Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-09
NEW YORK DELILAHS.
BLAKKLY HALL TALKS ABOUT SHADY
WOMEN OF THE METROPOLIS.
How New York Police Officers Differ From Those Of
Foreign Citiss-Ths History Of the Wcman
Who Tried to Rob the Gambler DAILY
Ad7snturesses Increasing in Num-
Der in New York.
Copyright 1855 by the Author. ]

GERS Is the only tDlpg tnat mas saNeu NC"
York from being the greatest rendezyou!
of sdventuresses in the world.
Women who live by their wits are mo-
treated with the same leniency here thai
they are in Europe. The inspectors OF Pc
lice and the general officers of the force il
London, Berlin and Paris are always army
men and men of the world. They arr
what are technically known as gentle
men" on the other side, and are not as
rule averse to having an affair with pref
ty woman, no matter if che ii
an adventures. Accordingly tht
clever women who live by
their wits across the water have good
deal of confidence in the influence which
their powers of fascination will exercise
over TIE beads of the police departments
When they come in contact with such
level-he AIDED, cold and bawky specimens o.
man kind as Inspector BYrnes and Williams
Of New York, they find, in the slang o.
the day, that it is different"
There is no eentimentality, no court in
fluence, nor supposed connection with an
eminent parsonage to shield the adventur'
ess from punishment. The police give
everything to the papers, and the papers
here would take such serene and cheerful
delight in showing up the particular "em'
inent parsonage" whose mama happened to
be connected with the adventures that
the woman has no protection whatever.
"There is lot of Donsensical talk about
wor en- of queer practices being ladiee, "
said Captain Williams when / questioned
him 70 CAV. 1.-THE fact is that the vast
msio1ity-in fact, I may say nearly all Of
the queer women of New York-spring
from the slums. Some OF them have been
nurse girls or servants in decent families,
and have gained more or less OF smetter.
| iug of gentility there, ba5 in the great ma
iority of instances they owe I'll their show
of intelligence and good form to their ma,
tive American wit. The greatest mistake
that was ever made in this city was WREN
all of the different houses where thes:
girls cangregated were broken up by
| the police and the inmates sent broad.
cast through the city. The question was
no light one 10 be dismissed with nod OF
the head. 1t should have received
the deepest and most careful consid'
Grafton. Take the case about which tie
whole country is talking to-day, Of the
way in which Phil. Daily was enticed over
to that fiat in Fourth Avenue by Addie
Stanton. This woman was an inmate of a
house on Thirty-Fnst street. 1t WAS raid
ed and broken up under order by the 20
lica A dozen or more vicious women
were scattered and obliged to take up quar-
tiers in different sections of the city.
had them followed to see what would be-
come of them, because have always been
interested in the problem. Without an
exception they moved into the populous
tenement or big fiat houses on the East
and West side. In all these places they
were thrown into contact with young g rls
and honest women of various sorts
who were struggling hard to main
tain an existence against poverty.
The newcomers lived in idleness and ease,
had magnificent dresses and plenty of
money. Their quarters were luXuriously
furnished end their lives were in sharp
and wonderful contrast 10 the bitter and
/ poverty-stricken existance of the hores
girls who lived under the came root with
/ them. The fleet of all this on tie morals
of the working women OF the to Sn is OBJ
vious enough 20 you and me, and to any
clreful thinker, but it does not seem to
have entered into the brains Of the men
who makes the laws. TIE anton wo-
man, after her liberation from the house
referred to. became an adventures of the
very worst type. She, like every other
woman, is developed by her surround
ings. She found that she had her
own way to make, and opporIuui.
ty sharpened her wits, until she fiually
arrived at condition where she planned
a murder for the sake of robbery without
turning hair. When people talk about
her being "ladyn it is all rot. She il
one of ten thousand similar women who
are at present quartered all about in the
populous districts in New York preyiDg
upon mankind, but she is little worse
aud a little more daring than the rest
That il all any man who is familiar with
New York City will admit that this is 8
sagacious view of the existing condition Of
things. That adventuresses are increasing
in number is uDquestionable. No man
who goes about town at all is Ignorant o.
the fact that so many of the women of New
York are shady and suspicious, that it il
fair to regard them with an alert eye at al
times. do net refer to women of the
abandoned class by any means. There /:
q large floating population in New
York, and q great many men vic
are always willing to 90 into any
scheme that promises fun. There is also
an epumerable number of men who lead
double lives. All women are not adven
turesses from purely vicious impulse
They get into the business by degrees
Take an illustration that fell under my OBJ
servation. had taken a fiat on Forty
second street from o friend of mine who
was going to Europe for a couple years.
! He was a married man of the utmost re-
spt C liability, and I moved into the place
under a four months lease without think.
much about he house or the people in it.
It was handsome building, and the apart,
ments were exp ensive The one which / oc-
cupied was the third fiat, and the rent was
thousand dollars a year unfinished.
There was boy in livery in the hall, and
everything about the building was
strictly proper and conventional. By
chance I went into the country the
day after had moved into the place, and
on coming back near midnight on Sunday
found that could not get into the house.
The outer doors were closed at eleven
o'clock. had not taken night key with
me because 1 supposed I could get access
to the bell and arouse nay servant, but the
closing of the outer doors cut off the bells:
I was travel-stained and weary. and did