Where Cocaine Fiends Congregate

WHERE COCAINE FIENDS CONGREGATE

There is a resort near the Michigan Centrail railroad about which much complaint has been made lately. It is said to be a meeting place for colored men and women of the most disreputable character. The use of cocaine is said to be freely indulged in, in fact the place is said to be a hang-out for cocaine fiends. Some of these are known to the police and the house is said to have been under the eye of the police for some time. A colored man, well known in town, said to a reporter Monday evening:

"The place is one of the worst hangouts for colored men and women of the lower class in the city. Some nights there are twenty or thirty men and girls at the place. It is a place that the cocaine fiends hang out at. It ought to be cleaned out."

This gentleman told the reporter that he understood the police were watching the place and that he expected to see it "pulled" any night.