The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
.N0NFY -NA0 MEN FLOCK To
VIRGINIA WAR town. WHERE
[AWLESSNESS RUNS RAMPANT

in dozens of places in fragrant disre-
gard of the law. Walking down Kali.
road avenue, which parallels the,
tracks of the Petersburg-C City Point
branch of the Norfolk and Western
railway for distance of something
like mile one can buy beer, reAi
beer, in at least six or eight places
lon each side OF the street.
Or, If one prefers, it is easy enough
to turn from Railroad avenue into
Hopewell avenue, running at right
angles thereto. and following the lat
ter make direct for the various music
halls. not more than a block or two
away, in which it is perfectly easy
to get almost anything one wants in
the way of liquid refreshments.
Hopewell also has It's scarlet wo-
men. How many there are in the
town no one seems to know. They
like the men, have drifted In from
everywhere. Many are said to have
gone there from Richmond and Pet
ersburg when those cities, in the pro-
cess of publication, recently. adopted
measures that wiped their redlight de-
tricts out OF existence. Some of these
women live in tents out under the
trees. Others occupy rooms in GER
tain of the so-called hotels with
which the place abounds. Most OF them
as an excuse for being there. secure
some sort of employment, but every
one knows who they are and what
they are.
Gambling FlOnrishes.
Gambling houses flourish in all
parts of Hopewell; that IS. in all
parts OF Hopewell outside of the Du
Pont company's domain. There are
places there in which but little mon
ey is required of the man who wishes
to participate in the game, ana mere
are other places in which an initial
stack OF chips will cost the player
from $50 to 500. Presumably, these
places are reaping a harvest. There
are bound to be good pickings for
professional card man in town of
81, 900 inhabitants where the meanest
labor is 16 cents an hour, with a
bonus of twenty per cent, after he
has 100 hours TO his credit. and where
few people care "a continental how a
imam spends his money after he gets
lit
Hopewell is an unincorporated city.
1t sprang up after the legislature OF
Virginia adjourned, and there will be
no opportunity to incorporate 1t until
the legislature meets again. Therefore,
the place is virtually without anything
pertaining to government. The Prince
GEORGE equity 2uLuOFlIle5 are -LdIU1y
able to cope with the situation. A
business mems league has been form
ed and it is trying to bring order out
of chaos. police force has been or
ganized, but there are only six men
on the roster, and six men could no
more enforce the laws in Hopewelld
than a man with one hand could stop
the flow of the Mississippi river.
A Glance mt the Records.
Tho aditor n IIOneUa11'c daily nanar
the Hopewell Daily News now enter
ing upon the second week of its exist
ence, feeling himself called upon to
defend the fair name of his city, de-
livered himself the following in the
first issue of his journal:
Due to the vigilance of our police
department ard the honesty and in
tegrity of our police commissioners
Hopewell is becoming a town of high
moral standard, and is becoming abb
solutely fire proof and she'll proof to
the terrible bombardment our self
built town was exposed to from a
misinformed and snap judgment tax
ing outside press"
No one Will find fault with the edi-
tor for his loyalty, but the following
excerpts from other columns of the
same issue of his paper shed consid-
cradle light upon the kind OF moral
standard Hopewell is developing:
-"Guiseppi Manceno. an Italian en-
ployed at Du Pont who was arrested
and acquitted on Monday last for fav-
ing killed fellow countryman. claim
by the local police. charged with
threatening to kill the brother OF the
deceased" INA H
Cecil Tyson "a negro. was arrested
at Richmond, Va upon demand of
j. Sosnick of this city. and accused
of having robbed Mr.. .Sosnick out. of
$500 worth of Du Pont checks
IS. S. Lenet and Max Goldstein were
arrested Sunday morning by Officer
Henderson for keeping open store on
Sunday An additional charge of re-
sisting arrest and disorderly conduct
was preferred against Goldstein."
Officer Softer one of our very eff
ficient policemen on the force was
shot Friday night by white man, who
he was following to arrest for mis-
demeanor."
Saturday morning jimmie Coulal.
restaurant keeper, was arrested for
selling beer"
Harry Swain was arrested Satur-
day night for selling whiskey'
"oficers Henderson, Porter and
Ballard raided disorderly house con-
Quoted by y. Il. Jacobs on Poytress
street, and arrester the proprietor,
three women and three men,"
John Smith, colored, was shot in
the hip during an ARRAY by another
unknown negro. who made good his
escape"
Gus Authanano was arraigned be-
fore Judge Rogers on Saturday af-
ternoon charged with assault upon
Mary F. Pooley The evidence showed
that Mary f. Pooley was in the en-
p1oy of said Authanano and that on
the night of July ~ she was assault
ed in her sleeping room during the
hours of the night"
Thereafter follow accounts of the arr
raSfs of AMMAN for. nassiner 1rnrthless