The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-27

Penn avenue, between Spruce and Lin
den street, and "RoXey' Jones, who
has the license for place on the south
side of Spruce street, between Penn
and Wyoming avenues.
The superintendent charges that
these places are frequented by immoral
women and that they are allowed to
meet men there. and that boys and
girls of fender years are allowed to
frequent the places and are served
| with drinks.
The court directed that the letter be
filed and have the same force and eff
feet as an objection, the matter to
come up regularly at license court. The
applicants for the licenses were noti-
fed of the filing of the objections. that
they may be prepared to make answer
when the matter comes up for hear
irg.
KEPT HIS WORD.
When the crusade against the back
rooms of saloons, where immoral wo-
men We're wont to congregate, was be-
gun by Superintendent Day, he told
the offending hotel men that if their
places We're not freed from the objec-
tionahle characters he would ask court
not TO renew their licenses. They
have not done as he requested, and
his letter of yesterday is the result. 1t
follows:
Scranton, Pa, Feb. -, 1902.
To the Honorable the Judges of the Court Of
Quarter Sessions of I.ackuwanna county.
Gentlemen: In the matter of the application
OF Theodore Morris, Charles W. Jones and Frank
VI. Aylesworth, for license TO retail liquor in the
ri pf Sry | bay tl,a
to call your honors attention to the manner in
which the business has been conducted in these
hotels during the last year, and respectfully re-
quest that licenses be refused the parties above
named.
Both Morris and Jones have rooms set apart
for the purpose OF furnishing drinks to prosti
tutes, who gather there to solicit men for inn
moral purposes
Morris provides music in his Iooms and dane
ing and singing are ndulged in often times by
young men and women under age, and il requires
the assistance of cab at times 10 take home the
women that have become intoxicated in the
place.
Icnes is married to Clara Weichcl, who was
the propric,eSs of bawoy house i'll Center street,
and, | am informed. still has an interest in the
place, lie knowingly permits men OF bad repu-
tation to loaf around the hotel, and only last
week well-,nown crook arrested for rob-
bng drunken man in Jones hotel.
AYLESWORTH'S PLACE.
AylcSworth has four rooms upstairs which are
shut off from each other, where prostitutes and
often Young girls gather for the purpose of meet
ing men, and they are served with drinks by
Young man in Aylesworth's employ, who is not
yet II yells OF age.
lie also permits men of bad reputation 10
gather at his place and gave bail for the crook
that was arrested for robbing the man in Jones
place, mentioned above.
The scenes carried on in all these rooms, such
The women sitting in the mems laps, smok'
ing cigarettes drinking, swearing and talking
vulgar, are certainly not calculated to improve
the morals Of any female that might he induced
to visit the hotels, and must be injurious to the
welfare of the citizens OF the ward as well as 10
the good order and well being of the locality
There is absolutely necessity for these hotels,
as there are sufficient other hotels in the immc
date locality for the accommodation of the pub
lie and the entertainment OF strangers and travel
crs
ON account of the sympathy which the people
who gather in these hotels have for the places
II is next 10 impossible for the police department
to procure sufficient evidence to convict the
owners; therefore respectfully request your
honorable court to use your power and refuse the
license prayed for, Yours very truly,
Iona B. Day, Superintendent OF Police.
Make COFo just as you do coffee and
II will taste like it, ~