Arizona republican., 1901-07-19
aRRvIoUs DISAPPOINTMENT
How Recorder Jobs Fooled the Bench
 Warmers Yesterday.

| Considerable has been said lately re- regarding yhe young girls of this town and the number of them whose conduct | is not above suspicion. Most of these remarks have he'en directed to parents in the hope tl,gyt closer watch would be kept over their daughters, and that In this way they would ir greater meas uae be kept from temptation and from evil ccmpanioNshlp.
 | But tine girls are rot alone to blame. There is about. as tough a class of boys | in this ltown as ever sprouted from homes of responsibility, ami there are quite a number of individuals of the male sex, even of advancing years, whose virtue is so deeply hidden in their breasts hat h can be probed only by the use of a sia0tgun. A girl who falls under the inlluenere of any Of these thugs. whet.lsr they be siNteen or sixty years old, is akinS desperate chances for her own future.
 On Wednesday night two girls about sixteen years old were arrested on the charge of being street walkers. There is no question of their gull. But they aie atill ytGng. ard whatever may have caused them to err, they would not necessarily be beyond reclamation if they were given cnuoUragenem by those whose only occupation and boast now is that l,hev have helped to or can help in dragging them down.
 This arrest was made late at night. and ne1 her morning paper made ref | IA. oh, sons. Neveltleiess every he-thing in town of the character referred to in the beginning of this article knew of 1t before noon yesterday and in the course of the day they all managed to pass by rhe- city hall an1 peer into the jail. Not al of them saw the girls, it is true. but all of tl1.m wanted to- They all knSw the gir,s by sight. and most of them had seen them on The streS'. with in q day or two. and most of them. no douH.. were aware of their question: be ccndu,t Brt the fact that they were In jail on charges of that kind hrm sdf- ately ml1s them cbiec.s of great in terest to these hunan warts They sat around on ihe benches more CT less all day and occasionally strciied by the
 
 When they get tired they would
 up and go .alwsV for an hour or two, then ccrls lack again. Some of them looked like vagrants. some were well dressed and dudish in ai pearance, with Nigh standing collars rega rdless of the temperature. some were young men wi h sisters in the town wlose fate may some day be the same. Some were Sun day s1hocl boys. but more were nos some were big, strong men that ought to have been at work or bunting job. The most despicabe wretch ir ttr bunch was the young man @ p ,s credited with having first started oae of the girls on her downward career ! These he-tgt.rlgs are not law breakers. ard offend public decency only by liv- ! ing ia c-lnnunity and poisoning ghe ! atmosphere with their disg1aceful lan- guage and their noxious breath.
 When count was called at o'clock the room was well filled with these things to see what? A couple of young g,ris who were reared in poverty. forced to work for living. and in doing so ex- pCssdi.o the temptations of wicked boys and crila,l.al hearted men, and, is l, stiuLys. slipped ard Cell. But ]. was an awful disappointmeGt to them when
 they learned that the girls had been tried at noon and that they had had
 their a.l ernCCon's wait for nothing. The pol.l-e however. report, and the an-
 nouncemellt is made here for the ben
 eft of such of ItIhe he-things as may
 chance to read this. and who are kiJing
 with curiosity to sse what a poar girl
 looks like after she Is arrested. that these two unfortunate young women
 have not materially changed in appear
 ance in the last two days.