| Show ruined lives INCREASE OF 1 3 ibio 1110 R A 14 ITY AMONG YOUNG GIRLS IN THE CITY HOW tirey THEY ARE ABE LED ASTRAY tim THE LOW DANCING SCHOOLS THE SUNDAY PICNICS PIC tire THE Assia assignation NATioN HOUSES the number of young girls oftentimes ten times mere children brought before the police judge every month for commitment to the magdalen asylum though rep representing resenting but a very small fraction of the number who have left the path of virtue to seek the hollow and transitory pleasure of vice is still sufficiently large to call for a word of warning to parents of late years the tile spread of immorality among young girls in this city has been unprecedented there is no use in trying to disguise e the fact for it is notorious and it is the subject of general comment and perhaps the most alarming feature of the matter is the ex extreme youth of many of the erring girls for instance within the last three or four months there have been thirteen commitments to the magdalen asylum by Judg eLou derbac k and in nearly every lase ilse case ease base that course was pursued at the request of some grief stricken father or mother of the thirteen girls two were sisters of the respective ages of or ten and twelve years there thero was another child of twelve and four of thirteen years of age one was fifteen and the remaining five sixteen As already stated the number of cases thus brought to public notice gives a very inadequate idea of the extent of the evil for it may be safely assumed that tha hundreds of girls have been led astray and are now on the broad road to ruin whose pa rents or other guardians are unaware of the temble truth and of those who do become cognizant of their children childrens shame the great majority will risk any consequences rather than seek the aid of an officer and the publicity attending a t commitment to the magdalen asylum for many months chief crowley kept an officer specially detailed from his slender force to look after young girls who were in tho the habit of vi visiting disreputable dancing schools and associating with notoriously depraved characters charae charac teis of either elther er sex this officer was instructed whenever he found a young girl under such circumstances to ascertain her name and the residence of her natural guardians and to make known to the latter the dangerous path the girl was tread treading ing if their efforts failed in reclaiming her she was to be brought in as a candidate for thonia thodia the magdalen dalen daien asylum in carrying out t these bese hese orders the officer naturally became familiar with the manner in which most of the unfortunate girls were lured into vicious habit and th the e various gradations through which they passed until the houe roue of refuge was reached or until they developed into utterly dep debrava nava ravn ravA and irow irreclaimable cyp cypriana thinking he might bo be able to give 1 ome pome 1 information n for m atlon on these points which would be of service to careless paren parents tsa n Chr chronicle onide onise reporter held a short interview with him a few days ago the reporter be began bean an by asking him how the girls ilen lien generally started on the downward track OFFICER well they start in all sort of ways once in a while we find the daughter of well to do P people eop ae in this kind of business but generally the parents are of the poorer class and dont have a chance to look after their girls i ris A great many of the female hoodlums I 1 od begin as nurse girls they hire out in some family and have to take the babies out for an abrill airing g every day they pull their little baby carriages through the streets until they get tire daud dand then go into some of the public square squares perhaps and sit down to rest the town is full of young loafers who are always on the watch for these girls the loafer comes along and talks to the baby and then to the girl and tries to scrape up an acquaintance with her if ite lie ne succeeds in doing this the first step in the girls ruin is accomplished he meets her next day and the day after and then comes an invitation to some of or thoe thore deadfall dead dali fall dancing schools or a picnic or something of the kind a GI generally y though the dancing school is the main reliance if ir the we young giri girl agrees to go there with her sidewalk acquaintance the chances of her dying a decent woman are considers con considerably sidera bly reduced the fellow induces her to wait for the last dance and then takes her to a restaurant for condee and cakes or oysters and wine according to the weight of his purse im telling you now the story that several of these girls have told me when I 1 handed jeni lent em up you understand well when they leave the restaurant perhaps it is I 1 or 2 inthe in the morning the girl begins to feel troubled now about going home so late having to wake the family up and perhaps be scolded or discharged this is the time the fellow generally select selects to complete his designs he advises her not to go home at all that na night and finally induces her to accompany him to his lod iod ca the next step downward follows as MR a natural consequence the g girl ilir 1 is s ashamed to go back to lier her w work il next morning and acting under her feil feli fell fellows owls advice takes a room down downor town or goes to live with him she soon picks up an acquaintance with other girls who wh are father gone than she is and they show her the way from bad to worse until she becomes a regular visitor to assignation r houses this goes on sometimes somer e for months and months without the girls parents knowing anything about it she goes to seo pee them once in a while and tells them ashes still working for mrs so and so and brings home her ci wages of eight or ten dollars a month justas she always did the father may be is a hardworking hard worlden working man out from daylight until dark dari and the mother has allabe all ali she can do at home and no time to be looking after the girl and so the poor people never suspect any auy anything thing is wrong if the mother asks her laughter daughter where she got that new hat or those fancy boots the girl says her mistress is very kind and makes lier her lots of presents and so the thing goes on until some day I 1 hunt up the parents arents and have the disagreeable my duty of telling them the true state of affairs REPORTER what course do the parents generally adopt in such ca caes cases eq officer well weli di merent different people act difre differently renty rents you know sometimes the mothers take on so that it would make a wooden mans heart ache to see them and sometimes times they dont believe me and get f furious u r i 0 us there was one woman who went for me with a kettle of scalding hot water when I 1 told her how her daughter was living and I 1 had to leave the house in a hurry to avoid her fue lue REPORTER PORTER what abat I 1 wanted to know now was whether when their own edn eff efforts orts to reclaim the girls fall fail the parents are generally willing to have them sent to the magdalen asylum OFFICER oh no As a general thing they are bitterly opposed to that course on account of tile the e exposure X although Althou gli gil there is really a great deal more danger of exposure and shame in letting them ru run 11 on for the newspapers seldom publish ilsk list the girls name names REPORTER the tile chronicle makes it a rule never to publish the thu the girla havo already become notorious characters OFFICER it is a very good rule too because a great many of the younger girls are thoroughly reformed in the asylum and they ought to have a show 11 REPORTER YOU spoke of the public squares as the favorite resorts of the scoundrels who make the ruin of or young gir gln girls giris Is their principal in Is auy any one of these squares particularly noted for this OFFICER yes columbia square between folsom harrison sixth and seventh streets is about tho the worst of the lot you can go there any day in the week and see these theio young hoodlums playing their games with the little nurse girls baby hawkers is the name the boys have for them union square is also a favorite resort for these fellows it does seem as if something ought to be done to stop the business at tho the start but of course courso we policemen cannot interfere so long as the girls have no complaint to make I 1 he young fellows are always very polite and well weil behaved at first and the silly girls are rather disposed to be pleased than offended REPORTER la IS there any house particularly noted as the resort of d depraved raved young girls zelcer OFFICER 1 I dont know of any 0 one ne house in particular except that one house on tile the northwest corner of third and stevenson we took a girl of fifteen out of that place only two or three days ago a regular he hellhole hell heil hole hoie and something wm ething ought to be done to break it up REPORTER well why dont you go to work and break it up the law provides a method does it not OFFICER not that I 1 am aware of you see to all appearances its nothing but a lodging house and its no easy job to get a legal begil 91 grip on the place theres a very bad woman in that house she la a noted procuress and I 1 have heard of her going to peoples houses and getting well vell acquainted playing herself fon fer a respectable widow or something of that kind with the object of working the ruin of some girl in the family in one case she bersu persuaded abed the mother to let her daughter visit her room several time times and finally to spend a few days with her the girls ruin was accomplished by this means the she devil having introduced her to one of the patrons of the house I 1 could gis give you the name of some somme men in t this is city who pay this woman handsomely for that kind of work you would be astonished to hear the namos names REPORTER perhaps so but I 1 shall want some more information from you on this subject seme some other time OFFICER all AH rh night right bt I 1 think the chronicle can do the community a great service by exposing these things I 1 know parents are often to ba blame 0 for not looking more closely after their girls you can make them open their eyes in time san francisco car Chr chronicle onide july 14 A lately married couple came near separating on account of a squabble over their wedding presents the greatest revivalist of the age uge ea and on all giving it up am said sald because at the close of every sermon there is a z great awakening the editor ofa ora of a pennsylvania paper having failed to get a pass congratulates himself on the fact that tom scott cant control the through road to heaven A traveler in wales seeing a sign over the door with this one word asked the woman what she sold when she said she did not sell anything but that a agues 0 ues aes was cured here that was a good though rather severe pun which was made by 11 a student in one of our theological seminaries and he was not one of the brightest of the class either when he be asked why is professor the danbury news says that a homesick san franciscan who is visiting the east finds occasional relief by having sand squirted in his lace and down his back with a bellows A georgia man being asked if he be thought a certain politician in that state sute would steal replied steal why by jove I 1 if f lie he was paralyzed and hia fia hamstrung t ru ng I 1 trust himin the desert of sahara with the biggest anchor of the great eastern I 1 mould think wuk ho lu everybody knows that the n national jl onal bank note currency is in 1 ya a fearful fearfully ll mutilated and dangerously filthy condition and indeed the greenback currency is little better ter the whole batch needs re ne newal waland and buffor but bub for differences be tween the tho treasury and the banks as to which should be at the expense would have been more generally renewed long ago the better class of national banks have been renewing as fast as mutilated bills of their own issue were returned to them but scattered over the whole union as these bills are the progress in renewal is slow preparations for the work however as authorized zed by congress have been commenced and we may now reasonably hope foursome for some good results visible an appropriation by con gress of will be likely to aress keep beep the purpose in mind until accomplished complis hed bed of the national bank notes the bills of the smaller denominations five tens and twenties will be first printed and will probably occupy some so me three months of time in the preparation philadelphia ledger the kind of women to in marry r rev bev H A hendersons louisville lecture the lecturer closed with some advice to young men they must eliminate from their idea of woman all her false adornments think of her in her plain dress of muslin minus her rats and mice panniers pan and frizzles seated at his breakfast table may ilay you succeed in getti getting ng a true girl for a n wife full of womanly sweetness one who will look as well at the breakfast table as when she bewitched you with the arts of the to toilet elet ilet one who will not demand a carriage when you need a cart agne one who will not require a mansion when you have only a cottage to onder offer one who will be satisfied with plain dresses when you cannot afford brocades brocaded bro cades one that will entertain your ft fi lends tends on a dollar when you c cannot annot anford afford a banquet one that will plant flowers in your yard and insist on your w whitewashing hing the fence one that will be to you the ornament pride and magnet of that dearest place on earth home sweethome sweet home 11 rev dr goodspeed of chicago said sald in the course of his sundays sermon the devil understood der stood what was necessary to blast eden when he led the woman to be false to god to herself and to her husband bana A bad woman an untrue woman is the prime corrupter of society and the destroyer of its peace of course the woman does all the mischief the man poor thing is only an Inno innocent centy unsophisticated well meaning but credulous easily deceived frail unfortunate ill used individual completely at the mercy of the other and craftier sex poor fellow he is much to be pitied when he would do good evil in the shape of lovely woman is is ever present with him and the evil is generally too much for him this is an ap prop place for the following 11 1 1 to come in I 1 not she with ups lips her savior i stung not N ot she denied him with unholy tongue she when apostles shrank could dangers brave last at tho the cross and earliest at the grave the chicago advance a rell religious bious newspaper has the following striking paragraph it is fervently to be hoped that no earthquake centre centro will ever move up to chica chlea go substantial as most of our new blocks are our architect has mado made no provision for such disturbances and as it is nothing but jack screws have saved a dozen doen of the most imposing structures in rebuilt chicago from tumbling down even before their roofs were on the tremont house the union building the singer klock block block etc proved too heavy for their crumbling foundations architects are sometimes thought to take on a good many airs but there is no man who is more inore quiet and modest than an archert arc hect heet while directing the operations of a jackscrew jack screw brigade yade in replacing an inadequate foundation oun dation 11 number of farms in the united states beginning with the smallest there are 2 farms of 3 acres ana and under 10 acres 15 71 of 10 acres and under 2 20 acres of 20 acres and under 50 acres of 50 acres and under acres aures of acres and under acres 2028 2023 of acres and under 1000 acres and of 1000 acres and upward the total num number berof of farms isi Is 10 |
