Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-07
NEW YORK
NEWS LETTER

New York, Oct. 7.-Consternation
has seized the keepers of dives and
houses of i'll repute in the Tender
loin. A new Car of the Tenderloin
shas taken the reins of government in
that famous district and his name is
Dooley. Mr.. Dooley, like his famous
namesakes of the Bowery music seems
to be a man of action. He invited a
number of the worst Offenders to his
office the other day and. in a perfectly
pleasant, but positive manner, inform
ed them that they would have to quit
business within forty-eight hours, or
stand the consequences. The meeting
was quite friendly and the guests left
smiling and joking. They had heard
such commands many times before,
and treated them always in the same
manner, as a joke. 1t was really too
funny, to tell them, who were such
staunch friends and supporters of
Tammany Hall, and paid their dues"
to the police, with such regularity,
that they would have to move or quit
business!
The forty-eight hours passed, and
the dive owners, regardless of the
warning they had received, continued
business at the old stand, when the
great surprise came. One of the places
was raided and the owner arrested;
another quickly followed, and the
news spread through the Tenderloin
with lightning rapidly. Did Dooley,
after all, mean what he said? 1t
seemed very much like it. The other
dive owners and landladies were
seized with CONSERVATION and sent out
hurry calls for moving vans to vacate
their premises before the minions of
the law arrived. The effect of these
raids was highly beneficial and when
Sunday came il proved the dryest the
Tenderloin had known for many years.
The next question is, how long this
laudable energy of Captain Dooley is
going to last or how long will 1t be
before some leading chief of Tam
many Hall forces the police to desist
from their efforts to reform the vivid
ly hued district.
What has become Of the chivalry
of the American men toward women?"
is asked so often by elderly men and
women, when they see every seat in
the crowded cars of the New York
elevated and surface cars occupied by
men, while the women frantically hang
W inc oAAdpos II II ItdllN lluts lldA
the men of today are less chivalrous
than those of thirty or forty years
ago? There seems little doubt that
such is the case. The causes of that
fact have been the subject of much
speculation, and a great deal has been
written about it, in newspapers, mag
azines and even books. Philosophical
observers and careful students of ex-
listing economical conditions are in
clined to believe that the woman of
the present period are themselves re-
sponsible for the wane of chivalry
among men. For thousands of years
women have occupied the position
which nature and the prevailing degree
of civilization has assigned to them.
They were held in respect and treat
ed, at least by the educated men, with
Difference and chivalry. When the
women, however, chose to leave theiI
sphere, when they ceased TO be WON
anly, and openly competed with mel
in the pursuits which for seyera
thousand years has been the recog
nized sphere of mans activity, the,
placed themselves upon the same leve
upon which the men stand. The won
en- descended from their pedestal an
became mere units in the army O
workers, just like any man. One car
not expect the average man to look u
10 women who run saloons, smok
cigarettes. drink cocktails and othe
strong drinks, play base ball and foo
ball, affect mannish dress and d
other things which to mere man
seem u~nwomanly.
Nothing illustrates the presen
status better than the result OF a
advertising scheme which one of tn
local papers has recently started.
certain woman was sent out by tina
paper TO ride on the crowded elevate
and surface cars. At the same tim
it was widely advertised in the pape
that the woman would give $40 to tn
man who would voluntarily give u
his seat TO her. IT is quite remarl
able that the with the $40 bill
rode on the crowded cars for man
hours and not in a single instance di
she have an opportunity to give ava
a single $40 bin.