. "Resolved, That it be recommended to the court of Quarter Sessions to withhold recommendations for license to all tavern- keepers who harbor gamblers or in any way promote or encourage gambling and horse-racing." On Tuesday morning, November 24th, the magistrates, sheriff and peace officers met. It was

at the amount of drunkenness in Lancaster. Dr. Twombley began poking into every corner of the city. He soon discovered prostitution was rampant, that young women and girls openly solicited sex on Lancaster streets and in the numerous dance halls. He found that gambling took place in many saloons and

in Lancaster, sixteen were saloons. At this time, 10,000 persons patronized gambling devices and 30% of the movies shown in the town were conducive to immo- rality.3 Around 1914, Lancaster, like many other cities in the United States of the time, allowed a great deal of readily available prosti