh n condition n eel
cialy noticeable on Il Sunday, Tor Sundays
have always been the worst days in tie dis
trict Capt Titus does not pretend that he
has driven the women out OF tie district. but
lie does say that he has PUT them where they
cannot he seen and that shefe II no longer any
reason for any one to complain or the shock
ing sights that have been almost daily Incl
dents in this part Of the city for years Eur
thermore. he believes that in tine he will lie
able 20 clean up the whole Of this district 10
drive every woman Of loose character from it
and TO make it possible for parents to bring up
their children In innocence
1t has been a police tradition that next to
the Tenderloin the Red Light" district was
the "fattest" assignment handed out from
Police Headquarters In times OF trouble ike
the present. though, the Tat Jobs are those
which police captains want TO dodge hey
are the most thankless jobs Capt Titus is a
young man. and his record in the Department
s as clean as that of any man wearing tie I!ue
and gold of the city. when he got his asSign-
ment TO Eldridge street. he sailed IN 10 attend
| to the matter as he thought II ought 10 be at
I a. 4 I.., l.ga atVIeK
10 the respectable people Of the East Side that
yesterday a delegation OF them vent 10 lhe
station house 10 thank him IefsoHaily FOR his
work and to express the wish that lie would
keep It up until he had MADE the present con-
dtions permanent.
one OF the first things that Capt. Titus did
was 10 change all Of the men who were dong
| plain clothes duty. Their faces were too well
known He imported strange men into the
precinct. Then he located every dlsofderiy
place In the precinct and made record OF where
| 1t was. lie included rooms rented BY Immoral
women In tenements In these latter cases
he sent men to the women 10 tell them they must
90 Every woman of known Immoral char
acter who has been ma King her home III teIle-
ment has mad t.Ls warning. IN The cdse Oh dis
orderly houses, and they nuln9tr up IA ihe hun
| men In front OF Them TO sce that al men who at
| tempt 10 enter are warned OF their character.
Meantime CAPT. Titus collected .vlGenese on on
Houses R@ believes that thi. IS the mos, effect
| I've way Of dea.i'g wish the situation. ths
! had a good effect An illustration OF what
! occurs when man tries TO enter one ol The
houses NOWADAYS was snofdta les,eiday - hoS VIII IN
| stanton street. AT thi, point there Is a dis
! ORDERLY house on each side OF the street Ihty
across the street from the one IN" man was
! entering. but before the man was hal way W.
the steps he stGppEd nm .oIds,Iy E1 s,d
| the policaman The house IL under police
surveilance, and warn you TINT II you go in
! there you viii have To take the conseauences
The man looked badly scared. came down the
! steps In a hurry and almos ran down the street
The policemen say thHt 'i. haipehs IA am9Ss ,pis
| method is going 10 BE- an effective one. he says
that he viii Keep the, men on his duty as iong
In addition to this Capt. titus has given hi, men
| orders TO get evidence when they can. and TO
b9F 1t to h ws se Se S VII s' RAID TEe
men also have orders to arrest any men or
.sis spsh o the on rsd 1S CARVING out Of these
orders has been notable. The women are
| not out Of the disnrderly houses but the shades
a0Tn for 1ia the ese past few dSys DAY have @ woen %
! appeared in the windows or on the stoops.
| those on the streets have been driven en-
| md the punishment Of everybody arrested
| there was sufficient to convince all hands that
| the CAPTAIN meant business. apt. 1tna
! SAYS that he is more pleased over the fact that
| an exodus from the tenement houses has begun
than over any other result o' HIS WORK The
| women Of the tenements have Piled their trade
| on the streets. When they were ruled on the
! streets they had 20 get out and in two DAYS
| nearly twenty such women. whose rooms were
| with big families Of children, have moved
away In caSh ca1e ,b 1as n1ssela1a nan ~ ~ ,n,an
! ture to see that il did not stop anywhere else
| In the precinct.
been revealed by the effort TO stamp fagrant
! y1co out Of this district is the amendment
20 the vagrancy law. which up to the present
! time has not been taken advantage Of; IL
is section se7 Of the Penal Code, and Il includes
! among vagrants and others who can he sem
,enCed TO i9i for ia masnn fbd Of bS % svs1x SIX
| male person who lives wholly or In pnrt on The
earnings ot prostitutes. or who In any. public
tTs1 person | who lives with or ISo /. hahi,ualiv in
| the company OF prostitute and has no visible
means ans % snst 10 Dc
The men ct whom this law is aimed prac-
,ically own the women, body and soul, There
| district Most of them live in disorderly
| houses and among their activities has been
on the sT"s Mann Ioyg sT OF
| ernilv Immigrants. 10 houses Of prostitution,
have been brought to public attention; until
difficult 20 do more than charge these men
/ With dsorderly conduct. II convicted on
! that charge II was an easy nlStter lor tnen
| to pay fines or give bail for good behavior
! and 70 free NJ once.
! Last week Cant. Titus arrested three ~ those
! creat,lres and in tho FsseN Market court they
| COT siX months apieCe before they had n chance
| tn sev n word There was no doubt about their
! guilt and there VIII he no doubt about their
! serving their sentences. And II they show
I'M again in the district ne the end Of their terms
! they will bc nabhed once more and get the dose
| RIGHT over again. The sentences Of three Of
| these lighthouses" IA they are called. has
| created pnnic among the fraternity and they
! are not 10 he on the streets at all any more
| They are actually afraid tO come out
| The most eXacting ~ the lonC-suTering
| husincss men and resnectnhle residents Of TIE
| Red Light" district are satisfied with the start
! that Capt Titus has made. They say that h"
has transformed, the ErecInct in seven days
and express the hop" that his work viii have
! a rcrrnnnant effect The three business men
| on Tho fas, Side who called on Capt Titus
, Yesterday were all men who said that they
! had bnen driven out Of the station hous" when
! ,hev called on Capt Hcrlihv. What they said
| 10 Cant Titus was fatterlng and the Cartain
| v,ns very much pleased When the captain
| was ash ed about his work yesterday ali he
| would saw WAS that he was doing his host and
| thought he would he able 10 cope with the
situation, ,.,. M.
| what I have done to Improve the situation
| boJv LrOws | do want a talk nbOuf