re: #163 b_sharp

Are they drunk?

What a waste.

Drunk, but well-meaning. Chinese women in brothels in the City had a hell of a time. The good faathers won’t stand the insult to womanhood any longer.

This is based on a possibly true story. Legend has it that the brothel owner called the cops, but since the cops in SF at the time were…you guessed it…Irish, the patrolman simply asked the priests for their blessing, and hustled the outraged property owner off to lockup for being disorderly.