| Show OPIUM DENS A TO A COUPLE OF CHINESE HAUNTS this afternoon a report was waa afloat that a chinaman bad dropped dead in one of the alleys off commercial street accordingly a representative of the NEWS proceeded edid to that un nn t savory neighborhood and discovered that the rumor was au n exaggeration the facts are that shing quang arrived from ogden four days ago and put t up at the den of chinese dick 90 hewak waa was III lii with brights bright s disease and dr benedict waa wag called to ate aie at tend him being in the last adages of the malady he expired this morn mom ing ingy and lay curled up on a board with a blanket over him dicka place being a notorious opium den our representative took a look laok through the premises premi aeb ves being lighted down a dark narrow stair way the atmosphere of which w was am musty and unwholesome an under ground apartment was reached the aides aidea were cased cued with rough and mund gund the room were large shelves covered with matting on which the opium re cline while engaged in their pernicious practice there WAS also aiso aleoa a table which wab was used for gamb gambling lingg a pursuit bhatia thatis chronic with nearly all chinaman the implements used for smoking are quite curious A large bulb shaped head is fixed upon a thick stem about eight inches long in this head isa faa i a small opening about a of an inch ta in diameter the opium is taken upon the end of a wire burned cven over a lamp and stuffed into tile tiie small aperture in the head which Is ia held over the light of the lamp and the smoker takes a few puff twenty five nive centa cents being charged for each pipe another den was visited next door that of quong wah bing sing where two were found lying upon a shelf smoking opium on oa being asked how it made him feel eel one of them sald bald mato mako im allee time feel goo good d mo me feel bad me no balkee me meb mee mobee feel fee isilee lallee allee lite balkee plenty allee asme aarne me klinkee whisked skee 31 it was waa stated that a large number i of the inmates of the place were absent engaged in various pursuits and that at night each place had be tween twenty and thirty lodgers an A the premises are exceedingly small they must be packed away like ilke sardines in a box or bees in a a hive it is a wonder they manage to exist at all in the foul fetid at mo sphere that necessarily pervades theae degraded dens denb |
