Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-22
Especial to ReviewD

CHICAGO, June 21, = Spurred by Americas record of o,623 Fourth of July cassalities in 1908, 4,i13 in 1907 and 5.466 in 1906, Mayor Busse has of ficially declared for a sane Fourth" for Chicago, but the suburb of La Grange has outdone that. having taken the lead in trying music as substi- tute for firecreackers in celebrating Independence Day. Band concerts. orchestra concerts and chorus singing are to bs pitted against the sound of powder. The deadly work of the giant cracker and toy pistol, as summar- ixed by the Journal of the American Medical association shows $50 deaths upon the last five Fourths, 370 being from tetanus-lockjaw. Twenty-Five thousand casualties of various kinds is the total for five years of pyrotech- nical. detonating celebrations. Chi cagos rules will attempt to bar can non crackers. toy pistols, any fire works containing explosives more vio- lent than black powder, and dealers found selling or keeping the tabooej noise makers are threatened with fines and the revocation of their li- censes. The limits of the Fourth are noise makers of any kind are strictly prescribed and fireworks are under the ban, except on the one day when the dog hides in the basement and the parents vainly long for peace and quiet All the wholesale and re- tail dealers in the city have been in formed concerning the exact provis- ions of the ordinance, and the police have been instructed to be on the lookout for the display or sale in any store of the prohibited varieties of explosives. The appearance of any of these explosives in the hands of any persons also will be the sigma, for a police investigation and the ar rest of offending citizens and dealers.
 Old Fourth" Avenue one of the last landmarks of early Chicago and once called "the wickedest block in the world by William T. Stead. the English editor. is disappearing to make room for an up-to-date business building. This marks the passing of q street which for years was notorious in the annals of American criminal life from one end of the country to the other. The center of the worst resorts in the city and a harboring place for criminals of every descrip- ton. Fourth Avenue at one time was known to the police as an unfailing breeder Of disorder at any hour of the day or right. No other spot in the world, not even the Bowery in New York. could approach this narrow al ley for the lumber of drinking re sorts in one block. and murders. sui cides and robteries were of frequent occurrence 'r. the panel houses that ehz1 hn were at one time 26 saloons on the west side of the street in the block given over to vice. One of these was the famous resort of Tom Curley which used to be headquarters for prize fighters and where John L. Sui- livan laid a sI.000 bill down on the bar and treated everybody until the money was gone. Anthony Conoily 8 saloon on the corner of Fourth avenue and Harrison street was another re- sort of world wide notoriety in the early sos, until Connolly was shot and killed one night by Bob Bruce. "Shang" Andrews. editor of a sporting
 sheet, Dan Scott, a negro gambler and race horse owner. and a score of others were among the interesting characters who lived in this unsavory neighborhood. Even the name of the thoroughfare has a history. Before the Civil War it was called Buffalo street and contained residences oi some of the best families. After the great fire which swept the city in 1873 it was invaded by resort keep CTS and was rechristened Fourth ave nue. Later the name was officially changed to Custom House court and again Co Federal court. but the old name has never been quite displaced Fourth avenue began to wane about six years ago when Mayor Harrison changed the name to Harrison street. Three years later May or Dunne made a clean sweep b. compelling the resort keepers to move made the red light" dead line soutl to the Twenty-second street district Since the old frame buildings have been occupied by Italian families which are now obliged to move tc make room for mammoth printing establishment which is to occupy the site.
 Girls meager wages and the white slave traffic have been accusingiy linked by President Alexander Peter son of the Illinois Retail Clerks Asso citation who declared in his annua report that many girl clerks are SC underpaid they become easy victims of the procurers. Not less than :. a week is sufficient to support gir clerk in the city stores he declared His address added to the information concerning the procuring done iii tn. big department stores of Chicago where girls. waiting for jobs. oftel mo1eyless and sometimes hungry were discovered by a committee to b' the frequent prey of men and womer harpies, who sell them into the red light houses. If the working womer were paid living wage, white slav cry to a great extent would be eiim nlllnO nan nrrrlYn