The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-03
DECISION WAS GIVEN AFTER CON.
FERENCE YESTERDAY
AFTERNOON.
With Mayor and Prosecuting Attorney,
Who Insisted That u BE Done
Women Waiting for Change.

Hereafter newspaper men OF the
city viii be SLOWED TO Interview any
persons In the city so far as police
interference Is concerned and be al
lowed 10 e persons in the profess
sional discharge of their duties. New
Years day Chief OF Police Thomas
Leyiand refused to allow newspaper
men TO with the women
over the creek to get their future
plans or any Information they might
give toward the complete wiping out
OF h se~gregsted district.
For this positive refusal he was
ouz before the mayor and pros
ecutlne attorney yesterday afternoon
and that right demanded OF him.
which hs gave seemingly in a re-
luctant manner. saying that he did
not mean to bar the newspapers
from the district in the professional
DISCHARGE Of their duties after Janu-
airy i. but for that night be would
nave arrested any person who en-
tered the houses. Why he refused TO
allow reporters TO go and see condi-
tons as they really exist and to give
me public Just what they desired
the truth1cannot be ascertained.
lie claimed that his plans were
made IN such a way that. IL would
have frustrated all OF them TO allow
the press 10 get a chance TO ear
III an onlf Nndf ne chose 10 ElNf
them. Very likely there were things
which the department knows nothing
or n which might be learned b.
newspaper men being allowed 10
speak 10 those women, even though
they would converse through a
small opening In the door.
Chief OF Police Leyland seemed not
70 nave reckoned on the value OF the
press when he informed a representa-
1--WE OF this paper hat he would have
him arrested II he entered the lines.
yet he was kind enough TO say that
ne police force would give any infor-
nation necessary. Well. there are
some things that the force evidently
knew nothing about or II they did they
took great care in keeping II to them
selves.
Women Remain.
With The admonition OF Mayor Kirk
n Prosecuting Attorney Addleman.
Chief OF Police Leyland had to submit
TO the power OF the press and to allow
all the reporters in the city TO enter
these houses and see conditions as
they really exist Many of the women
nave left the city. saying that they
viii not return. Others say that they
viii not leave the city. that they own
their own homes and that they will
hot leave. IL Is said that there are a
large number OF girls who have not
left the city and are at present en-
gagged In rooming houses, where they
VIII stay and defy the officers OF the
law TO keep them from having their
company.
This is the evil that the force will
have TO fight and that society will
have to put up with. It seems. The
! chief says that he is using every
means to make the city clean and
that he Will continue TO do so. The
mayor says that he is heartily with
I NNA - 80 A. IA.
but that the newspaper reporters are
TO see for themselves that the places
are closed and that the people should
know the truth.
\ large number OF girls have gone
fused admission. OFFICIALS OF BeIiaire,
Martins Ferry. Bridgeport and other
adjoining towns say that they will not
allow any OF the women of the segre-
gated district to locate I'm their towns
and that every one h enters. will be
s sss ci back ri ~ the s stsy. some Sas w shaI
the houses going out OF business and
the saloons closing. This Is certainly
an EXALTED way OF looking at things.
1t was rumored Yesterday that some
OF the girls who left the city. came
back and were occupying rooms In the
ed and IL is thought that some person
IA league with the district formulated
the rumnr. 1t II said that the next
move will be TO stop property owners
from renting rooms or buildings TO wo-
men OF the district and IN n they do
thev will be arrested.
I May Hays, h has operated In the
city for n number OF years. packed her
luggage" yesterday afternoon and beat
It." Where she went or where her goods
were taken Is a mystery. The move was
made quietly and secretly. Some OF the
places still have q madam and house
keeper. but they say that they will leave
soon.
Prosecuting Attorney Addieman and
Mayor Kirk say that they want the peo-
I pie Of Wheeling and to know
that they are heartily In league with
/ the closing OF the houses but that they
do not believe In secrecy, and that they
viii rely on the reporters OF the city for
"A great deal OF aid IN their various
/ movements.