Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
RELIGIOUS WORKERS
MAKE LONG TOUR OF
TENDERL0IN DISTRICT
Men and Women Parade Chicago Bad
Lands, Singing Hymns-Pray-
ers Offered for the
Sinners

CHICAGO, Feb 12-Pastors of sew
eral of the most influential churches
in Chicago, some of them accompa-
MED by their wives and members OF
their congregations, marched through
the South Side levee recently, gather
ing first-hand facts regarding the dives
and resorts there.
Among the ministers taking a lead
ing part in the parade were Rev. Mel
bourne p. Boynton of the Lexington
Avenue Baptist church and Rev. John
Balcom Shaw of the Second Presby-
terian church.
There were about 100 men and
women in the parade. They sang Cos
pei hymns as they marched thro gh
the levee streets and at the corners
they halted with bowed heads while
the ministers prayed.
The fruits of another march on v'ce
were manifest to the police in the
levee. This march was by w. C. r.
U. women and church workers to
Mayor Busse's office to urge the abo-
lition of the redlight district. AS a
result new and more strict regulations
were enforced.
The levee invaders gathered at the
Second Presbyterian church. Michigan
avenue and Twentieth street. Dinner
was served by women of the church
cred by Rev. Ernest A. Bell of the Mid
night mission on pandering to the evil
and mission work in the sIums. Miss
Lucy A. Hall of the Deaconess home
and Rev. Mr.. Boynton and Rev. Mr.
Shaw also spoke of the fight on the
vice district they were about to march
into.
At 9:30 O'Clock the guide, Rev. Mr.
Bell, led the way to Eighteenth street
4 lnn xETI1n r.
rests had been made and convictions
obtained on charges of pandering were
pointed out, and the story told of the
downfall of different victims of the
traffic in women as the ministers ana
their wives stood in front of the
brightly lighted dives.
Among the houses pointed out was
''Vic" Shaw's place, where the son OIL
a railroad king was found dead sew
eral weeks ago. The bright lights and
noise of an unmusical piano inside told
the story that it was open again, de-
spite the statement the Shaw woman
made to the police she was through
and would close her place.
A number of automobiles and cabs
stood in front of the doors of some OF
the more pretentious of the houses
Sons of rich men come to these dens
of infamy in these automobiles and IN
these CABS, SAID IkcN' NIL. iO'i'
see. they are waiting outside to Whlrl
them from one dive to another until
they are so drunk that they can no
longer hold glass to their lips"
The marchers stopped in each block
in Armour avenue and Dearborn street,
sang old-fashioned gospel hymns, and
prayer was offered by the ministers
The pastors expressed surprise at
the open Haunting of vice. The inmates
of the resorts, fer the most part, re-
mained inside, but here and there curl
GUS women came outside and stood on
the sidewalk watching the little band.
Buxbaum's place at State and Twen-
ty-second streets was visited, and some
of the women in the parade went IN
side, They appeared to be disappolnt-
ed at what they saw. From Bux-
baum's they went to Freiberg's dance
hall. and, after holding an impromptu
meeting at Twenty-second street and
Wabash avenue, the party broke up.
Rev. Mr. Shaw of the Second Presby-
terian church said the purpose III
marching through the district was 70
give the ministers an opportunity TO
1earn conditions for themselves.