Work of the Colored law and order league, Baltimore, Md . lieswere deplorable in the extreme. There was the Caroline and Bank Streets district, inwhich a colored school was surrounded by a network of 6 saloons and houses of prostitution. It was found that withina block of the school there were nine saloons and no lessthan forty-seven houses of ill-repute. It was learned thatit was most difficult to keep girls in this school after theybecame thirteen or fourteen years of age. So powerful werethe influences of this neighborhood upon them that at thir-teen some of them passed from the school to t
Work of the Colored law and order league, Baltimore, Md . lieswere deplorable in the extreme. There was the Caroline and Bank Streets district, inwhich a colored school was surrounded by a network of 6 saloons and houses of prostitution. It was found that withina block of the school there were nine saloons and no lessthan forty-seven houses of ill-repute. It was learned thatit was most difficult to keep girls in this school after theybecame thirteen or fourteen years of age. So powerful werethe influences of this neighborhood upon them that at thir-teen some of them passed from the school to the houses ofprostitution and to lives of shame. In a tour of inspectionof this neighborhood young girls were pointed out one afteranother, who, the previous year, had been pupils of theschool. One mother, who had recently moved to Baltimorefrom the country, told how she had rescued her twelve-year-old daughter from one of those dens, and how a policeman,to whom in her agony and distress she had appealed, threat-ened to arrest her for disorderly conduct!. Public School No. Ii6, surrounded by eleven saloons, 8 of whicharc within 300 feet of the school premises. The Rogers Avenue district, in which another coloredschool was located, while not quite so bad so far as thenumber of saloons and questionable houses was concerned,was yet a neighborhood infested with both kinds of places,and the block just below the school, on the street throughwhich nearly half of the children must pass on their wayto and from school, was lined on both sides with houses of 7 prostitution, over whose doors, in some cases, the womenwho kept them had their names printed. Such a conditionas this existed nowhere else in the city, and made this par-ticular street a demoralizing influence which was differentfrom any other and in many ways more powerful for harmthan any other which was found. The Druid Hill Avenue district is the largest and mostpopulous colored neighborhood in Baltimore, if not in theworld. It
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