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Show INEW YORK A-'-GO0DPLACC Lacks Vulgar Flaunting of Vice Seen in j Chicago New York, Aug. 13. "New York Is the best behaved big city In the country. coun-try. It has wonderfully Improved In the last ten years, and appears to me I to be getting better all the time." I Thus the Rev. M. A. Mathews, pas- lor of tho First Presbyterian church of Seattle, sums up a fortnight's study of sociological conditions in the me-. me-. tropolls. He made a similar "survey" of the city ten years ago. Dr. Ma-i Ma-i thews' church in Seattle Is tho larg-I larg-I est Protestant congregation in the United States. "Yes, New York is better morally as a city than Chicago, Los Angeles or San Francisco, There Is not that vicious,' vulgar flaunting of vice which is noticeable in come of the big cities. "Chicago Is the worst of all in this respect. There is more vice there than elsewhere, and It Is worse In quality, as well as quantity. "In New York the improvement I stands out plainly. As to drinking, they do not drink any more here pro- portionntely than (hey do In San j Francisco or xs Angeles, and there Is less drunkenness In New York proportionately pro-portionately than In any other place. I have seen." |