The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-25
couNcIIMAN CHEW SCORES
The STANDARDIZATION Houses IN
mercifully and Pointedly.

The saloon-Assignation Houses Un-
mercifully and Pointedly.
To the Editor Of the Intelligencer,
sIR:-The rejected applicants for a
license before the city council have the
audaclty to say they will finally get the
necessary license and continue ut the
old stand. and It looks as If they will.
They were refused a license on the
grounds that they were operating as
signation houses in connection with
their saloons: they one and all appear
ed before the committee on petitions
and remonstrances and admitted they
were guilty.
The special committee appointed by
the second branch of council asks vour
assistance In preventing these assIgna-
ton houses from procuring license by
making public what the committee
found to be the state of affairs existing
for the past six years. These saloons
have number OF stalls and as many
bed rooms as they can provide. La
dies Entrance" is the label OH the hall
door, or any door except the front en-
trance to the saloon proper. Enter THIS
door and you Will be confronted by
string of stalls with doors, but no
locks" on them, In these stalls you Will
find girls, fourteen. fifteen and sixteen
years Of age, waiting for a man TO
drop In to buy them drink. II they
are new at the business, the proprte-
tors will folly" them, as they are mo-
ney makers for the house. To these IL
uuors, served from the bar. ordered by
some male visitor are sold at good
long price, about double the price over
the bar.
No locks" are allowed on the doors
Of these stalls, for the proprietors have
rooms upstairs fully equipped and Tor
the sum of 81 per couple (no difference
who you are), a man eighty years OF
age and a girl OF fifteen can register.
John Smith and wife" and occupy
either Of these rooms for twelve hours
for the sum named above.
These young girls are the most profit
able to the proprietors, as they procure
male company more readily than the
known prostitutes who are left In the
stalls downstairs.
When these young girls are advanced
In vice. the proprletors always secure
new supply from this city and nearby
towns.
The fake hotels are not houses of
prostitution; they are 10000 times
worse for here Is where prostitutes are
started in the world. Under the pre-
tense Of getting glass Of lemonade or
beer, girls are invited 10 enter by man
or boy through the Ladies Entrance
Of these hotels 90 with the assurance
that no person will see them.
Every man, woman and child should
talk TO our councilmen and insist on
turning down these rejected applicants.
The mothers and daughters OF COIN
cllmen should know who votes for these
assignation houses, and II something is
not done they will secure their licenses.
It Is well 10 know that these Joints"
did not have any chance OF getting IL
cense at first; since they were refused
eight councilman have been added TO
their fighting strength, rs was shown
by the motion to adjourn at the last
regular meeting OF council.
our citizens should attend council to-
morrow nigh, and see how this crowd
manipulates public affairs without any
regard for common decency or respect
for their homes ROSS T. CHEW.
Member Of Investigating Committee
Appointed by the Second Branch Of
City Council.
wheeling, May q, 1900.