Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-06
Social Pariahs of Chicago
Scattered by Vice Crusade.
"LEVEE" is IN DARKNESS
Divekeepers Turn Hundreds Of
Gaudy Women From Dives.
MOVES ON PROPERTY OWNERS
States Attorney Wayman Causes
Warrants to Be Issued Against
Prominent Citizens.

CHICAGO, October 5.-Chicago's South
Side "levee,' for forty years a brightly
lighted. crowded quarter in the heart Of
Chicago, tonight was dark and deserted
for the first time since the fire Of 1877
The levee' is populated, according to
statistics collected by the vice commits
stop, with 1000 denizens, 900 of whom
are women Of the class against which the
city and federal legal campaign is being
waged.
CoWed by numerous arrests during
the last three days, and dreading those
threatened by city detectives and
United States marshals, who are work
ing together, the keepers of resorts
today decided to spread the social
pariahs through the city. States At
torney Wayman declared that he would
blot the 'levee" out of existence before
December 1.
Turned Into Street.
The divekeepers today decided that
Wayman meant it. They turned their in
mates into the street and ordered them to
| seek lodgings in other parts of town.
They closed their houses and dance halls
| and fled, some to the West and North
Side tenderlOins, some to other cities,
| many to residential quarters.
The homeless, friendless inmates of the
resorts to the number of nearly ] ,5Nl
poured out into Michigan boulevard, the
| main artery of communication north and
| south, and thoroughfares for a fashion
| able parade of automobiles every after
noon.
The women had been ordered by resort
keepers to dress themselves in their
gaudiest dresses, to paint their faces with
| extra brilliancy and to go out and find
other places to live-for the present al
least.
! 1t was intended that the exodus should
| be demonstration of what it would
mean to the city to have the segregated
vice area broken up and the inhabitants
driven to mingle with the rest Of the
population.
The gaudy women left the tenderloin in
bevies. passing the procession of motor
| cars filled with women and children from
the residential parts of the city, and
mingling with the we'll dressed stroller,
| along Automobile row."
| There were tottering old women in thu
| hegira. There were young girls, terri
fled at being abroad in daylight. Some
were weeping, some laughing. some TIT
| worse for liquor. others brazen. Late to-
night most of them had found shelter
Many of the frequenters of the under
| world live in flats away from the leve'
districts and these gave temporary homes
to the OutcaEts.
Warrants Are Issued. :.
| The first warrants for the arrest OF
persons charged with renting propert,
used for immoral purposes were ISSUED
today and were given to officers fol
service. They are for Harrison b
Riley, president of the Chicago Title
and Trust Company, and Justin NJ. Doll
secretary of the company.
The warrants were issued by Municipal
Judge CottrelL A summons for the Chi
lcago Title and Trust Company also wa'
ISSUED, the charge in all three instance!
being that the corporation and the mel
named, who are trustees for the prop
lerty, leased a certain house in the SOutl
Levee district for immoral purposes.
States Attorney Wayman announces
; that on Monday. fifty or more informa
tions for the arrest Of property owner
; would be filed. 1t is the intention of Mr.
Wayman largely to confine. the prOsecu
ltion to the owners of property and tn
keepers of resorts.
One of the chief arguments agains
the "Leyee' has been that it occupies
lone of the most desirable sections o
lChicago, near the old-time aristocrati
lneighborhOod, in which are the homes
of ChicagO'S founders.