New-York tribune., 1905-01-24
SHOWS WORK OF CRUSADE
cadets" Missing from Old Haunts
Street Walkers Fe1cer.

A careful investigation Of present conditions
in CAPTAIN GaIlagher's former precinct. which
includes c. F. Murphys Assembly district
seems 10 show that. thanks TO the crusade un-
dertaken by wealthy Hebrews against the
cadets" and their prey the red lights in 18th
s.; have been turned down this month. Resi-
dents OF this district, who for long have had
10 abide unnameable sights and sounds. consider
il significant that the new order of things is
due in way TO the police but TO the efforts
OF Simon c. Moot acting on behalf Of Isaac n.
seligman. Jacob H. Schiff. Adolph Lewisohn
and others
Nearly nine months ago The Tribune called
attention the oUtra geous conditions prevailing
in the Twenty-second Precinct and exposed the
new escort" system whereby street walkers
were accompanied into the danger zone Of Cap
tain McDermotts precinct by professional es-
corIs or cadets" Investigations made at that
tine showed that within block OF Tammany
Hal numerous Raines law hotels were engaged
in 2 business resembling that which made the
old red light district a byword, the women
working under the direct supervision OF well
known cadets"
A Tribune reporter made a systematic tour OF
the district last Saturday evening. in company
with a resident and member Of the Peoples
Institute Club. Various Raines law hotels and
rpljCareSSel stores nelReel 41ln anu AolA SNS.'
and along l4th-st. between 2d-aye and Union
SQUARE. which investigation had shown to be the
bases Of operation OF the parasites and their
r-ev. were visited between 1890 p. m. and mid
night. The conditions in the streets were also
generally noted. In every instance the condi-
tons were in marked and favorable contrast 10
those obtaining last month.
The first visit paid TO Raines law hotel
and concert hall on the south side Of l4th-st.
almost opposite Tammany Hall. Here early in
The evening accompanied across the street by
escorts" the women were wont 10 come, the
escorts taking leave OF them 10 return with
more Here last Saturday night. however, in
stead OF one hundred women or more. as for
uerly. not more than thirty were visible. and
The place was swamped by men. New faces,
moreover. were generally encountered The third
saloon visited on the same side of the block
was one that has figured largely in the cadet
prosecutions now before Magistrate Barlow in
the Cente-st. court In the large back room
which forms the meeting place here the strange
spectacle was witnessed Of less than a dozen
women and examples OF the cadet type were
notably absent
IN the Raines law hotel between 14th and
18th stsr which has also figured in court as a
notorious resort for the cadets" and their vic
tins, the back room was empty except for two
boys although. as usual at the SOUND Of strange
footsteps on the stairs the lighthouse ap-
peaFed al the stairhead in flash and gave his
challenge.
Previous 70 this month & delicatessen store
or the south SIDE OF l4th-st., between % and Sd
aves- was headquarters for the cadets" and
The women. who sat tables, in full view of
passersby. Between 1870 and II D. m. Sat
rroay. however only one lone seoman was in
evidence.
The sidewalks in the neighborhood OF 14th-st.
and 5d-aye., which heretofore at this hour had
been alive with street walkers and thei- mas
ters, were for the most part deserted and for
once presented the average appearance Of East
SIDE arteries on week end night Examples
o. the cadet kind were few and far between.
Elsewhere the conditions in street store and
saloon were in striking contrast TO what they
have been.
The change for the better seemed reflected in
several wei known uptown dives and dance
nails, policemen being posted before the steps
81 many disorderly houses 10 warn all strangers
hat they entered al their peril.
While in the 14th-st district q transformation
mas virtually been effected. and residents at last
iesl they may permit daughters and wives 10
traNel in the daylight unaccompanied without
EAR that they VIII be subjected TO insult In the
streets Commissioner McAdoo's statement re-
RafcIng Captain Hussey's transfer is considered I
scarcely a reassuTtng sign. Nj. McAdoo's
strange admission. after denying that Murphy's
wishes had any part in the transfer, that all
M Murphy said 10 me was Give me an honest
nan Is considered peculiar 10 say the least
~ view OF the Police Commissioners consistent
.tpuoaton Of the Tammany leaders, influence
N police affairs.