The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-09-23
Supt. Marquardt Max
ing Real Cleanup
of Streets
EXTRA POLICEMEN
AID IN CAMPAIGN
Effort Made to COnfine
Resorts to Certain
Districts

4 scores OF QlSOTuSrlH women anu
their male satellites. pouring from
the city by every train and car, and
remarkable change In conditions
on the streets here at night, show
that the dead-in-earnest campaign
against vice. by Supt. Ernst Mar
quardt is bringing results in no UNI
certain way.
Reports from Toledo are TO the
| of clearing house for large numbers
! OF disorderly Negresses, and their
men friends. hurrying southwark TO
escape the big campaign in force
! here.
White women and white men. too.
are fleeing from Detroit. and the
! downtown streets. which svarmed
with women disorderlies only few
days ago, are being rapidly cleared
| OF the women.
Tuesday night. Is extra patrol
/ men, impressed from the relief
I squad and from outside precincts,
were poured into the central pre-
cinct. and on nearly every police
beat in the vice district, and in the
! business section. police officers trav-
eled in pairs. and were on the keen
/ lookout for disorderlies. men and
| women.
Supt Marquardt. while he de-
clined 10 discuss any plans for
doubling the beats" declared that
"such measures would be taken, as
are found necessary TO effect a
cleanup OF bad conditions" and he
| added that there was no spasmodic
Crusade" in progress. but that bad
conditions on the city streets would
be taken care OF BY the depart
ment, and the public would see a
marked improvement.
Supt Marquardt's only reply TO
questions about the big outpouring
OF police, Tuesday night. was: "It's
police business. Police business
means the suppression of crime,
and disorderliness. | have no state
ment TO make on my plans, but tho
police department IL doing bust
| ness"
That steady and permanent
tightening up OF this long.wide-open
town will be Police Commissioner
! Gillespie's answer TO criticism OF HE
policy. Is taken for granted in po-
lice headquarters.
Asked IL Il were true that the
vice district would soon be under
police regulation, as II was before
the famous elimination order" be-
came effective. Commissioner Gil.
lespie said The rif-raff or the
city will be driven out The police
/ will not recognize vice. The elm
ination order has not been re-
! scinded"
But Il is understood that the pol
| icy of the police department will
be for a gradual return TO a police
regulated vice district, not recog-
nized or licensed, but allowed 10 ex-
list on sufferance, subject to the
strictest OF police regulation. and
| inspection by both the police de-
partment, and the Board of Health.
The !napection- system has been
/ In existence for several months
| now, "a II was recognized that some
/ measures must be taken to stamp
/ out blood scourges which had be-
come frightfully prevalent, through
/ the unsettled vice situation. under
which vice was Officially ignored by
| the police, but was spread. uncon.
/ trolled. 20 every section ~ the city.
Under Supt. Marquardts control,
/ dlsorderly houses In residential dis
! tricts will he wiped out in thorough
I style.
Places In certain districts will be
allowed 10 run on sufferance only,
subject 20 strict obedience OF the
mo liquor" order, and to frequent
I inspection by Board OF Health au-
thorities.
Within n few weeks. the Herman
| Kiefer hospital wards for the treat
ment of blood diseases viii be open,
and then the local vice situation
I viii be vastly improved, us
/ claimed.
Dlsorderlles taken from resorts
/ ny the police. will be sentenced 10
serve six months In the House Of
! Correction. and the sentence Will
I then be changed 20 parole. under
/ The condition that the prisoner go
I 10 tho hospital and stay until cured,
AZ which time the parole viii be
made permanent. and the original
/ sentence RENTED.
That parole system IL now being
used. in many cases, and has boon
/ for some months. but lack OF hos
pital facilities has prevented any
general campaign along that line.
Tho opening Of the city hospital
for such cases. however. is hailed
as solution for one ~ the gravest
n-oblems connected with the hand