The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1895, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1895. 24 HOW WHITES SMOKE OPIUM IN CHINATOWA: restricting the opium traffic. Order 2085, passed in 1889, prohibits any person what- ever from selling or giving or exchanging opium in any form except upon the pre- seniation by the purchaser of a bona-fide physician’s prescription of the same date upon which the purchase is made. They are all broken constantly and in many quarters of the City, but the State 835 JACKBON, run by a Chinese doctor. 7% WAVERLY PLACE, in basement. AH BUEY, first floor, 834 Clay street. AH SING, second floor, 834 Clay street. Iv. THE POPULAR LAWMAKER AND THE GLASSY-EYED ‘ HOP HEAD.” Starting in on the task to expose some- thing of the extent of the illicit opiom traffic in San Francisco, with the injunc- tion to procure facts instead of general material, was a most difficult thing for one who knew little or nothing of the ways and the haunts of the victims of the NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. NFANTS WHITE LAWN : !;)m-:ss — open work — trimmed yoke—full skirt—were 75¢—now. ANTS WHITE LAWN I RS ES. fine qualities—beau- Tully trimmed with tucking—em- broidery — fuffing, etc. worth from $150 to $5 each — prices......81, $1.50, $2 and 8$2.50 Linen Department. More surprises for frugal buyers. BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK— 75° 50°¢ Each Haunts of “Hop Heads” in the Mongolian Quarter. 68 inches—a very heavy all-linen MANY DENS ARE OPEN. law and the municipal order forbidding | «habit,” known in the vernacular as “hop ne pasterns-worth §1= 5 S0 the keeping or frequenting of houses or | heads” or “‘fiends.” i A EAC: %) s C ind Annle’s “JoInt” on Jack- | 208 where opium may be smokedare | Certain Chinatown guides were tried B L pasdsmay | O Blind a0 those most frequently and flagrantly vio- | first. Tnese led the way to Blind Annie's Patternea—on et £ ivam y son Street Frequented by | lated, famous *‘joint” ~butalwaysat a time when % PUPACHED SATKINS allg] 15 Girls and Men. XX 3 no white girls or men were smoking Jinen-—our regular 8160 kind— L A LIST OF CHINESE “JOINTS” FRE- | there—and to many of the Chinese opium special at. . QUENTED BY THE “HOP “joints” already enumerated. But always LA c HEADS.” only Chinese would be found smoking. Some magnificent $2.30 silk re- TS e o 10 IN DEFIANCE OF THE LAWS. The following list of places where the [ The guides took good care that no white duced to ®1.25, and lots of $1.00 price. .. Each and 8125 silk now selling at 50 | % nvk Towsis a1 |58 ¢ FIGURE: . 45 inches—reduced from 20¢, 4O The Vell Slightly Drawn From Some worth 50c.. a3 & S of the Worst Resorts In San HE SUMMER DAYS PASS SWIFTLY BY. HEAVY FATLLE SILK-Worth 51 5 Cotton Dress Stuffs. 3 Y ’ Franclsco. In another month the early Fall business e 50 FIGURED SATEENS — th will begin. The GREAT SUMMER CLEAR- etc., left, 5o we say to close. . Yard 12140 ANCE SALE now in progress is our prelim- o i 69° e I inary preparation for the new selling season - st et e ard EXTENT OF THE OPIUM TRAFFIC. | fast approaching. The climate of San Fran- HEAVY BUACK GROSGRAIN- 750 Zihai were $5¢—n0v......... 20¢ [ 2 N STAT: NT | 5 % = - 4 ches—fast dye c ¢ CRE: : P LY A JOIJ::\]L\;(:;]\_ALEME)‘ | cisco :)5 lertamly unique. ftF()l‘ example ; on Euaranteed worth $1 Yard A in o~ Stho S i i this brilliant August afterncon you will BLACK ROYAL ARMURE SILK— o | Faxcy NN atripes and Notwithstanding a k ublic senti- : C. AL AR ; i R e meet two ladies walking together on the street, one dressed 30 Mater e N Q‘,}m i . opium traffic, in spite of stringent State | in a long sealskin jacket, the other in a dainty white duck dies’ Unde Nl Bo and municipal laws forbidding and re- | suit. Both appear to be comfortable, and not one person in a Ladies’ Underwear. Sl : 8340 SaplEidaand sl Ik ‘.’.‘f drl"'z‘d‘!’,c.'e o dozen notices the wide contrast in their costumes. It is be- EG}\!;.T#SmwchTkfio b e 50:’l that were il R e e cause of conditions like these that a JULY CLEARANCE INeuiks B grate troil B 1230~ n0w.... . 830 Francisco; the number is constantly on | 2 g o b L - A & the increase; there are over 300 “‘joints,” SALE is a sale held right in the middle of the season in Cali- N e 0] ishi dens, rooms and lodging-houses, inside fornia. There are three months of service ahead for Sum- H.N.L.S.and H. N. 8. S.—only Each House Furnishings. Housekeepers will appreciate these reductions — Always some disap- pointed ones—Come too late—Supply exhausted—Don’t you be a late one. and outside of Chinatown, where the “habit” may be irdulged with impunity, and perhaps a score of places where ‘‘dope’’ mer fabrics. WHY NOT HAVE A STYLISH NEW DRESS OF ’s F shings. WOOL OR SILK IF YOU CAN GET IT NOW AT ONE-HALF Men's sl Iiue MEN'S TECK TIES—New styles—" ] 50 small knots—fancy silks —sale frankly admitted that the white “joints” 2 sold ilicitlv iTS ACTUAL WORTH? price. Each | READY-MADE PILLOW-CASES— C is sold illicitly. s ¥ remnants of finest sheeting in These statements are made advisedly MEN'S BALBRIGGAN UNDER- 5 & these—large size 45x36—special.. Each and only after considerable investigation. | WEAR— Jersey ribbed — heavy O 4 - el 32 | = SILK GARTER ELASTIC—Assort- 10 uality—drawers to match—were O READY-TO-USE SHEETS—neatly S T b M Handkerchiefs. oA colors: alno: biackwas 3064 128 1 garment—sale price oul Each hemmed—a real good quality of 550 OPUII CUANOE 00 Dan - TAno00 s oy 500 dozen Ladies' Handkerchiefs, yard—s speclal at S b Inf T W inches—60 each: 81x90 inches.. Each subject has hitherto been usually handled actually worth 20c and 25¢ each, | AT SILK, SATIN AND GROS-GRAIN nfants ear. h Aot ¥ from its darkly picturesque side. The | are offered for sale this week at 10c RIBBON—A heavy quality—black only— We have found a whole lot of WHE{E,BS"Ef‘;’ifif&&“flf:fl“ffi their conclusions, been true enough, but styles : Nos. 12 and 16, wort marked them down accordingly. e s LR B R pecific information has been Jacking. Hemstitched, orners, colored, em- R e 8 Mothers, attention! Here are some < G S e o P rodered. oo Ty sieed to 7oriat vatue sbe 123° e e o o o 5 i e . A &olid colors, hemstitched and embroldered. s = 2 needs that you ever had. : : miseries of the lives of the opium *“‘fiends,” T e —sale price.. .. " Pair I AR SORNES e special at. s1.10 3 h i Hemstitehed, colored borders, embroidered. : iy % med with all-over embroidery— 10-4_LOCKWOOD UNBLEACHED 0 or to understate the r_noml nm_l physical Hemstitched, iace edge. HAMBURG EMBROIDERY EDG 1910 tucked ruching—some plain tops SHEETING on special sale at. ]8 dangers to the community of this horrible Eu‘éf:;fi;,?,,;‘;og‘ly M A L el —some rosette style—they were Yara traffic in the drug. But in the present in- 2 ABC Lo 9 eacls Sale oS S e g S % .25¢, 50c and 756 | WHITE ALL-WOOL BLANKET— = et e : IES' TE ES—Made of J 2 : S - stance Tig CALL’s purpose is to state facts | ENTRANCE TO AH SING'S DEN AT 834 WASHINGTON STREET. Bazaar Goods L e s B ntE o - 2D COLORED SILK BONNET large éroven for €l sized bed s @ 5,00 concerning the odious traffic rather than (F Ketch b “«Call” . There are a great many articles also black—they tuck iuto belt.... Kach and fancy Pacific Coast blanket of merit, — conclusions or moral abstractions on its JoRai G Pyia | Oall atig] down in the Bazaar Départment —_— mings—now. and extremely cheap at. < Pair x 3 . = that you need every _day—Soaps, CREAM WHITE £ LT e influence. The facts have been difficult to Fertumen, Miationers; Books, #ie: | Colored Dress Goods. Several. syies formerly B L e secure, because no assistance was sought | so-called “hop heads” or opium *‘fiends” | people should be shown in the act of “hit- [ || Xetware, etc. Here are five price | Deeper and deeper ‘are the cuts— $2 0 83 each—closing price...... ~ Each nile green, Tose and tan—unus: €D S— or obtained from the Police Department. | rendezvous to satisfy or palliate their de- | ting the pipe.” B TEeNe [Axe M FE00U DY Juticesy aure : NFANTS! SHORT ually pretty patterns—reduced o Pair ital of how vere fi { ; he “habit.” B Lae pipe: CREPE PAPER-in excellent color 191C | enough. CONTS “iney wero marked 32 (0 @] .00 Aba_re recital of how the facts were finally rvm\'e(l_cmvmg for the “habit,” and where When asked to be taken where the assortment—the large 25¢ rolls. 1-4;- ALL-WOOL SCOTCH CHEVIOTS— 200 $3—plain and fancy csshmeres, = WHITE CURTAIN = SWI 1910 obtained would be interesting, not to say | the uninitiated, if he or she be proverly | whites smoked opium the guides declared Boil Fancy checks — small broken émbroldery trimmed yonrcholcs ' Tach inches wide—colorec figur =2 = C 1 8 red inids—tans and grays—d40ckind Yard (Come early—limited quantity.) 25¢ yard—now marked. Yard spicy, reading for the pubhc at large and | vouched for or chaperoned, may learn to | there were no sucn places; that the law SCRIBBLING TAB- C | b — LOT NO. 2—INFANTS' SHORT for several individuals in particular. But | use the drug, is by no means complete. It | was very strict, and the police kept such | = l or lead pencil—100 leaves, Eon | FRENCH DRAP 1)-,\11,;(,\ = 33 3()0 o COATS—worth £5 %,m‘ 26 vnrh‘;qo-w m”‘fi’n”‘?"“lfl'fiécfié ,“‘E.“,’ N is i ST faintercla v z etde X Faen o po hes... Eac ches—all wool — colors — g o > cashmere 2 Z slightly sofled, very sligh this is not to be a spicy story, and is inter- | is correct, lgowe\ er, and proves the ‘‘joints” | close watch that neither inside nor outside | e — in"e&n]:';’x'\'?clql::n(l)l:ly Tororn 5200 Yara g','f;:(';?l\-":r{r:x’nf»n:xd—s'n'l.:o,ffi:fr. o Each machinery—3 yards by 50 inches $ esting only inasmuch as a sober statement | to be sufficiently numerous to show that | of the Chinese quarter could there vefound | || WRITING PAPETE B84 sheels -/ ff5C — % (Only a few dozen—come early.) —if perfect, $3 25—as they are... of somber and sorrowful facts may be. | the policemen in these districts are not as | places where white men and women in- | D T g s tnas were 908 ()0 And the facts are given for the good they | vigilant as they should be—and this is | haled the drug. | SERE ‘ mited vanities D0 may do; for the lessons they may bear to | stating it mildly. | " Alawyer's assistant, who knows every | || ST hanseroaia0 mcbes. smecdi 25 i UL s those whose duty it is to enforce the laws| The ‘“joints’ where the Chinese may |corner and alley-in Chinatown and the sheets (o bundie. s Black Dress Goods y against t w“ lleg 1l>.tradve_m opin mdaml the | and do smoke opium are almost innumer- | tenderloin districts near-by, was next ap- FEATHER DUSTERS—turkey 27)0 Perfect dye that won’t fade—Care- maintenance of opium joints and dens. | able, far too numerous, in fact, and much | pealed to for the desired information. He feathe large duster . (16 . & fully selected patterns of the new- Not all the facts are given, nor even the | too open and well known or easily discov- | inches)—worth d0c—saleprice.... Each | o ¢¢vies, and prices like these: | worst of them. The whole case is mot | erable to need designation is ti v 2 “ el P B e 52 gnation at this time. | were numerous and the *hop beads” | E Goods Dep’t Rlack novelty suiting—attractive /7 EC R almost without number—but— ancy pt silky finish—value S1—price. “.Od L4 His “but” was that he found these peo- The tables down center of store . - 2 = ple very useful at election time, and there- ot Ry s “,";,';";,‘“.‘;g_""“':'{h‘::,';” Jou | ENGLISH CHEVIOT = ]NCORPORA TED | fore he must not endanger their friend- | constantly changing, for they sell e o i you mbsa Pl o ship and allegiance by betraying their |l aquickly. 3 for a bioomer costume. Y and 1 Market Stl‘eet | Baunts. Other methods were ried—many |l KNITTING, SOUSGoO068 1 oo | arackrigrnEn aTPAcA s g5 937, 939 94 ’ others. “Hop heads” were followed, some- there are only about 200—almost - inches—10 small and very pretty ¢ San Francisco. times paid for leading the way to their every color—worth 26¢—only..... Spool patterns—regular at 50c........... Yard | rendezvous. This was a slow and unsaris- factory process. Sometimes two or three | “fiends’” would Jead all to the same build- | ing. By three different persons the way | pipe these five years now and am not & ventilation unless it is from the cracks e 3 ‘fiend’ yet. You don't catch this girl get- babit” —tall, stoop-shouldered, painfully | around the door. The atmosphere was to open the doors of an opium joint, and { 1 i . g thin and glassy-eyed—was invaluable in | however difficult it may or may not be tor BLIND ANNIE AND HER CATS. [From a sketch made in Blind Annie’s opium den by a “Call” artist.] | stated; could not be stated in anything | They are, of course, illegal, since the law less than a book of many pages. Only that | makes no distinction in race and color. | pub- | But the resorts in Chinatown where whites may and do smoke opium—that is another | which is_fit for popular reading is lished. There is much more to be seen | and learned by one who would follow the dark tale to its dregs; but to see them and Xknow them one must, for the time being, become himself a part of this worst and lowest phase of the slums of San Fran- cisco. II. STATE AND MUNICIPAL LAWS RE- STRICTING AND FORBIDDING THE VICIOUS TRAFFIC. As in the case of many other evils it can scarcely be urged by the authorities that the laws and ordinances against the opium traffic are not stringent enough or that their wording is uncertain. Section 307 of the Penal Code of California, in effect since March, 1881, is very plain spoken, as fol- lows: Every person who opens or ‘maintains. to be resorted to by other persons, any place where opium, or any of its preparations, is sold or given away, to be smoked at such place, and any person who at such place sells or gives away any opium, or its said preparations, to be there smoked or otherwise used, and every person who visits or resorts to any such place for the purpose of smoking opium, or its said preparations, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by s fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment in the County Jail not exceed- ing six months, or by both such fine and im- prisonment. In pursuance with the provisions of the Su_ne law and to further restrict the opium evil that was introduced and is chiefly carried on in San Francisco by the Chi- nese the Board of Supervisors in 1820 amended order 1587 by section 61, which reads as follows: No person shall, in the City and County of San Francisco, keep or maintain, or become an inmate of, or visit, or shall in any way contribute to the support of, any place, house or room where oplum is smoked, or where persons assemble for the purpose of smoking oplum, or inhaling the fumes of opium. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor and on conviction thereof be pun- ished by a fine not less than $250 nor more than $1000, or by imprisonment rot less than three months or more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. There are still other ordinances and laws matter, the matter under consideration here. The following is a list of the “joints” in Chinatown frequented by whites who g there to smoke opium: BLIND ANNIE’S CELLAR, entrance | through the passageway between 718 and 720 Jackson street. Resort for white girls. Supposed to be under the protection of the police. AH KING’S JOINT, entrance by a nar- row and steep flight of stairs at 620 Jack- son street. The most notorious resort for whites in Chinatown, HOP JAY, in the rear of 730 Jackson street. Known as the “Palace Hotel” of Chinatown. Second floor. Also a *joint” in same building on the third floor. 39 WAVERLEY PLACE, entrance south of the barber-shop. In third story attic. 116 WAVERLEY PLACE, double yel- low doors, entrance to the north. Second story, rear. SANG JO HE, entrance between 921 and | | 923 Dupont street. Second story, rear. 17 WASHINGTON ALLEY (known as Fish alley), a passageway that through to Dupont street. There are sev- eral “joints” here. DUNCOMBE ALLEY, a narrow cause- way that runs from Jackson to Pacific street. There are no numbers, but in the middle of thealley, on the west side, is an entrance that leads to a room frequented by whites. 812 CLAY STREET, second story in the rear, AH SING, 83414 Washington street, en- trance through a tobacco-store. Third story front. White girls and men. CHURCH ALLEY, about the center of the block, entrance througzh deserted gam- bling-rooms to two joints on west side. 809 STOCKTON STREET, between Sac- ramento and Clay. Big brick building con- taining several resorts run by a Chinese. Opposite the consulate. 1009 STOCKTON STREET, third floor. 1005 STOCKTON STREET, first floor. 1023 STOCKTON STREET, the old Mc- Kenzie building, first and second floors. Notorious. White women and children found there at all hours. AH KING, 720 Jackson street, rear. | | leads | was shown to the lodging-house at 633 Cal- ifornia street. Two of the informants were | women, who went there to smoke in a fiend’s room. And many of the *fiends” that were fol- | lowed refused to betray their haunts and | comrades. Many of them are well dressed | and are not to be tempted by any moder- | ate sum of money. These are the men who live off the earnings of fallen women. Some of them have dia- monds in their shirt fronts. They are known on the stréets as “dude fiends.” That they are victims of the seductive and | degrading drug one can easily see. All | are thin, pale and glassy-eyed. These are | three unfailing signs borne by every man | or woman who has a regular “habit.” At last, through the kindly offices of a popuiar and well-known south of Market street Jawmaker, who knew a man who knew another man who, for a sufficient consideration, would undertake to show two Eastern tourists something of life among the opium-smokers in San Fran- cisco, acquaintances were established that led to the knowledge, only a portion of which is now published. Itisafact that the opium densof this City are not easy of access, but it is also true that they are carried on under the very eyes of the policemen in certain quirters of the City. On two different occasions policemen were seen to enter these resorts and remain there for some | time. Yet however difficult 1t is for a stranger the policemen on the respective beats to | discover their whereabouts, a great many | young men and women from respectable homes find it all too easy to force an en- trance. Almost any one can gain evidence of the truth of this assertion by noting that the houses named are frequented by young people in all stages of the “*habit.” Some are learning, for one must smoke man) times before the system becomes thor- | oughly inoculated and indulgence is not | followed by nausea. Some smoke once a day, some twice and some three times a day. But once even a *‘mild habit” is formed there is no longer any hope for the victim. Once a “ficns" always a “fiend,”” is a commonplace expression among the “hop heads.” - v. | INTERIOR VIEWS OF SOME OF THE CHINATOWN OPIUM DENS. One of the most valuable acquaintances formed through the medium of the ‘“‘well- known and popular lawmaker” was that of a young man who has what be calls a | “twenty-cent habit.” This means that he | smokes 20 cents’ worth of opium a day, or one li gee. The latter designation de- scribes to Asiatic ears a Chinese nutshell about the size of a_beechnut, filled with first-class opium. The li gee is sold in many places in Chinatown. You can watch the *‘fiends” coming- north on Du- pont street every night for their li gees. If vou follow them yod can easily guess where they buy. Chinatown. “Do you know that Blind Annie’s cellar isa resort for white girls?”’ was the first | information.he gave. Everybody who visits Chinatown has seen Blind Annie and her cats, yet only the initiate know about the white girls | frequenting her dingy cellar. To reach it | you enter the first dark alley that leads north off jackson street, above Kearny. When you reach the end of the alley you come upon a courtyard and a_foul smell. { The courtyard has balconies all around it and-for three stories above the street. You | go down a few steps and then turn to the ?eft to reach Blind Annie. You cannot push open her door with im- punity, for it is usually locked. The guide always knocks and sometimes does not gain admission. 1t was midnight when Tue CALn man and the young man with the “‘twenty-cent habit” knocked on Annie’s door. “You stand to one side,” said the guide to the other. Then the guide parleyed a while with Annie and assured her that his friends (Eastern tourists) were ali right. Just what passed between the two a Cawtasian uneducated in the Chinese tongue will never know, but it was sutfi- cient to gain an admittance for all three. There were four other white people in Annie's place. Two were women—evil- Jooking women, though still young. All fonr were smoking and Annie was fond- ling her cats. Blind Annie's room has a superficial area of perhaps 120 square feet. When the | door is shut, as it .must be when she has stifling with the fumes of the drug that came from the four pipes and it were scarcely safe for onme unused to inhaling | the smoke to remainin the room many | minutes. The room is foul and dirty. Blind Annie sits in the corner on a mat that is greasy and elevated from the floor about | two feet. If she tried to_stand straight in | her bunk her bead woutd bang against the | upper bunk before she was half straitened out—and Annie is a small creature. On the opposite side of the room there are similar tiers of bunks. Each bunk has | two square Chinese mats and on every mat is a “‘dope” layout—a tray, a nut-oil lamp, a small box of the brown and sticky drug, a vessel for ashes, a needle with which to cook and manipulate the stuff and the bamboo pipe. Blind Annie’s fee is graded according to the “‘habit’’ of the smoker. For two bits a very big ‘“habit” can be satisfied for the time being—an indulgence of from thirty to thirty-five smail pills. And this is the kind of “‘habit”’ those who frequent Annie’s joint usually suffer from. It is a *‘big habit” in the vernacular of the ‘‘fiends.” One must have conrted the vice assiduously or have been smoking many years to have cultivated such a Shabit.” “I never smoke more than twenty pills ata time,” said one of the young women who was induced to show the visitors how to smoke. *That isn’t enough to put me under the inflaence, but it iraces me up after a hard day, and that's all I care about. *Oh, it would soon grow if I'd let it, but | This young man with the "lwenly-cenc' white smokers, there is nota particle of’'m not going to be a ‘fiend.” I’ve hit the () 3% T 9% o'o'flw/ ¢ "0 ‘-\“J":'.I;fl : \' A NIGHTLY SCENE AT . AH SING'S “HOP JOINT.» [From a sketch made in the room by a “Call artist.] » ting to be a ‘hophead.””’ 3 This appears to be a popular hallucina- tion with the victims of the opium habit— every one knows the other is a fiend, but thinks himself or herself only a dilettanti in the vice. But the glassy eyes and shrunken frame tell their own story. Carrie was the name of the girl who vol- unteered the information about hersi She kept on' rolling the pills and putfing the smoke. “This is the twelfth,”’ she said, as she laid back on the box that served for a pil- low, and drew in the seductive fumes of the brown, sizzling little pill. Presently, when the twentieth pill had been burned to ashes, Carrie’s head sank back on the box and her eyves were heavy. *Guess I've taken a_bit too much this time,”” she said. *‘I'll sleep it off a bit be- fore I go.” “She’s Eood till morning,” said the guide. ‘‘She has the desired effect now, sure. She always talks that way about taking a little too much, but she never quits till the sleep comes on.” Carrie was the first of the patrons of Annie that night to receive the ‘‘desired effect’’—as the simon-pure Chinatown guide always calls it. The others were in verious stages of indulgence. Annie stroked the kittens beside her and crooned, When the customary nickels were dropped on the tray in front of her by the visitors she said ““Tanks” <‘uite plainly. “Didn’t the gentlemen want to smoke?” she asked the guide in her native tongue. They did not. Ah Sing’s joint, on the top floor of 83434 ‘Washington® street, was the next place visited that night. The entrance is rvhr'ough a small tobacco-store kept by Chinese. When you reach the landing at the head of the first flight you find a narrow. court- yard with balconies ateach story. You turn to the rightand go up still another flight of dark stairs. Then a little to the left, and the first door you come tois Ah Sing’s. His room is a trifle larger than Annie's, and there are only two big bunks in it, one on each side. He has an assistant of his own race, and the two of them wait on their customers assiduously. ‘There were three of thelatter stretched out on the bunks, and one of these had already secured the “‘desired effect. “He’s only been smoking about a month, and a half dozen pills sets him off,” ex- plained the guide, who recognized the Ter. !lu,;‘flhging was careful to lock the door after his visitors had been admitted. He was surprised when he found they did not want to smoke, but he accepted the two 95-cent pieces tendered him with becom- ing Mongolian meekness and thankfulness. ’fhe other Chinese joints visited were about the same. The layout is the same. There is always a hop tray of “‘dope”’ in front of thg reclining smoker; the nut-oil Jamp (the dong) for cooking; the hank or needle with which the ah gx.n yin (opium) is nlflnip\}h\ted, and the big jin ten, or mboo pipe. bnln onepxyii;ht six places in Chinatown were visited, and at every place white men and women were found smoking. Another night four joints were -entered by the white tourists, and in all of them whites Were smoking and the visitors were offered the privilege of “hitting the pipe” for the small fee of 15 cents. Though it was not easy for a mnovice to find these places it seems strange that the trained policemen and detectives, with every resource at their command, cannot discover their whereabouts. Indeed, it is said that the police do know the location of these and many other dens. Itis said, too, that the police wink—but, then, this is a narration of fact, not of hearsay. These are the facts regarding Chinatown, If the police have been in ignorance of these dens, as Chief Crowley has declared himself to be, at least they need be no longer in ignorance. The largest shad ever taken in Delaware Bay was twenty-seven inches in length,