New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-03

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Bat she is everywhere and burly present in Aueh-
can cities, and in New.York most Of all. Look, for
uomeut at her method and appearance
TIE Fest Woman Is by no means common hsHot
In nine cases out Of ten she has never walked the
streets, nor boarded In house Of bad rspuss. Oay
once in while of the vulgar sistehood rise', by
superior shrewdness and accomplishments to the ranks
Of the dem,>monde. Tho Fast Woman affect, he pri-
yste boarding house. But the hotel ia the psce to
which she gains unquestioned access, where she lives
most at her esse and is enabled lin her own language
10 beg Il most game. And it Is owing, first OF all,
TO the wretehed, congomerate, American hotel sys-
tam that fast women Of late abound In such numbers,
asd are SO dangerous to society.
There lie always q mystery hanging about the Fast
Wcmsn's sntecedents. One thing is certain, though
foupd on every New.York square, aha is rarely
NewYorker by birth. Few city girls, who have the
sceomplishmenis Necessary 10 render fas! woman's
career successful enter upon fast womans life. She
comes to us after apprenticeship in Boston or Phs-
dephs, snd che probably went to those cities from hs
country long before. But no one city, not even New
York, can detan her long. Her genus travel from
sp II to spot placer failing them in Boston, they go
"prospecting' to other towns. From the Revere,
where their last arrangement was "psyed out, they
come TO the St. Nicholas to see what they can make
And in the Summer they go in thron9s tom one water
ING place to another. Generally two or three unite
heir forces for the Summer campaign. Not unfre-
ouenty oue accompanies genteei looking sporting
man ss his sister while two others figure as cousins or
family friends. Together, trey are formidable set.
Mysterious saTe tie Fast Womans sntecedents, her
rresents except in the assumed Summer disguise re-
erred to, are still 80. She comes to the respect
able private clearinghouse amost aways as mar
rjsd woman. Unfortunately her husbands business Is
of a nature that keeps him travelling. He Is the col
lector and general agent for come commercial firm, or
he is engaged in buying flour at the West or he Is so
ournipg in Europe The California story OF the hus'
band in successful San Francisco business, and OF re-
u,ittances always expected, is about played out The
aobriquet of " California widow proyokes suspicion
at the outset. Not few fast women hunt in couples
one who has passed through years OF arocious expe-
renee unes her witness 10 the beauty aud youth OF
another nsw to the trade aud the two as mother and
daughter, or frequently aunt and niece, easily
locate themselves in any bcarcing they choose
Ono. settled down in a new place, the Fast Womsns
method il simple II is that she aterostes through
ne. between stssss Of msgpiheenoe ana slni'or'
Rarely savins her eXtorticna.s gains the Is ielneh'y
unable 70 psy her board, or buy hsr oiotninsi "hen
fairly shs ken of by outraged 'icim' D11 suppose
her in funds and Just arrived on new groahd. ohe mas
her qualities to begin with. Ste is won'n oil pas
sion is hsndtoms, dresses with the usuL good or oad
taste Of mopeyed American females Sngs tile' plays
little dances PIts. deal lsqniet, aud behaves her
self Bnt Mechanics Boarding house keepers. you AN
ALWAYS tell Ler by ole sgn Before she Gas been VITA
youa week che vii be cqusin,ed with every man 10
the house who lie open 10 sttsok-be ne lawyer broker
merchant. or merchants cleik-snd will know very
few II sny, OF your lady inmates The latter, VITO
iteir finer female instincts, VIII had her ous'
At nm, rate 10 thtir own satisfaction. By and
ly, perhaps. though vtl! quiet aud eompan-
iou'ess at first, she will have many gen
tltmen visi,orr. Perhaps you will then recoilec'
that when abe applied for board she efered you only
10 eenilenen-and highly respectable gentlemen they
veIe too-or inform alton an to her means ADD char
sc,er. Now, II all these things are in combination,
,ou may be wrongng an innocent female 10 doing
what we cay you have rightto do-iha i', III strons-
Y su,pecing your fascinating and uoPro1eced LADY
boarder 10 be a Fast Woman, and, IN Keeping very
close watch upon her moyemenls-in expecting SCORER
or later to hear Of her fastening herself upon soIe
GLOW with mere money than brsins-;o hear OF her
living 10 great splendor at come hote-io hear OF her
rsmo Wiley exposed in connection with some casa oil
'raud and diseipaon-to bear, sooner or laer-of an
evil ending and an urcared-for grave.
Much remains to cay; but here we must quit the
subieet Ifthe Fast Woman lives through all her rsck-
less dissipation through all tho slcughs she is ever in
from he vengeance desperation of her victims, to
period past the bloom of youth when she can Of her'e
ruin no longer abe may still gain vile subsistence
BY linking Der oiunes has been said above, TO those
of some Younger adventures Or she may degenerate
10 the keepership Of some houses supported by
the usts Of men. But in the case and in the other
II Ia fearful retributon that the Fast Woman incufs
for the brief triumpbs OF prodigate youth.
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