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...From 6 to 11 o'clock the majority of the 2500 will retire to Scollay Square for fun. They will rotate groups in and out of the Casino and Old Howard...
Taking personal command of a doubled force, assistant manager Ralph E. Owen was reconstructing yesterday West's movements during his last week here, in investigations that led the detective from the Pot of Gold, a Scollay Square Tavern, to the Ritz Carleton Hotel. He reported numerous identifications, but stressed that many of them were unreliable...
Many will question the need for a watchdog of morality, especially in Boston. But Croteau cities Scollay and the "tenderloin" area (in and around lower Washington Street) as examples of what a surface-strict city will allow under the facade. Whether Watch and Ward can help has been a matter for frequent public debate. Certainly the Society's streamlined and neo-sociological methods in the field of vice-suppression cannot hurt. But along with the new methods has come expansion--Watch and Ward will move from its retreat to occupy the entire Christian Endeavor Building. Its new facilities will...
Agents of the Hopedale police force were checking saloons in Scollay Square last night for "the little private bar" mentioned by Thomas H. West, Jr. '50 in a hastily scrawled message to his roommates found by them the afternoon of his disappearance one week ago. "It's the only lead we've got," declared Thomas F. Malloy, chief of the gendarmie of West's home town, last night...
Soon the situation was well out of hand. Mobs fought with firemen and police (ten cops were injured), hurled bottles and bricks through windows, smashed the ticket booth of Scollay Square's Old Howard burlesque house, turned on a fire hose in a downtown movie theater. Women of all ages fled from the streets. Said Police Superintendent Edward W. Fallon: "The worst night in my experience...