Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1930, Page 3

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This is the fifth of a series of articles on Washington’s alley prob- lem ‘and the proposals for its solution. It is generally conceded that Wash- ington’s worst inhabited alleys now are found in the older areas of the North- west. section. ‘This is true especially with neighbar- hoods which have changed from white to colored within the iast two decades, such as are found in the territory cov- ered by the second and eighth palice precincts. Here the alley dwellings have taken the dregs of the incoming | population, affording a consiant and | dangerous ‘problem for police and social workers. In parts ot the Northwest where the population has remained predominantly white the multiplying apartment houses, with the demands of their occupants for garages and parking space, have brought about a quite different trans- formation by supplying a sound eco- nomic use for the propert; 'he apart- ment house has not eliminated entirely the alley dwelling, but it has reduced the occupants to a minimum. ‘Thus in some sections there are found striking conrasts, not entirely without beauty to the artistic eye. It is worthy of note that following the war there was a spasmodic movement to crea.e in some of these hidden villages a local Bohemia, Their isolated prox- imity to the life of the city, combined with a certain strangeness of contrast and safety from prying eyes, seemed to provide the proper atmosphere. Bohemian Move Falters. But for some reason or oiher the movement of the city's artist population into the alleys has not proceeded far. Perhaps Washington does not afford the proper stimulus for a Bohemia- even an obviously artificial one. Be- sides, the demand for garage space and automobile repair shops apparently has | been too insistent. An interesting alley of the mixed | Bohemian garage type is St. Matthew’s court, behind St. Matthew's Church, be- | tween Rhode Isl avenue and | street. Here two or ‘three of the little houses are occupled by artists, who, | with trellised doors and hanging lan- | terns, have sought to produce a charm- ing effect in the little H of narrow streets under the shadow of the lofty dome and golden cross of the old church. But the open garages and a few upstairs tenements still occupied by the intensely practical colored families | rather spoil the Bohemian effect. Oth- ]erwiu here might be the start of charming color thread in the civic body of Washington. St. Matthew's court is right off busy streets, yet once inside looking over the high-walled gardens on the N street side and the modern world might seem far away were it not for the parked automo- miles. The same is true of most of the rest of these persistent backwashes of an elder day in this partof the city. A few | inhabited hovels remain under the ivy- covered high brick walls of the fine old | houses and the garden walls arrayed in | | the silken pink of tausendshoen blos- soms—as the one that hems in one | end of Hutchins court, between Six- teenth, Seventeenth, Massachusetts ave- nue ard O street. Then there is the long, narrow alley running all the way |between Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets in the line between P and Church streets, starting under the stained-glass windows over the pulpit of the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church and ending in the rear of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church. Apartment houses have taken over the alleys for breathing spaces. ‘The tenants have gone. The automobile and the tin garage may not be espe- cllllf esthetic, but neither are they squalid, dirty or criminal. ‘These alleys represent about the west- ward extension until one reaches But turning eastward across Fourteenth street, the alley af mosphere loses this touch of charm a quired from the neighborhood of grand- eur and the Bohemian tintings and seems to degenerate steadily as the pan- orama is extended into the solidly col- ored sections. Avenue Inappropriately Named. Some of the worst alleys are found in the wg‘o‘:rm of the eighth precinct. Police this station, under the di- rection of Capt. Robert E. Doyle, have been surveying the alleys recently and ordering the removal of unsightly junk from them, so that now they present a fairly good physical appearance. That is about all the police can do. They can't, Capt. Doyle points out, improve sanitary conditions which are unimprov- able or change the character of the pop- ulltltun without changing the environ- ment. One of the worst bears the inap- gropnlu name of Temperance avenue, emmed in by Twelfth, Thirteenth, T and U streets, where 86 persons are congregated in tiny four-room houses with practically no modern improve- ments and generally concealed from the rest of the world. Another locality whose name sounds aristocratic, but which, in fact, is exactly the opposite, is Waverly terrace, where 42 persons are found in 16 houses. Cedar court, be-| tween Thirteenth, Fourteenth, § and T streets, has 44 persons in 17 houses. Altogether Capt. Doyle lists 19 alleys in the precinct, all with about the same living conditions and types of popula- HAS WORST ALLEYS |CONGRESSMEN SEE HOMES IN ALLEYS ON TOUR OF HOUSES | (Continued From First Page.) except, for picturet on the walls, which | were mostly family portraits or religious | llustrations. Nearly all are tenants. In Industrial Area. Grace alley is a sordid residential island in an industrial area. The dwelling houses on the surrounding streets have been replaced by ware- houses and factories, but the little in- | terior court settlement, with its wind- | ing paved lanes, has been left, and ideal breeding place for crime of all sorts, and with very insanitary condi- tions. But for the most part there ap- peared to be some effort to keep the little tenements clean. As in the other | alleys, there was a complete absence | of shade and the customary groups of | children playing in the streets. | The party then went across the city | Goat alley, bounded by Sixth, Seventh, L and M streets, which is re- puted to be a “tough place.” the scene of considerable crime. Picturesquely | enough, the landscape of tils D...... community is dominated by th- stain-'- | glass window of a colored church on Sixth street. Few of the folks were at home, the | houses were about the same as in other | alleys, and the party huried on to the climax of the tour—Pierce alley, bound- ed by First, L and Pierce streets and New Jersey avenue, which often has been described, together with the neigh- boring Logan alley, as representing the worst conditions in Washington. It | made a profound impression on the congressional visitors, several of whom remarked that they had not realized such a settlement could exist in the midst of a modern American city. It was denounced especially as a fire haz- ard. There is a customary tangle of narrow streets from which, with the two entrances difficult to locate, few could escape in case of a conflagration. | ceptional amour of major crime in the | | alleys, but they are natural centers of | | gambling, bootlegging and drinking— ugly, insanitary and breeding places of | vice. The policeman whose beat in- | cludes one of them finds he must give | | a great deal more attention to it than to the streets. It requires constant patrol- ling. | | No Incentive to Change. The inhabitants are poor and many of them of the lowest tvpe morally. But | living in such surroundings, Capt. Doyle points out, they have little incentive to change their condition. He believes that if these people, even the worst of them, could be got onto the street and into the open, where they would have the stimulus of even a slightly better environment. not only would the burden of policing the territory be greatly re- duced, but there would be an actual im- provement in the inhabitants them- selves. A hidden environment, he be- s in itself a natural stimulus to | anti-social behavior. What are generally regarded as the worst alleys of all are found in the ter- ritory of the second precinct, including such notorious pockets of crime ~as Blagden's alley, hemmed in by Ninth Tenth, M and N streets, which is a congregating place for bootleggers, and the populous Naylors court, back of Convention Hell, whose inhabitants are giving constant trouble to the police. Altogether 29 alleys, some of them with only a few houses, are listed in the precinct, starting with ABC alley, at First street and New Jersey avenue, and including such picturesque places as Goat alley, at Sixth, Seventh, L and M streets, and Pole lot, surrounded by First, Third, P and Q streets. All of them are described by the precinct po- lice as “bad” and dangerous—scenes not only of minor crime, but of occa- sional murders. All the police are sup- posed to familiarize themselves with tI alley people—a precaution which result- ed in the y arrest of the slayers of Prohibition Agent Yorke a few weeks 8go. Some of these alleys are entered by mflu at night in pairs. re have been no apariment houses. either white or colored, in this section to bring about any change in the char- acter of the alleys by providing a more economical use for the property than as housing for human beings. The neigh- borhood surrounding the alleys is gen- erally drab, so there are none of the colorful contrasts over back-yard fences such as are meé)mk_ red even in Cats and Dogs Present. A characteristic bit of slum color was found in the large number of alley cats—dirty, half-starved creatures that crawled about everywhere. A dead black cat in the center of one street was the center of a group of dirty chil- dren. All the men seemed to be at home. The alley was full of them and they seemed to be in high spirits, laughing uproariously at a three-legged dog which some of the boys had brought | in_from the street. ‘The houses are mostly of three stories, with wooden galleries on the upper floors. These galleries were filled with men, women and children, who flocked to look at the unexpected visitors. Overhead, stretching from gallery to gallery across the streets, were mnet- works of clothes lines. The rear of the houses were piled high with junk of all Ds;)r'.s, making them prospective fire- Members of the party went into sev- eral of the houses, some of which seem to b deteriorating fast. They were barren and sordid. ‘The only touch of color came from the pictures on the walls, which seem characteristic of the alley dwellers. There was the custom- ary alley odor and the noon sun beat down furiously on-the shadeless lanes where the chiidren played. Alleys Seen at Worst. Pierce alley long has had an un- savory reputation, and it impressed the congressional delegation more than any of the others, although the houses were actually no worse than in Navy place or Grace court. The legislators saw the alley conditions in Washington at their worst and probably at their best. Mr. Ihider explained that the houses themselves were not much worse than could be found on open streets, that most of the alleys had lights and water, and that the actual slum conditions might not be much worse than in some other cities. But, he pointed out, the situation here is peculiar and demands strenuous remedial action because of the concealed character of the settle- ments. Shut off from the rest of the city, they are natural congregating places for crime and vice of all sorts. —_— some of the worst “hidden villages” of the Southwest sect'on, And, as in other sections, these alleys are partially hid- den, making them a constan: menace to moral and sanitary conditions sur- Will Rogers BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., June 8.— | Hurrah for Ruth Bryan Owen, she is going back into Congress from one of our insular possessions. Politically bred, she is a thoroughbred. She was born at a na- tional convention, weaned on unfer- mented grape juice and raised to wom- anhood on cam- paign speeches. She should have run for the Senate, with two real pure bred political Ruths in there they might have revived that old body to some of its past glory. She defeated a wet in Florida. They just won't let me count these Literary Digest votes at these reg- ular elections, CHILDREN TO ACT | fots From 7 to 10 Years Old Enter- tain at Community Center. A two-act play, “The Pig Prince,” given by children from Macfarignd Community Center, will feature the an- nual Spring program of the George- town Community Center at the Gordon Junior High Building, Thirty-fifth and T streets, Priday night. “The Pig Prince” will be directed by Donna Taggart and the prologue spoken by Frances Rands. The players are all between the ages of 7 and 10| years. 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