CHAPTER XXXV. NEW YORK.--PROSTITUTES AND HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION.

First Class, or "Parlor Houses."--Luxury.--Semi-refinement.-- Rate of Board.--Dress.--Money.--Lavish Extravagance.-- Instance of Economy.--Means of Amusement.--House-keepers.-- Rents.--Estimated Receipts.--Management of Houses.--Assumed Respectability.--Consequences of Exactions from Prostitutes.-- Affection for Lovers.--Second Class Houses.--Street-walkers.-- Drunkenness.--Syphilitic Infection.--Third Class Houses.-- Germans.--Sailors.-Ball-rooms.--Intoxication.--Fourth Class Houses.--Repulsive Features.--Visitors.--Action of the Police.--First Class Houses of Assignation.--Secrecy and Exclusiveness.--Keepers.--Arrangements.--Visitors.--Origin of some Houses of Assignation.--Prevalence of Intrigue.--Foreign Manners.--Effects of Travel.--Dress.--Second Class Houses.-- Visitors.--Prostitutes.--Arrangements.--Wine and Liquor.-- Third Class Houses.--Kept Mistresses.--Sewing and Shop Girls.--Disease.--Fourth Class Houses.--"Panel Houses." 549