Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-05-15
Just Before The Chu rch Bells Ring

morning this week by two investiga.
tors
| Down Market to Twenty-sixth 1t
is just o'clock in the morning Why, |
what is this? 1t is Sunday morning
and pianos are going on every side, |
there is a saloon on the corner and
persons are going in and out of rear
door; no, they are not going into the
| saloon, it is restaurant-after mid
night. We will go in. The walters
are very busy, the telephone rings.
rs that you Joe?"
Yes, Puff. y
well, bring US down eight ham
sandwiches, and three red pops.
CAN right, Puff"
| This is the way things are going on
all night long. There are two deaf
walters. one of whom trots to the
fancy houses with the goods and brings
back the change, and the other waits
Oh trade. There is also young man
assistant. Their customers are all
! frequenters of the houses and the po-
lice force and plain clothes men who
happen to be on that beat are also fire.
quent visitors
We go on little farther and enter
a house. There is a name on the
front door,. SO that there is no mis-
take. The first thing after one enters
there is a call of girls. here's com
oany' and out of every nook and cor
! ner come girls of every description.
Some are drunk and smoking cigar
cites. BUY bottle of ibeer?" put
a nickel in the piano?" and many
other such questions are fired at
guests ever seen before, mingled with
cursing and swearing among the mem
bers huddled on the leather chairs
and lounges here and there. One
scratches his head to see if it can be
real, and on the Sabbath morning, too.
The investigators also received the
names of several of the persons found
in the resort, that would look STRAIT
ling in print. Police officers and plain
clothes men were in and out until the
early hours of the morning.
The same degrading scenes were
found in all the other houses along
Market, Main, Twenty fifth. Twenty
, sixth and Twenty third, and also on
Water street. Oyer 100 girls were
counted. Some houses had rs girls
and others had but few.
This is what one can find in the
VICE uOuIS VI lie GuOTuluS dIU vi Ouu-
day morning at that Hacks, cabs and
takes ply to and fro to these resorts
from the business districts. Many q
young man Embracing girl in the
Red Light" district, is again embarc
| ing virtuous young girl in some par
lor Of a respectable resident on Sun
day evening. They kiss these denizens
of the 'Talcum Powder" district anS
then kiss the lips of Virtuous sisters
and daughters Of someone else to-
night. They mingle with these dis
eased degenerates, and then with
respectable girls and ruin them for
ever.
The police department makes a
raid and the citizens are satisfied to
allow the inmates to be .bled out of
their soul money. Many grocerymen,
bakers dry goods merchants and
thousands of others not forgetting the
doctors and lawyers, live off them.
The capitalist newspapers publish the
names of the proprietresses of these
houses and the addresses avery time
that there is a raid in order that the
boys may find them more easily. Such
is how the "Red Light" district is con
Quoted in Wheeling. And White Slave
investigations still go on. Profit!
Profit! Profit! on every hand, that is
the way they are conducted. Take
away the profit and they will cease
to exist.