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CRIB LANDMARK NOW ABOLISHED OLIVERA STREET NO LONGER OFFENDS THE LAW Police Chief Stops Scenes 'in Door* ways and Outward Quiet Suc ceeds the Revelry of :• *- ' . Yore CHIEF AUBLE ACTS TO BTOP INFAMY Following, The Herald's ex posures of crlhH Hnd dens nf In famy run In opon "violation of law und police regulation, Chief of I'ollre. Walter Auble made a promise that an Investigation should follow. He has kept thnt promise. Since. April 16, when (lie first article on tho social evil appeared, there linn been a constant effort 1 on the part of the police to regulate the evil and wipe out the crib dis trict. Chief Auble nnd Capt. Broad head have been nctlng quietly but surely during tho past two weeks In the work of suppression of cribs and the regulation of vice. Yesterday tho crlbfl o\i Olivera street were ordered closed and the outpost nf tenderloin cribs has dis appeared. The Infamous crlba on Olivera street are closed. Last night the street wns dark as :i result of an order Saturday night by Chief Auble. Since the exposures The Herald keepers of dives and inmates of cribs and certain houses were told to keep under cover and ply their trade in secret. But from the ver.y nature of the traffic this could not be done. When Alameda Btreet. a, stench to the nostrils of tourists, was closed to tire traffic Olivera street, which lay Just outside the most notorious crib district, was allowed to run, under certain con ditions. ' . "There- are no cribs In the tenderloin to my knowledge," said Capt. Broad head several weeks ago. "If there are any they shall be closed." • He has kept his word. ' Chief AUble has acted promptly, on the suggestion of The Herald. As It Was Olivera street was a typical crib dis trict. Ugly Hags ogled passersby from their windows, or even went Into the street to cajole men Into their dens. Sounds of strident laughter and drunken curses came from behind the red curtains and women stood in the open doorways and beckoned, threat ened and coaxed. ■ Last night tho street was dark. The long, low sheds which had har bored scores of women wero silent. The inmates had disappeared. "The girls were not obeying the in structions of the police," said' Capt. Broadhead last evening, "and bo I or-T dered the houses closed. I do not be lieve the social question -can be decided by the police, but we can and wlllpre- Eerve'-o'rder arid' outward decency." Females Too. Bold. When The Herald took up the crusade against the daunting- of the social evil a few weeks past the tenderloin • was run openly, defiantly thrusting vice in the faces of those who frequented the narrow, evil -smell ing streets and alleys. • Following the exposures of rampant vice the females were told to be more careful. Jackson street was given a coat of whitewash and. the frequenters were compelled to approach those dens from the rear. Allso street became more respectable, outwardly at least, and other lanes in the valley of social death took on an air of seeming: decency. 'Following the San Francisco disaster It .was openly, stated that Los Angeles was to be.un open town as to the social evil,! and "houses ! long tenantless soon became peopled with white slaves. Public ' Decency Resents The Herald took up a crusade in be half of public decency and appealed to the police to aid in the suppression of open vice. ■ : ' ' -May 15 Chief of Police Auble said: "I shall certainly order cribs closed if there are any in the city. > . "I have had no reports from my of ficers of such cribs. ' .."I realize that the social evil is a great problem to deal with and I shall certainly use my best efforts to • re strain iuch places. . / "I have a plan that will call for close supervision of. all houses and every keeper of a house of ill repute shall be made to furnish a list of the inmates. • "I am'at all times glad to hear from citizens on the important problem of regulating the social evil. \. "No cribs shall exist in this city as long as I am chief of police, and I will take immediate steps to ascertain if any such places are being opened." x The Truth Told The Herald sent .representatives to visit the crib districts and careful. Im partial reports were made of actual ex isting conditions. Without attempting to probe into the problem of the social evil vivid reports of things peen'by the reporters ' were faithfully chronloled. ... In the wake of The Herald exposure there came a. .change In the manage ment.of certain houses. . Several were closed by order of the police. ( The degraded .women wero told to keep off the streets and to refrain from standing in their doors or beckoning from windows. Streets that were reek- Ing with impurity and open vice changed their aspect entirely.- Vico was cloaked. The scarlet ulague was forced to work only in secret ! The houses on. Olivera street, Includ ing the Infamous "Adobe," were al lowed, to run and this outpost of the former. Alameda district flaunted Us vice. ;.; . y They Hate Publicity '> V v Certain policemen, who once traveled the tenderloin beat, expressed wonder at the ' Olivera : street scenes. It .was alleged that the owner of the houses hud secured, "protection." v II But there was.no protection against the newspaper exposure* and us a former policeman expressed It, "Those kind of people want to be let alone. They hate newspaper notoriety. They know as well as you do whnt they are doing and shrink from the limelight of public exposure." '^ ,'QUvera street runs north from Marehessault street. . : It . seemed lmmune-to criticism and defiant of .reformers. Hut. for , a time, Ht least, the cribs are shuttered, the females warned uway for ''falling to observe police regulations" arid the former ' frequenters ■ of the .resorts POL DANCE IS RELIC OF MAORI CANNIBALS A LOS mNGELES DANSEUSE TONES IT DOWN A BIT Wears Reed Robe That Rattles Like Castanets, Grimly Suggestive Of Death Which the Whirl. Ing Typifies Persons who havp vlnttnd the. Hotnh* Wbs In tho last few. days have been quite entranced by a VP.ry unusual nnd pretty dance, which Ml«s Charlotte Vl dot and the chorus do In the last a«t. It Is railed the "pol" dance, lint that conveys little. Information to thn-cas ual spectator, nor does he know that It Ib a genuine reproduction of tho most celebrated terpslrhoreati rite of tho New Zealand Islands and that It Is faithfully reproduced to the most minute detail. "The pol'danco," said Miss Vldot, In teJUng of this ypstordny, "Is a rite among the Mhoi-Is In New Zanland. which Is danced just before a cannibal feast. Oh, don't got creepy yet; that Isn't all; often they kill tho persona who dance It, Hnd eat them! "Why, of course I don't do that part; that Isn't In the dance. But In every other respert I reproduce It exactly, pave that I tone down tho vulgar fea tures a bit; that is, what would bo vulgar If done In their way, I make refined by leaving out the suggestive motions which aro somewhat on th« order of the hootchle-cootchln. "And I wear more clothes than they do; the women In the real pol dance tire • practically naked save for that robe I wear and tho skirt; tho men dispense with tho robe; I wear brown ileshlngs, of course. Made by Maoris , "The robe that I use Is genuine; It was made by the Maoris, and woven on their loom. It is composed of thu fiber of a water reed that grows there which is >very tough. The black Is its natural color, but they have learned to dye It black, and that is the only other color used in It. The feathers which aro attached are dyed; they give tho flashes of color. It Is a sub chief's turned back In disgust last night, Chief of Police Auble and Capt. T. H. Broadhead have kept faith with' the people and following the sugges tions of The Herald have fulfilled every promise. Without attempting to abolish the so cial evil, the chief promised that all cribs should be closea and openly stat ed that the inmates of tho houses should obey police regulations or else be put out of business. Olivera' street, the last crib land mark, Is now gone. TOGO'S NEPHEW SWEEPS HOTEL Toshio Will Not Discuss His Family Affairs, but He Is Quick to Learn All That Guests and Em. - . ■ ployes Will Impart At the Hotel Alexandria, employed to sweep in the corridors, Is a Japanese boy whom well informed local Japanese say is a nephew of Admiral Togo, of Russo-Japanese War 'fame. The lad's name is Frank Toshlo, and although but 19 years of age and a resi dent of the United States for not quite one and one-half years, is in the sixth school grade. All day Frank attends school. From 5 o'clock until 12 o'clock at night he is employed in the Hotel Alexandria. His ambition is to event ually become a member of the Japanese congress and he Is continually laying his plans for, that distinction. Frank refuses to discuss his relations to the famous Japanese admiral. Hnd it not been for the employment agency that placed Frank with the Hotel Alex andria It would probably never have been known to the management. It is supposed he is' reticent because he con siders his present work beneath • his rank In the Orient. . ■.. .. ! According to many of the clerks of the Alexandria, Frank Is exceptionally bright and never needs to be instructed twice. . Keeps His Ears Open AVhlle working: about In the hotel cor ridors Frank will overhear the guests discussing different questions. In the course of their' Remarks he will hear certain - words. The first opportunity he gets he will' lnquire from the clerks the meaning of these wftrds. When I asked ■ about his ambition Frank will talk enthusiastically about the Japanese government ana discuss at length the different studies he must take up before he is eligible to a gov ernment appointment. Frank I speaks and . writes English fluently. He also speaks the Spanish language, The latter he learned while an Invalid in the California hospital. Frank was attended by a Spanish nurse and ho begged her;. to talk Spanish to him -and explain the , meaning of the words. To the Hotel Alexandria management it is a foregone conclusion. that Frank will at 'dome time realize his ambition to get Into congress. At all times the roy Is attentive to his duties and thinks little of sleep. For his services at the. hotel he earns about $40 . per month. Economy Is his watchword and it Is said that he has saved up several hundred dollars. RENDER MOHAMMEDAN PLAY Sacred Heart Shakespeare Club to Make Its Bow on Wednet. ■r day. Night ! The recently organized Shakespeare club of the Sacrer^ Heart parish will give its Initial performance Wednesday evening In, Conaty hall, when "The Malediction" will, be preßented. The play deals with pcenep enacted during the 1 wars between the Christians and Mohammedans In Spain. Rev. ' M. McAullffe, . the jmstor. has been prominent In the organization of the young rrien. The forthcoming pro duction will be given under the. direc ♦ Inirof/Hev.' Celeetin Oregolr, tho aB- Alßtant pastor, and William J. Ilonlon. Following la the dramatis personae: . Don Vaaci) de Oomez, a Hpanluli noble (man ;.. Thomas i J . White Pon Alonzo lie Gomess. niß 50n.,...,.... . Peter J. Muckenhaupt Don Loucz, friend ot Aloiuu , Otto J, Kuiiiiu Tarlk. lieutenant to the Cullphi . ..„., Lea I). Daze Pedro, ii peasant Urban' F, Kmme I'edrllllo. Wbrlclo. his wqb. ............. - ..,,;. Thomas lleynolds. Joint Mountain Ibrahim, a rich Mahometan „ Kdmund f,\ laicoy Menduza, v Spanish ofClcei- '..... -.Hdwurd' Bclieller Marrletto, HiisHllio, , Banc-hj. SpitnlKh . *oldloi'«..U. -Curtli. J. Wiilto, U. l'auly Juninlii, a slave to Ibrahim. Kinrnet Luvey Aliilulluli, a, Mahomet-.- Jailor.... - ......; *.l)it>an F. . Kmirio Spanish soldiers and peasants, Mahometan BolUki-s aiul attendant*. '- LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1900. rnh*: (h#> big rhlffn have rohoa crna montfd with thfi fpathfrn of the blrrta of parading nnd thfy (ire gorgeous be* ynnd description; Hut I rould not get on«» of them; they nre Barred. "t did have ft nklrt of native manu facture, but I hnvp worn It nut and thfl otif! I wear now In of sheepskin, mnrtp on the damn design. The other Is made of reeds nml Is white and hlafk Thpy get tho whit* by squeezing the pith from th« reeds for a short did tnncp, leaving the flbpr; thft hlnck In the reed In Its natural condition. "Thin nklrt wns a feature of thfl dance, for It rattled with pvery motion. like mihdued castanets, and was very tpntitlful. Wnl 1 wore It out and can* not get another. Whirls "Pol" "The 'pol feature of the dance Is nil embraced In the lit tin things I carry and whirl about. They nre called 'pnl' nnd arc a llttln round wnd of thfl reed thnt I spenk of, with a flexible, handle. The natives twirl them In opposite di rections from the way they dance, and It la quite a trick to learn to do that.. "They hnvfl very famotin pol danres In New Zealand; some of more thwn local reputation. When wo were over there a short while ago I became vrrv much interested in their dances, more, I must ndmlt, In the men's part, which ■Is very blonrtcurdllng. • "Mr. Kolb, my hunhund, and I studied tho 'pol dance till I could do It like a native; we obtained the 10s tnmes for It over there, and I evolved the necessary make-up. "It Is thcreforn quite as close an Imi tation of the genuine dance In every detail as civilization will permit, and one seeing this would readily knnw the real 'pol dance should he happen to behold.lt over there. Only for Cannibals , "This Isn't likely any more, for It Is almost Impossible to reach a place where cannibalism is yet practiced, nnd the dance Is never done when a human being 13 to be eaten." Miss Vidot has also made a. study of other native dances in. the South seas, but very few of them will permit of reproduction. She knows the hula-hula dance of Hawaii, but says no decent white audience would look at It repro duced here, and that only by special favor can they Bee It in the Islands. It Is Intensely vulgar. \' STORRS' WIDOW FACES ACCUSERS PRELIMINARY TRIAL IS SET FOR TODAY Able Counsel on Both Sides Insures Interesting Legal Fencing at ' Monrovia Hearing in Mur. ,-. \ der Case" Alberta Dabney Storrs, charged with having murdered her husband, Row land Storrs, at Monrovia five weeks ago, will ! have her "preliminary trial today. before Justice Holllster of Mon rovia.- . ; When Mr. Storrs was found at his home in Monrovia with a bullet through his heart It was believed that he came to his death' accidentally. In fact in vestigation by the coroner brought no facts to show that the man had been murdered, and a verdict of accidental death, was rendered at tho coroner's inquest.. Deputy Sheriff I Bert Franklin, how ever, brought additional facts to light and, Mrs. .Storrs was arrested. One of the proofs which the prosecution . will probably bring in the case today will be the fact that the position of- the wound Is such that a man could not have. Inflicted it himself. It was tho posttlon of the wound which made Deputy Franklin suspect the man had ndt killed himself. . Mrs. Storrs Is a sister of Mrs. B. Kendall Cutter of Monrovia and has been /living on South Hill street for the last three weeks. . Her case will be handled -by Earl Rogers and Frank James, while the prosecution will be handled by Deputy District Attorney Fleming. The Storrs trouble stirred Monrovia, soon after Mrs. E. Kendall Cutter won a suit from her husband, and the no toriety of the parties will make this preliminary trial one of the most sen sational. SHREWD FORGER WORRIES POLICE ■■ - : \ ■ < >'/.:::■•' Headquarters detectives are anxious to find the supposed clever passer of fictitious checks who gives the name of 11. -Curtis. /- ■'- . •■> ■■ • • This Is not believed to be his right name and it is thought the man has been working under several aliases. J According to the story , told to the police Saturday by 11. B. Ball, the man succeeded 'In victimizing him Friday. He is alleged to have entered the store \>f Mr. Ball, ,3632. Central avenue, representing that he wanted to . pur rhase a refrigerator. ■ After selecting the article he directed it should be sent to 93S Bast Thirty eighth street aftPr a certain hour.' Mr. Ball said he took the refrigerator to tho designated place but could not find any one answering the description there. Gives Change Back The man had given the merchant a check for $20, payable to H. Curtis and drawn by Mansfield & Barnes, accord ing to' the merchant. Ball said he gave back $10.25 in change. At the Security Savings bank he whs told that Mans~ rleld & Barnes had no account there. Ball said he became at once sus picious and notified the police.- ■ Detective Captain Flammor said yes terday that the alleged forger was evi dently a shrewd Individual and might elude capture for a long time. The detective believed the smooth ■ crook had victimized other merchants and in structed his men to have a sharp look out fur him. .The police have a good description and specimens of his handwriting and hope he will muke some curelesu move thut will result In his capture., . Owing to ilia ' rusn uf builntai ths Talk-o-l'liune deptii lineiil ot tho South cm California Musio company - will b» open Wednesday and- Saturday evenings for the accommodation of Herald sub* •crlbeie. ■ . •■•,:.■ — . . TREAT LEPERS BY ISOLATION NO CURE, HAS YET BEEN FOUND FOR LEPROSY Santa Ana Case Prompts Lot Angeles Expert to Tell Most Advanced Methods for Grappling With Dread Evil Living In a little tent near thft out skirts nf Sania Ann, watched over by Kiiarrlß and his meals left for him at a certain wpot us though he wero an nnl- Itiat, Won* Uu, a Chinese leper, in slowly reaching that stage of tho dread fllsojise when he will no longer be able to leave his tent and tho good people of {junta Ana are staying awake nights In mi effort to secure' a nurse for the celestial. , . . • When tho finnta Annnn lenrned thnt lpprosy hHd broken out In the Chlncso quarter they burned the place and even the cats and dogs were thrown back in the fire when they attr-mptcrt to esatpo tho llntiH'H. It whk a precaution to stop tho diseaso and Wong Hu, the old loper, wan Isolated In a tent and from thnt time on tho pooplo have been won dering how they can . caro tnr him. In San Francisco many enses of lep rosy were reported, but no truce of the victims could bo found until one day a. Chinatown police officer discovered that the celestials took their diseased friends down to the lowest floors of their underground burrows and chained them there, feeding them each day by lowering food to them until the disease llnally killed them. The Los Angeles county hospital offi cials have thus far been the only west ern medical men to successfully hnndlet cases of leprosy. Dr. C. P. Barber of the county hospital has cared for four cases and tells his experience with them as follows: . Must Be Isolated "There Is only one way to handle a case of leprosy and. that is, to Isolate It. There is no euro yet discovered for the disease and although I have even gone so far as to study the most emi nent authorities among the orlentnl countries, there Is not even a. system of relief. ■ ' .' "The Santa Ana people have sug gested that a trained rrurso be hired to attend the leper, but that would be impossible.. A physician of St. Louis was the only man who ever attempted to tend a leper and he escaped without contracting the. disease and obtained some valuable Information regarding the disease, but the leper did not bene fit by It. "I had the first case of leprosy, sev eral years, ago when I first went to the county hospital. There were three men there then and they -were being tended in a poor sort of c. place in one side of the grounds. A Skin Disease "We built a nice little cottage for them and divided the rooms off nicely. Then wo built a high stockade about this cottage and left enough room for the inmates to have a garden. One was an Austrian sailor .who had be come tnfected In the W«st India islands. Another was a Chinese who had con tracted the dread disease In the north and another was a Spaniard. "All had the symptoms to a more or less marked degree. • ; "Leprosy is a skin disease and the germ is one of darkness and closely resembles a tuberculosis germ. The first symptom we look for is a thick ening of the skin on the I forehead, ears and chin. . ' The skin often without . wrinkling, will become like leather and be very thick. Then spots appear on the body and while these spots ■ are sensitive at a distance you could.stlck a pin in the .flesh and the patient, would, not know It. The third symptom Is the shooting- pains which cause misery In tjie earlier stages of the disease, but which later ... disappear ; and then, the body, slowly decays. . . "First, the skin becomes peculiarly white and the fingers gradually drop off, a joint at a time«>The next appear ance ofUhe disease. is at the edges of the nostrils and mouth, and then later the ..internal organs are attacked and the patient dies. , _ ■ . „ . Death In Seven Years "This generally happens in about seven years. "The Chinese we had at the hospital was cheerful and " worked in the lit tle garden all the time/ He was suf -^ fering from the llrst shock of the dis ease, and an ordinary person could not tell he had It. He later escaped and fled to San- Francisco. • : "The Austrian) and Spaniard lived there cheerfully. They had a full out fit Inside the place, with w,ater and cooking utensils. Every day we took them their meals and put them Inside trie gate. The eatables were always sent In on wooden platters and we never took anything out. , ; "When they died we burned tho place. , • . "The next case we had wns some months ago, when a Hawaiian woman was sent to the county hospital. She As tlie tea kettle was the beginning of the steam engine, so the ordinary soda cracker was merely the first step in the development of the perfect \ world food LEneeda Biscuit. A food that gives to the worker, 1 more energy of mind and; muscle— that gives to the child the sustenance upon \ which to grow robust— that gives to the invalid the nour- ishment on which to regain the vigor of good health. . fS& In a Just tight, ! ; moisture proof package. . , NATIONAL BISCUIT. COMPANY V MaLi\y Beautiful H f| Scratched and Marred Will Be Sold Cheap I |u| We arc offering you the benefit of a lib- S9 ig|| end settlement by the Railroad Companies B% 111 l for damages to a large shipment of pianos. ffl \ Sf^ The money received by us in this settle- S W% ment amounting to several thousand dol- (fi w lars we have apportioned pro rata to the ||§ v slightly marred instruments, deducting it ||1 \ In this way the Railroad Companies are 7 B¥ 1 helping to pay for your piano. Why pay FT * four hundred dollars or over for a piano ■ "... ■ when; with the railroad companies' help you can get anew.high grade instrument in fine t . mahoganyV walnut or oak case for a trifle over two hundred dollars? Or a still bet- ter one for something less than three hun- dred dollars? Or another one* not quite so ,' . fancy for but little more' than one hundred , y H • A generous portion of the price has been ■ w already paid by the Railroad Companies , B l m and you get the benefit B B Every piano offered for sale is guaranteed fa m • , to be perfect except for slight scratches or B a mars on the case. Full exchange privileges. Jr M Prices exactly the same if you pay in install- .■'■»■ B ments. It's worth your white to see us today. IS / TiTe Wiley B. Allen Co. M %^ 324 West Fifth Street* IR jIH Largest Buyers and Sellers of Pianos on the Pacific Coast Hi jm ■.' ■ : ;", I '"•-: V -'OPEN EVENINGS ' ; - '-> ' > : '■-.■■■ I ''-'-'■■ '* v ' Irvv;.;' ?'~>-;'-' < B ; --'--" was a finely educated woman and was only suffering from the first stages of the disease. We later allowed her to join her husband and they went back to the islands. "A Mexican patient was allowed. to return to Mexico, where the disease Is common. • "There is only one way to handle a case and that is to isolate it and put a guard to watch. Send the feod in and never take anything .out, and the.pa tient, until the . disease , attacks the heart and dies Instantly, is able to at tend himself. No nurse Is required and isolation Is the only way to handle the Santa Ana case." v RAID PICO ST. DRUG STORE Detective .Visits Establishment as a Result of Complaints of Liquor Selling, ' The drug store of George A. Knox on Pico street was raided yesterday and, according to the ofllcers, a quantity of liquor was confiscated. Detective Ingram stated that com plaints had been received that Knox was selling liquor illegally, and he visited the place yesterday and claims he secured damaging evidence, The defendant deposited $50 ball for his appearance in court today, HH7irkR > 91&'*%lfe9rfe Is to love children > and no. 8%/Silll^flSl m Home can be completely WW Vala MM HI Cr without them, yet the ■ ordeal through which the ex- 1, S^l^Jl^BHlS^^n^ P ectant mother must pass usually is : l^iiiiif Pilil la S0 * u^ °^ su^ er^ n ?> danger and fear •: I at s^ e oo^ s forward to the critical hour with apprehension \ and dread; ■ Mother's Friend, by its penetrating and soothing properties, * allays nausea, nervousness, and all) unpleasant feelings, and ~ so prepares the system for the : • ordeal that she passes through iIM/Tkfl"i^4£&srfes^<fV' the event safely and with but,. iWßHßlillira^fl little suffering, as numbers l?iM>lJr iiail^w^fl %$ have testified and said, "it is ! worth its weight in gold." $1.00 per M^R^Mi^P^i^fS bottle of druggists. 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