Committee of Fourteen

Committee of Fourteen

The Committee of Fourteen was founded on January 16, 1905 by members of the New York Anti-Saloon League as an association dedicated to the abolition of Raines law hotels. [1]

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History

These hotels were identified in the final report of the Committee of Fifteen in 1902, to be responsible for the spread of prostitution in New York City. New York state's Raines law of 1896 gave hotels the right to sell liquor on Sundays while saloons could not. This led saloon keepers to create rooms for let and apply for a hotel liquor license. The rooms were then used for prostitution. The Committee attacked the problem by lobbying to have the law amended and by making on-site investigations of the "hotels". On February 15, 1905 it was successful in requiring a city inspection before the issuance of a license, and on May 1, 1905 a weakened version of the bill was passed. It presented evidence of violations to the New York State Department of Excise, to the brewers who supplied the saloons, to the surety companies who bonded the saloons, to the real estate owners, the New York City Tenement House Department, and the police. By 1911 most of the Raines Law hotels had closed up and then the Committee worked for the end of other outlets for prostitution. The Committee was dissolved in 1932 when it ran out of money.

Members of the Committee

  • William H. Baldwin
  • Walter G. Hooke
  • Mrs. Mortimer Menken
  • James Pedersen
  • John P. Peters
  • Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch
  • George Haven Putnam
  • Francis Louis Slade
  • Percy S. Straus
  • Lawrence Veiller
  • Frederick H. Whitin
  • George E. Worthington
  • Raymond B. Fosdick

Archive

References

  1. ^ "The Fourteen Will Attempt to Get Brewers to Withdraw Their Backing.". New York Times. August 24, 1909. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9801EEDD1F31E733A25757C2A96E9C946897D6CF. Retrieved 2008-04-27. "The Committee of Fourteen, which was formed for the purpose of suppressing Raines law hotels, according to announcement made yesterday, has entered into negotiations with brewing concerns and surety companies with a view of establishing an "unofficial discretion" that would have the effect of preventing the opening of saloons or hotels of a disorderly character in the future." 

Further reading

  • Ruth C. Engs; Progressive Era's Health Reform Movement: A Historical Dictionary ISBN 0-275-97932-6
  • Timothy J. Gilfoyle; City of Eros : New York City, prostitution, and the commercialization of sex, 1790-1920 ISBN 0-393-31108-2

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