shaven and wearing old clothes, was sent to Skid. Row to live among its winos, beggars and thieves. This is the last, of five daily reports on what he saw and heard and did in its flophouses, bars and buck alleys.-Ed.) three women, and the police had them in custody minutes after they hit the street, Even on Skid Row society, finds a female drunk a greater outrage to its sensibilities than her male counterpart, Let a wino fall to the sidewalk and no one gives him a second glance, It happens hundred times a day. But let a woman tumble and a crowd gathers and police switchboards jangle with calls for paddy wagon or ambulance. There are many reasons for the almost complete absence of the woman dipsomaniac on Skid Row.

In practically all cases she can find a man to foot the bills and frequents the cheap bars west of Main street. She knows there’s never a loose dollar in a wino’s pocket and prowls uptown where a gentleman a lady a drink. No woman in her right mind will venture near Skid Row at night. She becomes the prey of thousands of drunks, perverts and sadists who inhabit its dark streets and alleys, a and sex murders occur with startling frequency. Homosexuals have been gravitating, to Skid Row more and more in recent years.

There are bars on Main and Third streets that cater almost exclusively to this queenly trade, but not one in 20 lives there. They come from other districts in the city where their presence in large numbers would be too conspicuous. Many drive new cars, wear expensive clothing and resent Skid Row’s tawdriness while languishing in its propensities for depravity. His peccadillos down here can cost a homosexual his life. He is the -roller’s favorite mark and one might stab or” beat the life out of him as much in contempt as for his money.

Marijuana is sold in the cheap dives along Main and Fifth streets. But not many of Skid Row’s permanent residents can afford this costly short-cut to world bereft of care. The weed peddlers sell largely (Continued on Page 49, Col. 1) (A Daily News staff writer, un-emen staggering drunk, but only By ROY RINGER (Daily News Staff Writer) She was not more than’ 15 and wore a bright red ribbon in her hair, She spoke to me from a doorway on East Fifth street, “It you have $5 I know where we can have a good time. Just you and me, honey.” I didn’t stop.

Her boy friend would be waiting for us in the darkness. Protest too violently when he robs you and you may die with a knife in your back. There are prostitutes on Skid Row, street walkers who take their customers to cheap hotel rooms. or back alleys. Not one in five is free of disease, for this is also the hustler’s last stand, She can sink no lower than Skid Row.

Her quarry is not the wino no or the bum but the visiting firemen -convention delegates who come down to see how the other half lives–ranch hands or servicemen or perhaps a tipsy businessman out for a rip. It he’s toting a bankroll and is silly enough to flash it, she may suggest buying a bottle before going to her room. A pinch of chloral hydrate in his drink and the sucker becomes drowsy. The White, tasteless crystals are a powerful hypnotic and 15 minutes later she’s emptying his pockets. His eyes may be wide open but he can’t move a finger.

He’s lucky if 10 hours later he can stand up and walk. An overdose would kill him. Such cases seldom come to the attention of the police, for obvious reasons. There are hundreds of women •on Skid Row working in bars, restaurants and theaters, but all live in other parts of the city. Fifth and Main is a man’s world, and even the woman alcoholic keeps her distance.

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POLICE FOUND A KNIFE IN THIS MAN’S HEART BUT NO MOTIVE FOR HIS MURDER He was only 27 and was found dying in a seamy hotel lobby–there were, as usual, no witnesses THIS DRUNK WAS IN THE MOOD FOR A FIGHT -AND A STRANGER CUT HIM UP WITH KNIFE He was taken to the hospital, blood spurting from his wrist, but was boozing an hour later in same bar.