Prostitution in the Gilded Age by Kevin Murphy

Author:Kevin Murphy
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780974935249
Published: 2015-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

Impatience dogged Billy West. Instead of sitting back and waiting for patrons to appear, he went out to promote his business. West walked up into Statehouse Square and took a position directly in front of the United States Hotel—on the north side of the square—where he chatted up traveling salesmen who frequented the hotel’s reading rooms. Slowly, he brought the conversation around to the sporting life. If the salesman showed interest, Billy would direct him to the Bange mansion. Of course, West never had time to go with the man, but promised to catch up with him later.[217]

Eventually, the proprietors of the United States Hotel asked Billy West to move on, and he pulled the same stunt at Prospect Street’s Brower House. In the process of drumming up business in front of the Brower House, Billy became good friends with William “Bill” Crowley, one of the partners in the hotel and another disciple of the sporting life. Crowley later sold his interest in the Brower House to his partner Morgan Sherman and opened a hotel in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Just as always happens when kindred souls meet, Bill Crowley and Billy West became close friends and spent considerable time at the racetrack and at prizefights. Despite this newfound bond, even Crowley had to ask Billy West to hustle up business somewhere else besides the front steps of the Brower House.[218]

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