New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-14
issues Numerous SubpGnaS for
keepers of DiSorderly Houses
and Will Bring Them Be-
fore the Grand Jury.
Many WILLING TO TESTIFY
kxtortions by Police Have
Driven Them to the Wall, They
/ Assert - Committee and
/ Segregation Suggested
I Civic Bodies Act.

Ire open discussion Of vice in New
York precipits.ed by the story Of police
lbranny over unfortunate women. told
Wy Mary Goode, confessed lieutenant
IN the scarlet army, resulted Yesterday
N the issuing Of grand jury subponss
1v number Of women whose names
kae supplied by Mrs. Goode.
These women. it is said. are prepared
h 40 before the "John Doe" grand jury
ksd tell what they know OF police rela.
ksrs with this seamiest side Of the un-
trworld, solely because they have come
h the belief that under present condi-
ksns Of police blackmsil the officers OF
he law will squeeze all their profits on
Ice into the purse Of graft,
iRalied to this new standard bearer
the underworld, who openly an
suneed her defiance of police when
re Voluntarily appeared before tho
k,rsn aidermsnie committee, some
sine more than fifteen women who
hve been in the same business" as
ts. Goode. have planned meeting for
k-day, when they will finally decide
Fhsther they will lay bare what they
bow Of police graft.
They sre being advised by Mrs.
toode, and their own experiences lead
hem to believe that she is telling them
te truth, that the police will never
krrit them to continue their "bus'-
t,s" except as adjuncts of what they
bll the Crust" and they believe that
B telling now the secrets OF vice and
tlce graft they can bring about .
tndtion Of recognition, regulation and
kqreaatior Of the social evil by which
bey all live.
Arthur Woods, a former Deputy Po-
lee Commissioner under General Theo-
|or. Bingham, in speech before the
niversity Forum, Of New York Urivsr-
fsy yesterday. declared his belief in
,e truth Of the revelations made by
h. Goode woman before the Currsn
|prmittee. ..
Mr.. Woods further asserted that the
obIen Of the social evil in New York
i He'd for either segregation by la" or
eouIation by some board or civic COM
kittee rot connected with the police.
Or. Howard A. Kelly, of Johns Hop
bns University, in an address at the
nnuaI meeting Of the New York Pro-
htion Association ye herday, took the
kher side Of the srBunnent and as
erted that segregation did not and
build not solve the problem of the So
Esl evil. He cited Baltimore as an
bampIe OF the futility Of segregation.
Stanley w. Finch, special commits
|oner on the suppression OF the white
lave" traffic for the Department of Jus
bee, supported the views OF Or. Kelly
h an address from the same platform.
Discussion OF the social evil in New
York City, together with its apparently
|nseparable companion. police graft,
which was opened by the sensational
estimony OF Mary Goode before the
hldermanic committee, spread yester-
ksy far beyond the limits Of that body
f inquiry and promised to lead 10 still
more startling Developments.
Chief among these was the fact that
district Attorney Whitman's process
|eryers are about 10 serve subponas on
six OF the seven women disorderly
house keepers whose meeting in Mas
Eau street law Office on Thursday night
vas chronicled exclusively.in The Trib-
Inc Yesterday. Mrs. Goode, who was
Continued on second pase, fouFih column.