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Show L Shocking Condition of Affairs That I Are Bevealed in Chinese I Headquarters! loBPHEUS IN ALL SHAPES. In Affliction that .Demands Immediate I and Heroio Action By Mar-I Mar-I shal Young. I Inferno itself never unfolded a more ,vo!ting panorama than that which las opt ned by Ollicer Sullivan and a Lrty of explorers . through the Chinese I joints." It was after midnight when Ice sinister portals of No. .20 Coramer-lial Coramer-lial avenue were entered. From the im-iit apartment floated a nauseating liist that settled on tho olfactories and llmost induced the adventurers to retrace re-trace their stepg. A brace of shadowy lorms wero reclining on the matted lurfaco of a table. Between them, in llnggish obedience to its worshiper, lias an opium smoking outfit consisting It tho lamp from tho top of which came l lazy flame, a hop-toy that was filled kith tho dreamy drug, and a pipe, the Ixact contour and shape of which can only be understood when it is seen, ji'rom this ghastly entrance the party entered a subterranean avenue, one lisle joining with the other until nearly Is hundred feet had been penetrated, the raven itself never provided pro-vided over ' a more sombre spec-jtaclc. spec-jtaclc. Its clients were all seeking one thing tho balm of Gilead. Morpheus Iras seen in all forms and shapes. It Ivas, indeed, the carnival night of the Iweek.' The mongolian was out in full force. Somo had smoked a drunken liill and were spinning off unintelligible jargon in unlimited volume. Others llisd just thrown themselves, upon the table aDd were inhaling the repulsive fumes. Occasionally a woman was found to add . her wrinkled charms to Ithe horror of the spectacle. For an hour this voyage was kept up and it is Iprobable that in its windings a hun-Idred hun-Idred of the devotees of Confucius were seen drawing upon the pipes. )y I "Is there no way of abating it?" was asked of Officer Sullivan. I "None whatever. The Chinaman I smokes his pipe with the same license I that the white man swills his whiskey. I There is no law by which they can be attacked save where they permit the Melican man to Join them in its joys." Helpless the officers walk by this infamous condition of affairs a half dozen times during the night. From cellar and roof oozes the sickening sicken-ing and death dealing offluvium to vitiate and poison the God-given air. So man who has not made the tour of the dives can appreciate the effect they must necessarily exert on the hygenio welfare of the city. It is more per-necious per-necious than all other agencies combined com-bined and in the absence of a law there is the natural and constitutional right that authorizes the suppression of evil that justifies a crusade against this one. It is conducted with the most brazen contempt for the laws of decency and while there are none to be seen under the light of the lamps and can-ties, can-ties, it is none the less a fact that there is a Caucasian clientage in the deeper and darker recesses of the quarter. It is time that a crusade was waged against them, and Marshal loiing in the interest of health has the same right to blot out this atrocity that the health commissioner has to proceed against the man who dumps his gar-page gar-page on the public thoroughfare. There is no tofling how many of the household house-hold angels have found their way into this desolating den, or how many of the downfallen trace their ruin through its portals. It is a nuisance that should he and can be abated notwithstanding the indifference of the statute, and a against them will elicit the approval ap-proval of every man who has the wel-fjre wel-fjre of the city at heart. As it is now there is no such thing in Salt Lake as Pre air. Let the campaign begin at once. |