The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-06-20
New YORK East women.

seem to be that arch adventuress--the modern
Fast Woman. Her prototype existed agei
since, as long ago as when Sampson hsrtereC
everything for DeiIah;or later, when "Thais
like another Helen, fired smother Troy, Yot
can trace her down to later times, through al
historical fact and fiction, fiuding her likeness
in many comedy Of Molere in manys aove
Of Fielding, or print Of W iliain Hogafth. Bu
it is in the exciting and fortune making moderr
American lie that she has more fully develop
ed her operations. gaining, at pleasnrei the en-
tree to our chaugehhI and NOT ovef:scrupulou'
upper circles, and having her own wicked say
about half of our real life tragedy and our life
farce.
Here was the body Of murdered woman
/ found floating in the Jersey City Docks about
fortnight since Her head, preserved in spir
its after DAYS of mystery, is at last identified
BY men, to whom, more than TO the passing
crowd. it must seem a dreadful Sight. For
those features. now foul and ghastly enough, to
be sure, not long ago were portion of their
several daily lives, not long ago those eyes,
now starring through muddy impurity," look
ed with the resemblance Of love into Cher own.
| For she was the lawful welded wife Of one,
whom she deserted to lead the dashing life OF
an American fast woman. coming accom-
plshed in this life, she seized the other in her
tolls; took charge of his body, character and
purse; debauched the first, beciouded the sec
ond, scattered recklessly the contents Of the
third.
Sho shifted her abode, we are told, from
place to place. She lived Mt her victims ex-
pense, successively at the Brandreth house, at
the st, Dennis Hotel, at the DOCTORS in Astor
place, at the St. Julien Hotel, at the Lafarge
House, at more than one private boarding
house. All this within two years. And when
her provder saw through the fmsY veil Of her
affection for him she still maintained her ex-
travieance, playing upon his terror Of exposure
as skillfulIv as she had before PLAYED upon his
yielding folly. She spent S20,0uQ Of this one
mans money in two years. During this time
she had other visitors, doubtless other victims.
How many she has ruined He only knows who
has at last called her to her account Such
was the life, and such the end, Of one modern
fast woman Well might the nan we speak
Of when asked to Identify .iesa shapeless fea-
lures, do so at his first glance, and shudder-
ingly turn away.
1t is only now and then that the career and
terrible Influence Of the fast woman are thus
impressi7ely set before the public. An act of
violence is committed, bank forger ruins his
family and himself broker comes to grief, and
to the story of his wicked excesses there is
the invariahle fast woman accompaniment
She does not share the criminals trial
and conviction. however, and the worlds in
terest in her doom passes by.
But she is everywhere and busily present in
American cities and in New York most Of all.
Look for a moment at her method and appear
ance
The Fast Woman is by no means common
harlot, In nine cases out of ten she has never
walked the streets, nor boarded in O house Of
bad repute. Only once in wahile one of the
vulgar sisterhood rises, by superior shrewdness
and accomplishment, to the ranks of the demi-
uloaa The Fast Woman affects the private
boarding house. But the hotel is tie place to
which she gains unquestioned access, where
she lives most at her ease, and is enabled (n
her own language) to beg the most game
And it is owing, first Of all, to the wretched,
conglomerate, American hotel system that fast
woman Of late abound in such numbers, and
are so dangerous to society.
There is always mystery hanging about
the Fast Woman's sutecedeuts. One thing is
certain, though found on every New York
square, she ia rarely New Yorker by birth,
Few city girls, who have the accomplishments
necessary to render fast woman's care sue
cessful, enter upon fast woman's life She
comes to US after an apprenticeship in Boston
Or Philadelphia, and she probably went to those
cities long before But no ono city, not even
| New York can dean her long. Her genus trav-
ell from spot to spot. A placer failing them in
Boston, they 60 prospecting to other towns
From the Revere where their last arrangement
was "played OUT they come to the ST. Mich
OILS to see "whot they can make.-And in the
summer they go in throngs from one watering
place to another. Generally two or three u
mite their forces for the summer campaign -
Not unfrequent(y one accompanies a genteel
looking sporting man as his sister, while two
others figure as causins, or family friends
Together they are formidable set.
Mysterious as are ths fast woman's antece-
dents, her presents, except in the assumed
summer disguise referred to, are still more So
She comes to the respectable" private board
ing house almost always as married wouan
Unfortunately her husbands business is .
such nature that it keeps him traving. He
is the collector and general agent for some
commercial firm, or he is engaged in buying
-four in the west or he is sojourning Europe
The California story Of the husband in success
full San Francisco business, and ofremittaucet
always expected, is about played out. The SO
brlouet Of "California widow" provokes sus
picion at the outset. Not aew fast womer
hunt in couples; one who has passed through
wears Of atrocious experience, unites her will
insness to the beauty and youth of another
new to the trade, and the two, as mother and
daughter, OF more frequently aunt and nect
easily locate themselves in any boarding house
they choose.
Once settled down in new place, Fast Wo
mems method is simple. It'll true that sht