The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-13
TALES OF
GIRLS ARE
DOUBTED
Centre Market Merchants
Say They Are Victims
OF Black mail.
WILL ARREST CHILDREN
Order Issued by Market Clerk to
Prevent Misconduct by Girls.
Council Committee Will
Also Take Action as
Result Of Arrests.
WILL ARREST CHILDREN

81N2 pass
lieved by many reputable business men
should be founded on better facts than
the statement of some of the girls who
frequent Centre Market.
There is a likelihood, 1t is said. that
charges now standing against business
men may be shattered, when tbs
proper time comes, by a preponderance
of evidence from the side of the de-
PENDANTS.
incidentally, there is said to be ar
indication of blackrnafl in some cases
One result of the recent charges Ii
that Market Clerk Thomas ]. Row
has given orders that hereafter any
young girl found lettering in or around
the market building will be hailed be-
fore Clerk Rowe, and If there is nc
satisfactory explanation given as to
the girls presence she will be handed
over to the police for action.
0 course said Clerk Rowe, speak,
ing on the matter, great ~precaution
viii have to be exercised so that no
worthy child will be smirched by any
act of mine. But in my experience as
clerk of this market l have noticed
children, small girls, whose actions led
me to believe that they are wiser than
their years would indicate, hanging
about this market and annoying the
merchants and their clerks.
Il have issued an order to the market
police to bring sue girls before me,
and then l will do the rest. Saturday
nights tots of girls ranging from 7 to
~ years can be seen here at late hours
waiting for the merchants to clean up
their departments.
This is no place for children of
such tender years, and they will have
to be kept away, ven II I have to re-
sort to drastic measures. This market
must sustain a wholesome name.
THE EVENING STAR is to be COM
mended for taking this matter up and
making it public, Parents must be
taught that their girls are not to be
allowed to hang aroun here either
day or night. We can tell the worthy
children and will take care of them,
.-Sat when we see girls acting in ar
IMPROPER manner and using Language
which i'll becomes persons of Older
years, then it is time to take some &C.
ton"
Several merchants de usiness In
the market talked in the ne strain,
but refused to have their names used.
Said one of these:
- oSkNNAAo ~ - $500
afraid to chase these incorrigible :
from our stalls, for they are liable
go out of here and say hat we haS,
abused them. I would not be sur
prised If the merchants in this market
get together for their own protection
to have the juvenile miscreants ex-
Guided from this place"
When told of the decision reached by
Clerk Rowe one merchant said:
THAT is mighty good. We will CO.
operate with Mr.. Rowe in this matter,
and it is up to every mar in this build
ing to lend a helping hand. While / do
not want to take any credit away
from the police department for the
energy displayed, I do want to say
that the stories told by some of these
girls in their accusations will not stand
the light of day.
'Just stop and consider what IRE
parable wrong and what injustice and
sorrow is entailed by these accusa-
tions, even if they are proved untrue.
1t is a blight or a mans character
which the grave itself will not blot
out"
These expressions were the result Of ar
rests made on the strength of statements
by girls.
AlueTn1dn mlCtldel t I'M VI TIC
Fourth Ward, chairman of the market
committee of the Common Council, stated
today that to his personal knowledge
there was a crowd of deprayed young
girls, some of them mere children, who
hang around the market and make and
listen to iewd remarks. To his personal
knowledge, he said, they had falsely ac-
cused men Of having made improper pro-
posaIs to them.
sSome time ago. said the chairman of
the committee, "Market Clerk Swami and
myself gave orders to the police to keep
girls out of the market and the courts
outside when they were not there on
legitimate business. and this order has
been enforced by the market police to the
best of their ability.
There is a crowd of girls, some Of them
20 years old, and from that Town to II.
. who frequent the market at all times,
going in ostensibly to purchase, but with
other objects in view. The claim of the
market men that the charges made
against one of them are trumped up is,
more than possible in my mind from
what 1 have seem
1.-TWO girls entered the Office of MI.
Swami while he was market clerk and
told him in my presence that a man nad
made improper proposals TO tnem, anu tne
market clerk and | accompanied the emil
dren. the oldest of which did NOT LOOK 70
be IA. Finally they stopped before a well
dressed man and stated that he was the
man; tho man
and told him Of the charges or the girls;
The man emphatically denied them, ana
1t was proven that he had just entered inc
market to make a purchase. Inc girls
finally fled In the crowd after they, saw
that they were detected in their lie.
Mr.. Mullin said chat this was one OF
the many cases that had been brought 10
his attention. and that he knew that II
was the habit of a certain class of women,
and among them some very young girls
TO aceost men in the vicinity of the mar
ket and then attempt to make an cutlery
stopped.
The Alderman was much wrought up
over the matter. and stated that the mar.
ket would investigate affairs OF
this sort thoroughly in the future, and get
additional policemen is necessary to keep
the market clear of undesirable characters.
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