Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-04-30
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BEFORE JUNE 18th
Inmates in Resorts in Seq
regated District Ordered
to Leave City.
JUDGE BARLEY ACTS.
JUDGE BARLEY ACTS
Representatives of Florence Crittenton
Home in Washington Offer TO Pro
vide Homes for Women.

Alexan.ria's red light district, To-
Gated for more than half century
on the street that bears the name OF
the great Confederate General, Robert
f. Lee, is to 90. June Is is the date
fixed for the final evacuation of the
district and after that time severe
penalties will be meted out to any VIC
man who establishes a disorderly
house within the city limits of Alex
andria.
The determination to close the dis
trict came as complete surprise not
only to the inirates Of the houses af-
fected, but to the people of Alexan-
hria generally.
Yesterday morning the announce
ment was made by Ju'ge Louis c.
Barley, of the Corporation Court, that
following conference with various
City officials, he had determined to
break up the segregated district.
Later in the day Judge Barley COM
pleted his plans, and following his
suggestion, Mayor Thomas A. Fisher,
who is the administrative head of the
police department, and Charles T.
Goods, chief of police, arranged to
place into effect the program that hal
been agreed upon.
Yesterday. afternoon they called OF
the proprietresses of the various re-
sorts and notified them in person that
they must leave the city by June 18th.
The waren were dazed at the sudden
announcement, and weeping and wall
ing followed the visit of the two OIL
Gals. A majority of the inmates have
lived in Alexandria for many years,
and the startling news that they woul;;
be compclle: to leave the city caused
CONSERVATION. Many begged the
mayor to extend the limit so that they
could have more time in which to dis
pose of their furniture and other ef-
fects, but they were told that the date
had: been positively agreed upon and
that not one hour of further grace
would be allowed.
Judge Barley, who is responsible Tor
the closing of the district, has had the
subject under consideration for sew
eral months. When the Kenyon bill
went into effect in Washington the
situation in Alexandria became acute.
At that time Judge Barley notified
the keepers of the various houses that
he. would not tolerate the harborlng
of; any women: from; Washington ana
his instructions We're carried out to
the: letter. Later, however, another
situation arose cue to the influx of
men from Washington and soldiers
from the forts in the vicinity of Alex
andria. Drunkenness on the street
cars increased at an alarming rate
and for several weeks the condition:
on the late trains between Washing
ton and Alexandria were such as tt
make travel very uncomfortable TO
the. regular patrons of the roa'. ln'
railroad company was compelled Il
employ five special officers to ride th'
trains at night and the city authori
ties placed half dozen policemen IL
plain clothes on the trains on Satur
day nights when the travel was liz
heaviest. A number Of arrests ant
heavy fines reduced the disorders o
the trains. ..
Several serious disturbances caus1i
bv Washingtor visitors to the rc3
light district recently brousht the
matter again to the attention of tn
court Jeremiah H. Ciilly, a well
Known wholesale grocer, was ba,E
beaten up in front OF his piacc 9
business by three young white me
who had spent the afternoon IN In
resorts on Lee stSsets : y,sGl- ,Msek- as Is
four men came over from W'aShlngto
in an automobile and after a tour G
the red-light district during wh'c
time they becama Intoxicated, %er
deavored to shoot up the town in trr
western style. Driving their mach:
at high rate. Of speed they passe
up and down the streets of the cis,
firing revolvers at pedestrians. A c,
ored woman was shot in the face g:
several citizens had narrow escap: