The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-28
LAW ENFORCEMENT LEAGUE SUDDENLY
 BROUGHT TO LIFE
On Eve of Election it Complains
 of Tenderloin Conditions
POLICE WILL SERVE WARRANTS
Republican Prosecuting AuthOri- ties Hold Key to Situation
 in Their Hands

That nysteriously intangible or ga nization. the Bridgeport Law En- forcenent League, the identity o1 whose fnanciers has always been q matter of conjecture, has suddenly come to life on the eve of election after silence of many weeks.
 Attorney Edward K. Nicholson, as scounseI for this impaIpable body, has sent to Mayor Buckingham today a Seftcr in Which he complains among bother things that the individual po- ncemen protect rather than warn or arrest" the women Of the Vlc1nltV known as the tenderloin.
 It would no doubt he construed as a wild stretch of imagination to sup pose that the letter of Judge N1chol- says himself as to that: "This (the writing of the letter) is done with the belief that you are ignorant of the conditions, not with any thought that you would wilfully tolerate them, or permit them to remain as they are
 It might be held equally unWar- ranted to claim that the letter was designed to show that the Democratic administration was fostering Vlce; But no doubt some such claim will be made The letter had not reached Mayor Buckingham's possession when the newspapers received their copies. In effect it was an open letter.
 It stated that the executive com- rnittee of the Law Enforcement or ganization held a meeting yesterday afternoon directing Attorney Nfchol- to the mayor. Giving addresses in the section commonly known as the tenderloin, it alleges that the women of the street are brazen In thelr ac- costing of passersby. That any doubt arising from the gathering of the evidence by paid detectives may be that men unknown to the local police were brought from out of the city, and their reports confirmed reports Of other agents.
 Complaint is made of portions of State street, Bank street. Water street and Housatonic avenue. The last named thoroughfare is infested with 1awless negresses, the report says
 Attorney Nicholson for the associa- ton urges four reasons for change of conditions: First, that the growht of Bridgeport is hampered by reputa- ton for wide open vice; second, that the laws compel a change; third, the conditions are against public moral lfy 'laa IonEs nnsI eng alseIses = z E ssteIsnt5on is called to the Connecticut Society Of Social Hygiene's recent
 Though the identity. of the inan- ciers of the Law Enforcement organ 1zation has never been disclosed, It has been generally understood that the money with which the private detectives were sup0ied, was furn1sh- ed by very wealthy man prominent can ring That the Law Enforcement league rarely if ever acts except when their claims might be construed to work discredit upon Democratic off ficiais supports the belief. Judge Nicholson says as attorney for the organization he is bound in confidence not to disclose the identity of its m ern b ership.
 Superintendent Birmingham and his policemen are as ever ready to serve all warrants placed in their hands by n pen to be without exception, Repub- Iican officials. The procedure for the Law Enforcement organization is to submit evidence to the prosecutors, who will issue warrants if they see fit, and there will be no trouble ex- perienced in the service of the same,