The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-12
FILTHY NESTS IN DULUTH
UNSEEN BY GOOD PEOPLE
High-Minded Men Strain at Jitney CHATS and
Swallow Blind Pigs-Needed HOuse-cleaning
..~ fl ..Y Awaits New Administration.

erS, were carrying on prOpdSdnQa
of low moral endeavor and scatter
ing seeds of venereal disease, for the
reaping, bye and bye.
No one in this long-suffering city
ever heard members o. bar or clergy
protest to the council against that
dirty dump and various other SINH
lar dumps in dear old Duluth.
Boozers need not go to Oliver for
strong drink. It can be found in
scores of places in Duluth, right now,
and most raw, rotten stuff much Of
it is. - - - ....
There's a dump adjacent to the
municipal court room that Is not
above strong suspicion as to redlight
and blind pig features. On the
opposite side of the street there
might, on bet, be found several
places that break the laws of God
and man.
Come along to Lake avenue and
narrow Superior street. AS stated
before, it's dollars to doughnuts that
good base ball player could throw
ball and hit anywhere from three
to five places where they shelter
either redlight women or blind pigs,
or both.
Coming down East Second street a
block or two from the First Presby-
terian church, booze can be picked
up in joints much closer together
than those in Oliver. How about
hot nj hn from
the Mitchell hotel and how about the
place across the street?
While the Jezebel may have moved
long ago, there was a time when
sinful boys went to see painted
woman in a brick flat building
door or two from the First Method
ist sanctuary.
Then how about that neighbor-
hood tributary to the Inclihe and
West First street. One knowing
chap some weeks ago declared that,
for money, marbles or chalk, he
could get drinks in at least seven
places within a radius of two blocks
of No. firehall. It is not a human
impossibility for some Of the brave
fire-fighters to give Jealous lawyers
or clergymen reliable tips on some
of those lawless dumps.
The drouth does not bother some
of the leading hotels very much.
The old Bowery is credited with re-
tanning e. bit of moisture and there
are several moisture parlors and
little caverrs along towards the
Point of Rocks.
Only a few days ago man and a
girl, the latter below the age Of
consent, were yanked out, Of the
Adelphi hotel, where they had been
consorting for weeks. The girl
and, possibly, the man, suffered from
venereal disease. The woman, who
usually pays, was listed for the re-
form school. The man, named
Brady, got off with simple SEN
tence of go days at the comfortable
old work farm. When the roses
begin to bloom, he will be out, ready
and willing to defile other sixteen
year-old girls and to scatter vene-
real infection: up and down the city.
Out at West Duluth a former bust
ness man is credited with keeping
as high as fifty cases Of booze at a
time in an old church. The devil
may keep away from old churches
but the West Duluth boys are not so
superstitious. Some days ago they
stole a goodly number of cases Of
that booze and, the next day, over
half of Raleigh streets population
was drunk. The former merchant
offered $50, or one full case Of booze,
for return of the stimulant or in
formation as to who stole it, but
nothing was doing.
Gary and New Duluth fairly float
in booze. The wops out there are
grumbling because some Of the au-
thorities are charging them so. heav-
lily for illegal privileges. You can
find booze, gambling and immoral
women with one eye shut. If you
look closely enough, you may find
several white women living with
black men. Such was the case q
few months ago.
A few licensed buses might move
away some of those undesirables,
rather than bring them in. Oliver
is credited with having recently
opened a couple Of redlight dumps,
therefore travel will be that way
rather than this way.
When a former humane officer
and then chief of police was shown
up as a moral leper, not word Of
approval was offered by the men
who kick on licensing three little
iitneys. They apparently prefer
to strain at gnats and swallow CAM
els, SO to speak.
Not since this great family jour-
nal was started over two years ago
have voices of these lawyers and
clergymen been raised in approval
of efforts to help Duluth become q
sober, moral, clean, decent place In
which to live and rear families. Not
a voice has been lifted up in protest
against blind pigs, blockade runners.
redlight dumps, panderers, crap
shooters or corrupt public officials.
These things have existed and to
spare and are more Of menace than
three little jitneys carrying men be-
tween New Duluth and Oliver.
incidentally, voices Of the COM
missioners have been lifted up en-
tirely too seldom and loudly. Some
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