Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-09
EXPOSURE OF
VICE PRODUCES
CONSERVATION
HARPER TRIES TO EXPLAIN
TRIP TO VENICE
Respectable Citizens Everywhere De-
mand Full investigation of Awful
Conditions in Infamous
Girl Traps
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u.s., said one, and for that reason they
are welcoming thorough investiga-
ton
For once, therefore, prohibition and
temperance leaders and saloon men
are in accord in looking for a full and
straightforward reply to the question,
rs VICE PROTECTED IN LOS
ANGELES ?"
Men who through personal knowledge
are qualified to answer that question
are inwardly apprehensiYe concerning
publicity which may be turned upon
certain resorts where their faces have
been familiar. Certain prominent per-
sons and numerous lesser ones have
been guilty of freedom of conduct
at these places which it is charitable to
believe would not be INDUCED in were
there danger that the place might be
''pinched.' Affidavits in the possession
of The Herald show that the rule of
misconduct in at least two notorious
places has not only been continued,
but that it has been participated in by
men whose social and professional
prominence would have been sufficient
to stop tiff no other influence were
exercised.
Horrible Trap for Girls
One Of these places is the malodorous
Manhattan hoteF' at lis East Third
street, outwardly appearing to be re-
spectacle apartments in modern
building with grill and other first
class conveniences. Inside it is as
luXuriously furnished as the exterior
would indicate, but its walls, if they
could speak, might tell of many TRACE
dies
Many a young girl has been taken
there, believing that her escort had
brought her to one of the leading
"grills'' Of Los Angeles, within an hour
or so later to beg an employe to aid
her in making her escape from shame.
Other women have directed their es-
corts there and f1eeced them without
interference. These facts are shown in
affidavits in the possession of The Her
aid
More than that, men of high social
and other positions in the best life of
Los Angeles have utilized the privacy
of the Manhattan to maltreat girls
whom they had induced to enter the
place. In some instances it has been
necessary for the management of the
Manhattan to call in a doctor to at
tend the women after their brutal
captorS had left them Others hold
ing public positions have taken women
to the Manhattan
The Manhattan is owned by Thomas
Higgins, a capitalist residing at 1899
Magnolia avenue, but the rentals on
L,
Police Commissioner H. w Lewis.
IS VICE PROTECTED IN LOS AN
GELES.
Goings' Notorious Place
"Chowder House Jim" Dunno. who
pays the rent on the Manhattan, also
pays to Police Commissioner Lewis, as
agent. the rent for his-"Chowder
im's'-notorious place on Second
street, where unlimited license is said
to have prevailed on New Years eve.
Another place of q character equally
infamous with the Manhattan is that
operated by Roscoe Frank Goings at
the northeast corner of Seventh and
San Pedro streets. There, as at the
Manhattan, liquor is served in the
rooms on telephone orders at hours
regardless of the liquor laws This
despite of the fact that Mayor Harper
is said to have no more confiding and
loving friend to whom he can turn
for advice than R. F. Goings, not ex-
cepting his police commissioner, H. w.
Lewis, who collects the rental as agent
for the owner of the infamous Man
haitian.
At both places the rules are strict
to secure privacy for patrons, but OBJ
servation would indicate that the law
requiring registration at hotels is more
frequently forgotten at the Roanoke -
in the Goings building, than at the
Manhattan.
OF the details of management of
these notorious resorts and the doings
of their patrons, prominent and other
WISE more may be told in later issues
of The Herald in reply to the CUES
ton,
'Ts VICE PROTECTED IN LOS AN
GELES?"