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Show GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS. Chief of Folieo Tom Pitt is alive and active.' His recommendations to the city council are practical prac-tical and suggested with good judgment and with knowledge of pitfalls. His idea of segregating the inmates of the red-light district is good, and should be carried out as soon as possible. Its present site is an eyesore. It is in the very heart of the business bus-iness district, and is forced, as it were, on the notice no-tice of boys and girls whose curiosity maybe too frequently aroused by knowledge of its constant presence. The disease is at very close quarters and enjoys too high a position of respectability. The inmates of these houses can offer the rational excuse ex-cuse that they have not migrated from their domain do-main and infesting, as they do, First and Second South streets, are free to reply that they are not where they do not belong. The chief sees a great i danger in the existence of enclosed booths in li- ' quor dispensing restaurants. "When shady prac- I tices are clothed with an atmosphere of seeming j propriety and acts tending toward immorality are ' : shielded by an air of gentility, some fall who would not if they had to suffer the consequences of im-? im-? prudence. Enclosed booths are tod often crime ' ; brewers under cover. Wherefore ihe chief's view is to be commended. ; l . His further recommendation in regard to an : increase of the force and the addition of extra i lights is prompted by justice to the members of his department. Some people expect patrolmen to be '. i always at hand, whereas they cannot be omnipresent. A policeman has no moi;e eyes than the ordinary ; mortal, and can see at no greater distance. Xei- ' thcr ought they be required to do more work than is reasonable to a-k of any other man. We eon- gratulate the city council on its willingness to act ; ' immediately on these recommendations and hope that it will be always as ready to give its support ( to a vigilant officer. |