The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-02
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discipline IN Tho parade efound II your
@pldlrra Won't hahf In tho held and n opf
snciefy and nthrr civic oraanigat inna and
ths Young Men . 4 hriasihn Association and
Tho clergy have ~ - around cleaning mp
Tho dirty spota " bile YOU krep In your oflca
and swear and aak for morr mem"
Dr. Pafhhurt led tins WIN read hia
letisF to think the Y " { 4 was engaged
In detective work In houses ~ proaiiu W ion
ThesH are Tho facts.
last year n group " eight or ten young
men In Tho wrE, Twenty - bird - rcet branch
Of Tho Y, VI e A. formed W hat they called
n Social Service club, They talked about
civic conditions. poor streets. Raines Law
hOi els, settlement work, and the enforce.
ment 81 law generally Gradually they got
around 10 tho social evil The young men
were approached on the streets at night.
especially on West Invent y~-fourth II rect In
going to the Y. VI. &. A. rooms. They
saw policemen talking with women in the
doorways Of certain PLACES. They watched
these places and saw callers by the dozen
going in. They decided that II would he a
grand thing to purify the city. and several
Of them went into those houses, saw and
heard enough to shock them and hen had
four raids made by the poll ce.
All this time the Y. NJ c. A. officials were
in ignorance Of what was going on. In a
general way they had heard that the Social
Service Club had been thinking Of investi-
| eating vice, and the officials had said to
] tncIH lHdt u iHlknl Dt wen 10 itbIH lNt
general facts as to conditions. When
these facts were learned the matter might be
brought to the committee on general man.
agement TO see II any action was advisable.
That was all. The Social Service Club is
in no way a part Of the Y. NJ. C. A. organi-
zation.
When the four raids were made by the
Tenderloin police the Y. NJ. c. A. men we're
perplexed and almost astounded. They
Ont fba vpllnO man tppafhar and said.
you had better take counsel Of wiser
heads. You've got your foot in it. Go
slow now and don't do any more"
The young men vent to Frank Moss
Supt. McClintock OF the P%arkhurst So
ciety-and that is the way DR.. Park
hurst got the idea that the Y. NJ. c. A.
had been emulating his example-and
Deputy Police Commissioner Mathot. 1t
was decided to follow the cases to the end,
see il convictions would result, and then
decide whether II would be advisable for
! the Social Service Club or for the Y. NJ. {. 4.
to go any further in the kind Of thing.
Henry Dickson. secretary OF the West
Twenty-third street branch, said yesterday:
at IL true that what is known as the
Social Service Club has done a little in the
line OF investigating vice. That club il
no part Of our organization. | have re-
GREETED some Of the things that were done.
Our people here have felt that perhaps it
was not wise tc have young men make such
Investigations. 1t was not a Y. M. G. A.
! move. Some of the men engaged in it
we're active in our own work. We have
not approved 1t or countenanced IL. When
we found that they had gone into it we told
them to consult with wiser heads. Their
motives we're all right. We don't want to
take any position of open disapproval.
We are letting the matter take its natural
course, but we have brought it to a stop,
FOR the present at least"
Some Of the young men engaged in the
sleuthing were H. E.. Jordan, who is an in
structor In embrvology in the Cornell medi-
educational department Of the West Twenty
third street branch, Y. C. A.; John Voris,
the head Of the religious work in the same
branch. and Clarence Mark, who has a de-
partment in the Bureau Of Charities. One
Of them said yesterday:
Of these places. We entered them, passed
money, saw others pass money and perhaps
went further han was necessary to get
strictly legal evidence, The Magistrate
afterward told us that all that was neces-
sary was TO make sure of the character Of
the place by the language and actions OF the
inmates. Aside from entering the places
we did not demean ourselves. We wanted
this neighborhood cleaned up. We know
that the police have ceased to be on open
terms of friendship with them, We know
we are watched.
want to see how the trials come out and
then to study the matter a little more. We
nave come to the conclusion that perhaps
we we're not wise. Please make it plain In
what you write that the Y. M. c. A. as an
organization knew nothing of what we were
acts. II DR.. Parkhurst intimated as much
to Police Commissioner Bingham he was In
error"