1913 November 13 Atlanta Constitution 18 Pages Georgia

1913 November 13 Atlanta Constitution 18 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1913

PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 4 Woman Who Led Campaign To Put End to Vice in Chicago Confers With Chief Beavers Photos by Francis E. Price. Chief Beavers, who stamped out Atlanta’s segregated district, and Virginia Brooks, who started big fight on vice in Chicago. This picture was taken Wednesday afternoon by The Constitution’s photographer, in Chief Beavers’ office. When yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock, a loud report, as if from a miniature cannon, resounded from the private office of Chief Beavers in police headquarters, and activity there for a moment ceased. It was only a local photographer who caught the chief just as she grasped in warm welcome the little hand of Virginia Brooks, that celebrated young western woman who “cleaned up the town” of West Hammond, Ill., started the same crusade in Chicago, led the women who won the fight for suffrage in that state, and is today one of the most-feared and one of the most-loved women in the west. Feared for her courage in condemning evil where she sees it; loved for the good she has done. In the east, she is called the Inez Millholland of the West, and in the south I predict she will eb called the beautiful messenger who came to tell us the rel