The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-07-14
FIRST WARD WILL
BIZ ABANDONED BY
IMMORAL HOUSES
Mayor Smith and Chief Collins
Order Down" Inmates of
Resorts.
MIST Move In Response 10
Complaints Of Residents.
BOARD PUTS IT UP TO THEM

When the board of police and fro
commissioner announced last night
that 1t is up to Mayor James p Smith
and Chief Collins. as to whether or
not the presence OF bawdy houses is
to be suffered in the First ward, no
time was lost in carrying out tho
mayors and the chiefs already
formed opinion.
Bawdy house keepers we're cor
dered down" today and they will be
given ten days in which to remove
from locations north of the railroad.
They will also be notified that where
ever they may go, whenever COM
plants are made against them. they
must move. II is expected that
large number of the white slaves
who receive practically no share IN
the profits OF their own immortality.
will present themselves at the city
hall, asking for transportation out
OF town. They will be told to pre-
sent themselves there tomorrow
morning. and 1t is probable that the
lcity authorities will consider it
economy to aid them, as II certainly
would be charity to the poor Great
ures, who are more sinned against
than SHINING.
In the Board.
| DR.. Frank Boyd, the new member
of the board. introduced the subject
last night. He said complaints had
come to him from the First ward that
women were insulted on the streets
by dIsorderly house habitues and the
neighborhood was becoming unsafe.
They told him that II they failed to
secure relief from the city. they
would take the law into their own
hands Everybody Joined in the dis
cusslon and finally they said It was
up to the mayor and the chief OF
police.
Mayor Smith said: 'I have waited
six months IN the hope that this eres-
ton would adjust Itself. Il has NOT.
This is hard subject to handle.
Deliberate segregation of the houses
would meet with the protest that we
were recognizing it. To prosecute
the women is difficulty from the
trouble of securing direct evidence
against them; but whenever people
complain against these places. I In
tend to drive them out They may
lgo somewhere else. and II there are
complaints. out they must go. 10
they leave the city. as l hope they
Twill. or get some place where no one
complains. am too busy to person.
Tally go out and hunt them up, I
have given my word to those First
ward people that l would drive their
bad nelghbors away and I shall do
it,"
Chief Collins said this morning
THAT he would notify them. and it
lthey did not obey his command VOL
UNFAIRLY he would proceed In a way
to force them to obey.
Routine Business.
The resignation OF Dick Brown as
lenglneer at No. l fire station was ac-
cepted and Lee story was elected to
the vacancy. The action Of Chief
Wood in discharging viii Melon was
ratified and w. F. Mccormick was
detected to the vacancy.
Ernest Bell, street inspector. was
lgiven police powers, although Com
lmissloners Bands and Clark made
protests. II was pointed out by the
r mayor that the inspector could make
{ larrests for violation of dropping
waste material on the streets of the
5 lefty.
I 1t was ordered that all members OF
I the police departments who are can
/ didates for Office. he laid on duty
! until after the election.
The proposition OF Miss Halle
Ross. Judge Cross stenographer, to
act as stenographer to Chief Collins
and the police officials for $40 a
month, was referred to the finance