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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls, by 
+Jean Turner-Zimmermann
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+Title: Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls
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+Author: Jean Turner-Zimmermann
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+Release Date: March 12, 2010 [EBook #31615]
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+  Chicago's Black Traffic
+  in
+  White Girls
+
+
+  _An article on the Great "White Slave" Question_
+
+  _ILLUSTRATED_
+
+
+  By
+  Mrs. Jean Turner-Zimmermann, M. D.
+
+
+[Illustration: JEAN TURNER-ZIMMERMANN, M. D.]
+
+
+  CHICAGO'S
+  BLACK TRAFFIC
+  IN
+  WHITE GIRLS
+
+
+  _By_
+  _MRS. JEAN TURNER-ZIMMERMANN, M. D._
+
+  _President of the_
+  CHICAGO RESCUE MISSION and
+  WOMAN'S SHELTER
+
+  AND
+
+  _Superintendent of_
+  The DEPARTMENT OF PURITY AND HEREDITY of the
+  COOK COUNTY W. C. T. U.
+
+  733 Washington Boulevard, CHICAGO
+
+
+[Illustration: REV. R. IRA STONE
+
+_Superintendent of the Chicago Rescue Mission_]
+
+
+
+
+Foreword
+
+
+My sole aim in bringing this little pamphlet to you is to definitely call
+the attention of the men and women of the Central Western States, and
+especially those of the City of Chicago into whose hands it may come, to
+the vicious, thoroughly organized white-slave traffic of to-day, and its
+attendant, far-reaching, horrible results upon the young man and womanhood
+of our Land.
+
+During a constant residence covering seven years of time in the central
+slum districts of the West and South Sides of Chicago, I have gained much
+actual knowledge of the questions of poverty, drink and prostitution among
+the lost men and women of these great neighborhoods, have become
+personally acquainted with very many of them, visiting them, listening to
+their heart stories and growing to know much of their inside lives, and
+have learned a real tender interest and pity for them in their remorseful,
+helpless, hopeless condition.
+
+All incidents, references and statistics (as far as possible) herein given
+are strictly authentic, and have been collected with great care and
+fairness either by myself or my assistants.
+
+Statistical references have been taken from the writings of United States
+Attorney Sims, Rev. Ernest A. Bell and others engaged in prosecuting and
+reform work, all of whom I thank sincerely and wish well in what they are
+accomplishing for good where it is so desperately needed in this submerged
+underworld of our city.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+So in bringing this eighth edition of CHICAGO'S BLACK TRAFFIC IN WHITE
+GIRLS to you, a part of which has already been published under the title
+of CHICAGO'S SOUL MARKET, it is the aim of the writer to give more thought
+and time to real, existing conditions--descriptions and actual facts
+relative to public prostitution and its attendant frightful results,
+rather than to such matter as incidents, "cases," etc., knowledge of which
+can usually be acquired by simply reading the daily press of Chicago or
+New York. All descriptions, statistics and photographs are taken by the
+author from actual contact with the great underworld and quoted with
+names, dates, etc., of those concerned and are absolutely authentic.
+
+We, together with thousands of others--editors, legislators, club women,
+ministers and everybody else who has the welfare of the girlhood of our
+Land at heart, believe that the time for prudery and concealment is past
+and that honest men and women should know what there is to know about this
+thoroughly organized, solidly financed system of White Slavery flourishing
+and growing in America to-day--a system which controls and ruins hundreds
+of thousands of women in our midst every year and which requires a
+constant sacrifice of more than sixty thousand young girls annually to
+feed its death and disease dealing machinery.
+
+Most people think of harlotry or prostitution as something
+secret--something to be kept from the public eye, something to be ashamed
+of. Not so to the great throng of Chicago whore-mongers. Everything that
+can be done to attract attention and custom is done by the five thousand
+men and hundreds of hideous, brutish madams who in this city exploit the
+bodies and live off the earnings of thirty thousand public women in our
+midst. The twenty-seven hundred (quoting from a statement of Chief of
+Police Stewart) houses of ill-fame here are conducted with as much
+publicity and advertising as the grocery or meat market nearby. Each
+adjoining and nearby saloon, with its wine rooms and booths, is an
+advertising and recruiting agency; the ward politician, the officers on
+the beat, the common "pimp" and the recognized whore-mongers, work
+harmoniously together to exploit this vast business.
+
+Reckoning the number of White Slaves in Chicago at thirty thousand, and
+the average number of men entertained by each of these unfortunate women
+nightly at five (a very low average) with an average per man of one
+dollar, there is poured monthly =Four Million Five Hundred Thousand
+Dollars=, blood money, into the coffers of these human dealers--as the
+rental for profit of the bodies of our American girl and her alien sister
+who has been mercilessly trapped, lured from her home and sold into the
+great festering cesspool, without the slightest knowledge of our customs
+and laws, and ruined forever.
+
+New York City is the great eastern headquarters and westward shipping
+point for Oriental and European White Slaves. Mark this statement:
+
+     _"Seventeen hundred girls, by actual count, were lost on the way from
+     New York to Chicago last year, according to an investigation now
+     being made by the Commissioner of Immigration. Somehow these girls
+     were spirited away from the care of the agents to whom they were
+     entrusted and were never seen nor heard of again."_
+
+Isn't that an appalling fact? for fact it is--seventeen hundred girls lost
+and gone forever just from this one line of travel alone and in just one
+year! These girls, who came to this Country to better themselves, to make
+an honest living, broken and rotting to-day behind bolts and bars in some
+of our cities' foul dives, or else shipped on and on until at last in some
+Chinese underground cellar or under the lash of a South American or
+Philippine whore-master, Death at last comes to the rescue.
+
+Please remember, as you read this, that America is becoming more and more
+un-American every day. Each ship, each train Westward or Eastward bound,
+the now daily dumping into our Land, so lately the goal of the home-seeker
+from Germany, Sweden, Ireland, etc., the real future citizen--thousands
+of the scum and vice and criminal element of South Eastern Europe, Asia
+and the Orient, and remember too that a short five-years of residence here
+converts the filthiest criminal from Turkey, Arabia, Syria, Italy, or of
+any place else where vice and brutality reign supreme, into an American
+citizen with the right to vote into office men who will and are sworn to
+protect and aid in every possible way the Jewish, Russian, French or
+Chinese whore-master as he rents a shanty and proceeds to fatten on the
+very life-blood of the young girlhood of this and other lands.
+
+JEAN TURNER-ZIMMERMANN, M. D.
+
+
+
+
+The "Protected" White Slave Traffic.
+
+
+Open prostitution--White Slavery, as it exists to-day in Chicago, is
+almost entirely under =foreign= control. Of the twenty-seven hundred houses
+of ill-fame in Chicago, a very large percentage are owned and controlled
+by foreigners from Southeastern Europe, while almost without exception all
+Levee and White Slave resorts in the segregated districts are under the
+direct ownership of the moral and civic degenerates of the French,
+Italian, Syrian, Russian, Jewish or Chinese races--once in a great while
+you may find a German or Swedish whore-master, but very seldom--an
+American or an Englishman conducting such a business is almost entirely
+unknown. American men raise the girlhood, make the laws and =elect= the
+officials whereby this bloody business may be carried on and exploited by
+a foaming pack of foreign hell-hounds, who after their work of death is
+accomplished and their coffers filled, go home to their South Europe or
+Turkish haunts with their blood and soul money, to lives of filth and
+idleness in their own lands.
+
+I appeal in the name of Jehovah, to the Church, to the women's clubs, to
+the labor federations and all honorable Jews and others of foreign birth
+who have come to America for a home and a decent, honorable living, to aid
+in every possible way the great work now going on to eradicate
+segregated, protected White Slavery from our Land.
+
+
+EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY PAPERS
+
+Quoting from the Daily Press, May 4, regarding the recent investigations
+in New York concerning the question of White Slavery by the Rockefeller
+jury (which after buying two girls themselves, later declared, "there is
+no traffic in women in New York"):
+
+     Harry Levenson, the acknowledged "trader" of women who is in the
+     Tombs under $25,000 bail, made a startling confession to the District
+     Attorney to-night, giving names of men and women whose sole
+     occupation is dealing in unfortunates.
+
+     "I know of three places in New York," Levenson said, "where five to
+     ten girls are kept constantly at hand for sale. At any hour of the
+     day or night one of them, two or the whole ten, can be bought by any
+     one with the money to pay for them. They can be shipped anywhere at
+     an hour's notice."
+
+
+     GIVES HINT ON ARRESTS
+
+     The "trader" gave to Mr. Whitman the addresses of the three places,
+     which are known as "stockades." He also made suggestions as to how
+     their operators might be apprehended.
+
+     More than that, Levenson told how the financial arrangements of the
+     sales are made and how recruits are obtained.
+
+     Agents are continually at work obtaining young girls, the prisoner
+     said. The slave sellers do not want hardened women, he explained;
+     they want pretty, immature girls. The agents are generally well
+     dressed women who ingratiate themselves with their childish victims
+     at matinees and moving-picture shows, and by dining them and painting
+     rosy pictures of a life of ease, win them away from their homes or
+     their ill-paid positions.
+
+     "When there is a call for girls," Levenson continued, "the buyer
+     hands over the money paid for them to the keeper. Then an
+     agent--these are usually men--take the girls to wherever the "order"
+     comes from. These agents then collect 10 per cent of the girl's
+     weekly earnings."
+
+Quoting from the National Prohibitionist, May 12:
+
+     THE SLAVE TRADE AND THE VOTER
+
+     The Christian voter who reads, and reads with blood boiling, as the
+     blood of every honest man must, the shameful story of the exposure of
+     the traffic in girls especially in New York, must not allow his
+     imagination to run away with his reasoning faculties.
+
+     Awful as the story is, we invite attention, not to its horror--the
+     horror of herds of little girls sold at a per-head price below the
+     value of pigs--but to the practical questions of responsibility and
+     cure.
+
+     Why does this infamy exist in our cities?
+
+     How can it exist?
+
+     Who is responsible?
+
+     The answers all come to one point--the governments that rule our
+     cities.
+
+     The black and white wretches who are the immediate agents of vice are
+     hardly worth considering. They are mere incidents. Practically it is
+     a waste of time to even prosecute them.
+
+     The trail of the real criminal leads into the police headquarters,
+     leads up the steps of the city hall, goes across the threshold of the
+     mayor's private office, enters the homes of Christian citizens and
+     lies broad through the doors of the church.
+
+     For this infamy of the sale of innocent girls for vice and the whole
+     wider, deeper, fouler vice system is a part of governmental policy,
+     not in New York and Chicago alone, but all over the Country, under
+     Republican and Democratic administration.
+
+     The very district attorney's office that exposes these particular
+     instances of crime is one of the strong pillars of the system of
+     which the crime is only an outcropping.
+
+     Even now there is not a voice lifted in official Chicago and New York
+     in favor of doing the one thing that alone can stop the sale of
+     girls, the one thing that the law clearly prescribes in the
+     matter--wiping out the vice preserves, stopping the whole system of
+     trade in vice. This fact needs to be burned deeply into the hearts of
+     American voters: =If you want this thing to go on, if you want little
+     girls still to be bought and sold like pigs, if you want pure young
+     lives to be overwhelmed in fathomless shame, all you need to do to
+     help keep up the system is to keep on voting for men who protect
+     these criminals.=
+
+Quoting from McClure's (July) Magazine concerning the recent investigation
+of the White Slave trade in New York City by a specially appointed jury:
+
+     In order to establish the existence of the White Slave traffic
+     Assistant District Attorney James B. Reynolds arranged to make
+     actual purchases of girls in the Tenderloin and other sections of the
+     underworld from those reputed to be large dealers. Skilled
+     investigators who were not known in New York were engaged and put to
+     work in the heart of the Tenderloin.
+
+     They were represented as purchasers of girls. Friendly and
+     confidential relations were established with some of the most
+     influential White Slave dealers. By these means valuable first-hand
+     information was obtained regarding the White Slave trade. The agents
+     were told the price of girls, the methods employed in the business,
+     and, in some cases, the corrupt relations existing between the
+     traders and certain officials.
+
+     Past and present conditions of the traffic were contrasted
+     frequently, the trading during the present winter being described as
+     exceptionally light because of the general alarm caused by the
+     sitting of the "White Slave" Grand Jury. One large dealer told the
+     agents that though two years ago he could have sold them all the
+     girls they wanted at $5 or $10 apiece, he would not risk selling one
+     in New York now for $1,000.
+
+     In spite of this general caution, purchases for cash were made of
+     four girls, two through an East Side dealer, who boasted of formerly
+     having made large sales in other cities, and two from a so-called
+     black and tan dealer. Two of the girls are under 18.
+
+     ... With rare exceptions, not only the innocent women imported into
+     this Country, but the prostitutes as well, are associated with men
+     whose business it is to protect them, direct them, and control them,
+     and who frequently, if not usually, make it their business to plunder
+     them unmercifully. Now this system of subjection to a man has become
+     common. The procurer or the pimp may put his woman into a disorderly
+     house, sharing profits with the "madam". He may sell her outright; he
+     may act as an agent for another man; he may keep her, making
+     arrangements for her hunting men. She must walk the streets and
+     secure her patrons, to be exploited, not for her own sake, but for
+     that of her owner. Often he does not tell her even his real name. If
+     she tries to leave her man, she is threatened with arrest. If she
+     resists, she may be beaten; in some cases, when she has betrayed her
+     betrayer, she has been murdered.
+
+     The ease and apparent certainty of profit has led thousands of our
+     younger men, usually those of foreign birth or the immediate sons of
+     foreigners, to abandon the useful arts of life to undertake the most
+     accursed business ever devised by man.
+
+     Those who recruit women for immoral purposes watch all places where
+     young women are likely to be found under circumstances which will
+     give them a ready means of acquaintance and intimacy, such as picture
+     shows, dance-halls, sometimes waiting rooms in large department
+     stores, railroad stations, manicuring and hair dressing
+     establishments.
+
+     The strongest appeal to the instincts of humanity in every
+     right-minded person is made by a consideration of the brutal system
+     employed by these traffickers to in every way exploit their victims,
+     the hardened prostitute as well as the innocent maiden. It is
+     probable that a somewhat larger proportion of the American girls are
+     free from the control of a master; and yet, according to the best
+     evidences obtainable--according to the stories of the women
+     themselves and the keepers of the houses--nearly all the women now
+     engaged in this business in our large cities are subject to pimps,
+     to whom they give most of their earnings, or else they are under the
+     domination of keepers of houses, a condition that is practically the
+     same.
+
+     It is the business of the man who controls the women to provide
+     police protection, either by bribing the police not to arrest her,
+     or, in case of arrest, to secure bail, pay the fine, etc., to make
+     all business arrangements, to decide what streets, restaurants,
+     dance-halls, saloons and similar places she shall frequent.
+
+     There are large numbers of Jews scattered throughout the United
+     States, although mainly located in New York and Chicago, who seduce
+     and keep girls. Some of them are engaged in importation, but
+     apparently they prey rather upon young girls whom they find on the
+     street, in the dance-halls, and similar places, and who, by the
+     methods already indicated--love-making and pretense of marriage--they
+     deceive and ruin. Many of them are petty thieves, pickpockets and
+     gamblers. They also have various resorts where they meet and receive
+     their mail, and transact business with one another, and visit.
+     Perhaps the best known organization of this kind throughout this
+     Country was one legally incorporated in New York in 1904, under the
+     name of the New York Benevolent Association.
+
+     It is, of course, difficult to prove by specific cases the relation
+     of the police to this traffic, and to establish by specific evidence
+     the fact generally accepted that the girls of disorderly house
+     keepers regularly pay the police for protection; but high police
+     officials, prosecuting officers, and social workers in all quarters
+     assert that in many, if not all of our large cities, much corruption
+     of this kind exists.
+
+     The importation and harboring of alien women and girls for immoral
+     purposes and the practice of prostitution by them--the so-called
+     "white slave traffic"--is the most pitiful and revolting phase of the
+     immigration question. This business has assumed large proportions,
+     and it has been exerting so evil an influence upon our Country that
+     the Immigration Commission felt compelled to make it the subject of a
+     thorough investigation.
+
+     The investigation was begun in November, 1907, under the active
+     supervision of a special committee of the Immigration Commission; and
+     the work was conducted by a special agent in charge, with numerous
+     assistants.
+
+     The investigation has covered the cities of New York, Chicago, San
+     Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Butte, Denver,
+     Buffalo, Boston and New Orleans.
+
+     There are between seven and eight hundred men in Seattle who live
+     from the revenue from the "white slave traffic", almost all of whom
+     could be reached by the State Courts, if proper efforts were made. It
+     was established by the Grand Jury that the Federal Government has
+     gone as far as the law allows. It is now up to the State authorities,
+     who could break up this business in short order.
+
+
+
+
+What are We Going to Do About the Children?
+
+
+[Illustration: A Group of Children in the Midst of the "Red Light"
+District]
+
+Levee women, women living in prostitution, "madams," etc., do not bring up
+their children (and most of Chicago's female dealers in prostitution have
+several of them) in or =near= segregated districts of vice. Like the saloon
+keeper who moved to Evanston to get his children away from the harmful,
+degenerating influences of the saloon and its environing neighborhoods, so
+the "madam," that active principal in the slavedom of the girls of our
+Land, in almost every case sees to it that =her= children are well brought
+up, away from the influences and knowledge of prostitution, while her
+agents and keepers are out scouring the department stores, factories,
+villages and country homes for girls to fill the sickening, festering,
+shrieking ranks of the great death army of publicly protected White
+Slaves.
+
+The writer has investigated many cases, and in every instance has found
+the children of these vultures of girlhood in exclusive colleges or
+military schools, being excellently prepared to take decent positions in
+business and social life. Case after case has recently come to light of
+women supporting their children on the fashionable avenues, in Harvard and
+military colleges, while they themselves with hearts of hell, wring the
+dollars that pay for these luxuries from the bleeding, broken bodies of a
+gang of Levee White Slaves--your sister and mine--younger than her own,
+better born, better raised, but lost =forever= in the crushing, barred and
+screened gehenna of modern harlotry.
+
+Sixty-nine per cent of the children raised in the vast slum neighborhoods
+surrounding the segregated districts of prostitution are ruined before
+reaching the age of eighteen. This dreadful, appalling feature has been
+recently brought to light through close investigation by the writer and
+her co-workers, together with the sickening fact that little girls
+scarcely more than babies, are being constantly sought, secured and
+sacrificed to satisfy the cravings of abnormal, degenerate vice and
+debauchery abounding in every large city. These little children, painted
+and showily dressed, are fast making their appearance in such cities as
+New York and Chicago, and they are the forerunners of Oriental child
+debauchery. These little girls are seldom seen on the streets, but may be
+recognized when seen, by their deformed, bowed legs, bent backs and
+shrivelled little, old faces--such faces as we find in cripples aged by
+pain. Our hearts have been almost stilled as we have listened to the
+terrible stories of the hundreds of little girls in the ghastly
+fleshmarkets of India and China who, by the knife and the insertion into
+their tender bodies of wedges of expanding wood, are thus made ready,
+through months of torture, for the use of some inhuman Hindu or Chinese
+monster who for the sum of a few dollars purchases the use of their
+shrieking, quivering bodies, to leave them after a day or two of
+unparalleled debauchery, dead, or if still living, then with broken back
+or limbs, a human sacrifice indeed.
+
+We have read and known all this and wished that we could die that these
+children might be saved--but listen, do we realize that with the influx
+into our midst, into our larger cities, of the vilest, most degenerate men
+and women on earth, thousands upon thousands of the most hellish brutes of
+Asia and China--men who reckon girlhood lower than the female dog, has
+come this very thing--this reeking, diabolical crime against innocent
+girlhood. Two especially revolting cases have come under the direct notice
+of the writer, yet without sufficient legal proof to face in court the
+organized, thoroughly financed hand of men and women exploiting these
+dreadful conditions: one, a girl Louise, on Custom House Place; the other,
+Rosie from the 22nd Street environments. The last named, cut, torn and
+bleeding, made a statement to the writer that cannot be put in print; yet
+she was by her owners accused of masturbation. Both of these girls were
+under ten years of age.
+
+The exploitation of women in Chicago in the vast business of White Slavery
+and segregated vice, is carried on very openly and above board. Street
+walkers carry on their nefarious business of securing trade for the
+"house" almost entirely unmolested. Women stand in the doors of the West
+Side houses of ill-fame and solicit those who pass.
+
+At 737 Washington boulevard, two doors west of the Chicago Rescue Mission,
+with which the writer is connected, a woman[1] stands in the door
+constantly soliciting each male passer-by; boys are invited to come in and
+take their first lesson in vice, and on this block are many, many
+children, boys and girls. One of the "girls" kept by this woman was a
+harlot known as "No-nose" whose whole face was so sunken with syphilis
+that her nose was almost gone. The writer remembers well when through the
+efforts of a fellow-worker "No-nose" was sent to the County Hospital for
+medical treatment, and considers this girl one of the greatest menaces to
+Chicago boyhood. No man would have touched the woman.
+
+The blocks in this immediate vicinity are all thickly peopled by families
+with many children in them. The following group of little girls live in
+their alley-homes within a few doors of some of the worst sights and dives
+in Chicago.
+
+[Illustration: Children of the Slums]
+
+They see no sights but vice, they hear no talk but filth. At the age of
+ten they are perfectly familiar with all the ins and outs of harlotry,
+know many prostitutes, many pimps.
+
+Do you think these girls (each one is known to the writer personally) have
+any chance for virtue?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At 804 Washington Boulevard, almost across the street from the writer's
+office, appears the following sign on the window of the cigar store
+located there.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  GEO F. WALZ
+  MANUFACTURER OF THE
+  WHITE SLAVE CIGAR]
+
+Hundreds of the wreckage of typical White Slavery pass this place daily,
+for it is located at the edge of the great West Side dumping ground for
+broken, diseased women and young girls whose bodies can no longer be
+profitably used in the higher class dives of the South Side segregated
+districts, and who must at the end of a year or two become, if they are
+still living, the notorious women of the night who walk the streets and
+alleys, selling the use of their vile bodies for twenty-five cents, ten
+cents, a drink of beer or a crust of free lunch, becoming the prey of the
+drunken bum, the low vicious foreigner, the negro, or else the ruination
+of every young boy who falls into their vulture-like clutches.
+
+In all Chicago there could not be a generally worse neighborhood than the
+one in which the White Slave Cigar is manufactured and advertised for
+sale. Within a few blocks of the factory, which is two doors west of the
+corner of Washington Boulevard and Halsted Street, there are a thousand
+broken, pitiful lost White Slaves.
+
+Within two or three blocks of this corner, five typical White Slaves have
+been murdered (butchered would be a better word) within the space of just
+a few weeks. Here drunken women, the outcast element of the better class
+of dives, trail their filthy bodies day and night, their sunken,
+half-starved, syphiletic faces staring in your face, seeking the man or
+the young boy who will give them a drink of whiskey or a crust of bread in
+return for the wretched commerce they have to offer. Here, too, the
+children play and little girls grow into big girls with scarcely a ghost
+of a chance to be decent, and facing all hangs the sign "White Slave
+Cigar," manufactured by George F. Walz.
+
+It is out of this great outlaw district, this vast West Side charnal house
+of harlotry, that the City gets its supply of girls for that class of vice
+known as degeneracy.
+
+Five years of work in prostitution constitutes the life of the average
+harlot. Many, before the time allotted to them in a life of ill-fame
+expires, die; many commit suicide, yet some live on, their diseased bodies
+constituting that class of girls known as street walkers and degenerates.
+These women, who are really only young girls, hang around the back rooms
+and cellars of the barrel houses, consorting with the drunken, crippled,
+diseased men who congregate in such places, and from this vast army of
+lost girlhood is supplied the material for the immoral Oriental shows
+abounding in the segregated districts, where with dogs and burros, the
+bodies of ruined, diseased girls are finally used up and destroyed, or in
+the bestial dives in which are practiced that horrible crime known as the
+"French method."
+
+Sixty-nine per cent of the little girls who must, through necessity and
+environment, grow up in the neighborhoods immediately surrounding the
+segregated vice districts of such cities as Chicago, New York, Seattle,
+etc., are ruined before they reach the age of eighteen years. Think of it!
+These children know little else than drink and prostitution, hear little
+else, see little else. To them harlotry is in all its blasting, withering
+phases, a familiar story before they have reached the age of ten years.
+Hundreds of whore mongers, panderers, pimps and outlawed harlots, exploit
+their awful business and tell their vile stories as they walk the same
+pathway day by day with these children--little lost souls they are--the
+children of the poor, looked on in pity though by one who said "Inasmuch
+as ye have done it unto the least of these, ye have done it unto Me."
+
+
+THE TRANSIENT HOTEL EVIL.
+
+In this vast underworld another trap almost as dangerous as the house of
+prostitution abounds on every hand--the so-called "hotel"--really a mere
+house of assignation in almost every instance. These hotels are a constant
+menace to the girlhood of our Land--girls who come to the city strangers,
+and are unable to discriminate between the good and bad. Dozens of these
+hotels flourish all around the districts of vice in our cities, the
+abiding place of the pimp, the beggar, the criminal, and yet flourish
+under complete political protection. We sincerely believe that the time
+for cleaning up has come in such cities as New York, Chicago, etc., and we
+believe that we have with us in this stand, not only decent Chicago and
+New York, but decent America.
+
+
+CRUSADE AGAINST "WHITE SLAVERY."
+
+Thirteen governments have signed the international agreement to fight the
+traffic in women for immoral purposes. The terms have just been announced
+at Ottawa, Canada.
+
+The list of countries, British colonies and protectorates which have
+decided to adhere to the Anti-White Slave Traffic Agreement are:
+Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain,
+Italy, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, the Bahamas,
+Barbadoes, British Guiana, Canada, Ceylon, Australia, Gambia, Gold Coast,
+Malta, Newfoundland, Northern Nigeria, Southern Rhodesia, Trinidad and the
+Windward Islands.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The End of the Way. Where Young Girls, who attend Public
+Dances and Other Places of Amusement Unattended, are Likely to Wind Up]
+
+
+Escape from a Life of Prostitution is Almost Impossible
+
+
+After more than four years of experience, and after having visited in
+various capacities, disguised, etc., many of the worst haunts of vice and
+houses of prostitution in Chicago, =I= have personally come to this
+conclusion:
+
+There is but a small chance for a girl, once having been sold into or
+entered upon a life of prostitution, to ever escape therefrom. Invariably
+she is kept in debt to her masters; excessive bills for parlor clothes,
+board, dentistry, laundry and all conceivable expenses are kept charged up
+against her. She is under constant threat of personal violence and
+blackmail in every form (her owners securing whenever possible, some
+knowledge of her home and friends, and continually holding this knowledge
+as a dagger over her), and there is the ever-present whore-masters and
+madams with drugs, drinks and bolts and bars, guarding every avenue of
+escape with blows and curses and brutality beyond conception. Very few
+young girls enter a life of prostitution voluntarily, and few, having once
+entered, ever escape therefrom.
+
+
+A WORD OF PROTEST
+
+The writer just here wishes to enter vigorous protest against houses of
+prostitution in Chicago and in =America= furnishing the American girl or
+her alien sister for the use of that class of alien men who are either
+excluded from citizenship in our Country by law, or who without wife or
+family, are here temporarily and simply to make all the money possible, in
+as short a time and in any way possible.
+
+At 2130 Armour Avenue, Chicago, stands an old tenement house filled with
+girls--girls from all over the United States--a beautiful ruined girl from
+Georgia, girls from Europe. Good girls they were a year or two ago, but
+are now the chained, wrecked slaves of festering vice and habit. This
+place is said to be operated by a dope-fiend by the name of W---- and is
+exclusively for the use of a class of men debarred from the United States
+by law, except for educational purposes and mercantile interests among
+their own kind, a class of men with whom no white laborer will live or
+work--the class of men who a year or two ago murdered Elsie Siegel in New
+York--the lop-shouldered, smuggled-in, pig-tailed opium parched Chinese.
+It is a crying shame to-day against our Churches, our Union Labor and our
+Law that there is allowed to exist on a public street, in the second city
+in the United States, a public stock-market for wrecked girlhood where the
+filthy Chinese, in rows, wait their turn to rent for thirty minutes of
+unparalleled Asiatic debauchery, the bruised, bleeding wreckage of our
+American home or the girl who came to us a few months ago--to the greatest
+Christian Republic the World has ever builded, from some European home and
+a mother, asking only a chance to go to work with her bare hands and earn
+a decent living.
+
+The American citizen refuses to admit the Chinaman, refuses to work with
+him, refuses him all rights accorded other aliens coming to us, and yet,
+for the blood profits of vice and politics, allows to be placed to his
+exclusive privilege that which a short time ago was our Nation's best and
+cleanest womanhood.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+For an American girl entering a life of public prostitution there is some
+chance of salvation, for the immigrant girl there is indeed little. Two
+years ago I had occasion to visit 21-- Armour Avenue, a "50-cent house" in
+the infamous "bedbug row district." It was about three o'clock in the
+afternoon, just before the beginning of regular business hours. In the
+reception room of the place, around a rusty old stove, sat eight or ten
+hopeless, lost girls; sick, smoking, cursing girls. Soon they would dress
+up, dope up with whiskey, cocaine or opium, dash some bella donna in their
+eyes and go on duty to meet all comers. Shivering by the stove sat a
+little foreign girl. I asked her name, the girls told me it was Josie and
+that she was an Italian. Speaking to her in that language, I soon learned
+that she was a young Russian Jewess. The house seemed to possess
+sufficient proof, as the law then required, that the girl had been in this
+Country three years; so there was little I could do except give her my
+card and tell her if she ever needed a friend to come to me. Less than a
+year ago there came a ring at my door, and opening it, I found a lost
+woman begging me to come at once into the West Side "levee" to see a girl
+who was dying. I went with her, and there, in a mouldy, wretched cellar I
+found "Josie" of the Armour Avenue resort, dying with syphilis. In that
+awful underground place I listened to her story and give it to you as she
+related it to me:
+
+     "I am nineteen years old and my name is Gezie Bruvatsky. I saw my
+     father bayonetted to the earth by Russian soldiers. I saw my mother
+     work over the washtub until her hands were bloody that I and my
+     little brother might have bread and my virtue be protected. One day a
+     man came to our house, who was either a Jew or a German, saying he
+     was agent for a steamship company and that he had good work in
+     America for many girls where they could earn as much in one month as
+     they could earn in two years in Russia. My heart leaped with joy. How
+     could we know he was lying. I packed my clothes. I left all--my
+     mother, my brother. I came to America. Soon I could send for them,
+     for I was strong and could work--work day and night. At New York a
+     man and woman met me and sent me on to Chicago. Here I was taken from
+     the Polk Street Station to Armour Avenue where by force I was ruined.
+     I was there many months, sick and starving, and finally got out and
+     crawled over to the West Side where there are many Jews; but now I am
+     dying and I want my mother."
+
+
+WHAT THE U. S. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY SAYS:
+
+Hon. Edwin Sims, ex-U. S. Prosecuting Attorney, in a recent conservative
+statement, says he believes that =fifteen thousand= immigrant girls are
+brought into this Country every year for commercialized prostitution.
+
+We believe the actual figures are nearer Twenty-five Thousand, and we
+appeal to the mothers and fathers of America, in the name of God and the
+heart-broken mothers and fathers of other lands, to use their personal
+influence and the money with which God has entrusted them, to wipe from
+our flag the leprous blotch of shame which permits the importing into our
+Republic every year of thousands of helpless girls to be ground up in the
+murder mills of the segregated harlotry of such districts as the 22nd
+Street district of Chicago, for it was the blood-covered hand of that
+district that reached across the lands and seas and into that Russian
+home and tore from it little Gezie Bruvatsky and led her across the waters
+and under the very shadow of the Statue of Liberty itself and pinning to
+her the little blue ticket of immigration, led her past the gates or Ellis
+Island, on past the statues of Washington and Jefferson, of Lincoln and
+Grant, and into the burning fire of American public prostitution to live a
+few months, and dying in an underground cellar, be cast, scarce cold, into
+our nation's great potter's field of lost women.
+
+[Illustration: The Wretched, Pitiful Ending of Gezie Bruvatsky, left by
+Her Heartless Masters to Die Unattended in Filthy, Squalid Surroundings]
+
+
+
+
+The Price of a Living Body
+
+
+Fifty years ago, down in the Southland of our America, we stood a well
+formed, sound limbed, healthy, intact young woman on the auction block and
+sold her to the biggest bidder for her beauty, her virtue, her heart, her
+honor, her soul and her body, and the established average price paid for
+such a young woman was eighteen hundred dollars ($1800.00). I take for
+granted as I write, that if the heart and soul and body of a young black
+woman of Kentucky, Georgia or Mississippi was in the slave market of fifty
+years ago worth intrinsically $1800.00, the soul and body of a clean,
+decent, young Northland white woman is to-day worth about the same.
+Assistant State Prosecuting Attorney Roe in his speech before the Illinois
+Vigilance Society, Chicago, February 7th, 1909, placed the number of women
+in disorderly resorts in Chicago alone at 30,000.
+
+Stop! Listen: If there are 30,000 young women on this City's Soul-Market,
+and we place the average value of one of these young women at $1,800, AND
+WE CERTAINLY DO PLACE IT THERE, by established, recognized precedent, then
+there is $54,000,000 worth of young womanhood in the Slave-Market of our
+City at the present time. In the same statistical speech Mr. Roe places
+the number of young girls necessary yearly to recruit the rapidly
+decimating ranks of this vast Death Army at six thousand; hence,
+$10,800,000 worth of innocent girlhood must be sacrificed from our stores
+and factories, our homes or firesides all over the Land every twelve
+mouths to feed and satisfy the horrible flesh-market of Human Slavery in
+the "levee" districts of Chicago alone.
+
+Harry A. Parkin, Assistant U. S. District Attorney, in WOMEN'S WORLD,
+March, 1909, says:
+
+     "The Federal investigations in Chicago and other localities have
+     clearly established the fact that, generally speaking, houses of
+     ill-fame in large cities do not draw their recruits to any great
+     extent from the territory immediately surrounding them; for various
+     reasons the White Slavers who are the recruiting agents of this vile
+     traffic prefer to work in States more or less distant from the
+     centers to which victims are destined."
+
+In view of all this, it must be clearly apparent that the need of the hour
+is legislation which will make it as difficult and dangerous for a White
+Slaver to take his victim from one State into another as it is to bring
+them from France, Italy, Canada or any other foreign country, to a house
+of ill-fame in Chicago or any American city. Therefore, it is suggested
+that if each State in the Union would enact and enforce laws against this
+importation, this terrible traffic would be dealt a blow in its most
+vulnerable part.
+
+One of the strangest results brought about by the recent White Slave
+prosecutions in Chicago and the wide publicity which they have received
+has been the astonishment of thousands of persons, as evidenced by
+letters, at the fact that such a wholesale traffic is actually in
+existence, but what is still more astounding, not to say discouraging, is
+the reluctance of other thousands to believe that many hundreds of men and
+women are actually engaged in the business of luring young girls and women
+to their destruction and that this infamous traffic is being carried on in
+every state of the Union every day of the year.
+
+It is estimated by those who should know, that at least five thousand men
+in Chicago live off of the earnings of prostitution. For instance as to
+the plan: A young girl, alien or American, is sold into a life of ill-fame
+for say Two Hundred Dollars, as the actual price of her procuring. Before
+she suspects any real harm, she is lured into a restaurant or a wine-room,
+becomes intoxicated, is sufficiently doped to become passive, is taken to
+the "house" to which she has been consigned and is immediately "broken in"
+in the most violent and nauseating manner, perhaps becoming the prey of
+twenty or thirty men. Beaten, threatened with exposure, and, if necessary,
+purposely infected with gonorrhea, the girl is within twenty-four hours
+absolutely ruined for all time--"spoiled," the police say. Oh! what a
+whole world of agony and pain and bruises and disease and Hell is embodied
+in that one word "spoiled." She is immediately pressed into service and
+from that time on until death relieves her, or she is rescued by some one
+enough interested to help her, she must receive all comers THIRTY DAYS
+every month.
+
+This answers the question I have been asked a hundred times from all over
+the Country since CHICAGO'S SOUL MARKET was first published, as to whether
+a woman in a house of prostitution is allowed any respite from service
+during the Menstrual Period. SHE IS NOT ALLOWED A SINGLE DAY. The average
+number of men who must be served by each woman in a medium or lower class
+house of ill-fame is thirty-six per day. On entrance to the place, if the
+house be a "Dollar house," a metal room-check is purchased from the madam
+or attendant at the door for one dollar. This check is taken up by the
+girl in the room and is worth on presentation to the house fifty cents,
+half of its face value being received by the house for board, laundry,
+hair dressing, etc., all of which must be paid for at the highest possible
+rates. Of the remaining fifty cents, twenty-five cents goes to the man who
+sold the girl into the house, the remaining twenty-five cents going to the
+girl herself and from this amount must be paid all bills for clothes,
+dentistry, and all other expenses. In almost every known case, however,
+with which the writer is at all familiar, the entire fifty per cent goes
+intact to the owner of the girl, her necessary expenses being paid by him
+and the balance pocketed for his own use.
+
+Just as the liquor trade is thoroughly and carefully financed and
+organized even in its weakest points, making successful prosecution
+against it a thing impossible, just so is the traffic in young women
+protected in all its details. The writer has in mind the case of Josie
+E----, fifteen years old, who came from her suburban home in Illinois,
+hoping to secure employment in the City. Arriving at the Dearborn Street
+Railway Station about nine o'clock, she started out to find a hotel in
+which to spend the night. Walking a few steps from the Station, she was
+accosted at State and Polk streets by a young man who asked her what she
+was looking for. Replying that she was looking for a hotel, the man
+Thompson told her he was employed at a hotel on Polk Street opposite the
+railway station and offered to take the girl there. Unacquainted with the
+City and relying on his word, she accompanied him to the hotel, where she
+was outraged and detained for weeks. She was finally rescued by the writer
+and a Y. W. C. A. worker. Taking her to my rooms, I found her physical
+condition such that I sent for a detective from the Harrison Street Police
+Station who investigated her story and finding it true in every
+particular, arrested Thompson at his place of employment, 41 Polk Street.
+The case coming up in the Harrison Street Municipal Court, was so
+manipulated by the defense that in the transferring of it to the Criminal
+Court a technical error threw it out altogether. I simply give this as an
+example of how almost utterly impossible it is to secure a conviction in
+these cases. Is it any wonder when back of this great evil stands at least
+a hundred million dollars?
+
+Listen, seventy-five per cent of the women and girls entering lives of
+ill-fame in Chicago are from adjoining States and country districts--they
+are utter strangers in our City. Every hour, day or night, year in and
+year out, four great central railway passenger stations discharge their
+precious human freight within the first ward of Chicago, the richest and
+wickedest political ward in the world--the ward of Michael Kenna (Hinky
+Dink) and "Bathhouse" John Coughlin--the ward feeding every district of
+prostitution and gambling and unnatural horror in the City--the ward with
+two miles of indecent resorts, whole armies of reeking lost women,
+hundreds of pandering men procurers and White Slavers--the ward of
+thousands of Turkish, Italian and Arabian immigrants, and opium-parched
+pagan Chinese--the ward in which every day thousands of women, many of
+whom without money or friends, are looking for work, are unloaded in this
+seething cauldron of vice, their only refuge being, when without funds,
+the Police Station or the house of ill-repute.
+
+The horror of conditions surrounding a woman without money or friends in
+Chicago makes the living of a moral life almost impossible for her. I have
+in mind the case of a deserted little Italian woman, G. P----[2], living
+in Plymouth Court, south of Polk Street. G. had three little baby girls,
+the eldest only four years, and was expecting another child soon. She was
+deserted by her husband and left without a dollar or a friend to face life
+and care for herself and babies. The case came into the hands of the
+Mission and she was cared for by them until the time of her confinement,
+when, with her children, she was taken to Dunning Poorhouse where she was
+kindly cared for. A baby boy was born to G. Great pressure was brought to
+bear upon this little Italian mother who spoke no word of English, to
+induce her to give up her children. Frightened and weeping, she refused to
+do this, declaring she would make a living for them, and leaving the
+Poorhouse, she started out taking the baby and another child with her,
+hoping soon to earn the money to care for the other two.
+
+This she was fortunate enough to accomplish, and, taking the four little
+ones dear to her heart, went back to the little room on the top floor of
+the tenement in Plymouth Court. G. got work in a sweatshop and made
+button-holes at $2.50 a week. She worked hard to keep up, but the baby
+sickened and died. The other children began to get thin and wan. They grew
+hungry before her eyes and the mother's heart frightened and sank within
+her. A fiend in human form, J. F----, came by and offered the half-starved
+mother bread for herself and babies, offered her marriage as soon as it
+could be arranged for. G. took the bread and fed her children and to-day
+up on the top floor of the tenement in Plymouth Court, again deserted and
+hungry and helpless, she cries and prays and makes button-holes, and waits
+and waits with fear and wretchedness the coming of another little child.
+
+[Illustration: From a flashlight photograph showing 2-ton weight steel
+door connecting sound-proof dungeon cell with blind passage-way, between
+114 and 116 Custom House Place]
+
+The proprietor of the great resort on the corner of 21st and Dearborn
+streets said not long ago to a co-worker of mine who forced her way into
+his infamous dive:
+
+     "Don't come here to bother my girls; it is of no use; they are rotten
+     and ripe for H----. Soon I will throw them out myself. Go to the
+     department stores and the sweatshops and help the underpaid,
+     friendless girl _there_ if you must work. I could write a book as
+     large as that (pointing to the City Directory) filled with shrieks
+     and groans of women _after they are lost_, but what good would it do?
+     They are gone then _forever_."
+
+In a great measure, the man told the truth. It is hard to reach a woman
+after she has once entered a life of prostitution; for, like the Inferno
+of old, there should be emblazoned in letters of blood above the barred
+door of every White Slave mart in America, the ancient warning:
+
+     "Leave hope behind, all ye who enter here."
+
+There's many a girl homeless and tempted, underpaid and destitute, who
+might be saved from a life of ill-fame if a helping hand and a shelter
+were offered her in her hour of indecision and hunger and despair.
+
+In the south wall of the basement of 114 Federal Street, formerly known as
+Custom House Place, that congested, central Redlight District of three
+years ago, there was a blind passage-way between 114 and 116 Custom House
+Place, 116 being the notorious dive "The California" now located at ----
+Armour Avenue. On the inside, this door opened into a large dungeon,
+windowless, sound-proof (about 7x10 feet) and it is alleged that it was
+through the alley and into this blind passage-way that the unwilling
+victims of White Slavers (the same syndicate now operating with Chicago as
+headquarters) were carried into this little solitary cell to be "broken
+in" by fiendish, brute force to a life of shame.
+
+[Illustration: From a flashlight photograph showing heavy steel screen
+used inside the iron-barred windows of the houses of prostitution in the
+old Custom House district]
+
+The accompanying photograph secured by the writer gives at least a faint
+idea of this frightful trap against the pitiless walls of which have, no
+doubt, beat the agonized shrieks of many an innocent girl--your sister and
+mine--as, baptising this hell-hole with blood and tears, her quivering
+body was crucified upon a whore-monger's cross of gold and then torn down
+to be cast, bruised, bleeding, but yet alive, into five years of the
+awful, seething moral Golgotha of prostitution and then into =lingering
+death=.
+
+The Chicago Rescue Mission and Woman's Shelter of which the writer is
+President, has for two years occupied the premises at 114 Custom House
+Place. Upon moving into the place we found every window incased in heavy
+iron bars while between the bars and the glass of each window was mortised
+a one-half inch steel screen (see cut). Entrance or exit from the building
+was as utterly impossible as from a penitentiary, excepting by the =front
+door=, and to bring the place within the requirements of the City law it
+was necessary to bring a suit through the Municipal Court against the
+owner of the building, Mrs. Spiegel, against whom through the aid of
+Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Oleson, we obtained a verdict and forced
+her thereon to put in a rear stairway (see Court records).
+
+114 Custom House Place is only one of the fifty similarly notorious dens
+in the old Redlight district, and yet it is impossible to make some people
+believe that there is such a thing as forcible detention of a woman in a
+Chicago house of prostitution.
+
+
+FROM THE "WOMAN'S WORLD"
+
+I quote the following incident cited by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Roe
+in an article of recent date in WOMAN'S WORLD, illustrating some of the
+schemes and plans for leading a girl into a life of ill-fame. Mr. Roe
+says:
+
+     "A year ago last summer, 15-year old Margaret Smith was working about
+     her simple home near Benton Harbor, Michigan. The father, employed by
+     the Pere Marquette Railroad, was away from home a good share of the
+     time. One day a graphophone agent came to the house and the family
+     became interested in one of his musical machines. Shortly afterward
+     this agent brought with him to the Smith home Frank Kelly, and
+     introduced him to Maggie, as she was called by her folks. In a day or
+     two Margaret was on her way to Chicago with Kelly who promised her an
+     excellent position in the City. Upon her arrival Margaret was sold to
+     one of the worst dives in Chicago, located on South Clark Street and
+     owned by an Italian named Baptista Pizza. Here she learned that her
+     captor's name was not Frank Kelly, but an Italian whose real name is
+     Alphonso Citro. For a year she was kept as a Slave in this resort,
+     which was over a saloon, and the entrance was through a back alley.
+     The only visitors were Italians, who came for immoral purposes.
+     Learning last summer that Margaret's father, who had been hunting
+     relentlessly for his daughter, was on the track of her, the girl was
+     taken by Alphonso Citro, alias Kelly, to Gary, Indiana. When the
+     father came to the resort with a policeman, he found that his
+     daughter had gone. She was kept in Gary about two months and then
+     returned to this disreputable place from which she escaped finally,
+     the Monday before last Christmas. A young barber took pity on her
+     after hearing her story, and enlisted the sympathies of his parents
+     who took her to their home. Alphonso Citro (Kelly) looked for her
+     almost a week, and at last saw her going from a store to this home,
+     where she was staying. He went to the house and demanded at the point
+     of a revolver that she be given up, as he said:
+
+     "I am losing money every day she is gone."
+
+     "There was a quarrel over the girl during which some people from the
+     outside were attracted to the house by the commotion. Citro, becoming
+     frightened, fled down the street, and as he ran, threw away the
+     revolver with which he had tried to shoot the father of the barber
+     during the quarrel, over the fence into a coal yard. After running
+     two blocks, he was caught and arrested. Upon these facts this
+     procurer, Citro, alias Kelly, was prosecuted and found guilty under
+     the new pandering law of Illinois, and received a sentence of one
+     year of imprisonment and a fine of five hundred dollars. The poor
+     father and mother, distressed and heart-broken, were in Court during
+     the trial with their arms around each other, sobbing with joy because
+     their little girl had been found. Pizza[3], the owner of the place,
+     was indicted by the State grand jury, but escaped to Italy. This case
+     is told to show how girls leave home upon the promise of securing
+     employment and are in this way procured for places of ill-repute."
+
+
+
+
+Chicago's Soul Market.
+
+
+"O, he keeps a bunch of 'fillies' in a shanty down near the corner of
+Monroe and Peoria streets, and they're not foreigners, either. They're
+American girls. No wonder he can make a bet like that on a mere chance
+from a roll of yellow backs."
+
+The speaker was the madam of a Peoria street resort, the listeners, a
+motley crowd of women gathered in the rear of a popular saloon and
+gambling house not far from the corner of Green and Madison streets, on
+the seething, congested West Side of Chicago. These women had assembled in
+that screened back room to risk their hard earned or evil-gotten money on
+the horses of the Louisville race track.
+
+There sat a little 18-year old, brown-eyed milliner, her dissipated face
+hollow and drawn from worry and lack of sleep and an insufficient quantity
+of nourishing food, while near her a white-haired old lady in shabby black
+was tightly grasping two quarters, her entire worldly possession. Just
+across sat a well-dressed woman restaurant keeper, a young eastern star
+and half a hundred others, above all of whom shone the yellow haired madam
+of the Peoria Street resort, the star patron of that great gambling room
+for women, each one of whom was eagerly beckoning the well-groomed
+book-maker, feverishly anxious to get her pittance on the race-track
+favorite, when a connecting door was pushed suddenly open and in rushed a
+fashionably dressed, brutal-faced young Russian Jew, holding loosely an
+immense roll of money. Tens, twenties, hundreds--he counted them until
+three hundred dollars had been placed to win upon a "clocker tip" in that
+day's last race in Louisville.
+
+There was grim, deadly silence--eating, unbearable silence in that
+gambling room as they waited the ring of the telephone and the name of the
+winner. Again the yellow haired madam's voice screamed shrilly out, for
+she was indeed ill at ease, her money was all on the favorite--"Yes, a
+bunch of American 'fillies' peddled out at 50 cents an hour to all comers,
+black or white, sick or sound. No wonder he can make a play like that on
+an outside chance."
+
+Three-hundred dollars! My heart stood still almost. The thought flashed
+through my brain that that wager meant hundreds of hours of shame and
+slavery and horror to those girls in the shanties down on Peoria street,
+some mother's girl, every one of them. I sat still for a little while and
+watched the feverish anxious throng about me. My heart kept going faster
+and faster until I could bear it no longer. American "fillies" and body
+and soul under a brutal Russian whore-monger! I slipped quietly out into
+the street; night was coming on, and I walked down Madison and south on
+Peoria. Yes, there were the shanties--poor, wretched hovels, every one of
+them. Out shone the flickering red lights, out came the discordant,
+rasping sound of the rented piano, out belched the shrieks and groans of
+drunken harlots mingled with the curses of task-masters in a foreign
+tongue, attracting the attention of the hundreds of laborers, negroes and
+boys, as they walked home on Peoria street from their day's work. On I
+went until I came to a little shed just north of the slum saloon occupied
+by one Shellstadt at the corner of Monroe and Peoria streets, and checking
+my steps, I looked around me on the squalid, wretched scene. I was in the
+midst of prostitution at its lowest--the heart-breaking dregs of Chicago's
+thirty thousand public women. Yes, there they were--the fair young
+American girl, the stolid Russian Jewess, the middle-aged, syphiletic
+harlot, living, prostituting, dying like so many hurt, broken moths around
+that great red-light--Chicago's West Side Soul Market--their poor,
+wrecked, foul smelling bodies sold day and night at from twenty-five to
+fifty cents an hour to all comers who could pay the pitiful price demanded
+by their brutal, soulless masters; and, as I looked, the burning fire of
+intense pity entered my soul for these drug and drink-sodden, diseased and
+chained slaves--my sisters in Christ and this great, free American
+Republic, and so, with a heart-consuming desire to know more of the lives
+of these scarlet women and to help them, if possible, I began at once a
+thorough personal investigation of Chicago's public Slave Market, visiting
+these people whenever occasion offered; talking with them, gaining their
+much abused confidence, until I gradually learned the inside lines of the
+saddest story America has ever known since the black mothers of our
+Southland were torn from their black and white babies and with shrieks of
+agony and heart strings bleeding and soul rent with blackened horror were
+sold to death on the plantations of Louisiana and Mississippi, and I want
+to tell you who read this and who think there is little truth in the now
+much agitated question of White Slavery in America, that in the dives and
+dens of our City's underworld I have heard shrieks and heart cries and
+groans of agony and remorse that have never been surpassed at any public
+slave auction America has ever witnessed, as these girls, many of them,
+oh! so young, realizing their awful fate, with scalding tears and moans of
+horror, shut out from their hearts and lives father or mother or husband
+and child, and turned their sob-shaken, tortured bodies to face the years
+of final, relentless wretchedness and woe, to be at last thrown out sick
+and broken, to die in some alley or to be carted off to Dunning poorhouse
+to gradual physical decay and a pauper's burial and grave of obliteration,
+while those who sold them just a few years before go out in their diamonds
+and fine linen and their great automobiles to buy up more girls (it might
+be your daughter, father, mother; or it might be mine) to fill the vacancy
+in the ranks of this vast army of White Slaves.
+
+A woman said to me the other day, and it was in a lofty, sneering tone,
+too: "I doubt if these women are ever coerced or even imposed upon."
+
+
+LISTEN; READ, THEN LISTEN.
+
+Sitting in my office one afternoon I listened, my blood almost freezing,
+to the following story vouched for by Mr. C----, an immigration inspector
+and brother of a well-known Chicago reform worker. Here it is as he told
+it to me:
+
+     "One evening some time ago I was looking up a case down in the
+     Twenty-Second Street red-light district, and visited and inspected,
+     looking for immigrant girls held illegally, a certain house of the
+     lower class in that neighborhood of prostitution. While in the house
+     I noticed a young woman lying very ill (in the last stages of
+     pneumonia, if I remember the story exactly) and in a semi-conscious
+     condition, and to my horror upon inquiry I learned that in the rush
+     hours of business this helpless, pain-racked young woman was _open to
+     all comers_ holding an accredited room check."
+
+Dear friends, there are true stories heard and known every day around the
+City's seething, blood-red Soul Market that cannot be put into
+print--stories, though, that were they to become known, would make decent
+Chicago rise as one man and cry with a voice outspeaking Fort Sumter,
+"White Slavery in Chicago and in America must cease!"
+
+During my years of study of this question of prostitution I learned to
+know personally many of the characteristic White Slaves of the West and
+South Side "levees." One "Alice" I shall never, never forget. Beautiful
+aside from her dissipation, a high school graduate, grammar and syntax
+perfect, manner exquisite. "Alice," seduced at eighteen, was at the age
+of twenty-one away down the line in the West Side levee underworld. I used
+to talk many times with Alice as she sat in the back parlor of the "house"
+on Peoria street that gave her shelter, awaiting her call of "next" to go
+up stairs with whosoever--negro, white or Chinese--might buy for one
+dollar (one of the dollars of the Republic on which is eternally stamped
+the blessed words, "In God we Trust") possession of her beautiful body for
+one hour. Smoking, always smoking her doped Turkish cigarette, Alice told
+me much of her life, both in years gone forever and of a daily "levee"
+existence. She told me of a father and mother and a beautiful home, of a
+lover who came into it and led her away by night into "levee" Slavery--of
+the awful disgrace and disinheritance, of a little baby that she only knew
+an hour, of insane remorse and anguish, until at last she would stand and
+scream and scream with mental pain until some whore-monger knocked her
+senseless, and then how she would crawl away to some near-by shanty saloon
+and drink herself helpless, to forget.
+
+As far as I know Alice is still on Peoria street, and, oh! men and women,
+there are thirty thousand of these Alices in Chicago's great blasting Soul
+Market to-day.
+
+United States Attorney Sims puts the average life of a prostitute at ten
+years or less, while other excellent authorities put it as low as five
+years, as these women must constantly drink any and all drinks purchased
+for them by visitors (as much of the business revenue is derived from the
+sale of these drinks), thus forcing them at all times into a half-drunken
+condition, rendering them helpless to control the abnormal, sickening,
+mind and body wrecking demands made upon them by the gonorrheal,
+syphilitic, sodden wretches of whom not one in ten is capable of normal
+sexual coalition, yet whose debauched, drunken desires and requirements,
+no matter how unnatural and revolting, must be satisfied by the use of the
+bodies of their hopeless victims at fifty or even as low as twenty-five
+cents an hour.
+
+Very few young women entering this cesspool of prostitution are able to
+live therein an average of eight weeks without becoming infected with one
+or more of the loathsome diseases of the underworld, and thus ruined and
+horrible they live on and on for three, four or six years, and at the end
+of that time thirty thousand pure young girls, gathered from prairie homes
+and village firesides and from out of our own suburban and city families,
+must march out into this great Soul Market to take the place of the broken
+wretches whose decaying bodies are cast into the refuse of our alleys and
+sewers to become the menace of every girl and boy and drunken man who
+comes within their clutches or sets foot within their alley hovels.
+
+
+THE END OF THE WAY.
+
+At about ten o'clock on Saturday evening, September 19th, I boarded a West
+Madison street car and, transferring north at Halsted street, alighted at
+Lake and walked west to Lewinsky's saloon at the corner of Lake and Green
+streets. Going around to the side entrance on Green street, I discovered
+in the wine and back rooms of the wretched place a crowd of perhaps fifty
+drunken, dirty, diseased men and women, most of them foul-smelling, young
+white girls huddled in with the worst mob of negroes, whites and Chinese I
+have seen in Chicago's slums, all cursing, drinking, singing and
+blaspheming in plain view and hearing of the street. I stopped a moment to
+make sure I was making no mistake in what I saw and then crossed the
+street to interview the dark-eyed little foreign girl who at its door was
+boldly soliciting trade for the saloon and its adjacent evils, just
+opposite.
+
+I walked on down to Peoria and south on that notorious street.
+
+In the row of houses running from Lake to Randolph street there are
+approximately six hundred White Slaves, and diseased, crippled prostitutes
+of the lowest class, dumped from the city's cleaner dives, and on that
+night it was almost impossible to push one's way through the mass of men
+and boys--whites, negroes, Turks, Polocks, etc., gathered in front of
+these places of public abomination. At the corner of Randolph and Peoria
+streets several earnest men and women were holding a little gospel
+meeting, and, stopping with them, I counted during the thirty minutes I
+stayed there six hundred and forty (approximately) men and boys stop in
+front of or enter this horrible flesh market.
+
+As I left the scene, a young girl in a drunken, filthy, diseased condition
+slipped out of an alley and followed me, asking me to help her, and as we
+sat on the steps of Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, corner of Washington
+boulevard and Peoria street, she told me the worst, most heart-breaking
+story of wrong and vice and ruin I have ever listened to (see note.)[4]
+
+As I left that West Side levee of vice I knew I had seen prostitution at
+its lowest ebb and that from these holes of horror finally went those
+awful alley women of the night to sell their soul and trail their black
+disease to any young boy or drunken man who could give them a few cents or
+even the price of a drink of whiskey.
+
+Coming down Custom House Place one night about 10:30 o'clock I overtook,
+without their knowledge, six boys, ranging from about twelve down to
+perhaps seven years, three of whom I knew fairly well. Following them from
+shadow to shadow, I gathered sufficient of their low-voiced conversation
+to make me certain they had been holding an orgy in a nearby cellar or
+basement with a drunken harlot, and that together they had paid her the
+small sum of seventeen cents for this damning, soul-destroying commerce.
+One boy, a lad of about nine years, had been wheedled by his companions
+into paying ten cents of this sum and was arguing for the return of at
+least a part of his money, because of the age and helplessness of the
+woman and the =extreme short time= allowed him by his companions in his
+relations with her.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mr. J. J. Sloan, when he was superintendent of the John Worthy School,
+which is the local juvenile municipal reformatory, reported that one-third
+of the street boys sent to him were suffering from the loathsome diseases
+and distempers of the red-light district, nor is this to be wondered at
+when we consider the fact that sexual commerce may be purchased almost
+anywhere in South State street and in the West Side alleys for the
+remarkably low price of ten cents, or even a glass of beer or whiskey,
+from the gonorrheal, syphilitic denizens thrown out long ago from the
+better class houses of prostitution to live off of the half-drunken men
+and boys to be found in swarms along South State, Halsted and South Clark
+streets.
+
+Almost invariably, the street boy haunting these underworld sections of
+our city is first led into sexual sin by one of the crippled, half-rotten,
+yet painted vampires of the streets whose only care or hope is a crust of
+free lunch and enough whiskey or "dope" to drown for a time at least the
+last throb of heart and conscience and keep life a little longer in the
+wretched body, and the boy having purchased for a small fee his own
+destruction trails out again into the night and on into disease and crime
+and prison, and finally death.
+
+The average parent of to-day has little idea of the temptations which
+constantly surround and beset the growing boy. I recall a case in Des
+Moines, Iowa, where a little degenerate girl of sixteen caused the moral,
+and in several cases physical, ruin of five young boys, all this happening
+in an exclusive East Side neighborhood and under the watchful care of
+honest parents and friends, so what must be the temptation thrown out to
+the young boys of our city when through block after block of our central
+districts they must come in contact with those whose only mission is to
+ruin and debauch.
+
+It should be the direct object, morally and physically, of every father
+and mother in this city to banish these parasites--these leeches who suck
+the life blood of our boys--from Chicago's streets.
+
+Listen, father, mother, there are thirty thousand pure, dearly beloved
+young girls growing up in our midst to-day who within five years must,
+under the present business system of White Slavery, put aside father,
+mother, home, friends and honor, and march into Chicago's ghastly flesh
+market to take the place of the thirty thousand helpless, hopeless,
+decaying chattels who now daily, behind bolts and bars and steel screens
+(see note[5]), satisfy the abominable lust of (approximately) two hundred
+and ten thousand brutal, drunken adulterers.
+
+I believe, as I write, that the final solving of this reeking, hideous
+question lies in the moral and Christian teaching and protection of the
+growing girls of our Land. I believe in a rigidly enforced law that keeps
+girls under legal age and unattended, off the down town streets at nights
+after a reasonable hour. Harry Balding, the convicted White Slaver, in his
+confession before Judge Newcomer and State's Attorney Roe, said:
+
+     "We would be sent out by resort keepers to work up some girls, for
+     whom we were paid from $10 to $50 dollars each, though the cash bonus
+     was much more. The majority of them were girls we met on the streets.
+     We would go around to the penny arcades and nickel theaters, and when
+     we saw a couple of young girls we would go up and talk with them. I
+     will say for myself--I never took a girl away from her home; the
+     girls I took down there I met in the stores or on the streets."
+
+There is a league of Masonry worldwide that makes it possible for a Mason
+anywhere, in trouble or distress, to raise his hand toward the heavens
+with a certain sign, and if there be a brother Mason within reach, that
+brother, no matter of what nationality, kindred or tongue, is sworn to
+give him all needed protection. Listen, father, mother, sister; listen,
+brother!
+
+To-day from beneath Chicago's awful moral sewerage system, which has
+sucked their hearts and souls under, thirty thousand trembling hands are
+held up to High Heaven and to you for help, hands reeking with the blood
+on which some whore monger has fattened, the hands though of your sisters
+and of mine. And I believe that here in Chicago, the greatest market for
+White Slaves on the Continent, should be formed a league that would become
+world-wide, of earnest, law-abiding men and women whose efforts, united
+with those of the proper police, municipal and Federal authorities, would
+make it practically impossible for a girl to be sold into or compelled to
+lead an immoral life, and through whose influence such open,
+publicly-protected flesh markets as our red-light and levee districts
+would be banished forever from Chicago streets. And I believe with all my
+heart that this can only be accomplished by education, by agitation, by
+legislation, by the ballot and by the power of God, directing a great
+national army of well informed, moral and Christian men and women against
+this vast, thoroughly organized, well administered and heavily financed
+public horror of our Republic.
+
+I believe in helping, God knows, with heart and hand and money every
+fallen, or as one has put it, every "knocked down" woman in our Land whom
+there is the slightest chance to help in any way; but I believe, first of
+all, in using every known measure =to keep our girls from falling=.
+
+You and I live beneath the only flag in all the world that has never known
+defeat, and the very basic principle upon which that flag is built is
+human liberty and human protection, and so by personal work and
+co-operation with every other reform and labor organization for the
+uplifting of womanhood, by song and by prayer and the Power of the Cross,
+let us set ourselves to help these helpless ones in our midst until the
+angels shall take up the story of shame and bitterness and wrong and bear
+to all the world and to Heaven itself the swift acknowledgment that you
+are your brother's keeper.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration: The above picture is from a Flashlight Photograph taken by
+the author and is a side view of 114 Custom House Place. The demolishing
+of 116 Custom House Place and several adjacent buildings gave the chance
+of a life time in securing this and many other photographs. The
+demolishing of these houses, which up to three years ago were used
+exclusively for purposes of prostitution, brought to view a perfect
+network of bars, screens and steel doors (see heavy steel door at right of
+cut) scarcely dreamed of before as existing outside of our State
+Penitentiaries.]
+
+
+
+
+  The Only Place of
+  Its Kind
+  In Chicago
+
+  _Five Thousand and Forty Night's Lodging_ and
+  over Six Thousand Meals furnished to
+  _Homeless Women_ by the
+
+  WOMAN'S SHELTER
+
+  733-735-737 Washington Boulevard
+  (near Halsted)
+
+  during the year ending September 1, 1911.
+
+  Seventy per cent of these women have
+  been aided into _honest employment_.
+
+
+  A Hundred Girls
+
+  have been _Saved from Lives of Sin and given a
+  chance to earn a Respectable Living_.
+
+
+  Our Doors are Never Closed
+
+  We are in touch with every _Slum_
+  and _Vice District_ in the city--every
+  Prison and Hospital, and with
+  the Poorhouse at Oak Forest.
+
+  We are Non-Sectarian and Co-operative with all Reform
+  and Christian Works
+
+
+
+  A dozen Christian Homes and a Municipal
+  Lodging House care for the friendless
+  down-and-out man. The
+
+  Chicago Rescue Mission's
+  Woman's Shelter
+
+  cares for the Friendless "down-and-out"
+  Woman. Our Shelter is not a
+  "Rescue Home" in the ordinary
+  sense of the word, but
+
+  A Place where a Clean Bed, Food, Coffee and Clothing
+  may be Obtained by any Homeless Woman
+
+  not a subject for Police interference,
+  for One or More nights as she needs;
+  and where she is given Definite Aid
+  to Immediate Employment and assured
+  of shelter until she receives
+  her week's wages.
+
+
+  FIVE THOUSAND AND FORTY NIGHT'S LODGINGS
+  TOGETHER WITH
+  OVER SIX THOUSAND MEALS
+
+  have been furnished to cold, hungry,
+  Stranded Girls and Women this
+  year by Our Institution.
+
+
+  Seventy per Cent of These Have been Aided to Secure
+  Honest Employment,
+
+  but scores have been turned away
+  because we lacked Equipment,
+  Warmth, Funds, etc., to aid them.
+
+
+
+  Our Work Reaches
+  Every Slum and Redlight District
+  in the City
+
+  the Hospitals, Prisons, Poorhouses, everywhere
+  unfortunate women are found.
+
+  We co-operate with Churches, Missions, Employment
+  Bureaus, Charitable Institutions,
+  etc., throughout the City
+
+  Our Institution has Thirty-one Large Rooms
+
+  [Illustration: A Corner in Our Woman's Shelter]
+
+  What We Need--
+
+  We need to add _Forty More Beds_.
+  We need a _better Hot Water System_.
+  We need a _Systematic Employment Bureau_.
+  We need another good Outside Worker.
+  We need Coffee, Clothing, Coal.
+
+  We need _Your Help, generously_, in a supreme
+  effort to raise _One Thousand Dollars_ with which
+  to accomplish all these things.
+
+
+
+  Schedule of Work
+
+  Year ending August 31st, 1911.
+
+  Number of Nights Lodgings Furnished by the
+    Chicago Rescue Mission's Woman Shelter      5,040
+
+  Number of Meals                               5,200
+
+  Special Lodgings                                489
+
+  Special Meals                                   677
+
+  Calls and Distribution of Fruit at Oak Forest
+    Poor House                                  4,914
+
+  Religious Services White Cross Woman's Shelter   26
+
+  Jail, Court and Slum Visits                   1,210
+
+  Reform Literature Distributed, pages, about 300,000
+
+
+  Yours and His,
+
+  CHICAGO RESCUE MISSION
+
+  733-735-737 Washington Blvd.,
+  NEAR HALSTED
+  CHICAGO, ILL.
+
+  PHONE MONROE 4833
+
+  Mrs. Jean T. Zimmermann, M. D.
+
+  President Chicago Rescue Mission and Woman's Shelter.
+
+  Superintendent Department of Health and Heredity of the Cook
+  County and Chicago W. C. T. U.
+
+
+
+
+Footnotes:
+
+[1] Through the effort of the writer and the aid of the agent of the
+building this woman was made to move a little further west.
+
+[2] N.B.--G. P.'s is strictly authentic. The Chicago Rescue Mission will
+give you details and take charge of any help you may care to give her.
+
+[3] NOTE.--Baptista Pizza, it was discovered, did not go to Italy, but
+after a few months of hiding, again engaged in his nefarious business. He
+was recently arrested for selling an American girl, fined $1000.00 and
+sentenced to two years in the House of Correction.
+
+[4] This girl was turned over to the Chicago Rescue Mission, cleaned and
+clothed and fed and pointed to Jesus Christ. Her story was investigated
+and found true and after receiving medical attention she was quietly
+returned to her country home.
+
+[5] Visit any of the great line of abandoned houses in the red-light
+district of Custom House Place or Plymouth Court and note the bars and
+screens and underground steel doors.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_.
+
+Passages in bold are indicated by =bold=.
+
+Footnote markers have been added on pages 38 and 45.
+
+The following misprints have been corrected:
+  "neigborhood" corrected to "neighborhood" (page 23)
+  "Squlid" corrected to "Squalid" (page 32)
+
+Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in
+spelling and hyphenation usage have been retained.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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