VICE-STRICKEN TOWN.
REVELATIONS IN AMERICA. A CLEAN-UP PROJECTED. (Australian and N.Z Cable Association.) NEW YORK, May 5. A telegram from Albany says that emulating Philadelphia’s example, this city has engaged! a military officer to clean up the municipality, which is alleged to be vice-stricken. Albany is the Capital of New York State, and when the Legislature ended its session last week it- is alleged the legislators indulged ih a last moment orgy, wherein liquor flowed freely in roulette, folio, and pool rooms, where race track betting occurred within a few squares of the caiDiitnl building. The so-called “red light” district is also within the neighborhood ohd special hotels for legislators are. conveniently located. The Mayor, Mr. ITackett, declared that tHici police were inefficient and corrupt a,nd the force will be thoroughly reformed and boiotleiggers driven out of the city. Numerous arrests have already occurred nndi “bootleggers” who operate from the Canadian border, making Albany the centre of their activities, have been warned to stay outside the city limits.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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168VICE-STRICKEN TOWN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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