Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
VICE AND CRIME
NOT PREVALENT
IN THIS CITY
Moral Survey by Vigilance
Committee Finds Newark Free
from "Bawdy" Houses.
EXPERT INVESTIGATORS
TELL OF THEIR LABORS
Private Boarding Houses and
Streets Sources of Complaint.
Police Praised.

The frequently heralded Survey
or report on the vice and moral con-
ditions of Newark, appeared in pook
form today and was given out by the
committee in charge for whatever use
the recipient of copy might see MT
to put IL. II Is pamphlet contain
ing 176 pages, including indexes
tables and explanatory statements.
The report, in prefactory remarks.
sets forth that its contents represent
investigations made by the American
Vigilance Association during the
months of August and December 1915,
and in January, 1914 and ADDS that
Complete typewriter reports OF the
Investigations were placed in the
hands of the committee in the first
week of Februal 1914.
Nothing, therefore, in the survey,
deals with improved conditions OF
changes of any kind that may nave
taken place since last January, Wneh
the investigators ended their probing
lahors,
Here and there throughout the re-
port are extracts from the law de-
timing The terms "Disorderiy House,
"Abortion," prostitute" and refer
PnGG 10 DOllcG IultS' dilp iNe
with explanations as to the meaning
of "Charity Girl and of other express
sions said to be in common use
throughout the United States. There
are also numerous quotations tronl
the reports of vice commissioners IN
Chicago and other cities.
From a classification standpoint the
report shows much detail work, ana
some of the statements that kehnetu
Douglas former religious editor OF
the Newark Evening News, now IN
iail awaiting sentence for the crime
of false pretenses. said that he had
written into the work, appear
"The Facts" Favor Newark.
In several pages captioned 'The
Facts it is set forth that there Is
practically no prostitution IN new
ark. ii Is true: that is, there are no
hawdv houses The report then
goes on to say that there is prosa,,
fution nevertheless, but infers that
n is Of the s,Irreptitfous kind and not
within police control. ~s..s.4 \.
II Il pointed out thai U I'm estl-
gators found that thera~st re- RWpint.-l
hangers-on in and about railroad STA
fions. the postoffice, other public
buildings and places of amusements,
In all il is said, about 400 OF TINS
class of women had been noted.
Some were Newarkers, while there
were many who hailed from Harrl-
son. the Oranges. Paterson, Eliza
beth. New York and other nearby
towns. These frequent Newark Tor
purposes of their own, but keep Wen
away from police observation
OF approximately 1,300 saloons IN
Newark. ninety-three were made the
subject of special investigation ana
study Sixty-four had back rooms,
and il appeared to the Investigators
that the women patrons prontteu ON
a commission for drinks sold to other
customers.
F,Irnished-room houses have sup
planted the "'bawdy houses ana IN
these women receive and entertain
male acqnainances. sometimes WIN
the consent of the landladies ana
very often without their knowledge
or consent.
In residential sections the investi-
pators found that women in some
cases had located and the same
state of affairs applied to apartment
houses. Women would maintain
residences and in quiet way re-
ceive particular male friends.
Credit is given to Chief OF Pollce
Long for his work in ferretting out
and reducing these evils and FOR
other steps taken in the interest OF
morality.
Hopeful signs" is another caption
and under 1t the Board of Health Is
commended for important deeds and
regulations in the interest OF the
health of certain class of persons
and particularly in the warnings
against and treatments of venereai
disease.
visitors the Menace.
The report also asserts that bur-
lesoue and other theatrical troupes
which come to Newark are a menace
to public morals because of the kind
Of people who make up their per-
sonnel.
It is said there are 10000 young
women in Newark who live in fur
nished rooms and who are liable to
contamination through the possibility
of association with girls of immoral
habits. whom they meet in these
houses and in their places of employ
ment.
Under the heading Amusement
Places the report says: Surveys
made during the month of August
1918. discovered that the lack of re-
straint, lighting and police super
vision in and about the parks and
amusement places of the city and it's
environs directly contributed to the
ruin of probably larger number of
girls than during the whole remainder
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