, 1860-05-17
The Modern Fast Wonan.-Her My&
terry Her Method aud Career.

ter}, Her Method aud Career.
fErou4 the rcx Tux Tribunal
Among the swa1 MS ot male ana female udyeu
tarers who lead lives coup.ct Of subslety and
reckleseness, snd are drawn to great cities by
love Of luxury, and by the surer field shero
afforded for q campaign against society atlarge,
The mast subtle and dangerous Of all would
seem to be That arch adgeutnress, the modern
Fast Woman. Her prototype existed ages
since, as long ago as when Sampson bart red
every,hipg for Delilah; or, later, when '' That's.
Like another Helen, fred smother Troy" You
eau trace her do@n to later times, through Ill
historical iact aud fiction, finding her likeuess
in many comedy Of Moliere, in many novel
of Fle ding, or print Of Wm. Hogarth. But it is
IN the exciting and fortune making modern
American life that she has more fully developed
her operations, gaming at pleasure tlo entree
70 our changeful and not over scrupulons upper
circles, and havlnE her oWn wicked say about
half Of our reai lie tragedy and farce.
' here was the body Of murdered woman,
found daa1tag in the jersey Guy DICKS about 4
fortnight since. Her bead, preserved in spirits,
after days Of mystery, is 1T last identified by
men, to whom, more than to the passiQg CROWD,
it must see1u a dreadful sight. Fur tuose fen
.tures, now tout and gbastly enough to be sure,
not long ago we're u portion Of their several dal
y lisea; not long ago those eyes, now" staring
thEough muddy lmpurity," look ed with thesem .
bance OF love into their own For she IVES the
the dashtug life Of m Americap Fast Wom N.
Becou,ing accomplished in,this lie, abe Sc zed
the other III her tolls; took Charge oil lis body,
character and purse; detauched the first, be-
clouded tho. second, scattered reckltssly the
contents OF the third. She shifted her abode.
Nc are told, from place tu place. She lived at
her victims expense, successfully aI the bruu.
dreth House, al the st. Denis Ho ell ut 3 doc.
tors in the Assor plaee, al the S. Julien Hotel,
at the Latarge House, Ut mole than one private
~boardlng huuse. AL this within two yeaIs,
And when her proTioer.suw through the almsy
<Fe'l Of her Affection or hun, she ssll main.a'ued
the exssayaGancc, psa5 Ing upon hss terror Of ex-
posure as * llulls ds .ahe had played upon his
yielding fully she spent $2o.o0G Of thus one
man d money in txo ears. Uurtng all This time
She had other visitors doubtless o.hes victims:
How m.ny the has ruihed lie only knows, who
bus, at lust, called ,Aer to account Such was
Womsn". w - wei n,,Ebs tIe @ maa ~ we speak e. q,
whtn asked to identity those sbapeless {catures,
aesS do 81 st his afs, eas<s aad shuddsFi9e' turn
:; lta only now aid then that the caieeri Ind
terrible influence Of. the Fast Woman are thus
'impressisely set before the public. An act Of
family and himself, broker comes. to: grief,
aud to the stnry Of his wicked excesses, there
is the inyar,ablc Fast Woman accompaniment.
~be does moi share the criminals trial and con-
vicsion however, and thu, e,worla's interest in her
SOM passes away.
But the is everywhere and busily present in
American cities, mud in::New York most Of all
Look for moment st her method and appear
Ance.
The Fast. Woman is by no means common
hariot. In nine cases OUT of ten she has never
walked the streets, nor boarded in q house OF
bad repnte.' Only opce in a while one Of the
vulgar sisterhood riso b.. supetior. shrewdness
f,r14aP r. f4t I'm 4bu u,f II
snondt. The Fast Woman ati-cts the private
boarding house. Bat the hotel ia the. place to
~hlcA sue Ealns unq 1estIoned access, where she
lives most at her ease, aud is enabled (in her
own lauguake} to bug the most game. And 1t
Is Owing. hrst Of all, to tho wretcned, conglom-
Of late abound in such numbers, and arc so
dangerous 10 society.
There ia a!ways q Misery hanging about the
Fast Woman's antecedentd. One th,nR is, Ger
tain, thong h found on every New York square,
ehs y rareiy New Yorker by birth. Few city
10 render fast womsn'a career successful, en-
ter upon Fast Woman's life. She comes TO Us
after an apprenticeship in Boston or Phi:adel.
phia, and she: probably went to those cities
from the country long before. But no ope city,
MT even New York, can desain her long. Her
genius traTel from spot to spot. a placer fail
ing them in Bcstou, they 60 prospecting" to
other towos From the Revere, where. their.
last arr4ngt ment was play ed out" they come
to the ST. Nicholas to see "1hat they can
make" And in the summer they 70 in thrones
from one watering place to another. Generally
two or three unite their forces for the summer
campaign: Not antrequeutlJ one accomp .uies
aKentecl looking sporting man as his eister,
while two others hEuro rs cousins or family
friends: Together they sre formidable set.
Mysterious ~ is the Fast Woman's autscedents,
her presents, except in the assumed summer
d.
COMES to the respectable private boarding
house almost always as. married woman.
Unfortunately her husbands business is of
nature that keeps him travelling. He is col
lector and travelling agent for :. me commercial
firm, or be is enga:ed in huylag auur at The
W.T.: Sa:s or taI,;s be Is se[ou1nng in Enrope:
Woman's me hod is simple. Il is true that she
alernates through Lille, between stages Ut mag
nifcence and equnior. Rarely SAVING her ex.
tortionate gains; she 10 frequently unable 10
pay her board, or buy clothing, when ta,rly
shaken of Of IN outraged victim. But suppose
her IN funds, and jus. arrived on new grounds.
She has her qualities, to begin with She is a
woman Of puaslop, is handsome, dresses with |
the usual good or bad tAste Of moneyed Ameri- |
can women, sings. little, plays little, aud |
dances great deal II qulet sno behaves her
you can always tell her by one sign. Bsf.re
sbe has been wth you week, she wll+fb be sc.
qnalnted wf'h every man in The hclase who "a
open to attack-6e he lawyer. Link er. merch,nt
or merch&nt's clezk-aud Will kuow ferr ,,w If
any. 81 your lady i.ma es The. latter. with
toen nnsf lema!e instincts, will fiud her out, At
any rag TO the;r satisfaction. By.and- by, per.
nhPs' tRoakn ve1T quiet and compan.ontc.s at |
1rs:, she will have nany gentlemen v,,itor. |
ferhnps you will secoliecs that when she ap- /
of1ed 'or board, she referred you only to een. |
Llemen-and highly respectable gentlemen thev
'sere, too-for information as to her means and |
snarscter. Ao". il Ill these things are in COM
Joa may be wFunging IN innocent f.
male IN dung ~hat We sag you have right 10
IL, in strongly auspecting your ia.cin:
aiIlng and unprotected lady boarder toi,e Fsst
onan,a and, in keeping a very close watch upon
LET uoTements-in expecting, sooner or later,
% hear OF her fastening herself upon some let.
o" VITA mora money than brains--to bea. Of
1er l1viug in great ,plendor at some ho,tl-to
1ehr Of her name vilely exposed to connection
Nth some cases Of fraud and dissipation-to
lear, sooner Or later, Of an erit ending and an !
lncafed for grave, /
TIE $4,000 DIAMOND RonnEer N n.
=, =: 2. rae lnlnF.-The .x 0rlesn.
De{ta OF the Glib gives the iolo~'.no .no ,,.-t;a,i.rs
D. ne M great robbery briefly :.aodsd 10 bT tele.
j., ,..we y recently .nr:asunced .he robbery Of
,,oa nq e.; sst 0! oonds. the property Of
.ho y. .a's city, BY hi. servant girl L. ,uias
,ol,cs et.oasty disappeared, and thur 4gb ,he
-ef whereabouts conti. be 7tseesta,n ed Tha
General Impression prevailed that sis vas s,;li
p the city, and. accordingly, evefv nooE ma
sofner where slave might te Concealed wa.
'4nsaeked, but the officers bega.. to desna;r ~
n puiea pnino;ns @ oef. Aoont week ago the Chief /
'een seen few days before IN The civ. and ha
gam pot bis specials on the lookort vss+