Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-08
M ANUFACTURlNG VICE
HOW 1T IS DONE JUST ACROSS THE
DISTRICT LINE.
Young Girls at the Resorts at End
of Columbia Line
of Cars.

There is in operation just beyond the Dis
trict line, in Prince Georges county. a very
successful breeding place for vice. The
central points for the mandatory are the
so-called pleasure parks situated there,
with their bar and dance features. This
collection Is generally spoken of as Ches-
apeake Junction, although it has absolutely
no connection with the Chesa peake Beach
railroad. The junction proper, which is
the meeting place of the Chesapeake Beach
railroad and the Columbia railroad, is at
the District line. The so-called parks have
their entrances a few yards beyond. These
parks are the nightly rallying places OF
people from the city ranging through all
the grades of responsibility. but the larger
number being of that order of men and
women which ordinary people do not care
to have their wives and daughters come IN
contact with. At each one of these parks
there is dance hail in connection with
the bars. At these halls all the usual
features of such combinations are nightly
seen. The regular visitors and dancers at
these places are perhaps in no worse COM
pany or surroundings than is usual with
them, but the presence every evening OF
number of young, immature girls, taking
their first lessons in drinking and in the
association of such surroundings with men
is serious and pathetic feature of these
places, while the presence the night
cars coming into the city of disorderly and
sometimes actually offensive people is a
serious thing to those ladies and gentlemen
",bor 70 ,,sa re- as fnr hnsiness or for
returning from Chesapeake Beach.
A Star reporter spent last Saturday even
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.!o.i; mere "e!e souhs suis M III m,ary
III tiieii tsens, Si!,ilis a, eaoles WIN
Hlei lmblDlnS IKE oiu stdserS, NOT Only
beer. but drinks of stronger quality. A man
OF al least tnir.y years OF age was seen Ger.
10 dt'udiS loite d ciiiiu' III uleases ~ Hei
shoc tops TO resume her seat ana par,
TAKE OF liquor IN audi4oh 10 what she hau
Just before disposed OF. Inc actlon pe'Ns I'M
questionably against her Will Thcre We're
rows, IN which the participants were wo-
men, that almost resulted In the passage
OF blows. There was loud talk on SUBJECTS
that would cause the man of the world
to blush. In fact, conversation was free
and easy between the sexes. Many of the
women present were known to be inmates
of houses of ill-repute. The impression OBJ
tanned from the visit was not softened by
seeing young girls leaning against trees q
few feet from the dancing pavilion wretch
eddy sick from drink Introductions, except
in one or two Instances were considered
s1Iperf,1ous-a formaIitv that had no nIace
at the junction. And all this too on a
night that the constant attendants declared
to be slow" for the reason that. being
Saturday night MANY of the "loidiesy' we're
busy elsewhere
There were gambling machines in f,1ll and
ponuIar onersfion Tba natron drons a
nickel In slot and IN ratprn draws :, dime
a quarter a half dollar mr. a dollar mavbe
Emnhasis 10 laid ON rho "nnavhe Most Of
the time he Loses the nicLeI Put The ma
chimes did a four;sbincy husiness
They were surrounded ALI evening and II
was hard to get near them An uuassnn,
ing Individual stood nv and rurnished nick
els in exchange for nancy Of larger dennrnf
nation to those who desired 10 try their
luck
The sheriff of Prince Georges county once
In a while makes an arrest at the iunction
II is reported and his iai1 is merely a box
car. When a girl has induIgeu in roo much
liquor and becomes unsteady the custom .
to remove her to the box car and detain her
there until the crowd leaves and then send
her back to the city on a street car.
The dancing ceases at the parks usually
just about the time the late min from