The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23

escape the unweleome attention of
amorous Greeks.
A Superior citizen had business re-
in place that was sold to Greek.
The place had gone into Grecian
hands without this mans knowledge.
AS was his custom, he walked up the
stairs and went to the room occupied
by his acquaintance. When he opened
| the door to the room he was surprised
not to find his friend and was
amazed to see a black, oily Greek in
bed with two American girls, evident
ly well under age. He quickly and
quietly ducked out of the dive.
At one of the resorts there is a
superannuated old dame who putters
around at inside work and comes
onto the street half dressed now and
then. On one occasion she attempted
| to toll couple of little girls inside.
"Don't be afraid, dearies, there are
women inside" she coaxingly said to
them.
| The most prominent Greek coffee
house, situated on, a corner, and pos
sessing at least dozen rooms over
head, is noted for its dances. There
viii be a dance nearly every night for
HOS en- Z Ssherc short
interval without DANCES Although
MANY o. the Greek men dance with
one another i'm .othN coffee houses,
this one place makes a speciality Of
having girls at The. dances. On one
occasion an inspector counted nine
teen white girls IN the places How
n any there may. have been upstairs
and in secret dens, thereswas no means
of knowing Barbarous music and
much noise characterizes many of
these dances.
One of these resorts, right now,
| shelters a young American girl, pos
sibly not more than II years Of age,
| who soon will becomes a mother. She
has not been outside for some weeks,
4 now. She. is blonde and without a
drop of Greek blood in her SO far as
| physical appearances go. Investiga-
| tion probably would result in claim
that she is the wife of some Greek,
but there are those who will wager
money that marriage certificate
cannot be shown and there. is strong
possibility that she is veritable
| white slave, immured there with sly,
lsecretive, licentious men with Oriental
ideas of morality and the treatment
| Of womankind.
The so-ealled male house Of prosti-
tuition is visited by a good many
| women who come in automobiles, pre-
sumably from Duluth and other out
side places. They usually ENTER at the
side door or even the rear. Then
there is quite a contingent of girls,
some of them reputed to hail from
the Billings Park section of the city.
Watchers have been shocked to see
some of the adult women who enter
the place. They are women sup.
posedly of high moral character and
social position in the city. Probably
some of them are after their drinks
Of blind-pig booze and wine, but red
light recreation accompanies patronage
of drinking dens SO times out OF loo.
Some of these Greek male prosti-
tutes and panderers are very seductive
in their manners. They dress gaily,
have smooth and smiling manners ana
grasp every opportunity TO talk w1th
American girls and women. They Duy
refreshments freely and at every op-
portunity and fascinate the female oD-
iects of their wiles with their 1ngra-
tiating ways.
These Sons Of Athena have ingra-
tiating ways with others than young
girls and women. They believe with
Max Rosenberg that every man mas
his price and that liberal use OF
money will asquare" anything. As
stated. policemen were frequent Wis
itors in the old days Of complacency
and wide open policies. IA policeman
would 90 in when there was no sign
of disturbance and, after q while, he
would come ont looking very much
pleased and satisfied, often uncon-
sciously wiping his mouth or patting
his pocketbook leg.
Last Christmas, the cunning Greek
leaders Of the colony made up at least
sixteen Christmas baskets which were
sent around to promin nent men and
public officials. These baskets con-
tanned fruit, big bot of candy, 3
box Of 10-cent cigars and i set pf fine
table linen. It II tuthofitatively
stated that, among tha recipients of
Hose aah|e and SEQ tctive Christ
mas baskefs W6f 8 form e Mayor Kon-
KEEL and Chief Of Po]iS Ne Kinnon.
In this Greek kSco( (ony <te<e ~, par
-. Z Inn 1red nan &rk6 <of1 not.