El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-17
The report follows:

@The petition of James Clifford, II
c. Myles and many others, dated the
day of April, 1912, and filed with
the city council on the 9Th day Of
June, 1912, was referred to the mayor
and the aldermen as a committee, Tor
attention, and said committee here and
now presents its report:
The petitioners represent that they
are residents and property owners OF
the city Of FL Paso and interested IN
property in the vicinity of Overland
stanton, Broadway, Second, Third and
nearby streets, and complain OF the
location within that area of disorder
" houses and ask that they be re
moved TO some point further from
the center of business where II Woulu
interfere less with the comfort OF the
citizens and not deleterlousty "a -
the property interests, one of the pc
titioners praying for the absolute sup
preston of such houses.
The committee has given this petit
ton the most careful consideration OF
which il is capable. The problem pre-
scented by the occupants of what, Tor
descriptive purposes, may be calIed
The reservation is one that coatronts
every city in the world, and II we may
Judge from the experience OF me past
and any satisfactory solution 81 Inc
question seems impossible.
VIII Not Try Suppression.
The entire suppression OF disorder
" houses of the kind here sought TO De
reached, has proven in the past I'M
possible, and this council, for the rea-
son that it believes the same impossi-
BILE is not going TO attempt suppress
sion. 1t has at this time no opinion %
express as to whether, under all the
conditions, geographical, international
and otherwise, it is desirable.
The experience of the past In other
cities. as well as in this, leads TO the
belief that the combining OF the peo-
| pie who from choice or necessity &c
cupy such reserva lions, WITHIN narrow,
! well defined and we'll known areas
capable of efficient policing and from
which such persons as do not wish
to go there may stay away, ar1oros
the best means of dealing with this
problem
THE establishment of the lines Of
the reservation in the city OF FL FasC
was done by the city council about
! 20 years ago. To bring within this
area those who should be required tc
| live therein, was accomplished only
after a long, difficult and expensive
fight on the part of the city. Inc
| growth of the city has made it desir-
able that the location of the reserVa'
/ ton be changed and its denlzens re-
quired to live in another portion OF the
/ city, but as a practical problem pre-
senting itself to the council, there Is
no other place known to the members
! of the council to which these people
I may be restrained.
! There is no other portion OF tht
| city, so far this council is advised
/ in which they may be housed withou'
| seriously inconVeniencing larger mum
! Der of residents than by permitting
; them to remain where they now are
/ To drive these people as a whole iron
1 of the reservation, would cause then
/ to scatter throughout the town to many
/ rooming houses. hotels or small cot
! tages in many other parts of the tow
| where they cannot be kept undel
] proper surveillance and where the pad
J influence is more directly brought q
! bear upon the young people resident II
willing to Move Them.
! whenever a location can be sug
| gested to the council within which
! these people may be confined ant
! which does not jeOpardlZe large
! number of the inhabitants of the cit,
| than the location where they nov
/ are, the present mayor and board o
! their power as such to bring about tn
/ removal of these people to that loca
| ton and to force their residence there
| in; but. believing as they do, that alb
| SOlute suppression IS Impossible, thel
| restraint to a limited and known are
| is the best method of handling ther
| and of solving the problem they pre-
sent, and that any effort made to drtv
I them from their present habitation
| would result in far greater injury I
| the town rs u whole AVID TO q far laree
number OF citizens o. the Town. III