White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-23
Rag Joints Are
Now in Discard
LICENSES OF DIsREPUTABLE IN.
sTITUTIoNs THAT CONTAIN.
MATED YOUTHS ARE RE-
yoKED BY COMMISSIONERS.

canGeltu lut AitShSCo Va Lie aihldH
Athens, Steptoe City Club and ths
Resort, the four alleged sporting
places that have been doing bushes:
In the territory adjacent to McGiI
known as the rag dump" As an
nounced in the Nsws, Sunday, actor
against these places was commenced
last week, and a meeting to discuss
the situation Saturday was adjourn.
ed until Monday. when the county
commissioners again took up the
matter as presented by citizens OF
McGill who had petitioned that the
liquor licenses of the resorts be re-
soked At Mondays meeting fifteen
of the representative citizens of Nc
Gill were present and to make their
cause still stronger they had pe-
tition signed by three hundred Me-
Gill people praying that the long no-
torious rag dump be cleaned up.
The meeting and its action is ex-
ceptional in the history of local jur-
ispgudenee. and is fair example OF
what can be accomplished when a
lot OF determined men get together
In a common cause. The McGiil rag
dump has long had particularly
bad odor from the nature of the dis
reputability conducted there. but
when its filthy aud disease-reeking
hands reached out and clutched the
youth OF MeGill. the parents had the
real facts brought home to them in
startling and sorrowfnl manner
And their eyes once opened. they
lost no time In taking action to pre-
vent continuation of the evil The
hearing before the commissioners
was OF a nature almost unbelievable,
but there was no gainsaying the
facts. az several OF the parents OF
boys who have become contaminated
by frequenting the rag dump were
present in person and gave their tes-
timony Testimony that was both
dramatic and pitiful. as several
Zines the speakers and the commits
sioners who listened TO the story of
human deprayity were moved TO
tears.
The location of the rag dump is
ideal for Just what has occurred. Sit
uated far up on the mountain side
away from the center of population
and beyond the pale of police patrol.
the resorts where liqnor has been
sold and women of the lowest and
most deprayed character have con-
sorted. one thing has led TO another.
until at last the parents of McGill
have come to the realization that
their sons were being regularly
admitted as patrons TO these broth
els: that certain of the proprletors
and the female vampires connected
with the places were eoyertly Undue
ing the boys to become patrons, re-
gardless OF moral law and the state
law that specifically prohibits minors
In such places or the selling OF
liquor to minors. Some of the boys
who have fallen to the influence OF
the rag dumps, are scarcely more
than kids" fifteen years old or
thereabouts. and naturally, when the
inevitable happened. their baby Wis
dom that was profound to certain
point. gave way TO panic when as
sistance of professional nature be-
came desperately necessary, and
forthwith the sordid facts all came
out.
The parents who spoke at the
hearings before the county commits
sioners held no brief against the
county officials nor the peace officers
of McGill for what had happened.
They blamed themselves alone for
having been blind to a situation OF
which they should have been mind
full and could have remedied had
they undertaken to do So The Off
GERS of MeGill have made no pre-
tense of being on regular duty at the
rag dumps. as they were not sup
posed to and TO have done so would
have necessitated neglectine other
duties. In like manner the county
commissioners have had no notice of
what was going on. and at Mondays
meeting Commissioner caperton,
who is employed at McGill, stated in
effect that no complaint had ever
been made to him, either as an in
dividual or an official. Things just
naturally drifted along, respectable
society held its nose when the rag
dumps were mentioned and the
while the parents In fancied security