Arizona republican., 1909-06-19

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 nal for a police investigation and the arrest of offending citizens and deal- CTS.
 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 busi- ness building. This marks the pass ing of a 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 ev- cry description, Fourth avenue at one time was known to the police as an unfailing breeder of disorder at any hour of the day or night. No other spot in the world, not even the Bow cry in New York, could approach this narrow alley for the number of drinking resorts in one block, and murders, suicides and rObberies were of frequent occurrence in the panel houses that flourished on the Ave lut- IGlG Ntlt Olit llllit lNtA- ty-six 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. Sullivan used to spend much of his time when visiting the city. There is a tradition that after winning a big fight one night Sulli- van laid a $1,000 bill down on the bar and treated everybody until the money was gone. Anthony Connolly's saloon on the corner of Fourth ave nue and Harrison street was another resort of worldwide notoriety in the early sos, until Connolly was shot and killed one night by Bob Bruce. "Shang' Andrews, editor of a sport ing sheet, Dan Scott, a negro gamb- Ter and race horse owner, and a score of others were among the in- teresting characters who lived in this unsavOry neighborhood. Even the name of the thOroughfare has a his- tory. Before the Civil War it was called Buffalo street and contained residences of some of the best fami- lies. After the great fire which swept the city in 1873 it was invad- ed by resort keepers and was re- christened Fourth avenue. Later the name was officially changed to Gus tom House court and again to Fed eral court but the old name has never been quite displaced. Fourth avenue began to wane about six years ago when Mayor Harrison made the red light" dead line south of Harrison street. Three years lat CT Mayor Dunne made a ciean sweep by compelling the resort keepers to move to the Twenty second street district. Since then the old frame buildings have been occupied by Italian families which are now obliged to move to make room for mammoth printing establishment which is to occupy the site.
 Girls meager wages and the white slave traffic have been accusingly linked by President Alexander Peter son of the Illinois Retail Clerks asso- citation who declared in his annual report that many girl clerks are so underpaid they become easy victims of the procurers. Not less than s9 a week is sufficient to support a girl clerk in the city stores, he declared His address added to the information concerning the procuring done in the big department stores of Chicago. where girls waiting for jobs, often moneyless and sometimes hungry, were discovered by the Womans Worlds committee to be the frequent prey of men and women harpies, who sell them into the red light houses
 If the working women were paid living wage, white slavery to a great extent would be eliminated" declared