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Jim
"There is a small and select number of very splendid hells in this city where young men with property are sent to perdition in no time. . . .We would like to know the yearly profits of some of the New York hells that we could name. Would nobody make out an estimate and oblige us?"
--editorial in New York Herald (July 30th, 1835)