Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-18
On Track Of Policemen
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on it. But after it was made public
by the committee he effect was such
as to cause the police commissioner
to put increased steam into the pri.
vate investigation of his department
that he has been conducting for some
time, and II development-indirect-
ly brought about-was the suspen-
sions of Capts. Johl l.. Zimmerman
and Patrick Corcoran and Lieuts. Al
phonse Reheume. Henry Boerner, Alb
raham Rofsky and Albert f. Mason.
The letter Of Rhinelander Waldo,
police commissioner, to Mayor Gay
nor, in which he told of the investi-
cation that is under way, was not fol.
lowed by any. further Illuminating
statements from police headquarters.
But the commissioner let it be known
that his orders were to make an all
embracing inquiry, and that it was
his purpose to discover and discipline
every man connected with the force
who might have made leyies upon
the unfortunate women of the city. ;
Henry H. Curran, the chairman OF
the aldermanic committee, said to-
day that sever women engaged in the
business of operating disorderly
houses and flats-the same occupa-
ton as that confessed to by Mary
Goodwill be called before the COM
mittee. 1t was said that the courage,
shown by Mary Goode had had the ef-
feet Of making other keepers of dis
orderly resorts who have suffered{frOm
the inpositions of the police eager to
tell their stories, in the hope Of
bringing about regulation by commits
sion of their business. .zjHMlA !
Talk Of Meeting Of Women.
The report that the seven women
would go before the aldermanic com
nittee came simultaneously with a
rumor that a meeting Of women OF
Mary Goodies class who have suffered
from the righteousness of the "vice
trust" and the police would be held
for going before Mayor Gaynor and
asking him f0: protection.
A member of the Committee OF
Fourteen said today that inyestiga-
tions of that body showed the city,
in regard to disorderly houses and
flats, us a general proposition, was
in a better condition now than it had
been in eighteen month. The streets,
except in the upper West Side, he
said, were very nearly clear of the
traffic, owing to the work of Commits
sioner Waldo and the Night G!ourt.
He added that the Tenderloin, that
is, the resorts in the Twenties, the
Thirties and the FOrties, was almost
entirely shut. There were, he said,
no places of the lowest class open,
and about one-fourth of the women OF
this character who have been chased
out by the police have sought refuge
in flats uptown. The other three
fourths had either left the city or
were living quietly in some distant
section.
The activity of the police has not
been confined to closing the houses.
Uniformed men are stationed at the
doors OF several of the hotels that
make a speciality of harboring these
women transiently, and couples with
out luggage are prevented from en-
Iterilg. Also-and this is an innova-
tion-the ingenious plan Of some OF
the women to resort to dairy lunch
|places has been stopped by the
stationing of uniformed policemen in
the lunch rooms. One of these is
nightly to be seen at fixed post in a
combination dairy lunch and bakery
on the upper West Side. an establish
ment that is one Of a series of stores
Operated by a syndicate that has
shops In several quarters of the city.
The member of the Committee OF
Fourteen said that conditions We're
bad in the upper West Side. the dis;
trict which figured as the scene OF
Mary Goodies story. The police, he
said, had done much to lemedy the
situation there, but that was the dis.
trict which was selected as a haven
by the women banished from the Ten
derloin, and because they had gone
into apartments it was next to impos-
Isible to get evidence on them unless
La tip was received from an outsider.
lone very bad feature Of this situa-
tion, he said, was the fact that sew
eral5 of these apartment houses which
are favored. by the women are close
Ito a large public school ins One Hun
Edred and Eighth street, near Broad
Iway, and also to q %parochial school
NEARBY.
The way the business is carried