Some of them have direct connections with Raines Law hotels and their prototypes.

Of hardly a single dance hall can a good word be said.

They are almost entirely in the hands of the element lowest in society, in business, and in politics.
From the old-fashioned German family picnic park to Coney Island in New York, Revere Beach in Boston, The White City in Chicago, Savin Rock in New Haven, and their like, is a far cry.
Some of these summer parks try to keep their amusements clean and decent, and some, notably Euclid Park, Cleveland, succeed.

But drink and often worse evils are characteristic of most of them.

There are parts of Coney Island where no beer is sold, where the vaudeville and the moving pictures are clean and wholesome, where dancing is orderly.