New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-03

Third Presbyterian Church was Informed that Chief
Rochester are not being devoted in any degree to
immoral uses. he said: Then he has not inxestl-
fully investigated this subject cannot fail to arrive
The Rev. Mr.. Strayer Is the chairman OF the sub
committee appointed by the Young WOmen's Chri
vestgate the subject Of social purity in Rochester
Nor IS this evil confined to the Raines law
it extends some the LARGEST hotels in rltv
But these Raines law hotels" continued the
pastor ARE being converted into regular houses
OF designation. mainly through the desire OF the
propretors to realize on their Investments for fq
nishngs that enabled them to procure hotel Ii
IN Rochester and no region corresponding % New
"Our denartTlent Of This Investigation" said Mr.
Strayer. has come to the conclusion that vice IS
not TO be overcome By the police Ignorance is at
ing before It is too late to agats the people spur
on the fathers and mothers to look to the moral
welfare OF their sons and daughters. I hOrri-
fed at what have seen in the course OF this in
the city in which the boys and girls not safe
Then there boarding houses where the occu-
asking questions Some Of these people may not
their rooms that thew neglect 70 take the precau
ton or 5,Ning gueStlonS Whlcn should De asked
source of evil These places bear the magic name
OF hotel y young man and young woman enter
liquor is served and worse things follow .
this evil begin with the boys and girls in the
public schools. and give them thorough education
they grow UP. I have even gone SO far along this
president Of the school Board. and to superin-
tendent Of Schools Clarence F Carroll that the
tain physical facts. now neglected. in connection
hygiene have in mind a series OF lectures which
might be given before the girls by competent
women instructors and before the boys by men
Parents seem so reluctant to speak OF these sub
tects to their sons and daughters that there seems
little hope Of stamping out the evil from that
quarter The young men and young women are
growing up in Ignorance OF the awful results Of
The Rev Mr. strayer said that the report OF the
rrf1 fVE 0FrTr-f -
would be complete enough to arouse the parents
that it would be made public within a month.
Until il was made public. he said the COMMITTEES
might put upon their guard offenders it is hoped
10 punish
F. l. starrett. secretary Of the Rochester Young
eraI wav everything said bv Professor Rauscber-
busch and the Rev Mr. strayer. but he did cot
he feared the effect Of the Young Mems Christian
Association Investigation might thus be nullifed.
the Young VIens Christian ssncistio VOL vi" ,d
has collected much valuable data for the investi
eating committee He has map showing at
glance the location OF every saloon and hotel in
the city Secretary starrett said frankly however,
.it ne qd nor MINK Hochster c9InpSred IN VIOLA
The total number OF hotel licenses granted IN
stated ~ Milton Rae Sdecia77 BeoHtv Coumis
sioner Of Excise for the Rochester district, 10 be
law hotel men that fully one-half Of these held
by genuine, bona ide hotels. Those at the head
about one-third being held by genuine hotels
Coming as It did from the point Of view OF a care
full observer. not connected with the Young Mems
Christian Association Investigation. what the Rev.
DR.. Donald ID. McLaurin. pastor Of the Second
Baptist Church. had to say was interesting.
II believe" said DR.. N1cIaurin. IF the Mayor
and his commission would make a straight un-
equivocal order that all excise laws be enforced
sworn do. there would be no violation OF the
sense OF duty would favor action by the citizens
81 Il do not think there are any 'grafters' our
police force. The general idea is that the members
OF the force here are honest and think that is
right but the laws are not being enforced For
instance every theatre In the city has begun this
80 ,t- 49,; 81 a. 10 LSli.S 'Iie same ~ on
DR. McI.aurtn is not connected with the Young
Mems CHRISTIAN Association Investigating commit
as 1H' s c a to Sq RaeRes9 OF 7s s
from Detroit. where he acting president the
CIVIC Federation and was active five years ago in
dr1ving the saloons out Of business when Mayor
we were highly successful IN Detroit" said Dr.
ndGLaurIn, until Fl1gree appointed men on his
not 70 use officers In plain clothes for obtaining
IT went to the Commissioners and got them to
agree 70 rescnd the rule prohibiting offers secur
court agreed to bind over to the Recorders Court
all cases where there was sufficient evidence and
penalty OF 500 and six months in the workhouse
Wen. that worked like a charm 1t closed every
saloon in Detroit Then they began business again
Just outside the citv limits in surrounding towns
went to the Sheriff and secured his cooperation
and have a letter IN which he wrote that
every saloon in Wayne County closed for the
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dition Of affairs was maintained for long time
c " Howard president 81 the Prohibition Union
Of Christian Men which was organized in Roch4s-
ter, is prominent figure in the movement for
Graduating the LIQUOR evil Little Giant Howard
his friends afrectionately call him. has attained
almost national reputation as the enemy of the
saloons. His work president OF the Prohibition
Union takes him all over the country. and he has
not much time TO put into the work in Rochester.
| but he keeps closely In touch with II and the
saoOnkeepers profess TO recognize his leadership
I'm the movement now being directed against them.
To a Tribune representative he said:
The Raines law in this DTS-emnent Christian
city is enforced the leopard pan-in spots II
ualy violate the law and tester the animal as the
moral life of the saloon testers the life OF COM
nnce Of "" ep %0g tha under the divine VIA" LAW b y
| ished even a beyond the realm OF human hab!-
| don't It, don't hear il. don't smell it.
They like the gods OF the heather. having eyes
/ thew see not having they hear not: noses
\ have they. but they smell NOT: neither do they
understand We have lsl stalwart, handsome.
/ parade and invisible on duty. Rochester is no
/ worse than the other large cities of the Empire
! Periodically after violent proddng ar intervals
| strated their ability to enforce the sunday law
But unless some local society keeps eternay after
! tLen the situation reverts 70 TIE old wide open
/ condition. The members Of the Police Department
neither innocent nor impotent; they are simply
OF experience as president of the Prohibition Union
Of Christian Men IN this city has served to con-
attention has been called to specific and gross vso-
atOn. insincere in their promises to enforce the
law and incompetent in that they do not succeed
or attempt TO succeed In doing IT,
/ this city, when our police captain giving pub
/ lie assurance that he WAS enforcing the Sunday
| bv The captains own mother IN a bIiI5fre owned
by the captain and almost adjoining his own home
which I exhibited 10 a mass meeting OF two thou
sand people half an hour after they were saptqrSa
dred citizens deposited them upon the desk OF ne
6a,s d,Iiie-sta. Sha evtasnre in a hundred in