Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-02
HINT OF A VICE LINK
BETWEEN WARES AND
SAFETY DEPARTMENT
McNichol End of Tenderloin
ouarantined, Dow n t o WI
leaders Part Unmolested,
Saws John F. Flaherty
NO REPUTATION MADE
aNo tJse Asking Me About Such
Question" Only Comment OF
Senator Ware

,,,.rsnoes that there is connecting
All, hetween the Wares and the Depart
-..rt AZ public Safety in that the Nc
s-,~,,,, aide Of the Tenderloin has vice
N..snentine and the Ware end Is unmo-
,aN..ad hv the police were made today by
~. n FIaherty Select Councilman ana
sssN,choI leader of the 18th Ward, tol-
,a,r,nS charges yesterday exposing open
sjca conditions existing In the 4th Ward.
No refutation from the ware caInp
I. conId be obtained from any OF the leaders
q, touch with the vice question in the
W,-s Tenderloin ward Congressman John
% II scott. whose 14th Ward leadership
h,s resulted in bonanza times for the
dlsorderly resorts, being in washington.
The situation is a peculiar one. Both
che 1sth and 14th Wards, controlled re-
snsctlvely by F'laherty and Scott, are situ-
ated in the 10th and Buttonwood streets
station, of which George Stinger is lieu
tsnant StinEer is affiliated with the
wares. who are thus able to make the
Tenderloin choice battle-ground In their
6rht 10 nominate Amber for the auditor
generalship at the May primaries two
weeks hence.
STAMPEDE FAILS
Thus far the efforts of the Wares to
stampede McNchol followers with the aid
or the police of the 10th and Buttonwood
streets STATION anu OuSl II iiOih
the leadership of the 18th Ward have
been unavailing. Which fact, however,
did not prevent Flaherty from voicing his
thoughts on the matter when asked IL
he believed the evidence offered yester-
day against the 14th Ward struggle had
proved the Bureau of Police to be i'm
league with the lawbreakers at the solicit
tation OF the Wares.
M use talking about it," said Fla
herty briefly. "A blind man could see
that"
f'laherty added that there was in effect
a rigid quarantine, ruling with an iron
hand the ward which he controls
Senator Ware. to whom is attributed the
adoption of the policy of attrition pre-
valling in the McNichol Tenderloin wards,
waxed wrothy when asked the same ques-
tion which Flaherty hadssettled.-
You ought to know better than to ask
me a question like that" was his COM
ment That was all.
WHAT THE POLICE SAY.
Superintendent of Police Robinson, in
discussing the question. said: The police
department, so far as i know is showing
absolutely no favoritism in dealing with
vice. We are closing them all up with
out regard TO politics"
Since Lieutenant Singer was apprlsed.
in advance of the printing of the charges
yesterday, of the fact that information
was desired as to why Scotts ward was
allowed privileges that were refused the
McNichol 10th and 18th Wards, one house
has been raided and the usual quota of
women arrested.
Singers attention was directed to the
fact that one house in particular was still
running,
1T has been closed" he said
Investigation later developed the result
Nruu .anf he w.
was still operating. but with more discre-
ton than was noticeable before SINGERS
cooperation with the Wares was exposed
yesterday