Show I Opium Smokers Take New Quarters NEW YORK March 18 Opium dens and bases for the use and distribution of narcotics are being moved from their old haunts down in the lower e east eist st side to more pretentious quarters in the upper west side aide neighborhoods This came to light today when Dr Carlton Simon special deputy police commissioner in charge of the narcotic narcotic narcotic nar nar- cotic division announced that he had begun a crusade against a number of such places in the residential districts An apartment facing Central park was visited by Dr Simons Simon's squad last night and was found to contain all the appurtenances of ot an opium den Wet sponges were suspended from strings the police said and the walls and ceilIng cell cell- Ing had been dampened to prevent the fumes escaping A woman said to have been a a. motion motion motion mo mo- tion picture actress some time ago but at present an artists artist's model was taken I to the police station with a male companion com corn panion but they were released after being questioned closely Richly gowned women have been seen entering the house usually during durIng during dur dur- ing the early morning hours |