Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-29
RED LIGHT DISTRICT 4
HARBOR OF MUCH VICE.
THE COMMITTEE FOR THE PURI-
FICATION OF NEW YORK
GETTING To WORK.
PROCURING AS A BUSINESS.
DARK HALLS IN TENEMENT HOUSES
DENOUNCED AS BREEDERS
OF IMMORTALITY.

NEW YORK, November 2S.-The
tenement house committee held an open
meeting to-day at which the question
of Vice and prostitution in the tene-
ments, was discussed by the special
committee of the committee appointed
for the purpose of investigating this
feature of tenement house life. The
Rev. DR.. Robert l.. Paddock, Of the
Protestant Episcopal pro-Cathedral,
said that the conditions as found by
him in the course OF his work in what
is known geographically as the Eighth
assembly district, were very bad, ex-
ceedingly bad. He said he had talked
with many policemen and others whose
duties took them into the tenement
houses and their verdict had invariably
been that there was very large num-
Der of the tenement houses in which
apartments were rented to women for
immoral purposes with the knowledge
of the landlord, the agent or house
keeper, and the other tenants OF the
building. He had. had hundreds of
complaints from parents as to the NOR
al effect of this condition of affairs up
on the young girls and boys of the
district and stated that to his certain
knowledge there were many men and
women whose sole business was the
procuring of young girls to enter those
tenement house apartments and lead
life of immortality.
Dr. Paddock gave it as his opinion
that the dark and unlighted Railways
of the tenement were the chief reasons
for the prevalence of the vice in that
district 1t was there, he said, that
small children first came into tempta-
ton and he suggested THAI the laws
requiring the halls to be lighted be
rigidly enforced.
DR.. Paddock stated further that he
considered the gambling one Of the
most closely associated with that OF
prostitution. He also declared that he
considered that the moral standard of
the entire East Side had been lowered
by close and intimate association with
the women who live in fats and houses
in the so-called "Red-Light districts.
BILLY" McGlory's hall on West FIJI
ty-ninth street was TO have been opened
tonight by big ball The police were
notified and at the last moment the
ball was called off. This evening six
plain close men took their places in
front of the hall, but they found moth
ing to do. A dim light burned in the
bar room, but there was no sign OF lie
within.
Michael Davis, proprietor of the
BLACK Rabbit" the most notorious den
in this city, was permitted to plead
guilty to-day before Recorder Goff in
general sessions to keeping a disorder
ly house. He was sentenced TO eight
months Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary.
Two other indictments against the
prisoner, each charging felony, the
maximum penalty OF which would have
been twenty years at hard labor in
State prison, were practically quashed
by the district attorney, recommending
that the prisoner be discharged on his
own recogniZance.
In contrast with these sentences,
Jules Dumont, employed as floor man
ager by Davis in the BLACK Rabbit,
tried and convicted before Judge Cow
ing last week, was sentences TO four
teen years in State prison. Edyth
Myrtle Lynch, a performer at the
BLACK Rabbit" tried and convicted
before Judge Malone, got seven years
in State prison.