The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-04-13
100000 A NIGHT
SPENT in VICE DENS
o,,pANGE RESORTS HAVE TAX
AN THE PLACE OF CAFES IN
NEW YORK CITY

NEW YORK.-New York City is
,rokening this week to the astound-
80 fact that the greatest orgy of vice
=. +bp entire history of the civilized
~ has been developing here since
tbe ending of the war.
The vast increase in individual
ooIth is held to be largely respon-
sible. - ,,0, o,d ,uo,,,
ID from good homes and slvltors
Som other American cities are vic
tins. ...
oo+;on newly-organized private COM
S a,;+tnps of citizens, as we'll as the dis
t trict attorneys office, and it is like
" that the findings, soon to be made
nnhlic, will amaze the whole country.
PNN Worst Vice Wave of All
These. well-informed persons told
NO today. will show that vice condi-
IONS no that prevailed in ancient Rome
and medieval capitals of decadence
viii not compare with conditions IN
The New York of today, either as to
extent or kind.
lanes E. Smith, assistant district
o+tornev of New York, now in charge
If the official probe to be made of
tbo Manhattan underworld, publicly
announces that there are engaged for
immoral ends here at least 5000 "call
flats" over a hundred new and at
tractive pastry restaurants" and cof-
fee houses, and hundreds of taxicabs.
From 100000 upward is spent
nightly, Smith says, in these call flats.
Other trimmings of a single might
ont" such as taxi, food and show
biIIs. cost another half million Off
Gals estimate.
Not one of the vice resorts is in any
way officially recognized as beng
openly engaged in vice traffic, and
so has first to be discovered by secret
agents before being proceeded against.
"Vice, in other words" sums up
Smith, "has, with the coming of pro-
hibition, left the disreputable places
where it was easily apprehended and
so controlled and has put in it's ap-
pearance, covertly, in respectable
haunts.
'In this way it suddenly becomes
far harder to discover, and, at a
bound, also tremendously increases
the area it infests, because it now
gamers in countless persons of both
sexes who would have never come
into contact with vice had it remain
ed where it originated"
Small Shop 'Dens"
There has been a tremendous and
increase in the number OF
coffee houses and small flashily-
equipped restaurants specializing IN
of French pastry and hot |
drinks in the last three months.
These shops, in the most expensive ,
section of Manhattan, have sprung |
M like mushrooms over night and are
all doing a rushing business. At
many tables one can always see girls |
sitting alone and the walters often
volunteer: "She is all right"
Taxicabs make it business of cruls- |
ing about these places and are ac-
uuainted with the women who fire.
quent the shops. They will drive
their fares through untraveled streets !
for a special tip.
So great has been the increase of
the taxicab vice since the new year
that section 887 of the criminal code
has just been revised to places of
vice"
Call Flats" Vice Backbone
1t is the 5000 "call flats" however,
that are going to prove the hardest
places to get" say the officials.
These form the backbone of the new
immense tenderloin that has suddenly
spread out over half of Manhattan.