CHAPTER III.

ALL NIGHT SALOONS--Character of--Thieves, Thugs and Prostitutes in--Visitors--Country Buyers, Transients, Delegates, Youth and Old Age--Women in--Character of--Basement Saloons--Scenes in--Private Rooms--Scenes in All Night Saloons--Dancing--Music--Morning Hours--Robberies, Etc., Planned--Girls Entrapped--Young Men Ruined--Quarrels--Raids--Drinking--Surroundings of--Houses of Ill Fame--Assignation Houses--Slumming Parties--Fads--Salvation and Volunteer Army--Houses of Ill Fame--Inmates of--How Managed--Practices in--Superstitions--Luck Powders--Sources of Supply--Patrons of--Wholesale House Entertainer--Police Protection--Diseases--Attempts at Reform--People Indifferent.