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Show -. THE SOCIAL EVIL. A City Detective Discussos tho Situation and Tells Some Plain Truths. "Every other lodging house in the business busi-ness district has one or more nymphs as roomers," said a city detective yesterday, "but as they conduct their business on the sly it is utterly impossible for us to make a case against them." Ho was discussing the social evil, and iu the course of the talk he expressed himself as being in favor of confining them in one district. "s it is now," said he, "houses of ill-fame are scattered far and wide and it is an impossibility for the police to keep such a strict surveillance over them as is done in other cities. When Franklin avenue was in full blast we knew just where the women were and could place our hands on one of them at a moment's notice, but now they can ply their unholy calling with impunity, rob verdants and contaminate respectable neighborhoods with their j presecce and we are powerless to restrict j them." ! |