New-York tribune., 1903-04-11

has it's clubhouse in Grand-st.' heai IN 80
This organization is non-partisan. has members
of all political organizations In It's RANKS anu
has for it's purpose the Improvement of the dis
triot This is the statement of Julius Blumberg.
tba president. who has stationery and print
ing store at No. 262 Grand-st.:
Won ask me to tell you of the change that has
taken place in this quarter since the ~ ia,hy ah ea,
Mace we have no more soliciting in the street II
used to be impossible to wx @ IN nrostitntes es Now
that is ended. AS tenement house vice; ss naes
not not me NV business confines me- but at the
club we all discuss the conditions, ana ao nesIs
that street soliciting has stopped. and hear that
the tenement house evil has been wiped out.
The next statement was made by a lifelong
resident of the East Side. a member OF the
East Side Civic Club and responsible citizen'
under the pledge that his name should not De
used:
The people of the East Side M have ons bsen not fole s
eradicated In time came to believe it, But
snddeny snd Ee the the Arabs the PROSTITUTES and
their hangers on folded their tents and went t away
Tsssl when mf 70
bic pu Te a or of bs PGfSa paee at ali
braved eli captains and all shut d downs ~
All the time there stood woman outside the door
beckoning One day missed her Then knew that
Aoeether ne saiDl new spirit has the East
nd
stead of hating the government ana cussg nng5,ns m
officials with which ne comes in contact is coming
to regard government as blessing.
Julius Litwak, resident of the East Side, who
has a printing establishment at No. 1912 De-
Iancey-st, and who is thoroughly familiar with
the East Side made the following comment:
The reform government has cleaned out the East
Side. The old conditions are gone. The tenements
are practically cleaned out The street n d
Was pulled pushed and dragged BY prostitutes, ex1
ls no @ & In fhe nso OF and hS m
that the Low government has done well by the
East Side
George Perlmutter. native of Rumania, who
has for many years lived in the With AS
sembly District and is employed in the Provi-
dent Loan Association. added an interesting
comment on the change:
sight OF children. The tenement children are no
no longer meet evidences of the prostitute on the
h96 was one chren Gf ene
There has been great cleaning up; My nope Is
GO on and complete the work. The whole evil can
not be wiped out in DAY, but announcer Two yeab as
East Side
In addition to the opinions gained from resi-
dents Of the quarter house TO house canvass
was made in certain streets where the .cond1-
tions in the former days at their worst
Three men, residents of the quarter, speaking
the Yiddish language, were selected to do this
work and placed under the direction of an East
Slider who is employed in bank as night watch
man. Separately and collectively these men
visited Nos 11S, 49, 12O, 121 123. 125 and 127
AHen-st. This block the most notorious in
the whole East Side in the red light district
In this block was situated the Tiphereth Israel
Synagogue mentioned in the testimony of the
Committee of Five.
Nos 123 and 125 were formerly owned by Mar
tin Engel and were among the most notorious
disorderly houses in the district. The result of
this investigation reveals the fact that there
remains one house, which is at present under
police surveillance There was no outward sign
of evil at this place, suspicion would have
been aroused in the minds of the visitors, save
for. the fact that two plain clothes men OBJ
served pcketing it and stopping all who tried
TO enter But in the halls there was not the
least evidence Of anything wrong.
Similarly the three men visited Nos ITO. 172,
174 176 1872 1873, 1S5, 1884, 1876, 1913, 2O4, 212
and 217 Chrystie-st. all of which numbers were
included in the list submitted to the Committee
of Five. Here the results We're identical. The
storekeepers. the tenement house inhabitants,
all testified to the satisfactory condition of the
houses. There was g. single exception in the
case of house run by Tammany district cap
tain. A few women were discovered there but
it also learned that this place had been
rSided no less than twice in the last two weeks.
Detectives were watching the house day and
night and the surveillance had practically put
the place out of business
The further conclusions are given from the
extracts Of the report made by the man in
charge of the investigating work. He said of
his discoveries:
We found in the tenements many people who
We're living there III the old days. when portion
of their tenement was given up to immoral pur-
poses. They all testified to the fact that the people
the captain gave the proprietors warming but in
all cases they were driven out. In two instances
presence of a police dead line round a house
that it was suspected. At one place met
learned was a plain clothes man named Devine.
there. | told him I had two friends from Jersey
City who had come to the town and
place we could have good time He told us fatty
that there was nothing doing in the district. not
a place running in the Fourth Ward
In addition to this investigation a representa-
tive Of The Tribune visited the block in Allen
st. between Rivington and Delaney, which has
been mentioned. and went through the tene-
ment halls without discovering the slightest
sign of anything wrong. This is a striking con-
tract. when It is recalled that in the red
light" days every house in this block the
west side of the street used for improper
purposes. and windows. stoops and sidewalks
were lined with prostitutes, pullers-n and
cadets Opposite No 119, once notorious re-
sort. now vacant house. detective was OBJ
served watching the house. Further at all
hours, day and night for the last week Trib-
representative went up and down Allen-st.
in search of any evidence of solicitation or other
public evidence of such work. Not the slightest
sign OF improper practices could be discovered.
Briefly, then. three tests-the opinion of those
in al or iionJ rba TnS+i-