| Show PANDERERS TO VICE the almond eyed celestials celesti als of california are getting in their work upon doree of that glorious climate matein in a manner well calculated to excite the envy even of chicago gamblers to whom I 1 under understand his matauic majesty has credited the most complete destruction of more souls than their kin in any other part of the world lan can L an boast of having attempted to destroy J when T C calkins a white haired merchant from the golden gate made the observation recently to to a chicago post reporter he puffed vigorously at a dying perfecto and upon once restoring it to active life continued yes the celestials celesti als of chinatown may be said to be satraps in pandering to vicious instincts I 1 do not know that it is because they are in iff love with such a vocation so much as their ap re cation of the fact that it pays them CDs dens of iniquity of every imaginable kind they have within the precincts of their town but of all the worst to is the opium joint or perhaps I 1 should say the opium palace Iti it is only sonly decently that the frequenting of these latter places by young americans americana of the coast has been known its discovery was due to the confession of a bright young below of wealthy parents when the ravages of the habits had compelled him to seek the assistance of a physician acting upon the information for mitlon given by this premature physical wreck a raid upon the place wa was made entrance to it was through a dingy laundry most forbidding to a sensitive person thence through a dark passageway which opened into a large sumptuously furnished apartment the walls being on all sides beautiful paintings pain tinge adorn the walls above the alcoves and card tables and easy chairs abound at these tables when the raid was made young men were playing poker bottles of wine from which the players frequently helped themselves were handy inside the alcoves were wide soft lounges and on seventeen of them were as many men not over twenty five years of age either insensible from the fumes of the drug or rapidly becoming so in three other alcoves were three girls two sisters and their maid totally unconscious the entire lot belonged to well to do families and of 0 such influence that the raid was never published except in a very brief way the place had been running a year and from some of the young frequenters it was that there were many like it in chinatown but not hot one would locate them yes the place lace I 1 tell you of was broken up ant and the celestial owners arrested Butth but the vice evice has secured a foothold and so long as the are permitted to remain the vice will continue to grow its hor horrible honable tible I 1 know but truth is not dot noted for its pleasant pictures |
