The personal column is also used to publicly advertise the residences of
women of the town. The following are specimens:
MISS GERTIE DAVIS, FORMERLY OF LEXINGTON avenue, will be pleased to see
her friends at 106 Clinton place.
ERASTUS--CALL ON JENNIE HOWARD at 123 West Twenty-seventh street. I have
left Heath's. 132. ALBANY.
The _World_ very justly remarks: "The cards of courtesans and the
advertisements of houses of ill-fame might as well be put up in the
panels of the street cars. If the public permits a newspaper to do it
for the consideration of a few dollars, why make the pretence that there
is anything wrong in the thing itself? If the advertisement is
legitimate, then the business must be."