Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27
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whose names might be recognized in
business circles and who positively
would not care to have their names
in print, we're recognized. Two hun
dred were turned out of the district.
where's Tom Savage?" was the in
sistent cry of many, and messengers
were dispatched I'm every direction, but
he could not be found. The macque-
reaux. those vipers who live on the
wages of the women of the houses
kept at a discreet distance. They
thronged the streets and wondered
what was happening and swore and
snarled, but it did them no good
Fight Crowds in Street
At the time when the raid was at
its height and wagonloads of women
were being taken away, the fight crowd
began to throng the streets. Hun
dreds of men who had witnessed the
prize fight stood outside the doors of
the places and yelled and shrieked and
hooted and howled at the women who
were shuffled out into the wagons and
trundled away.
Many of them recognized acuuaint-
ances and yelled to them The theater
crowds, with scores of women among
them, leaned from the car windows i'm
the blockaded thoroughfare at North
Main, above Temple, and some of the
women clapped. Others hid their faces
In their hands as though not wishing to
see the sight of degradation.
some of the women of the disorderlv
houses We're prone to be dignified, and
these were hooted and yelled at. Some
were so maudlin drunk that they didn't
care and others just marched along
and said nothing
In twenty minutes after the raid was
called every man had been swept out of
the district and told to stay out. The
'parlor houses on New High street,
the notorious Mahogany club with it's
DeVy of mulatto girls, the lone, the
Arlington, the Richmond, Elsie's and
Mignon's. the Morton club, the Rand.
the Santa Clara. Big Dots, Pearl Nor
toms. the French houses on Also
street. Mamma Lutz' cribs on Alameda
ana the entire district with not q single
exception yielded it's crowds.
Corridors Crowded
At the station hundreds of men block
AIDED the streets and yelled as the
women were ushered into the place.
The corridor of the station was crowded
and an officer held the great swinging
doors shut.
ne only feature OF the raid that
lacked decency was that police officers
and sergeants lounged about leering at
the girls as they came in, until one
sergeant with an officer in tow ordered
them to get out of the way.
incidentally a bunch of politicians
was allowed to stand still and leer
while an irate officer puffed up and
down, swelling out his chest in front of
the women, and sputtering out his or
ders for all the world like tea kettle
boiling over.
AS for the girls, they We're herded
about like sheep. When they found out
that misery had great punches of COM
pany they all laughed and took the raid
good-naturedly.
Many of the keepers of the houses
were on hand to put UP bail for their
wards, and at an early hour the money
began to come in over the counter.
One police officer spent the most of
his time walking up and down and
telling newspaper men present dat
dey couldn't buck de sergeant's orders
and dat dey couldn't do dis and dat
in language that might have displea sed
even the ears of the women present,
but he was making his little hit with
them and finally he calmed down, the
girls were locked behind the bars and
quiet ensued, while Los Angeles for
once in it's existence was without a
single disorderly hourse in operation
The work of the mayor and his COM
missioners had been thorough and
complete, and If ever tenderloin bosses
were thoroughly convinced that they
didn't have any political pull it was
at the close of the raid last night.