The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-10-14
UNDERWORLD
GETS BAD JAR
Chicago Police Has Stirred up
a Fight for a Clean
City

Chicago. Oct. 14.-Bosses OF Chi
cago's underworld who have grown
rich on the harvest of tribute from
white slavery" and kindred vices are
gasping today under blow which
Chief of Police Steward has struck at
the districts from which they reap
their dollars. A code of regulations
whose enforcement by the police
would throttle the open Haunting of
vice in Chicago and strike vital
blow at the root of the evil has been
drafted by the chief of police and
ordered put into effect Immediately.
Everybody is now wondering if the
reform will fare like most other re-
forms of the sort.
Steward Discusses the Situation.
Il do not know what is going on in
the Twenty-second street levee except
as to what my kind friends tell me.
but understand 1t is excessive
naughty declared Chief of Police
Steward today in explanation of thir-
teen rules which he has promulgated
for the regulation of vice in Chicago.
II have never been in the district and
do not think the time is yet ripe for
me to go there in person and see
whether the new rules are being obey
ed," he continued, in explanation of
the matter in which he intends to con-
troll the four recognized levee districts
in the city. "In weeks time results
will begin to show. There will be
opposition and attempted evasion, but
in reasonable time everything will
he in line. If it is not ] want to
know about it."
Wealthy landlords, some of whose
names are prominent in Chicago So
ciety, the sale Of liquor in disorderly
resorts. which run as cloaks for all
night "blindpigs" without paying the
city saloon license and health regula-
lions to be observed by the inmates
are three important phases of red
light affairs. which the chief expects
to take up later. The rules which he
has promulgated now are chiefly for
the purpose of accomplishing uni
formity In all parts of the city in po-
lice handling of the situation. In the
river wards of the north, west and
south sides, and in South Chicago,
are to be recognized locations for
levee districts. No attempt is to be
made to exterminate them.
I'VE are going to regulate them and
stop everything which is an outrage
to public decency," declares the chief
McCann Disclosures rs Cause.
Disclosures of the tribute levied by
the police on disorderly resorts
through the trial of Inspector Edward
McCann is what was directly behind
the issuance of the order by Chief
Steward. 1t is strange coincidence
also that the regulations which the
chief now imposes are identically the
same, with the addition of a rule pro-
hibiting men from owning disorderly
houses-which McCann drafted while
he was captain In charge of the Twen-
ty-second street district. Under the
usual police methods the enforcement
of the regulations gradually became
more and more lenient until in recent
months they have practically been
disregarded.
Flow Of Tribute Steady.
Payment of tribute by the resort
owners of the south side, principally
in the Twenty-second street district,
but In only q slightly lesser degree
In the Thirty-frst, Sixty-third and
othsr neighborhoods, 10 declared to
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