Vice Raid on Washington and Commercial
Police raid a well-known downtown lodging house, arresting the proprietress and several guests.
The Club lodging-house, corner of Washington and Commercial, was pulled at 3 o'clock this morning by Officers Noble, Phillips and Pearce. Nina Harmon, the proprietress, Myrtle Ladd and Mary Johnson, inmates, were taken to police headquarters, together with Frank Westover, Ed Bishop, T. Rhodes, T. B. Derling and Charles Lake, who were found in the house.
“The Club lodging-house, corner of Washington and Commercial, was pulled at 3 o'clock this morning.”
This intersection in Pioneer Square was the heart of Seattle's early red-light district. Raids like this were frequent, often serving as a tool for city officials to exert control over the 'morals' of the lower-income transient population during the city's early rapid growth.
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