The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-09
BoWERY MUST GO.
historic Avenue of Vice Cleared I'm
Under New Reform

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u, = ne passing Of the Bowery. as indi.
-faeu-. III the orders of Police COMMITS
Sioner Partridge. brouob+ ColillllIS,
I mourning to the historic oId s+ro,+ an. a'lu
Iefday. The joy was in tba bC,,,o. - :.
tlie respectable residents and ebo,7
h57perS. and the gloom in the diI,as
( WlILSh LOT many years have haunted
wee IN the face OF the public.
me boWery dive must go" is tbs
suiCI OF colonel Partridge. and if if
IOCS AuL 90 IL VIII be up to- iDgDactor
Cfoss 10 explain. The raids mada Nv,
inspector Cross late on Friday ni,b+
are the beginning of n end. The or
uSI went from lip to lin among tho
uiVekeepers yesterday. and even Eat
en- Up-Jack' McManus. who rms the
resort known as the Thieves para
use admitted that the golden DAYS
are over. remarking sadly: The homo
OF the sports is to be turned into a
church yard Ct
81. Coroner cartridges reports show
mere are along the BOweTy about fiftv
pidces classed as dives. and in these
resorts about 500 women gather nirbtI,-
to prey upon the. patrons. The down,
IAN OF the Bowery started. so the dive
Keepers said yesterday. when John 7
McGurk, who was convicted Of running
the Merrimac hotel as a disorderIv
place, and IS awaiting trial for running
SulclCe nall ran away and refused
10 appear IN special sessions for SEN
tence.
These places have been run practi-
cally wide open all night. and the re-
port came 10 the district attorney. dur
ing the McGuTk prosecution that thew
were backed by prominent East Side
pOluclans. whose influence stopDed
prosecutions.
The detectives who obtained the evi-
dence which led to the closing of Nos.
], 9. 10, %, 119 and I2I Bowerv. were in
conference with Inspector Cross YES
terday. and they We're instructed 10
Keep up the work and get evidence
upon which the owner Of every other
resort can be convicted
OF misdemesncr punishable by a fine
OF $500 and years Imprisonment.
The men were told to be sure and
avoid making raids which would not
mold, so that any suggestion of fake
raids might be avoided.
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The BOwery is doomed" said IN
spector Cross. 1T is to he cleaned from
end TO end, and not a disreputable re-
sort viii be tolerated. No influence. can
save these places now. The licenses
OF the keepers of these resorts viii be
taken away There will be no closing
one night and opening up the next.
The Bowery viii be made as clean
as Fifth avenue, and just as safe. II
10 not think il will be necessary TO
makei many more raids. as ! think the /
remaining divekeepers viii take the tin !
ana close up Of their own accord. The
day of the fake raid is over"
Morris BlUmenthaL a Bowery mer- !
chant said the crusade did not come
any too soon. as in the last davs of 4
he Devery regime the BOwery was as
bad as it was in the days when Sandy
Spencer and "OwHey'' Geoghegan were
rival kings Of evil.
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1T viii be good for business said
Mr.. BlUmenthal Ito make the Bowerv
iecsnt and every respectable person /
who has to stay in the Bowsrv- will re-
oice. But I have heard Of some re-
oTm promises. which sounded well. but
accomplished little"
The BoweTy is going To be a grave
ard. said Bob Conner. the old
manager for McGurk The order has
zone out for everything to shut IN It
las got the right stamp on it and ev-
rynody knows that there will he
something doing right away The wo-
nen have got TO set of the ROwerv
md there VIII be no use keeping omen
Without them. 1t is a long time be-
ore the COuey Island season ooeus.
md that is the only relief in sight"