The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-26
PAYS HER REGULAR FIE|
PROPRIETRESS OF A "CANDY
STORE, AT 30 WEST THIRD
STREET
NEIGHBORs ARE INDIGNANT
They Want to Know why the PO-
lice Allow Such a Resort
to BE Maintained So
FIHgrantly.

A vigorous protest is being made by the
West Publishing company and the re-
| spectacle residents OF that portion OF
West Third street which lies adjacent
over a new nuisance which opened at 80
West Third street Friday. The dive was
sprung under the name Of q confectionery
and cigar store, but this, however, covers
1t only partially.
No. SO is store building and the ''candy
store" opened up on the first floor. In
the front of the store proper is q small
room, separated from the rear only by
flimsy partition, In which are show
cases containing cheap cigars and candy.
An arch utterly unprovided with door
leads into a hall thirty feet long. on one
side of which are three small bed rooms,
each unprovided with doors and having
only in their place curtains. AT the end
OF the hall is still another partition ex-
tending across the store, In the rear of
which is dance hall of considerable size.
piano and ordinary wood chairs consti-
tute its entire furniture.
So fragrant a disgrace is the place that
a resonant outcry has gone up against its
maintenance. The absence of partitions
inside the place allows every word Spo-
ken and the noise of carousing and dane
ing to be heard on the street At o'clock
yesterday morning, so violent was the
merriment inside the "joint" that the
sounds could be heard on the corner OF
Fourth and st. Peter, a block and a half
distant.
The candy store makes no pretense of
being anything better than house of i'll
fame The inmates of the place openly
solicit from the street door and appear
in gaudy gowns in the front Of the store
without hindrance or reserve. The pro-
test of the West Publishing company is
most emphatic.
Members of the firm state that the
place is so situated that the young women
employed in the publishing house must of
necessity pass 1t daily, suffering serious
annoyance. In the block near by are a
number of respectable families, and sew
eral gentleman occupying these apart
ments have been loud in their condemna-
ton Of the nuisance and open disgrace to
the locality. The candy store is situated
a block from the Central police station
and police officers for the lower town
district pass 1t nightly on the 6 and 8
O'Clock reliefs. At this, no attempt has
been made to close the place or restrict
the unusual liberties of the occupants
An early morning visit showed that the
place was wide open. The front door was
open and inside the hilarity and carous-
ing was at It's worst The landlady OF
the house was receiving money for beer
which she dispensed with a liberality only
limited by her patrons pocketbooks and
several of her girls were in a maudlin
intoxicated condition. Her own state
ment to the G o b was as follows:
Il was formerly at Seven Corners. 1
came down here and got this place in
shape for the opening today. I have four
girls with me. Do I run the candy store?
Yes, have to make some kind Of a blind.
l expect to have more girls in here soon
If the boys come around fast enough"
Asked if she had had difficulty in OPEN
Ing such place on the ground floor on a
business street, she replied that she had
had no trouble whatever. Reminded that
the place could not run without severe
opposition from residents Of the locality,
she answered.:
Let them kick. The police won't run
me out if pay my fines regular"