New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-14
TURNING UP RED LIGHTS.
"C4DEI'' TRAFFIC GROWS.
Lo5cer East Side People Considering
Issuance of a Warning.

Increasing frequency OF cadet" cases. n gen
eral laxity of police discipline. attendant rumors
of blackmail and protection IN the East Twenty
second-st precinct and stiu mo-e recently. the
discovery OF a number of instances of girls
gambling in questionable resorts. have led TO
the impression among the people OF the East
Side that there IS danger OF relapse to Red
Light" conditions. Already residents of the
downtown East Side are considering calling a
meeting of the editors OF the Jewish daily papers
to begin a campaign Of warning among the ten
ement house dwellers.
Ever since the days OF the Van Wyck ad-
ministration there have been cadet" cases Pro-
baton officers have recently expressed the opin-
ion, which is also held 10y East Side workers,
members OF the Citizens Union and persons con-
nected with the work Of the Legal Aid Society,
that these cases are on the increase all over the
East Side OF the conditions in the East
Twenty y-second-st. precinct. Frederick A King
resident of the University Settlement. who has
lived on the East Side for half dozen years
said yesterday:
The East F1fth-st and Eldridse-st precincts
may be called fairly clean but al the worst Gle
ing into Captain Gallagher's East Twenty second
st. precinct There are two hotels In Third,
which have become the rendezvous. not merely Of
cadets and disoraerly women but OF the people en-
gagged in such traffic al over the coqrtry In the
district the people saT that these hotels are making
81 ) IA week, and that they are paying for the
to court to testify aEanS; a bad place IN his pre-
cinct but on the stand his memory apparently
failed him. and the proprietor got off with fine
T H. Whitney. who is connected with the
Citizens Union, speaking from personal observa- 20
tion in the same precinct. made the following
comment:
think that you are safe in SAYING that things
are getting very bad indeed in this precinct I
has had gradually increasing number OF cadet
least one res6r. Of the cadets - EirdaVe near
Fourteenth-st.. and | think the thing is pretty
general
From a resident Of the University Settlement
it is learned that the remnant OF the Monk
Eastman gang. which. among other criminal pur .
suits, engaged in the cadet business at timec,
still maintains two resorts !n houses in Allen
st, in the block between Rivington and Stanton
SITS. Several delicatessen stores in this neigh
borhood are also under suspicion. Last week
there was a cadet the East Side which
reproduced the methods of Devery days that
II caused marked comment
Following this. two young girls daughters OF
respectable parents arrested in a Rutgers
ST gambling place within sight of the windows
of the East Side home of Distric- Attorney
Jerome In court the girls paroled in the
custody Of the attorney OF the Educational Ali
ance Legal Aid Bureau. The next day they dis
appeared, and, despite the efforts of their
parents they have not been found These, with
several other abduction cases. have aroused Wig
orous protest on the East Side.
David Blaustein, superintendent of the Educa-
tional Alliance, one of the most experienced
workers on the East Side. who took an active
part in the fight to drive out the old conditions
of the Van Wyck days, had the following COM
ment to make on the situation;
am afraid the time has come when we must
fear lust fear, return of the old conditions
Both in the police courts and throIgn private IN IN
actual instances cadet cases, of abductlons and
of the new development the enticlnS or girls into
ttn,a 10 act Measures on foot that may re-
sult I'm n conference of the editors OF the jewish
daily Dapers and the publication or editorials
wa rning parents to protect their daushteIS now
;ha, The hot weather with its inevitable effect on
.he tenement house dwelers. is at hand ana the
Coney Island season on II Woulu pI a n,ls ms On 10
Eost side fear but that is true. and thlnk Tor
that we have good grouHos-
In the Bowery where the Sullivan influence
SIN controls there has also been an evident ton
inc down Of the vigilance of the Low regime
saloons e the lower type which flourish near
Chatham Square are running under less restraint
Raids, frequently happening as often as twice
a veel, under the Low regime. are becoming
fewer. AS a direct result, the dives, on which
the SulIivans depend for much of their political
cortroI ara aourishing to a far greater extent
than formerly Places like the Little Jumbo
and No @ shut UP their doors in the Low time,
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