Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-22
OPIUM DENS.
A Large Number Raided by the
Police of New York.
y-Seven White Women and
Girls Arrested.

All Glasses of Society Represented
Chinatown Has Seen Many Raids, Bu'
None Like This Ever Known Before
An Attempt to Crush Out One of the
Worst Evils Known to the World 81
Vice.
NEW YORK, Oct. 92.-All was calm I'D
usual in the Chinese quarters early last
night. About 500 o'clock lot of stal.
wart men entered the three streets
which contain the greater part of the
Cinnamon of this town. They came
from different directions in small
bodies, but stopped as if by signal at
the same moment some distances apart.
Nine, who had marched down the
Bowery in military style, stopped in
Doyers street just west Of the Bowery.
Nine, more stopped in Pell street, at
about the same distance from the
Bowery. Six men struck Pell street a
little above its junction with Doyers.
Suddenly Police Captain McMullagh,
the younger, and Detective Christie,
turned into Doyer street and wake 4
rapidly to the delapidated wooden
building at No. 6.
From that moment until 9:30 o'clock
Chinatown was in ferment. The
white women who live with Cinnamon
and whose antics had caused complaints
from the poor, respectable tenants of
the neighborhood, frightened by the ap-
pearance of the detectives, ran out into
the streets lik1 rats from house afire.
Only there they found themselves in
what the French story writers would
call Cul-de-sac. Attempting TO get
away from the police i'll the houses they
ran into the Lolice at the intersections
of the streets, and were arrested as dis
orderly persons.
The Like Never Known Before.
Chinatown had seen many raids, but
none like this. Thee was no one but
an old Chinaman in the basement of
No. g. but nine women were found on
the upper floors. In the rear of the
first floor the rooms had been cut up in
to little closets. Each of these had a
wide bunk, and each bunk was occu-
pied when the detectives came in.
There was no ventilation, and the smell
of opium was sickening. The women
were all young.
Most Of them were only half
dressed, and some had evidently retired
for the night. The Cinnamon scamper-
ed ont of the rooms unheeded by the de-
tectives. but the women We're anxious
to hide. They craw]ed under the hunks,
and slammed shut the closet doors in
the policemens faces. but they were
showed out, and while some ran into the
ca, pt1,nYu al 10,
of the roof.
the fleeing figures i'll the darkness.
especially rs Cinnamon We're watching
at every room on the upper f'oors to
snake them i'll and hide them. Some Of
the girls wept and some laughed, aud
seemed to think it good joke. Most
of them were half stupid with opium,
md half-burned pipes and lamps We're
found in every room.
The girls who had run into the street
at first did not stop t. dress, but the
Cinnamon brought out wraps to them
with which they covered their half
naked bodies.
The next house west of No. 6 was
also full of girls. They had been
warned, however, by the fate of the
Others and instead of running into the
street tE2y locked and larred their
doors and put out the lights. All at
tempts to force the doors were unavail-
ing and the police passed on to No. 10.
Three girls were found here and driven
out into the street to join their sisters.
No. II Doyers has long been notori-
ous. There is sub-cellar here, and the
Cinnamon retreat to it when they think
the police are after them. Recently
dead Chinamnn was taken from there
by some tenants and thrown into the
street. A number of girls were known
to live in the house, and dozens of
dresses and other items of feminine at
tire We're found in the different rooms,
but the girls had fed.
Nos 10, II and Il, all notorious
houses, were ransacked, and many evi-
dences OF feminine occupancy were
found, but onlya few girls were caught
They all Swore that they lived there
alone, but Chinamen's clothes, Chinese
on the walls, Chinese opium
pots, pipes and lamps all disproved it.
At the east corner of Doyers and Fell
street dozen girls were found in pri-
vate room in the saloon on the ground
floor. They had locked the door, but
opened it after repeated orders from the
police. Some OF them escaped, how
ever, through the rear entrance, and
were found later in rooms in the other
houses.
In two room apartment upstairs
girl was found all alone crouching
under the Led She was only half
dressed. The room was very prettily
furnished with lots of Chinese brica-
brac aud some China dishes. The girl
insisted that she lived alone. and she
was let 60 with a warning that if her
story proved untrue she would be ar
rested some other time for living with
Chinaman.
On the opposite corner a lot more girls
were found The two streets in which
the raiding was being done were a queer
sight at this time. The guards at the
different points were formed around the
prisoners. who were laughing, crying
and shouting all at once.
Result of the Raid.
At 9:30 o'clock the raid ceased. Nine
teen girls We're then held by the guard
at the junction Of Doyers and Pell
streets. seventeen more at Doyers and
the Bowery. and twenty-one at Pell
street and the Bowery- fifty in
all. At the word Of command the
guards near the Bowery moved forward
to Pell and Doyers streets and joined
the guard there, So far aspossible each
policeman had two prisoners. They
formed in lihe in the middle OF the
street and marched mp to Mott street,
and thence through Bayard to Elizabeth
street
The captain led the march back to
the station. When the girls all got in
there was hardly any space TO move
around in the outer room. The girls
were in various stages ef undress, and
the majority wore luose wrappers. Some
We're very pretty aud innocent looking,
but most were neither. II took about
two hours TO take all the peiigrees,