The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
IMMORAL ENDEAV0R DUMP
CONDUCTED ON BROADWAY
LAND OF THE HAREM INFLUENCES PUBLIC MORALS
OF WISCONSNS LOWLAND CITY.
Amoro.s Greeks Grab at Passing Women and Girls
Gamblers Surround Tables Piled High With Money.
Sickening Stories Of Moral Delinquency and Depravy.
American Men Are Barred from Greek Coffee Houses.
Police Were Welcome Visitors at One Time Christmas
Gifts Showered on influential Citizens and Officials

escape the unwelcome attention of
amorous Greeks.
A Superior citizen had business re.
lations with man who had roomed
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 a 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
will be dance nearly every night for
awhile and then there will be short
interval without dances. Although
many of the Greek men dance with
one another in other, coffee houses,
this one place makes speciality Of
having girls at the dances. On one
occasion an inspector counted nine
teen white girls in the place. How
any there may have been upstairs
and in secret dens, there was no means
of knowing. Barbarous music and
much noise characterizes many OF
these dances.
One Of these resorts, right now,
shelters young American girl, pos
sibly not more than II years Of age
who soon will become a mother. She
has not been outside for some weeks
now. She is a blonde and without q
drop of Greek blood in her 50 far as
physical appearances 60. 1nvestiga'
ton probably would result in a 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,
secretive, icentious men with Oriental
ideas of morality and the treatment
Of womankind. .. ~.
The so-called 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 80 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 and
Grasp every opportunity to talk with
American girls and women. They buy
refreshments freely and at every oP'
portunity and fascinate the female oo'
iects Of their wiles with their lngra'
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 "square" anything. Az
stated, policemen were frequent Wis,
itors in the old days Of complacency
and wide open policies A policeman
would 20 in when there was no sign
of disturbance and, after while, he
would come out looking very much
pleased and satisfied, often uncon-
seiously 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 prominent men and
public officials. These baskets con.
tanned fruit, big box Of candy, .
box of 1o-cent cigars and set of fine
table linen. It Is authoritatively
stated that, among the recipients OF
those valuable and seductive Christ
mas baskets were former Mayor Kon-
KEEL and Chief Of Police McKinnon.
In this Greek colony there are, per
haps, . hundred men who toll not,