Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-09-24
A Day Of Debauch Followed by a Night in a
Bawdy House.

As Times reporter was returning home
from his labors at an early hour on yester.
day morning, passing up West Madison
street, his attention was attracted by small
but excited crowd in front of "Peep
O'Day" restaurant on that thoroughfare
There were two fsshily dressed bat fair
looking women of the pace among the
groupe, and they, with the help of couple
Of colored walters, were assisting q gentle
men, who seemed insbriated, into q hack
that stood in front of the door. The task,
and it was no easy one, was at length &C
CONF lished the females likewise entered
the coupe, and all drove rapidly away.
This seene was NOT an unusual one for
the hour and street, and it was for this very
reason that the reporters attention was at
tracted to the unusual amount of sympathy
bestowed on the individual just he ped away.
he accordingly inquired the cause, of one Of
the groupe:
"That, why that was poor Dick Yates
one of the brightest chaps that ever sat in
the Senate of Uncle Sam. Bot whisky 3
got him on the hip"
''Aud those loud females that had him in
charge, who are they
"Goess you havn't lived around Chicago
long not to know Madam Rudolphs. That
large lady was the madam, and the other
was one of her girls"
| And then the reporter learned that ex-
Senator Richard Yates arrived in the city on
Thursday, fresh from his great orstorical
| effort al the late Springfield meeting in the
interest OF Grant, and put up at the Ire.
mont House. He was still under the ipfu
encs of soft-shell crabs, and during the day
he started out on tour of inspection of the
burnt district. he viewed the work of re.
building, and investigated the interior a,
well as the exterior of the structures fin
ished.
Now ii happens that many of the enter
prising gentlemen who have crswled bach
into the burnt district are Of the class who
traffic in distilled damnation, and the inyes-
tIgation Of Chicagos rise tended the more
etfeetuslly to poor Richards fall.
Nightfall found him on the western Dor
der of the burnt district, whence it was il
the natural order of things that he shoult
follow the crowds that swept past the doc
of Madam Rudolphss charming cottage
Thither tended the ex-Senator's INSTEAD
steps, but just why they should stop at tina
particular place the reporters informsn
was unable to state. Likewise concerpInJ
the events of the evening inside the Ru
Idolphe mansion the reporter is ignorant.
But, after q while, 9 proposition TO visi
the restaurant above mentioned was &C
csptsd by the madame and one of her fai
boarders. A hack Was secured, and the,
we're set down at the door.
But . few moments passed after their en-
try before poor Dick dropped out of the chat
upon the floor in ft. He was taken bacl
to the fremont, where he nov lies in dan
gsrous condition.
Issppears that the unfortunate man cam
to the city unAcoompAnied, and that his &c
centric peregIiRstions were undertaken Of
his own account. He is now in the hand
of some of his old friends and political as
socistes who have brought able msdics
gentlemen to his assistance. Mr.. Yates j
but mere wreck of his formsr self, an
those who used to see him when the fam
of eloquencs lighted up his cOunteLance
and when he was the peer Of any speaker i
the land, would hardly know him now, pale
hRgRRrd, slovenly IN attire, and broke
down physically and mentally. He is trul
an object Of sympathy, and 8 sad exempl
of the evil effects of liquor Chicago Time.
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