The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-20
DEMAND THAT THE FOUL
BLOT SHALL BE WIPED OUT
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boys are in knee trousers and they gen.
orally range in age from u years up
ward. During these conversations the
vilest Of language is used by both the
women and the children, foul jests are
banded back and forth and sometimes
on hearing them l wonder if / am liv-
ing in world or in a hell. When l
get close enough. the boys recognize
me and away they scamper. It is i'm
possible for me to keep them away.
Policemen Are Fowerless.
Il want to say that the policemen on
the beat do ali in their power to keep
/ the alley clear of children, but they
have long beats and the children slip
into the alley during their absence.
There are no lights in the alley fur
nished by the city. andin the dark
ness. when the officer does appear, the
boys are able to hide until he goes
away"
Asked whether the women on the
alley did not all have male compan-
ions. Mr.. White said that this was true,
and that they were of the most de-
/ PRAYED class. In support of this state
ment Of Mr.. Whites is the fact that
the man arrested with two colOred
women for the murder OF a miner in
the alley week ago yesterday, is, al
/ though white, a cOnsOrt of one of the
woman, and has served many terms in
state and city penal institutions for
minor and grave offenses.
Council May Act.
1t is entirely probable that the moral
/ depravity that is known now to exist
\ in Victoria alley, win cause immediate
action to be taken by the city officials
/ looking to thorough cleansing of the
crib portion of the tenderlOin. The
mayor and members of the city coun
I f.fT l.
/ committee, were interviewed yesterday
and practically all expressed them
selves as favorable to driving out the
/ deniZens of the region where Daniel
Ryan was murdered a week ago. If
| the chief of police viii not take this
course voluntarily it is not unlikely
that the council Will order the sup
} preston of the cribs" from which Jo-
seph ]. Smell derives his fat income.
Mayor Thompson. when asked for his
views on the conditions that prevail in
| Victoria alley, replied:
Il believe it is generally conceded
that if those dives must exist in the
city, it is better to have them all
punched together and under strict po-
lice supervision. Most of the so-called
| cribs to which class most of the trou-
bic is attributed, are together be
lieve, but it is getting very bad, in
deed, when they viii kin man for his
money. How to deal with that class
is one of the great problems of the
age"
Would Drive Women Out.
do you believe these women should
be driven out of town?" the mayor was
asked.
= certainly do was the reply, '1f
such a thing is possible"
DO you not believe that the chief OF
police can accomplish it, if so in
structed?"
The chief of police has his instruc-
tions. All he has to do is enforce the
laws
DO you favor the attitude of Joseph
J. Smell with reference TO these crib
women"
Il have talked with Mr.. Smell and
he tells me that he is perfectly willing
to rent his property to respectable peo-
pie. to families, but he cannot do so as
long as neighbOring property is rented
for immoral purposes. The houses rur
as Helen Blazes', Ida Walkers and tbs
place known as Three Deuces,' at %
South State, are in the same vicinity
as the property owned by Mr.. Smell
and he could hardly rent to respectable
people under those circumstances"
The mayor, in his statement, did no
+, seem to consider the fact that Mr.
Smell owns practically all the crib
buildings in Victoria alley.
City Councilman John n. Sharp
member OF the police and prison com
l nittee, expressed himself very di
: rectly.
l Clean the Alley Out.
ct is simply a fright. said he, "an'
= there is but one thing to do-clean tn
, alley right out. If the police tell ever
one of those women to get out and sta,
: out and arrest them if they are no
out of town by a certain date, be
1 lieve it would solve the problem. /
e the chief of police does not act to tina
end at once, it seems to me that tn
e council should direct him to- We can
e not stand for any such conditions a
r The Herald describes as existing Il
a Victoria alley
S City Councilman Black said: Ever,
n seIf-respecting man IN this city VIII
T has a boy ought to- be interested il
a slant dread if that boy is out of tn
d house at night. / know am, for wit
such shocking conditions prevailing
there is no telling what might happe
to our children. 1t is simply awful {
n concentrate such a condition as is de
a scribed by The Herald.
: 81 believe it is an historical fact tina
q the breaking up of q certain tenderloi
district has resulted In the scattering
of places of infamy all over the city
but if it is possible to drive these PEG
Die out of town and keep them ou
that is certainly what should be done
4 If it is not possible, then the house
should be under such close police 81
pervision that it win be impossible fC
a crime to be committed in one {
them or for a boy to visit them. TIL
police have access to these dives. The
should be there so often as to make
/ repetition of the Ryan case impOss
bic. Victoria alley and all other part
of the tenderioin should be clOsel
patrolled."
Need Larger Police Force.
city Councilman a j. Davis spoB
as follows: 1.-THE tenderloin can neve
be under proper control by the polio
\ department until the force is lare
a enough to patrol it. The Salt Lake fore
g is not half large enough, and it is
n wonder to me that more murders a.
81 not committed in the tough district.
8 have just come from Des Moines, Ia
81 city the same size as this. and thel
"a they have sixty-five uniformed office
- barely half that number. IF the w,
:, men are under strict police supervise
~ they can be prevented from Robin
iG and numbering their visitors at Ieas
IF not, then clean out the whole tel
derloin.
n THE real cause Of the many rol
berries is that the women, no matt
u how low they get, have to exist.
r they are compelled to pay from $50
g $50 per month rent, think what tn
o means to them. The city, 7 conten
and have always contended. encou
u ages this system of robbery by fOrciI