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Show STOCKADE DENIZENS IN NEW HOME Scattered, bat Not One Has Accepted Place Offered by Women of City. MEETING TONIGHT TO CONSIDER SITUATION "i Girls of Underworld So Far Have Shown No Desire to Reform or Get WorK. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n n i n 1 1 1 1 m-H-i i POLICEMEN GET OBDEK8. t Lieut. .Inhn llemple, in ad- P dreminfr Ihe rhilire shift gtiing on dut.v at 3 o'rlock this after- aooa, called particular attentien to an urder iKsue.1 three weeks sire arums etwel wlh.r. He toM the men thst every one would be held peraoaally res poo- sible for his beat and that wonies just turned out of the stockade, aa well as others of the underworld, must be pre- veuted from walking the streets. I I I I I I 1 LI I I I I I 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 I I To all lnt.nl. and purposes the womes who until yr-sterday Inhabited the slock-a1e slock-a1e have disappeared In rooming nmieel and hutels of the city. They are not is the stockade, none of them hss heeo nlacert In any home or Institution through the efforts of the women's Isssue. and only a few of them, areordln to all re ports, have left the ctty or declared their Intention of doing so. At the bureau established In St. Paul's church yesterday to meet the gtrla upon their exit from the stockade, there had not been a alngle call up to noon today. The Inclement weather was blamed In some respect, but to a large extent the opinion seemed to he thst the "women hist .don't cara whether we help them or not." After th moving began at the stockade late yesterday seternoon, developments came thick end fast. At i o'rkx'k the committee waiting In the church had had no callers and finally Mrs. Elisabeth Cohen, Co-hen, president of the league, called up Mrs. 1 Kirm K Topham and It waa sr- go to the s took da office and there try tn permiad the girls to call at the church. Apparently thia commll tee did aom good for fully a doaen woman did rail at th church tat yesterday. But the women In charge of th bureau have been admittedly ad-mittedly unable en far to get any of the former Inmate of th west aide resort to express any desire to chang their live, "untae they could live with the aarne eaae they have always enjoyed, have all they have had before and b treated just the same aa mem be re of th family." which condition, of coura. no league member haa been able to aaaur them of. CHrtg Not fteeklnc aUform. "They awemed to hav absolutely no regard for th moral side of th question," ques-tion," aaid on member of tb committee this morning, "and I do not believe we shall be able to do very much. If anything, any-thing, with t h at oekade women. We shall, of course. Insist that thev either chang their mod of living In Bait Lake or that they he arrested and punished for their offeneea. Then if when they get out of jail and we continued to hav them arrested If they persisted In their life, they would probably niak up their minds that Halt Lak 1 an unhealthy plac for thm and leave. Many of them moat of them. I uppoe will not change their Uvea even If they do leave 9alt I-ake. but w shall at least hav a cleaner town as a result. Concerning th atatement made In the Deceret Evening New laat night that the stocked mova had been planned at a meeting held tn the offlc of Powers and jlarfonauM Wednesday afternoon. VI Deon.t-rvl PniinlmBn i W M til. vry. Attorney O. W. powfra and Mra. Topham wra equally amphatlo In denial. Mr. Topham took tha entlr roaponal-bllltv roaponal-bllltv for the mov. aajrlna; thai her attorney. at-torney. Judca Powera, knew not hint whatever of It until h rearhed hta office at T o'clock Wedneaday nitwit, and that the mayor or Mulvy knew not lit na; what-ever what-ever from her on tha matter at any time. WOBMtt MMt TOBlffhl "There are threa atatementa that appeared ap-peared tn tha momlnf papers that I wish to correct, aald Mra. Topham thia morn in a;. "Pirst. every aroman who had paid me rent tn advance waa repaid ovary cent yeaterday, excepting one girt, who waa not there, and aha to coming for her money this afternoon. Berond, the stack-ada stack-ada ta etoaed. There are no women In th place except two or three 'madama,' who are gruardlnff their furniture and Personal effecfa until they get new loca-ttona. loca-ttona. Two Rtrta who are alrk wfll be here dav or two until arranaments inn be made for them. Third, tha re-, port that there waa a woman In my office yesterday who wanted to et airle to wn to her Nevada saloon la absolute- i ly false. I "A reporter was at my aide when this 1 immtn rame In, and ba deliberately: twisted the facts. The woman aald she owned a aalooa la Nevada and that she wanted ta sell It. fthe had read of the storkade belne; rtoaed and thought that soma of the a trie might want to buy her out. I told her that under the present ftght aha might be mlainterpreted and he arrested for white alavery or pandering, pander-ing, aa I have been, and told her that I thought K would be a bad mora for her to try to tntereet anyone connected with the etorkad. She thanked me and left." Them will be a eneeting tonight of the Womea'a leairue In tha T. W. C. A. hall, HooeBsr-ndredga block, and a special pro-sram pro-sram baa been arranged. Mra. EJIsabeth rohen will preside. Rev. Dr. W. W. , Attorney K. O. Leattorwood and Richard W. Toung will address the worn-un. worn-un. The special commtttea of ten whlck haa had rharge of the anti-vice campaign will submit a report and H ta aald that they will urge a general mass meeting ot rlttsena next week. This committee haa alao arranged for ereral talka to be given at that time. The topics chosen are: "Economic Situation Situa-tion In AH Tke aa Pertaining to Wage pro hi ma,"' "Salt Lake's Condition." "Our personal Obligation to the Cltlsena of Rait Lake." , |