Red Light District (1898? From NYC or Texas?)

[Stephen Goranson]

Google Books full view gives an apparently correctly identified scan of
Bran the
Iconoclast (1898), apparently reprinted columns by William Cowper Brann;  it
includes on p. 452 "I am not, of course, speaking of the consorts of common
courtesans, of human hogs; but of the men who people the red-light district
with their cast-off ..." [no city specified, on brief look].
The book's introduction mentions "Brann's Iconoclast" was printed starting in
July, 1891 in Austin and revived in Feb., 1895 in Waco. He wrote for other
papers too.

Stephen

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