| Show THE HEGBIRA BEGINS FLIGHT OF TRIO NYMPHS TO COMMERCIAL COM-MERCIAL STREET Etude Walking Takes tip Quarters in tlio Old Times HuiMins The Property Owners Are Indljritarit t The longanticipated flight of the soiled doves from Franklin avenue commenced com-menced yesterday when Madam Essie I Watklns and her brood took up quarters in the Times building on Commercial street PrQperty owners along the street have been expecting the landing of the I social ulcer in that vicinity and they propose to make good their threat to cause the indictment and prosecution the landlord for his violation of the law The Madam believes the landlord wjll r have to bear the burden of the expected prosecution and if all other means of appeasing the wrath of local Indignation fail she will if reports be true carry out her intention of converting her house into in-to a refCl matory institution sort of anchorage for fallen women The deml monde hegelra from Franklin avenue has been brought about by the i board of police commissioners granting the petitions of respectable residents on streets nearly bordering upon and intersecting Inter-secting the avenue but despite the protests pro-tests of the avenue landlords who dont relIsh the idea of being deprived of handsome hand-some revenues and tneir property on I which the seal of condemnation has been emphatically impressed left untenanted and untenantable for any other purpose for years to come The order has gone forth from the commissioners that all the frail creatures must abandon the avenue before the end of the jear under penalty of suffering the suppression of their vocation The commissioners and the chief are reported to have stated unofficially un-officially to their wards that Commercial street and its by ways were open to them where they would be exempt from any of the threatened acts of suppiession and be subji ct only to the monthly assessments I assess-ments or fires and police surveillance I Their intention Is to avoid the scattering of the women into the residence districts and they justify the change of base by sayIng the new plan will remove the evil I from neighborhood families and children to a less objectionable district Nevertheless Never-theless Sadie Noble it is stated will be allowed to run at 166M W South Temple street Whether the entire aggregation will leave the avenue without the exercise exer-cise of drastic measures remains to be seen and whether the objections raised to the removal to Commercial street and I its byways will be made effective time alone will tell It is a case of you can stay there say the chief and the commissioners com-missioners with the property owners reply I re-ply of you cant come here |
