New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1927, Page 10

LONG time ago, when Rudyard A Kipling was young and out- spoken, and supposed to know his Sodoms and Gomorrahs, he immor- talized the depravity of the ageless East in the followng unforgettable lines: Ship me somewhere east of Suez, Where the best is as the worst; Where there ain’t mo Ten Com- mandments, And a man can raise a thirst. But that was long before Tia Juana mushroomed out of the void into its present unsavory eminence as the wick- edest town on earth. A few years ago this town on the Mexican-Californian frontier was a sandy, hot, arid little settlement, avoided even by the peons and their burros. To-day it is known from one end of the civilized world to the other as a cesspool of iniquity, the stepping-off place of decency, a town where “any- thing goes.” Anything, that is, but murder on the principal streets in broad daylight, and even that may be gotten away with if you pick your victim from among the friendless and the disinherited. All the infamies of the bazaars of the leering Orient are to be experienced in Tia Juana; and the cynical Mexican offi- cials and conscienceless American busi- ness men who made it the red light cap- ital of the western hemisphere have added a few deviltries of their own that the Orientals never dreamed of. The irony of it all is that Tia Juana, trans- lated into English, is “Aunt Jane.” Strange name for a strange town; a parasite town; a very street-walker of a town, that bawls its wicked wares to is known as “the Tia Juana’s most famous gambling palace, which Monte Carlo’ of North America” the infirmities of mankind. People go to the city named “Aunt Jane” to for- get the Ten Command- ments, and certainly “the best is as the worst” within its confines. The wise tourist does not inquire too closely into the character or business of his neighbor at the bar or the lady who consents to dance with him in the cabaret. The language of the house of evil fame is heard on every street cormer, in every cafe, in the lobbies of the hotels, at the rail- road stations. As for thirst, the man who couldn’t slake his thirst in Tia Juana does not exist. There is beer. There is wine, imported, and very fine; native, and very ter- rible. There is liquor. Good liquor, for those who know where to go. Bootleg liquor for gullible Amer- icans who think that be- cause there is no prohibition in Tia Juana all they have to do to get “the real stuff” is bulge in through the near- est swinging door and order up. There are entire blocks in Tia Juana that have not a respectable business es- tablishment within their boundaries. Blocks occupied by gambling houses, sa- loons, hidden places where drugs may be obtained, little houses in which sad-faced girls, in red-flowered dressing gowns, sit all day in the curtained windows and whisper at passers-by. On the right, a street scene in Ti Juana. Every build- ing within the range of the cam- ara is a place for drinking, gambling and dancing Below, interior of one of Tia Juana’s many saloons. This bar is said to be the longest in the world They are like the city in which they live, those unfortunate girls. “Aunt Jane,” too, sits in her window on the frontier, beckoning to foolish, reckless depraved Americans who long for forbid- den pleasures, and winking her evil eye. Tia Juana has a race track where huge prizes are given out, and where huge crowds are entertained in the season. It jLsDAY, JULY 5, 1927 pays the Mexican govern- ment $7,000 a day in taxes. It has the longest bar in the world. ‘It has a club called the Monte Carlo, where the play is higher than anywhere in all this western world. It has as many hide- aways as New York, where even the free-and-easy rules observed in the bet- ter-class places are thrown into the discard. It has companies and battalions and regiments of girls who follow the oldest profes- sion in the world—and the saddest. It lures as strange and cosmopelitan a ¢rowd as ever was gath- ered together on this earth. The city on the frontier got some advertising it didn’t want some months ago, when Thomas M. Peteet, his wife and their two daughters committed sui- cide after a visit that had lasted three days. Peteet got drunk, or was doped, he confessed in his curious farewell letter to the world. His daughters met two charming gentlemen of Tia Juana—a cafe owner and Llanos, the former chief of police—and were assaulted while their father was unconscious. When Peteet regained his senses and learned what had happened, he penned his “shame letter” for posterity, condemned the border city in words that burned and stung, and superintended the self-de- struction of his wife and daughters. Then he killed himself. “We are of good Southern stock,” he said in the “shame letter.” And he con- cluded, “There is no way to wipe out dishonor save by death. We choose that way.” A dismal ending to a “‘good time,” one would say. Many a little trip to Tia Juana would have ended likewise had those who had lost their honor in that disorderly town the sensitiveness of Tom Peteet, Ms wife and his two fine girls. While popular indignation was at fever heat, some of the God-fearing business gentlemen of Los Angeles and San Diego, California, who own three- fourths of the bars and gaming places and dives, got religion, and threatencd to wipe out Tia Juana. They seriously discussed starting an- other pleasure resort a few miles away, over the Mexican line The plan was to run it “liberally,” but not with such out- rageous disregard for the decencies as Tia Juana smiles upon. Liquor was to be had, but not by minors. Gambling was to be kept within bounds, and white slavery ruthlessly suppressed. That, though, was while the public was all worked up, and it looked as if sqme- thing might have to be done about it. As indignation cooled, the good inten- tions of the gentlemen who clip the cou- pons grew weaker. After all, those joints and dives in Tia Juana may not be pretty to contemplate, but they pay big dividends. And the men who own them are very careful to tell their own sons and daughters of the perils of the wanton town on the inter- national boundary line. Tia Juana is only a short distance from San Diego, California, and as it has no first-class hotels itself, most tourists plan to spend the night in San Diego. In that way that thriving and eminently respectable Californian community takes toll of its fallen sister across the line, and is inclined to wink at the latter's cussedness. Tia Juana's rise came after the Eighteenth Amendment was passed by the people of the United States. It can be reached by train, or bus, from Los Angeles. It has been estimated that 180,000 Americans swarm across the Mexican border some days during the season, and most of them go to Tia Juana. Not all the people who visit the world’s wickedest town indulge in the sinful pleasures that has made the place so popular and earned it the odious name by which it is known the world over. Many go there just to see how far a community car. go in pandering to the lowest instincts, but most of Tia Juana’s numerous floating population is lured there by the town's evil at- tractions. The town has every vice but one. It is not hypocritical. It makes no pre- tensions to virtue. Tia Juana is mad and bad and glad of it. | {after him. Otto struck h times, Ernest eaid, and th ed and r GROTHERS IN FIGHT WITH FATAL RESULT {about his heart. mobile, Otto complained a led about the road. Ernest admitted defeat and they quit. When they got back into the auto- | im several nch- BEAR BITES ED DAILEY hey c bout pains He asked Ernest Well Known Sports Promoter Ieaves | to drive and they hurried towards| Erertion Blamed Ior Death of Ervestisom. o Otto Dickerman, Glastonbury 1< wite, dect with his wife, decide, the New Bri —— | He was arrested at the ain police headquarters, Otto Dickerman, aged 51 years, of Naubuc avenue, . died here Bunday whil tomobile, following a fight with his brother, Ernest Dickerman, aged 39 years, of 42 Ellsworth street, New- ington, After an outopsy performed by Dr. John Purney, medical examin- sr, heart failure was given as the cause of death. Dr. Purney found that Otto had been suifering from a chronic heart ailment and that over- exertion in the struggle with his orother made the malady acute. Ernest drove to the New Eritain statfon early Sunday morning and stated that he thought his brother was dead. He was arrested and tal #n to Avon by State Policeman P Lavan in default of bonds of $5,0( He 18 being held on a technical | th¢ charge of manslaughter. | Ernest told the police that the pair had left Glastonbury Saturday noon and had done some shopping In Hartford. They went to Andr sider mill in Farm a gallon of cider. They drank at the home of their cousin, Plude in Avon. On the road to Newington pair became involved in ment over Otto's son, H nd according to Ernest, Otto ed the car, got out and pulled Ernest Baltimore, Md., Two prisoners, on tence for partici der of William B. wounded after they vin n in shof tentia i guard the ners, who we another g “Country” C life sente xs by Ghatles P ster, ser min F. 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