The sun., 1901-03-18
WOMEN JOIN VICE HUNT.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED or THEN Ar A
MASS MEETING YEsTERDAY.



the Effort TO Improve Social Conditions
Fully fifteen hundred women met in Car
negie Hall yesterday afternoon TO protest
against the system OF protected vice that Is
said TO prevail in this city. Although men
were invited to attend and responded in
large numbers, It was essentially a woman's
meeting II was organize, by women, the
, trend Of the addresses WAS to arouse senti-
ment among women. and II Ia expected that
I as a result Of II a woman's committee will be
formed to cooperate with other bodies already
working tn lessen the evils which some OF
the speakers maintained were fostered. In
stead OF repressed by the police The meet
ing was marked by the utmost enthusiasm
throughout
Mrs Charle. Russell Lowell presided
The proceedings opened with the reading
, Of the Ten Commandments by the Rev Ph0oe
Hanaford The purpose Of the gathering
and the reasons which led to it were explained
by Mrs Fla A Boole she said
The best public sentiment of the city would
scorn to license houses Of prostitution. gam
bling places and policy shops, but the Off cals.
by ~ stem Of bribery. aud hnng at regular
interv ais, have protected vice. without even
a show of attempting to les~en crime or re-
duce the evils ther-from, and this has served
TO enrich the very men whose dutJ " was
TO enforce the law, while The city revenues
have been increased at the expense OF lts
morality.
Houses Of prostitution exist in New York
city, known 10 tie police. lhousanus OF
immoral women live here, protected IN thelr
lives Of immortality, IN consideration OF a
regular feeling system. INCLUDING many grades
OF officials No enort IN made TO restrain
The immoral men, who are as bad as mo
women, and who Outnumber them i've to
one ProCurers and PROGRESSES pursue
their vile business Of enticing Young women
and girls from the country. from railroad
trains, from steamboats,, and from their
homes boy false pretence-, unmoleSted.
The raids of many gambling resorts anG
disreputable houses in those, portions OF
the city outside Of the sO-Called tenement
or rather poor and highly congested districts
tend 70 confirm tho fact that vic" Of al de-
,criptiOns j. highly prevalent or epidemic
I'm almost all sections Of IA" city, and that
such u condition Of analis L. the direct result
Of q tac' even though not an outright per
mi sion "manatIng from the police
We protest against doubtful amusements,
IA calculated 80 establish false standards
~ morality. We caution AGAINST the sldo
young women and gIrl-, as well ds produriiNe
of drunkenness among women who would
not b" seen a. a publ. bar. We urge
employers 10 establish "a fair wage. that an
immoral life may not prove attractive, be
cause Of needed revehuo. "" dnuuuuc" sweat
shops a, degrading and d"mora ning We re-
sctflrmcntS Va prison reform, and in every
agency fer tie prevention Of crime and i'm
morality
Mr. I~ahclla Charles Davis. who ia active
I'm rescue WORK among children, t"sorib"d the
conditions under which the children ~ many
part, Of M" civ hy" Sne particularly cum
drmurd the extensive Nlulttuu- 4 the law
with regard tp child labor Protect the
children" she added, from the parks which
YOU have opened WITH Your muhiHcence,
protect the children from IN" recreation pier
They are not safe places for children They
are traps IN which human wolves are hunting
Nrs C.,r., chapman car said there were
between ,0rtv and Nfly thou women
leading h'", u lniamy IN his .clrv. Very
lew - the" women -nr ls~c'i"d had taken
t. tui- ,llr ur THEN free VII 81" urged that
steps bee taken To remedy he system which
permitted tine tputIfuUn," uf conditions
which uolu"d 10 drag ao many women down
The Rev Il lIrhpr Newton commented upon
m" significance II the meeting II rrInted,
lie SAID, To- am awtkenug 81 IA" conscience
If Womiuhood and be urged that out - the
committee which would COOPERATE with the
Committee Of Fifteen IN dealing with social
Il know. he said. that the suspicion pre-
walls among some people that women do not
approach th"-" pr" "hlcm~ always IN tho wisost
way For Instance. W" do not want the
methods 90 Mrs Nation here hut tho WORK
! hay" referred 'o can a-sur"lil be left 10
such Vo,n"nu, az" as~"'uhi"d here THIS after
with Ho -uriu evil rov. II j. too great a
problem io hr solved guioMy We must
work stop bv step Tho Nr.' -rcp L. 20 iight
against 'tH protection Of vice. While men
are b,-iIil and women are weak ! suppose
there VIII always ho some form Of The social
evil. hut when this evil IA protected by
CORFU police then ihrr" - a double wrong.
This tru'lc Of mriuE girl- 10 a dlssolute
lifa pursued hv tn" R"i IIght cadets l. an
Infamous tIanic. Ihe existence Of such a
thing would be- iucpnc"lyahle were II not
A fact that b. does exist. pmbolical' Nhv
beg IA" drNil.- pardon for using the word in
connection with operations Of this gang"
Johns crosby and Jacob 4. Rii~ also spoke
along similar lines.
R.-pluiions based upor the protests read
hv Mrs Boolr. and urging the Committee
~ Fifteen to uncover tho ultimate source
Of tho cvils and Disclose the remedy. we're
adopted " iih cheers.