Show THE PARKHURST SENSATION there to i a fight on in now new york olty city between rev bev dr parkhurst hurst and pol police ice superintendent byrness byrnes and to use the somewhat hackneyed words of sir air lucius Ol Trigger is live ifs a very pretty quarrel as it stands the doctor to is the pastor of a fashionable church in gotham and also president of the society for the suppression of vice in this latter iatter capacity he has been making the rounds of the dons dens dives and resorts of the metropolis dragging dark and forbidden deeds from their recesses and exposing them to the light of the noonday sun BUB he is perhaps animated by the purpose of curtailing if he cannot suppress Bupp rese and understands that showing up Is in a means of repression if not of reform as effective as any that can be employed particularly among the fallen women to enumerate whom in new york would require a great row of figures has the doctor been laboring and if none of them have turned away from their loathsome vocation it has not bee been n for want of such euch reformatory incent incentives iveas exposure may produce the chief of the constabulary now hows that he can wield a pen as a well as an a locust and he aomen back at the doctor in a trenchant treno hant and incisive man nor ner for some of the batters lat Itt evvs reflections upon him and his administration of police powers he thinks rev bev park hurit hunt ought to know fay by thia th la tar howl uncharitable u n the world la Is to that class of women as a well to he does not net know the lesson lemon of the mastor master when dealing with the adulteress and then ho wants to know how many such creatures the preacher or his hie society have taken from the street dmd nd riven shelter to he claims that it is an evil that cannot be suppressed and must not be licensed therefore the middle ground of compromise must be taken that Is it most mast be hidden from view where it will not corrupt the morals of the growing youth this the police are doing to the best of their ability as AN he claims As to the rambling gambling evil the superintendent says buys somewhat that when preaching and praying will make men good then gambling will stop and he concludes onno ludes with a severe arraignment of the doctor for his methods in spotting and spying by means of agents und and informers some dome of whom byrnes declares are stae as great a set of scoundrels as ever misled a reputable man into slandering the fair name of the city where he makes his bis home OP this might be termed the climax of rhetorical indignation thus the matter stands at latest advice if the police power and authority has been exerted to the utmost in the repression of the social evils of new york as claimed nothing more should be looked for frona from that source and the superintendent is j justi fled bed in coming to the defense of his department part ment if dr parkhurst Fark hurst and his society have by the means employed induced even one sinner onner to repent and turn arm from his ways they have done so much s and are entitled to the credit of it there seems a considerable degree of sensationalism a desire to be conspicuous through the work done and the manner in which it is done chat that thereby popularity if not prosperity may be gained the question as to the plan ian adopted per se a to is a two sided one if f good its fruits will so proclaim it but it is greatly to be feared that at lout least some items of the possible good may be neutralized by the probable barm of creating a prurient feeling through the exposures where none was felt before of familiarizing the public by association with practices and people previously unnoticed if not unknown let us however hope for we the best berst out of the turbulence engendered by ex kosure on one side and denunciation on the other there may come an improved condition of things something which both sides to the controversy bre are now bound to invite and make welcome |