Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-03
PROBE BY COUNCIL
APPEARS CERTAIN
continued from First ragc)

desirable. No single member of the
Board. / take IL. is anxious to become
the patron Of a resolution. which. under
the usual procedure. virtually means
that he will he made chairman. with all
the hard work and responsibility such
a position would demand"
The appointment OF a joint investi-
eating committee could be made only
by joint resolution. Should the Board
of Aldermen Tuesday might be SUM-
GENTLY impressed with the gravity OF
the situation II could pass such a rcso-
luton under suspension OF the rules
and send IT for concurrence to the Com
mon Council which could meet for this
purpose In special session early next
week. II would be entirely possible to
have a regularly constituted Council in
vestigating committee AT work within
two weeks.
The report submitted to the Mayor
yesterday amplities the statement in its
first report with reference 10 the extent
TO which commercialized vice in preva-
lent In sections OF the city outside the
one-time segregated district. and in
forms the Mayor that the commission
is submitting TO him for the lnforrnatio
OF the police a list OF 20 houses in
the city at large engaged in immoral
pursuits.
Through an oversight the list OF
houses referred TO in the report wa not
inciosed. Secretary Frank T. McFaden,
OF the commission, later Informed the
Mayor that the list is being prepared
and will he submitted to the Mayor
shortly.
TENT OF REPORT No. "
FROM VICE COMMISSION
The tex, OF report No. is as follows:
To the Honorable George Ainslie, Mayor.
City OF Richmond:
Dear Sir-The Vice Commission ap-
pointed by Your Honor some months
ago respectfully acknowledges the re-
ce!pt OF your letters OF February 10 and
20. in which you request further report.
from the commission.
This acknowledgment; would have
been made sooner hut for the absence
OF number OF members OF the COM
mission from the city and the conse-
quent Inability to secure a well-attcnd-
ed meeting Untii this time.
]. In the first place, in response to
your request so to do, the commission
desires to make itself clear In regard
to Section OF Report No. l." in which
the following statement occurs:
Disordcrly houses are not confined
10 the segregated district. Indeed there
are more such houses IN the city outside
OF the district than within II: and We
nhd by investigation and consultation
win well-informed persons that while
me number OF these women in the So
nj -oo' the number operating In one way
or another outside the district ia nlaced
at no fewer than 600"
MANY DIsREPUTABLE
RESORTS OUTSIDE OF DISTRICT
we desire to say that we mean by
disorderiy houses all houses used for
comnercial!zed vice OF these we find
ou'S'ae the district in round numbers
10. some twenty-five are known TO
be houses Of III repute similar in char
acter 10 the thirty-nine that were in
the segregated district. And those who
are in position to know testify that in
two or three sections of the city there
Inc district. The accompanying list,
as called for In paragraph OF this
report. Will disclose the fact
:. Section OF the first report refers
to the list of such houses and persons,
and the commission begs to hand YOU
herewith the lists referred to. with
names and addresses
WIN the limited time and the re-
sources of the commi ssion IL has been
impossible strictly and most accurate
iy TO verify all these lists: and the
publication OF them would. in our
opinion. not only be preiudicial TO the
public morals but might probably do
great injustice to some innocent per-
sons. We therefore transmit these
lists to you with the request that they
oe not iniue puDllc, but that they be
used by you and the Chief of Police
as suggestions which may be helpful
III the effort of tho police to enforce
the law looking to the closing up of
all such places used for immoral pur-
poses. and the punishment II need be.
OF those who violate the law.
POLICE FORCE SHOULD
HAVE SUPPORT OF COURTS
3. Your commission respectfully re-
news the recommended ton contained In
It's FIRST report. and Mould In addItInn