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

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