Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

to-do over here ABOUT inc
street Washers. That tribe mas
Increased prodigiously during
recent wears. Most of them,
it is fair to say, are mares " ~
birth. The native-born American 'eis
rarely is a masher This Is noi " 'ay
that his inclination for that soit "
,h;,o may not be quite as strong as the
fa,oio,ar,s hut perhaps he is actuated'
:: fr.ipino from MASKING, by more
caution coupled with better hho"
edge of the American laws anu "
napces for the protection or women anu
more particularly of the way SUN
things are looked upon by honest ioih
in this country.
There are two sides to this masher
businss Magistrate McAdoo Voiteu ' ~.
other side of 1t the other day Wheh ne
said: ,st, com
,;c,ad masher 10 1ail. But ! am gong
~ he very careful to see that these
men are fairly heard and trieu. -
convict offhand every man ar "a
this charge on the complaint oi WIN
an would put too dangerous r,p,,-
If revenge into the hands OF unscrupu-
Ions and yindictiye women, OF "hoiii'
unfortunately, there are 100 many ~
All communities like New YORK
nave seen thoroughly respectable men
haled before magistrates on the cnarse
80 masbins-men wholly incapable OF
engaging in that sort of thing-anu
investigation of these cases mas d.
WAYS shown that the charges were pi
ferred by women who sought only 10
get even with these men lof she -
on. fancied Sights. No case OF Ina
kind will get by me. The BONA {
masher will get no mercy mere pu'
the man arrested on a trumped-up
charge of that kind will get every pro-
lection here that a fair hearing can
give him.
Which was a pretty sensible little piece
Of talk ont of the mouth of Magistrate
McAdoo. The undersigned has as httte
use for the sure-enough masher as ne mas
for the largepaunched Norwegian rats
that infest the downtown Chicago streets
during the dark watches o nights. he
has in fact cheerfully submitted to the
inconvenience of appearing against no
less than three honest-lnjun mashers.
But it is highly desirable and necessary
and, finally, just, to be deaa rlgh. aoo ~
your masher. You want to know, that Is,
that he is a masher, not merely man
accused of MASKING.
Some years ago there were a number OF
singularly audacious girls and women IN
this town who derived highly plethoric
income from threatening to have perfect
ly on-the-leyel men pinched for alleged
MASKING No less police chief than Bill
Devery ran them out of town by the
Blackwels Island route. These profes-
SIGNALS haven't reappeared; but there IS
reason to suppose that there are plenty
of women still left here who frame up
Jobs to have men against whom they
have grudges arrested on the mashing
charge.
One of these professional stick-up girls
ono -ata TN
neighborhood of the 9TH avenue hotels.
She was petite, black-eyed, pretty crea-
ture, with a babyish mouth and the most
indurate nerve imaginable. Her dresses
only reached her shoetops-thouSh she
was older than all that came to, really
and she was always groomed to the
limit.
She would stroll by the great hotels
and restaurants of 9th avenue. waiting
J for her prey. Then she would pick out
some emerging male who looked pretty
soft meat. She had a keen eye for portiy
men of the good misunderstanding type
men with vacillating mouths, men who
, looked easy to stampede.
Having selected such victim, she
would trip up to him. generally after
nightfall address him with some simpl,
queston-a question, generally, about hel
l direction. something of that sort
5 10 gain his attention and cause him to
e stop.
, Then, looking her victim smack dab IL
the eye she would say something Xix,
: this to him:
You have stopped me and insuted me
S You are a masher. If you don't give m.
: twenty-five dollars / shall have You ar
q rested If you are arrested On the charg,
II MASKING you will be disgraced.
: have nothing to lose. You have. 1
4 makes no difference whether you ar,
guilty OF not your disgrace will be th'