On June 30, 1894, a New York process server went about one of his assignments with trepidation. He was required to serve a Madame Charles of the Hotel Recherché, a massive building that occupied nos. 117 to 125 West Thirty-Second Street. The problem was that the house, which the
New York Times delicately referred to as 'notorious', was a place men usually entered for one purpose only.
Upon inquiring without success for Mme Charles, the server opted to tack the summons to the front door of the hotel. Service done via this method was accepted on 'moral grounds', as walking into a disorderly house could have compromised the server's reputation and integrity.
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