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Show Eastern Girls "Hitting" the Pipe. New Yobk, December 21. The WorldTs Baltimore special says: The opium joints have become so numerous in this city of late that a number of prominent physioians have inaugurated a movement to secure proper legislation for their suppression. The police know where ail the resorts are situated, but are powerless to stop the nefarious business, as there is at present no law on the subject in the State. This favorable situation has brought the Chinese to this city from all over the country, and it is estimated that there o are fully 3C0 places here where opium smoking smok-ing is practiced at all hours of the day and night. The attention which the authorities are giving the matter at this time is due to a succession of scandals which have arisen through respectable working girls becoming habitues of the resorts and victims of opium smoking. In one instance, a pretty shop girl stepped into a Liberty street joint in the rear of a Chinese laundry, and out of mere curiosity partially smoked a pipe. The drug seemed to have a fascination for her. She I lost her situation, and one night while in the place, was enticed away in a half -dazed condition con-dition and ruined. This is only one of a number of distressing cases resulting from the presence of these dens. Meanwhile, the Chinese are doing a thriving business and are making lots of money, which it is their habit to send to California via postal money order every Monday morning, when fifty or sixty of them can be seen around the post-office. post-office. . - ; - - i |