Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03
SYLVESTER BEGINS CRUSADE
Washington Chief Of Police Is Sup
pressing Unnecessary Noises.
WILL PUBLISH FIRST CENSUS
official List of Citizens of United
states Century AgO To BE
Issued By bureau In
Book Form.
fFrom a SAD correspondent.l

/
ton, has started on a campaign which
should bring down upon him the plsudits
Of all decent people. He has decided that
! the Red Light District" must be removed,
ard that unnecessary noises must cease
The garbage man who blows a bass fish
horn at o'clock in the morning has been
notified that he must make his rounds with
out disturbing the entire population. The
Water Melyon" peddler must dispose OF
his wares, without screeching out the in
formation that "dey's red to de rir'e,' and
the major even insists that the street car
companies shall be compelled to operate
their equipment without putting the tele-
phones out OF business along their entire
routes
But the most radical reform which the
chief Of police has undertaken is the moral
cleansing of the blocks between Thirteenth
and Fifteenth streets and Pennsylvania
avenue and "The Mall" Ever since the
civil war this particular section Of the city
has been occupied by the half world. But
recently che magnificent new home of the
district government, which occupies block
on Pennsylvania avenue In this particular
section, has been opened, Then too, the
new buildings Of the Department OF AgT-
culture are Immediately in the rear, across
| I'Ine MAIL, ana DlOCk away - Ahc
Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In
these two departments several thousand
women and girls are employed and in the
case OF the bureau many Of them go on
and off duty late at night. 1t has been a
crying disgrace to the national capital for
many years that these women should be
compelled to pass along the edges OF the
red light district on their way to ard from
| uyorlr and their homes.
The crusade has the cordial endorse
ment of every man in Washington from
president down, except the owners or
buildings who see their rent rolls de-
pleted, and MajoS Sylvester says every
one will be closed in ten days. In view
of the fact that he has established a
quarantine around the entire district,
across which no man is allowed to pass
after nightfall, 1t is probable that he will
keep his promise and that washington s
plague spot will be relegated to some
more remote region than that in the inn
mediate rear of the home OF the city
authorities, the most beautiful public
building in the national capital.
First Census To BE Published.
Are you interested in knowing whether
or not your ancestors were among the
first families OF the land when the census
was first taken under federal authority
lis years ago?
II so communicate with Hon. S. N. D.
North, director of the United States cen
sus, and enclose 81. In return he Will
send you a list OF the heads OF families
, enumerated in that census in either Maine
Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Connecticut
New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina
South Carolina or Virginia. Or If you
think you had ancestors in all of those
states at that time send him a postal or
der for 50 and receive the entire set
Each state will be published separately
as a part, or volume, consisting of from
100 to 400 pages, handsomely printed
upon laid antique paper, sewed and bound
with turned handsome covers. Each part
will be fully indexed and will contain
as a frontispiece a map of the state rep
resented, 11x17 inches in size reproduced
by lithography from an atlas published
in 1899.
In accordance with the law, these
pamphlets are offered for sale by the
director OF the census at the uniform price
of 81 for each part. limited number
of sets will be bound up. so that all parts
will apear in uniform cloth binding of a
: subste ntial character. making approx
| mately four volumes. No extra charge
will be made for the cloth binding In such
case.
Congress ON Tuberculosis.
King Edward OF England is the patroT
and the prince OF Wales is the president Of
the British association for the prevention
OF consumption and other forms of tuber
! cuiosis, the organization that Is arrang
ing for the participation of Great Brlta I
and Ireland in the International congress
on tuberculosis to be held in washington
in September. The association will be rep
resented in the exhibition to be held II
connection with the congress and will alsC
send a large delegation. Among reports
already forwarded to Dr. John S. Fulton
secretary general OF the congress Is tha
: OF the Irish section. which was prepared
= under the direction of the president OF tn,
T IIish committee, the countess of Aberdeen
wife OF the late lord lieutenant of Ire
3 lend. Lady Aberdeen has taken the lea,
= in the crusade against tuberculosis in Ire
3 land. AS the president OF the Woman
National Health association she has es
tablished branches In all cities ano town
and has given a powerful impulse to tn
| popular educational movements in the In
e terest of public health. The Royal Com
e mission of tuberculosis will be represente,
I at the congress by DIR. G. Sms Woodhead
d professor OF pathology at the University o
T Cambridge and a member Of the executive
| cOnmlttee TOT Great brltdln Ut. news
= holm. chief medical officer OF the loca
a Government Board of England. one Of tn
a best known students OF vital statistics. viii
y deliver lecture on The causes whic
have led to tho decline in the death rat
from tuberculosis, and the light thrown b.
history on the preventive action for tn
future"
Another wei known Britisher who vii
: take part in the congress is DIR. r. w
!, Philip OF Edinburg. founder OF the firs
!, tuberculosis dispsnsary and the inspirer o
i the visiting nurses house-to-house work Il
= the homes OF consumptives.
h Contribution From japanese.
An interesting contribution 10 the ex
a hibit OF literature on the subject OF tuber
Il culosis has been received at the headquaT
n ters OF the congress II u In the form Q
d three publications, all printed In Japanes
% and all Of them prepared by DIT. c. shl
y bayama, under the direction of Dr. 4
i Kitasato OF Toxic. director OF the i'm
n perial institute for the research OF infeS
% tious diseases. Translated into Englis
= the subjects OF the volumes are; "Pre
m vention Of tuberculosis for Italy," ''cor
sumption as q Subject OF Social Educa