The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-02
BEHIND THE SCENES.
A 1ormer SedaIfsn's Experiences
in the Lake Side City.

, and women as there is in ChiHsgo There
are The brilliantly lighted gambling dens
the eleg 'nily furnished saloons, ard The
opium joints, where the unsuspaetiug vic.
TINS meet thsir fste-but worse than all
q these are the "DsRo shops" For a lon II.
time past your correspondent has been
hearing stories about these places, les
which were reafSF too blood curdlingr TO be
true he thought and determined 10 crv and
see for himself. 1t did n seem possible
hat in n city where all seems so CAV o.,
the outside that any such vile pisces az
thesseould exit. Strangers visit the great
me- ropolis, enjoy the many wonderful
sighss-tf1e parks, the lake, theatres and
Otherplaees Of amuse1sent-snd even % s.
some OF lhese places in their walks, but
never for one moment do they even sus.
pect what is goibg oa'irs' Ss. Your cor
respondent went down on Rsndolph stree
the other night, for pix I:'is the time when
everything IS in full blast, and was just
going insO
ONE OF THEE HxrA-He1Es
when he was aeeosssd by a. strang,r, who
said:
81 wouldn't 90 in there, youcg man, if
uss YOU"
"Well, 100 are not me. But why do you
speak ihuItJ"
"Well, you ser, IN thu first E'sce, it Is no
place for -eu; AMI again, v Us VIII prob
ably have gOo0 deal harder time grtting
out OF them than you had getting in But
then, may be- you have ben there bsfere22'.
The BAZoorTE ,aid that b. had never
been Inside Of QUE, and thst that was the
very reason rs VS. going, in o-ter "a sat-
isiy his own curiOs isy.
"Your curis.ity will be a gret deal bet
ter of Il yOu do no have i; ,tisied, and If
you AXE on IS advice who has been inside
20 his own sorrIw, you will rem m wLer.
You IRE now-en the 0u,sid-."
We'll, SIR, you say you spe from Px-
perience, maynap, You would not mind teil-
ing me me CT it. Ii not let u, gc.inside
ard Ike a ssatp
Aft-r being seated at table In one of the
long saloons, and being served with cigars,
the stranger annouj eed his viii; N. ne $ 10
proved. He sai1:
when / was Is years of age ran. away !
from home an l came TO Chic go. L. ke
most boys was Wild and unrul,, add of |
course thu GIT ths t could never be q. nj IN /
ulIl bad beel in every saloon, v4rIe v /
thestre and otherplscss in The city. ant ! /
have stem them. all TO nv sorIow The
nabt of keeping BID company
lead to still wore b bis, and / b. anne
So~er and loseE until l reached nv
:. sent station, a common tramp so to
Sreak. / have often tried TO break sh-
spell which seems to be surroundirnme
AID 1t seems the more | try to do right the
wo.s. i get
The BAZooITE expressed his sympathy
for the poor felloS d asked him IS. he
knew anything about the place where they
were.
THAT do, sir, and there are very few
harder holes in Chicago. You had better
keep both eyes and your ears open while
, Oh sre here, and be very careful what you
say and how you act. ;"
10 hear yoNspeak a person would
think that they were liable to be muir
dered"
well, / never saw any ore murdered
here, but / wouldn't be ope bit surpfi. ed if
there hsd been. Many is the man whe. has
come in here frsh and went out withuus
cent in his pocket
"Is that the proprietor's daughter ~
asked your correspondent, motionIr g TO q
, onng girl who had just entered b. side
door.
"No sire, it is Mt Tha. is on, of the
persons OF whom you want to beware. Out
Sardly a lam5,, inwardly she is dyil ,
And she is not the only girl h re by along
ways. The hou>ei Is alive with them You i
zee 'g'e,uy' come in from the
country or some small town
70 STE the CIV. Naturally [
enough the frs, pl &c he s,rik-s is ore OF 7
bese saloons He dos not go to one of the 1
zig looos fpr fear he will g t robbed. q
rbe first thing he knows {
He Is MASHED ON ONE OF THESE TAINTED
FEMALES I
md thinks it IS sm ,rt to get drunk in her e
,omp nv. When once drunk he becomes @
In sY victim"
"But why are these dens n L raided by {
he p,lice?" asked your correspondent. d
'Oh, Sc. Won don't know very much v
IN the first place what reasoa would the
,olce give FOR rsiiing them? The saloons
ire licenss d and are cousequ ntlypro;ected.
1 you visited the many little rooms up
tairs you would not fin one single article {
4 furniture, and If the girls wFre a-rest d :
lothi"g could be prov n on them. Besides
hi j, it would b. hard matter to catch one
# them. for there are more ways than obe
4 g tting in and ost of this place. ii you
wish, L will take you up stairs and show
Iou around"
The BAzooITE thanked him very kindly
,ut eined the invitation BY this time a
he saloon WIS full of men and women,
many Of them in a be silly stat. of intoxi- p
alios, and the oath, that emansted from (
heir lips were simply blood curdling to
lear, and so thoroughly Disguised your cor @
espondeni that he lost Nd time in getting s
Inside where he could get good breath
f sh air. 4,
PICK UPS. a
Scarlet fever is prevalent in Chicago
It present. I
-Forepaush's ciIcus occupies the boards d
be two first weeks in June.
The Msckin- Gallagher election fraud '
q "a has boon IN b ON IN the suDrauae c0urf m