The day book. [volume], September 26, 1913, Image 28

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A PA?AD AtiD ITS RESULTS
The other night 2,000 mission workers invaled Philadelphia's tender
loin, led by four brass bands and singing that stirring tune, "Onward, Chris
tian Soldiers."
And naturally-curious folks are asking what good it did.
So far as we know, not one of the earnest souls who took part in this
parade had definite plans whereby penitent sinners in that sordid section
could be lifted to honorable self-support. The declared intent of the in
vasion was to "drive conviction home." Conviction of sin, we suppose. But
the very conditions of the tenderloin life drive that home every hour in the
day or night.
We 'fancy it isn't conviction which is lacking half so much as an at
tractive way of escape.
If the parade had led into the fashionable districts, where employers
live in luxury recruited from the underpayment of women and the exploit
ing of girls in trade or industry; and if the emotional appeal had been made
to these to feel keener responsibility, the results might have been equally
dubious, but the energy would not have been worse directed.
A little while ago the pious folks of Philadelphia were closing its ten
derloin. But now we have the fact made plain that closure didn't close.
Neither, we suspect, will hymns and brass bands put an end to the
traffic in vice. We must go deeper.
We must somehow reach not merely the woman sinners, but also the
MEN RESPONSIBLE. Onward, Christian soldiers, to that mighty task.
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ENGINEER OF NEW HAVEN
WRECK TRAIN DROPS DEAD
New Haven, Conn., Sept. 26.
Charles J. Doherty, engineer of
Springfield express of the New
Haven Railroad, at time of the wreck
at Stamford, Conn., June 12, when
six persons were killed and 20 in
jured, dropped dead from heart
failure.
Although Doherty was exonerated
by Coroner Phelan, it is declared he
worried greatly over the wreck. He
wept during the inquest as he pro
tested that the brakes on his engine
failed to hold, and numerous tests
were afterward made of the brakes.
On the final test one of the big
moguls, recently purchased by the
New Haven, failed to respond to the
brakes and slid beyond the point
where it should have stopped, just as
it did with Doherty.
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Fulton, Mo. Students of West
minster College threaten to strike as
result of expelling of St. Louis stu
dent for hazing.
MURET TQ BE CHIEF WITNESS
IN THE SCHMIDT CASE
New York, Sept. 26. It is under
stood that Dr. Muret, the fake den
tist, will be the chief witness against
Hans Schmidt, priest-murderer of
Anna Aumuller, in return for a de
gree of leniency on the charge of car
rying a weapon now held against
him.
Ass't District Att'y Delehanty ar
ranged for a postponement in the
sentencing of Muret for three weeks
and he will be taken from the Tombs
to eDlehanty's office to tell what he
knows.
District Attorney Whitman now
plans to place Schmidt on trial Oct.
23. The formal report of the alienists
who have examined the murderer
have -not yet been filed, but Whitman
is confident they will declare him
sane.
o o r
Coast fisheries of British Colum
bia, largest and most profitable in the
world, are now wholly in the hands
1 of Japanese.
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