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Show OPIUM TRADE PERSISTS IN NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK, Fab. Hi Despite persistent per-sistent efforts to stamp out traftV in opium, the sale and use nf the drag Is again being revealed by raids bnre. It is declared that a "joint" which the police raided in a Second arenae tenement tene-ment last night was one frequented by schoo boys and girls. Detective who had watched the place for three days confirmed reports, it Is alleged, that childrea visited tbe place regularly. A boy of 14 and six young men, one of whom was uneonscioos. were found when the police broke into the place. They lay on au old quilt which had been thrown over the bare slats of a bed, In a dirty, squalid room. |