The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-10-18
CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVED
IN OLD ST. CR0IX SECTION
Dizziness in Lustfu Pursuits Is Reflected in Colored Gam
bling Dumps-Several Dusky Sirens Have Gone
Finnish Folk Soon Will Organize Social Club.

The fathers and mothers on South
First avenue east declare that there is
a decided change for the better in
moral conditions down there but that
there is ample room for further i'm
provement. The policemen seem to be
doing their very best and special praise
for zeal and effective service is given
officer Isaa;son.
The three colored women who were
defended in municipal court by lawyers
Harris and McKeon seem to have faded
from the landscape. One had done so
at the time her case came up in court.
The two who were convicted and given
60 days, each, in the county Jail, took
stays of sentence and seem to have
left town, thereby forfeiting their bail
money.
There is goodly number Of colored
women remaining, many Of them well
known as confirmed and cheerful
sirers of sin. One marked benefit of
protests from residents and watchful-
ness of the police has been to keep
those women out of the streets and
alleys and much closer to their own
doorsteps. Now and then some of them
venture forth to hail some degenerate
white man, but the sight of a blue
coated policeman or a "bawling out''
by one of them sends the dusky Dinahs
scuttling back into their dens of lust.
The effect of closing the lid down
more tightly is seen in the crap and
card games in any colored clubs where
unlawful pleasures are allowed. Where
a panderer would go to the Point AMI
grab off $50 from some dusky queen
Of the underworld, he now is lucky
if he gets one-tenth as much. When
lustful pursuits languish, sporty bucks
feel the pinch and their gambling
games, purchases of glad raiment and
indulgence in rich foods decrease &C.
cordingly. It is stated that one pan
derer "quit' his dusky Venus recent
ly because she could furnish him only
Sc day instead of five or ten times
that sum, as she had been doing be-
fore the agitation.
But the colored prostitutes on the
"Point' are becoming very weary of
this enforced idleness.
eve have been lying around long
enough; we must get to woh X. again, -
bevy of them recently stated.
By "getting to work" they meant
increased activity and success in flag
cling and bringing in low, lustful white
men.
This, of course, will mean increased
zeal and watchfulness on the part OF
the policemen. Time will tell which
side gives up first. If decent parents
and actual residents down there have
my Influence, the dusky daughters of
low moral endeavor eventually will
give up and get out.
There does not seem to be any zeal
on the part Of wealthy owners OF
houses down there to clean out the
colored prostitutes from whom they
draw heavy rents. The agent for
Thomas J. Davis recently admitted that
lewd women occupied the property Of
the eminent advocate. Mr.. Davis is
not in the best Of health, therefore he
and Madam Davis probably "need the
money! for their winters sojourn at
Palm Beach or Pasadena.
Old Silas Inch no longer lets out his
lodgings adjoining Herb Inch's barn
and it is stated that son Herb gave
father Silas a good scolding for get.
ting into a situation where the Rip
saw could give him. publicity.
It is stated that a colored sport
went to I. Freimuth and asked if his
colored lady friends must move out of
one Of the Freimuth houses used for
darkey redlight purposes. He was in
formed by the merchant prince, the
Rip-saw is informed, that those ladies
could stay there so long as they paid
their rent and that he would like to
see anyone put them out.
Other beneficia1ies of rentals from
colored courtesans have growled some
and showed their teeth because Of the
turmoil and publicity arising from con-
ditions down on the old "Point.
Another startling story Of the influ-
ence of environment on children came
to the attention of the Rip-saw last
week. Some boys had used bales of
hay to make a sort Of tunnel or play
house back of the Seandia Fish Com
pany's sheds. A boy only ten years
old attempted to coax some Of his
little girl playmates to 60 into that
hay-enclosed retreat for the purpose of
initiating degenerate white men and
immoral colored women. The little girls
reported to their mothers about the