The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-04-02
NIGHT SPENT IN
new Y0RK'S VICE RESORTS.
\. CITY AWAKENING TO ORGY
BY H. p. BURTON.
Il. A. Staff Correspondent.

BY H. P. BURTON. III
: n. Il. A. Staff Correspondent.
New York, April 2.-New York city
is awakening this week to the astound-
ing fact that the greatest orgy Of
vice in the entire history Of the civil.
lied world has been Developing here
since the ending Of the war.
The vast increase in individual
wealth is held to be largely respOn-
sible.9 Highly-placed officials are i'll.
volved. it is charged
Thousands of young men and wome,i
from good homes and visitors from
other American cities are victims.
Recent revela tons are stirring to
action newly-organized private com
mittees of citizens. as Vel as the dis
trict attorneys office. ann it is likely
that the findings. soon to be made
public. will amaze the while country
WORSE VICE WAVE OF ALL
These. well-infOrmed persons told
me today. will show til bit vice condf.
tions that prevailed i'll ancient Rome
and medieval capitals II dacadence
will ynot compare with conditions :,
he New York Of today. either as Il
extent or kind -,
James f. Smith. assistant dis
trict attorney of New York. now
in charge Of the official probe
to be made Of Manhattan's un-
derworld. publicly announces that
there are engaged for immoral
ends here at leastS, 5000 "call
flats over a hundred dance hal9s,<t
several hundred new and attrac y
tive French pastry restaurants
and coffee houses. and hundreds
of taXicabS.
From $5OQMO upward is spent
nightly, Smith says. in these call
flats. Other trimmings of a Sin
gle might out" such as taxi,
food and show bills cost another
< half million. officials estimate.
Not one Of the vice resorts is !,
in any way officially recognized
as being, openly engaged in vice
traffic and, 50 has first to he dis :
covered by .Srret agents before
being proceeded against.
"yice. iry other words sums ut
Smith. has with the coming Of
'lrohibition., left the disreputablt
,laces where it was easily appre
>ended and so controlled. and has
ut in its appearance. covertly. =,
respectable haunts. 4
TN this way it suddenly becomes
ar harder to discover. and. at q
Hnund. also tremendously increases The
urea it infects. because it, now garners
in countless persons Of both sexes
who would have never come into con
tart with vice had II remained where
2.tc0rigiRated.' 4se! y. $50
SMALL SHOP ':DENs',
There has. been tremendous ant
mysterious Increase in the number Of
coffee houses and small flashly equip
ped restaurants specializing il
''snacks'Sof French pastry and hot
drinks in Vhe last three months.
These shops. in the most expen
sive section Of Manhattan. have sprun:
up like mushrooms over night and art
all doing a rushing business. At many
tables one can always see girls sit
ling alone and the walters often vol
unteer: ''She' is all right" I
Taxicabs make it a business d
cruising about these places and are
acquainted with the women who fre
quent the shops. They will drive theil
fares, through untra veled streets for ,
special tip II '
So great has been the increase u
the taXicab vice since the new yea
that Section SS7 of the criminal cod:
has just hfen revised to places O
vice -,s51
"CALL FLATS" VICE BACKBONE
1T is the 5000 ''call-flats.'' however
that are going to prove the hardes
places to "get." say the officials. Thes'
form Of backbone Of the new immens'
tehderloin that has suddenly sprea'
out over half Of Manhattan. Wire
tapping is the device being used b,
he detectives to locate these.
In oyerhearing telephone, convers;l
tons this week. members Of the vice
muad charge that they heard a deput.
police commissioner make an appoint
ment with deniZen Of one Of thes'
places and that they later arrested
him there. H. 4
! Others of the police force hav
already been arrested in connec
ton with this amazing vice-wave. am,
officials state all this is only Il begin
ming.
1T is unbclievablc-the amotlnt @
money that is being nightly spent OF
vice in New York says Smith. "1h
price on everything connected witt
vice has. increased ten times, owin'
to thcN fact that everyone. has none
these days. and the prices paid fo
liquor in the underworld is especially
prohibitive. At least 800 night i
spent in most Of the call-tats am
that accounts for about $5OOOOO. II
restaurants and. other places. III di
rect IMndering TO vice. there are man.
more thousands spent. This is surel.
a record that history cannot dupli
cate in any other city Of the worl,
at any time in the history Of tn
world ,s-
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