The sun., 1900-12-09
RED LIGHTS ALL QUENCHED.
YOUNG CAPT. TITUS. SIN0LE.HANDRD.
APPLIED THE EXTTNGCTSRRR.
Prostftutes. Procursrs And LiGhthssses Flee
Before Hts Oftciai wrath. Leaving .
Trail Of ITO Lot" SisRs s-Dtstrict
Cleaned Up in Lees Than Throe Weeks.

Trail Of ITO Lot" SigRs -DtstriCt
Cleaned Up in Less Than Three Weeks
The Red Light district 10 Just east Of the
Bowery, anywhere from Chatham Square
! north 70 Houston street. IL includes the 'r st
| street east OF the Bowery and runs over al
most 10 tho river. Manhattan Island juts
out into the river at this point making room
for hundreds ot t-nements of the double-
decker tvue and tlts strip I. an important
part ~ villa. Is raid 10 he the nest dcnsely
populated square mile u territory In the
world. In tho tonsrnents ars 10 bs found
men and women Of nearly every race
color and creed The Polish and Russian
Jews perhaps. outnumber the others but
there are many thousand Iri,h Germans,
HMngarians and Swedes. Nowhere In the
world are there many children in A small
space. Tho forces for good penetrated this
section OF the city almost at the same time
AZ the forces FOR evil. but IL has been easy
sailing FOR the latter and a steady, uphill
Nght for tho former
Vice finally got q frm grip on this quarter.
Ju.t how IL started and how IL grew doesn't
matter. Tho point Is that IL developed there
IA il had never developed anywhere else in
the city. until It worked on perfect system
and with the dircct permission OF the police
nuthorlties. Women solicited from the win
day and night. On Sundays they would stop
men going 10 church. even accostinG them
wher they were with their wives. They dehed
arrest and we're safe In doing 1t. 1t became
q hardship FOR decent people to go out after
d. X, and respectable women had to close
tAcir ears and eyes to all around them when
they went abroad In the daytime, Mission
workers complained that some OF the women
solicited from the very steps Of their missi ons,
They wouldn't move when ordered ~. and
the police wouldn't move them when appealed
Dozens OF immoral women took rooms IN
The ts,cmeni houses IN every block.
rented by Respectable families They so
S,sh the men and eSy. e 'h"rs
men from the street. The most demora.izing
scenes were enacted in the prcs-nce, OF grow
.ecin sec NJ their children W going a.tray. appealed
TO the police in vnin. The women used
children to distribute cards advertising
the resorts they frequentcd
i'ut worse Ran AL, ing else was the sys-
,ematic 'rort. to supply tie regular houses
R of 4 % r. HS sn vGqs wRs 1as r.i on III. ws the
commonly kroHn as ihEhthcuses. How
many hundred giIl- they have ruined ard
among tho ,daushtors Of respectable FAM
away With PROMISES of lives Of ease and lux.
u-y. hlt more especially among tho immi-
grant eiTls. hundrcd~ oi whom GO into the
district every yr0r, stay while with friends
or relatives and then go out in service lg- 4,
Goiau' oi tho lonEuac". II Is rot lard to in
dhitc them Ia enter house. whore they are
told a Good place awaits them Once in |
,L,l ar .pris oncrs, ard escape from the
house IN the Garments they arc Obliged 10 !
w'u - almost impossible Few have the
wil o- tue inclination to lend better lives ,
ni"r"%td That, is tho story of the Red !
ll-tt district IL hr!of
The story 81 the efforts for n betterment |
~ conditions have been told in 1HF SrN |
time md . gain Tia" penalty ofoomplnint |
by business man in the qllrtor was severe |
~" speedily learned that the places COM |
ploin"d ~ were under III" protection OF the ,
poltcAl organization that dominates the /
city, aud that il he valued his little business |
he g., hnd h"'ter keep silent. Through tho |
iuilding department II has been possible /
Tor Ia'nmany TIall 10 silence about every |
voice HAT has been raised in protest TO these |
conditions. with half f-dressed women cry |
a,,, .nS a, men from windows ot houses. others
similar occurren res In a doze different streets
In the district the police have made the eI- |