New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-12

TEMPLE OF INFAMY!
4 cess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, subjected
1 to ndgnity at Munich which could hardly
| have occurred in New-York, in spite of all that
| is being said about the latter's lawlessness
| The Princess had left the Rhine Hotel where
| she was staying, to do shopping, when she
| suddenly remembered that she had left her
| purse behind her Accordingly. she requested
her lady in waiting to return to the hosiery to
fetch it, saying that she would wait for her in
/ front of some of the shops not a hundred yards
| away. Suddenly she found herself surrounded
by three or four women, who despite the quiet
ness of her dress and the manifest refinement
| Of her appearance, assailed her with the vilest
! epithets and coarse reproaches for encroach1ns,
] as they declared, their territory" insisting
| that she belonged to the same class them
selves. Too Mortified to seek refuge in the
shops the Princess, who, in spite of being the
! mother of a married daughter. is still remark
| ably pretty, fled back to the hotel pursued al
! most to its very doors by the women who
threatened her with bodily harm if she dared to
| come poaching any more on their preserves.
If an adventure of this kind happen to
| the Kaisers own sister in his dOminions 1t will
readily be understood that ladies and young
girls of less exalted rank. especially if they be
foreigners, must be prepared for similar treat
ment If they venture abroad without escort
| Imagine such indignity that offered to
| the Princess Charlotte st Munich happening in
| New York, let us say In Fifth-ave., around
| Madison Square the Plaza any we'll
| known figure in New-York society! The news
| papers would have devoted pages to the matter
| the Police Department would have been stirred
| to it's very depths while the public would have
cried aloud for the protection of its mothers, its
| wives and its sisters from insult. In Germany
! however the affair attracted little attention
! that the adventure of the Kaisers sister was
| tucked away, so to speak, in obscure corners of
/ the Berlin and Munich papers and dismissed
| with a few lines, the inference being that the
! guilty of imprudence in remaining alone and
| without escort in one Of TIE principal thor
] oughfares of a great German city by broad day
| light.
! HERE VICE IS DISCREET.
There is vice here in New-York. No great
metropolis, with agglomeration of two
| million inhabitants. can be without it. The diff
| ference, however, is that, whereas in London.
| Paris and in all other European capitals it
| hourishes in the open street even by broad day
light, here in New-York it is infinitely more dis
Greet. Instead of being thrust upon one, it has
| to be sought, and it is TO a great extent con-
| fined in certain quarters of the city within the
! walls of houses and resorts with the character
| of which every who visits them is more or
| less acquainted. Indeed 1t still more hid
den from view before the Rev DR.. Parkhurst
! began his crusade against vice, some years
| ago, and insisted upon the raiding of evil
| resorts This had the result of temporarily
] driving the inmates to establish themselves in
[ other parts of the city, which had until then
| been relatively free from their presence. Mat
| ters have, however, now drifted back more or
| less to their former condition and while this is
| denounced by the purists it is calculated to
| give satisfaction to people disposed to take a
| broadminded and common-sense view of the
! situation; for it bears certain analogy to the
/ system which prevails at Toxic and in the prn-
| cipa cities of Japan, which is the one that
| seems to offer the most satisfactory solution TO
| the problem known as the Social Evil.
For centuries the unfortunates have been re-
| stricted at Toxic to particular quarter of
the metropolis, peopled exclusively by members
| of their caste. which is known by the name of
Yeshiwara; in English The Place of Flowers"
! ANY woman making a profession of immortality
! who is found outside this limit is severely pun
! ished, and consequently the other districts OF
| the city are entirely free from the presence of
| people of her class. Persons who cross the
! boundary Of the Yoshiwara know what to ex-
pect and the mere fact that its character is well
i known exercises a deterrent influence many
! respectable citizens who, We're vice to faunt it
self under their very eyes, might otherwise yield
| to temptation. 1t would be too much to expect
| the establishment and liberation of full 1edged
! Yoshiwara in NewYork but if the women of
| the town do of their own accord congregate in
quarter of the city and establish their resi-
| dence there, it certainly appears not only i'm
| polite but likewise prejudcial to the interests
and morality of the community, to drive them
| to betake themselves to other quarters of Man
! haitian. and literally to spread themselves over
| the entire island.
PROTECTION OF DIVES AND GAMBLING
HOUSES.
1t is claimed that owing to the collision of the
police the keepers of dives, gambling dens and
of even still less reputable resorts are permitted
to ply their trade in New-York without inter-
ference the part of the authorities. 1 do not
| know whether there is any foundation for these
] charges so far as New York is concerned. But
! l do know that conditions of this character
| VIGOROUSLY exist in every great European city.
| 1t is not so many years ago that London police
| inspector, with more zeal than discretion. had
| his career completely wrecked by raiding one Of
| the most celebrated dsorderly houses in London.
| the proprietress of which, on being brought be-
! fore the magistrate announced through her
counsel her intention of summoning a number OF
distinguished personages. including a foreign
| ruler then in London. to bear testimony as 10
| the responsibility of her character. Magistrate
| and counsel at withdrew to the former s
| private room, and after a brief consutatio
the lawyer pleaded guilty on behalf of his client,
who let off with a merely nominal fine
and drove off In her carriage and pair, while the
| police Inspector first transferred, then sus-
| pended and finally driven from the force on
tration of the extent of the womans influence
| no police officer ventured interfere with her.
and unless she has lately died. purchased a
| foreign title castle and possibly a husband
| she still presides over the destinies of the most
| Infamous temple Of vice In all Europe
Had such thing as this occurred in New
! York the newspapers would have been full Of
tail Of the case, with the result that New-York
would have been held up TO the execration of
the entire civilized world city where vice
and crime enjoy immunity from punishment or
| even from interference, providing they are able
| TO command pull" But in England the mat
| ter kept very quiet indeed. of the
great London papers taking any notice of the
affair Only evening sheet THE Pail Mall
| Gazette" devoted few lines in out of the
way portion in OF its ISSUES to the fate of