The women in a house rise about two o’clock in the afternoon, dress and eat their breakfast.
They are then sent by the “landlady” or keeper of the house to the parlors, to wait for prospective customers.
When a customer comes in he is “sized up.” If he appears to be a spender and buys plenty of drinks, courtesy is extended to him and an effort made to keep him as long as his money lasts. If he is “a dead one” he is forced to pay his price and depart as speedily as possible.
These women entertain as many as thirty men in one night. That is the record at least, that one girl declared she was forced to maintain.
At six o’clock, or near that hour, supper is served to these women; a number of them in a house eat while the others stay “on watch.”
Then the evening’s work begins. By midnight a greater part of these lost souls are maudlin drunk.
Their work continues until four o’clock in the morning when they are allowed to seek rest.
Even then the evil does not sleep. There is the “dog watch.” One or two girls face a day of horror. They are kept ready for the lax hours of business.
Many of these women do not live in the houses. They live in the flats bordering on the “redlight” districts.