The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-19
"Hypo" Fiends Who Were Once
Seattle Society Girls.
MiRED IN The DEPTHS OF SIN,
sheriff Meyer May start an Informal
Crusade Against Drug Habit
Horrible Revelations of Life in
the SlWmH->ights Seen In the
Early Morning Hour~-LeEi sla-
ton Needed on the Subject.

For years il has been the boast OF Seattle
people at home and abroad thai the gaunt
spectre Of heggary does not stalk the
streets of tnr sums in the Queen City
Of the Northwest. BY constant repetition
IL has become accepted as a fact that Seat
tie has only the worthy and unfortunate
poor 10 whom public charity is called upon
70 give AID in times of adversely and The
sleek. well-tei "Aoboes. who are poor
only because AZ IS less trouble shan 10 be
otherwise
Yet the canvas has another side, and one
upon which few honest and respectable
citizens ever gaze. iiumired a. il is by
tie street lamps Of the red lamp dis
tflct, paling IN the gray dawn OF the early
morning. Then il IS that 10 the drowsy
night clerks in the drug stores and the
biue-coated policemen on the early
watch is revealed degradation. squalor
poverty and crime.
When such "night-owIs' tell their ex-
periences the average citizen OF Seattle
finds for the first time that beneath his
very eyes conditions exist which IL depict
ed by lola would rouse IN MIN a sckening
sense Of shame for humanity. He then
learns for the first time that there are in
Seattle scores Of outcaSts whose only lar
der is the refuse of cheap restaurant Ia
bies. and for whom home is not even
name; outcasts to whom life IS living death
without drugs, and whose entire existence
centers in the hypo-gun."
For these phantoms of the morning fog
are 'nends. the victims Of the morphine
ana cocaine haDtS. a form OF vice WtiCu
the police say Is increasing in Seattle 10
an extent so alarming that legislative re-
preston is almost imperative.
Three Blighted Lives.
Although for years private charitable In
situations have labored 10 repress vice, il
has remained for Sheriff Meyer TO strike
a blow al IL on behalf OF the public, and
IL may be that as a result of the arrest
OF three women. "hendS OF the worst
type, by Deputy Sheriff Brewster on Sat
urday night Il course Of interference by
the authorities III such cases may follow.
Al least the arrest will call 20 the atten-
ton Of churches and temperance societies
a vice so hideous that alcoholism pales into
insignifcance before 1T.
Until the three women mentioned We're
arrested Crazy Dan" Mcmillan and the
notorious DR.. Cox occupied the Very bottom
rungs of the ladder in the opinion of the
officers of the law, but neither Cox nor
Mcmillan is for a moment to be compared
10 sheriff Meyers latest wards, who were
taken from foul smelling, floating shanty
on the water front Saturday night One
OF the women l. a Guadroon girl; the others
white. All are young in years but verita-
bic hogs, gaunt. holiow-eyed and stopped
as though under the burden Of centuries
About the quadroon girl the sheriffs office
knows little, but the history of the two
white women is well known. So lost TO all
sense OF their degradation are they that
they are booked under true names which
the sheriff has charitabIy ordered with
held.
Once In Good Society.
Il seems a mockery 20 say that the two
less than six years ago passed in the best
Seattle society and were the daily asso-
GATES Of women to whom their touch would
now he contamination, But such is the