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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls + +Author: Jean Turner-Zimmermann + +Release Date: March 12, 2010 [EBook #31615] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHICAGO'S BLACK TRAFFIC *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/frontis.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center">JEAN TURNER-ZIMMERMANN, M. D.</p> +<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> + +<h2>CHICAGO’S<br />BLACK TRAFFIC<br />IN<br />WHITE GIRLS</h2> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/tpage.png" alt="" /></div> +<p> </p><p> </p> +<h4><i>By</i></h4> +<h3><i>MRS. JEAN TURNER-ZIMMERMANN, M. D.</i></h3> +<p> </p> +<h4><i>President of the</i><br />CHICAGO RESCUE MISSION and<br />WOMAN’S SHELTER</h4> +<h4>AND</h4> +<h4><i>Superintendent of</i><br />The DEPARTMENT OF PURITY AND HEREDITY of the<br />COOK COUNTY W. C. T. U.<br /><br />733 Washington Boulevard, CHICAGO</h4> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illo_001.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center">REV. R. IRA STONE<br /><i>Superintendent of the Chicago Rescue Mission</i></p> +<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> +<h2>Foreword</h2> + +<p class="dropcap"><span class="caps">My sole</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Statistical references have been taken from the writings of United States +Attorney Sims,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>So in bringing this eighth edition of <span class="smcap">Chicago’s Black Traffic in White +Girls</span> to you, a part of which has already been published under the title +of <span class="smcap">Chicago’s Soul Market</span>, 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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 <b>Four Million Five Hundred Thousand +Dollars</b>, blood money, into the coffers of these human dealers—as the +rental for profit of the bodies of our American<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>New York City is the great eastern headquarters and westward shipping +point for Oriental and European White Slaves. Mark this statement:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>“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.”</i></p></div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Jean Turner-Zimmermann, M. D.</span></p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p> +<h2>The “Protected” White Slave Traffic.</h2> + +<p>Open prostitution—White Slavery, as it exists to-day in Chicago, is +almost entirely under <b>foreign</b> 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 <b>elect</b> 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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> every possible way the great work now going on to eradicate +segregated, protected White Slavery from our Land.</p> + +<p> </p> +<h3>EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY PAPERS</h3> + +<p>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”):</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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.</p> + +<p>“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.”</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">GIVES HINT ON ARRESTS</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>More than that, Levenson told how the financial arrangements of the +sales are made and how recruits are obtained.</p> + +<p>Agents are continually at work obtaining young girls, the prisoner +said. The slave sellers do not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>“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.”</p></div> + +<p>Quoting from the National Prohibitionist, May 12:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class="center">THE SLAVE TRADE AND THE VOTER</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Why does this infamy exist in our cities?</p> + +<p>How can it exist?</p> + +<p>Who is responsible?</p> + +<p>The answers all come to one point—the governments that rule our +cities.</p> + +<p>The black and white wretches who are the immediate agents of vice are +hardly worth considering.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> They are mere incidents. Practically it is +a waste of time to even prosecute them.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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: <b>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.</b></p></div> + +<p>Quoting from McClure’s (July) Magazine concerning the recent investigation +of the White Slave trade in New York City by a specially appointed jury:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>In order to establish the existence of the White Slave traffic +Assistant District Attorney James B.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>... 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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p></div> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> +<h2>What are We Going to Do About the Children?</h2> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illo_002.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center">A Group of Children in the Midst of the “Red Light” District</p> + +<p>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 <b>near</b> 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 <b>her</b> children are<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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 <b>forever</b> in the crushing, barred and +screened gehenna of modern harlotry.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>At 737 Washington boulevard, two doors west of the Chicago Rescue Mission, +with which the writer is connected, a woman<small><a name="f1.1" id="f1.1" href="#f1">[1]</a></small> 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 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span>menaces to +Chicago boyhood. No man would have touched the woman.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illo_003.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center">Children of the Slums</p> +<p> </p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Do you think these girls (each one is known to the writer personally) have +any chance for virtue?</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>At 804 Washington Boulevard, almost across the street from the writer’s +office, appears the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> following sign on the window of the cigar store +located there.</p> + +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illo_004.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p> </p> + +<p>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.</p> + + +<p>In all Chicago there could not be a generally worse <ins class="correction" title="original reads 'neigborhood'">neighborhood</ins> 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.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> 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.”</p> + +<p>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.”</p> + +<p> </p> +<h3>THE TRANSIENT HOTEL EVIL.</h3> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p> </p> +<h3>CRUSADE AGAINST “WHITE SLAVERY.”</h3> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/deco_001.png" alt="" /></div> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illo_005.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center">The End of the Way. Where Young Girls, who attend Public Dances<br />and Other Places of Amusement Unattended, are Likely to Wind Up</p> +<p> </p> + +<h2>Escape from a Life of Prostitution is Almost Impossible</h2> + + +<p>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, <b>I</b> have personally come to this +conclusion:</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p> </p> +<h3>A WORD OF PROTEST</h3> + +<p>The writer just here wishes to enter vigorous protest against houses of +prostitution in Chicago and in <b>America</b> 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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> 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:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> 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.”</p></div> + +<p> </p> +<h3>WHAT THE U. S. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY SAYS:</h3> + +<p>Hon. Edwin Sims, ex-U. S. Prosecuting Attorney, in a recent conservative +statement, says he believes that <b>fifteen thousand</b> immigrant girls are +brought into this Country every year for commercialized prostitution.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illo_006.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center">The Wretched, Pitiful Ending of Gezie Bruvatsky,<br />left by +Her Heartless Masters to Die Unattended in Filthy, <ins class="correction" title="original reads 'Squlid'">Squalid</ins> Surroundings</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Price of a Living Body</h2> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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, <span class="smcap">and +we certainly do place it there</span>, 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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>Harry A. Parkin, Assistant U. S. District Attorney, in <span class="smcap">Women’s World</span>, +March, 1909, says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“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.”</p></div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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 <span class="smcap">thirty days</span> +every month.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span>This answers the question I have been asked a hundred times from all over +the Country since <span class="smcap">Chicago’s Soul Market</span> was first published, as to whether +a woman in a house of prostitution is allowed any respite from service +during the Menstrual Period. <span class="smcap">She is not allowed a single day.</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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——,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> 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?</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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——<small><a name="f2.1" id="f2.1" href="#f2">[2]</a></small>, 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 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illo_007.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center">From a flashlight photograph showing 2-ton weight steel<br />door connecting sound-proof dungeon cell with blind passage-way,<br /> +between 114 and 116 Custom House Place</p> +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span>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:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“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 <i>there</i> 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 <i>after they are lost</i>, but what good would it do? +They are gone then <i>forever</i>.”</p></div> + +<p>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:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“Leave hope behind, all ye who enter here.”</p></div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illo_008.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center">From a flashlight photograph showing heavy steel screen +used inside the iron-barred windows<br />of the houses of prostitution in the old Custom House district</p> +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span>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 <b>lingering +death</b>.</p> + +<p>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 <b>front +door</b>, 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).</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p> </p> +<h3>FROM THE “WOMAN’S WORLD”</h3> + +<p>I quote the following incident cited by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Roe +in an article of recent date in <span class="smcap">Woman’s World</span>, illustrating some of the +schemes and plans for leading a girl into a life of ill-fame. Mr. Roe +says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“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,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> 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:</p> + +<p>“I am losing money every day she is gone.”</p> + +<p>“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<small><a name="f3.1" id="f3.1" href="#f3">[3]</a></small>, 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.”</p></div> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p> +<h2>Chicago’s Soul Market.</h2> + + +<p>“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.”</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.”</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> 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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.”</p> + + +<p> <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> +<h3>LISTEN; READ, THEN LISTEN.</h3> + +<p>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:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“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 <i>open to +all comers</i> holding an accredited room check.”</p></div> + +<p>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!”</p> + +<p>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,”<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p> </p> +<h3>THE END OF THE WAY.</h3> + +<p>At about ten o’clock on Saturday evening, September 19th, I boarded a West +Madison<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>I walked on down to Peoria and south on that notorious street.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> forty (approximately) men and boys stop in +front of or enter this horrible flesh market.</p> + +<p>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.)<small><a name="f4.1" id="f4.1" href="#f4">[4]</a></small></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span>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 <b>extreme short time</b> allowed him by his companions in his +relations with her.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> into disease and crime +and prison, and finally death.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<small><a name="f5.1" id="f5.1" href="#f5">[5]</a></small>), satisfy +the abominable<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> lust of (approximately) two hundred +and ten thousand brutal, drunken adulterers.</p> + +<p>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:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“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.”</p></div> + +<p>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!</p> + +<p>To-day from beneath Chicago’s awful moral sewerage system, which has +sucked their hearts and souls under, thirty thousand trembling<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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 <b>to keep our girls from falling</b>.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/deco_002.png" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p><p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illo_009.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center">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.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p> + +<div class="ads"><div class="adbox"> +<h1>The Only Place of<br /> +Its Kind<br /> +In Chicago</h1> + +<p class="center"><i>Five Thousand and Forty Night’s Lodging</i> and<br /> +over Six Thousand Meals furnished to<br /> +<i>Homeless Women</i> by the</p> + +<h3>WOMAN’S SHELTER</h3> +<h4>733-735-737 Washington Boulevard<br /> +(near Halsted)</h4> + +<p class="center">during the year ending September 1, 1911.<br /> +Seventy per cent of these women have<br /> +been aided into <i>honest employment</i>.</p> + +<hr class="adline" style="width: 15%;" /><hr class="adline" style="width: 15%;" /> +<h3>A Hundred Girls</h3> +<p class="center">have been <i>Saved from Lives of Sin and given a</i><br /> +<i>chance to earn a Respectable Living</i>.</p> + +<hr class="adline" style="width: 15%;" /><hr class="adline" style="width: 15%;" /> + +<p class="center"><b>Our Doors are Never Closed</b><br /> +<br /> +We are in touch with every <i>Slum</i><br /> +and <i>Vice District</i> in the city—every<br /> +Prison and Hospital, and with<br /> +the Poorhouse at Oak Forest.</p> + +<hr class="adline" style="width: 15%;" /><hr class="adline" style="width: 15%;" /> + +<p class="center"><b><span class="u">We are Non-Sectarian and Co-operative with all Reform</span><br /> +<span class="u">and Christian Works</span></b></p> +</div></div> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p> + +<div class="ads"><div class="adbox"> +<p class="center">A dozen Christian Homes and a Municipal<br /> +Lodging House care for the friendless<br /> +down-and-out man. The</p> + +<h1>Chicago Rescue Mission’s<br /> +Woman’s Shelter</h1> + +<p class="center">cares for the Friendless “down-and-out”<br /> +Woman. Our Shelter is not a<br /> +“Rescue Home” in the ordinary<br /> +sense of the word, but</p> + +<h3>A Place where a Clean Bed, Food, Coffee and Clothing<br /> +may be Obtained by any Homeless Woman</h3> + +<p class="center">not a subject for Police interference,<br /> +for One or More nights as she needs;<br /> +and where she is given Definite Aid<br /> +to Immediate Employment and assured<br /> +of shelter until she receives<br /> +her week’s wages.</p> + +<hr class="adline" style="width: 15%;" /><hr class="adline" style="width: 15%;" /> + +<h3>FIVE THOUSAND AND FORTY NIGHT’S LODGINGS</h3> +<h4>TOGETHER WITH</h4> +<h3>OVER SIX THOUSAND MEALS</h3> + +<p class="center">have been furnished to cold, hungry,<br /> +Stranded Girls and Women this<br /> +year by Our Institution.</p> + +<h3>Seventy per Cent of These Have been Aided to Secure<br /> +Honest Employment,</h3> + +<p class="center">but scores have been turned away<br /> +because we lacked Equipment,<br /> +Warmth, Funds, etc., to aid them.</p> +</div></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p> + +<div class="ads"><div class="adbox"> +<h3>Our Work Reaches<br /> +Every Slum and Redlight District<br /> +in the City</h3> + +<p class="center">the Hospitals, Prisons, Poorhouses, everywhere<br /> +unfortunate women are found.<br /> +<br /> +We co-operate with Churches, Missions, Employment<br /> +Bureaus, Charitable Institutions,<br /> +etc., throughout the City<br /> +<br /> +<strong>Our Institution has Thirty-one Large Rooms</strong></p> + +<p class="figcenter"><img src="images/illo_010.jpg" alt="" /></p> +<p class="center">A Corner in Our Woman’s Shelter</p> + +<h3>What We Need—</h3> +<p class="center">We need to add <i>Forty More Beds</i>.<br /> +We need a <i>better Hot Water System</i>.<br /> +We need a <i>Systematic Employment Bureau</i>.<br /> +We need another good Outside Worker.<br /> +We need Coffee, Clothing, Coal.</p> + +<p>We need <i>Your Help, generously</i>, in a supreme +effort to raise <i>One Thousand Dollars</i> with which +to accomplish all these things.</p> +</div></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span></p> + +<div class="ads"><div class="adbox"> + +<h1>Schedule of Work</h1> + +<p class="center"><strong>Year ending August 31st, 1911.</strong></p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="xyz"> +<tr><td>Number of Nights Lodgings Furnished by the<br /> +Chicago Rescue Mission’s Woman Shelter</td><td valign="bottom" align="right">5,040</td></tr> +<tr><td>Number of Meals</td><td align="right">5,200</td></tr> +<tr><td>Special Lodgings</td><td align="right">489</td></tr> +<tr><td>Special Meals</td><td align="right">677</td></tr> +<tr><td>Calls and Distribution of Fruit at Oak Forest Poor House</td><td align="right">4,914</td></tr> +<tr><td>Religious Services White Cross Woman’s Shelter</td><td align="right">26</td></tr> +<tr><td>Jail, Court and Slum Visits</td><td align="right">1,210</td></tr> +<tr><td>Reform Literature Distributed, pages, about</td><td align="right">300,000</td></tr></table> + +<hr class="adline" style="width: 15%;" /> + +<p class="center">Yours and His,</p> + +<h3>CHICAGO RESCUE MISSION</h3> +<h4>733-735-737 Washington Blvd.,<br /> +NEAR HALSTED<br /> +CHICAGO, ILL.<br /> +<br /> +PHONE MONROE 4833</h4> + +<p><strong>Mrs. Jean T. Zimmermann, M. D.</strong><br /> +President Chicago Rescue Mission and Woman’s Shelter.<br /> +Superintendent Department of Health and Heredity of the Cook +County and Chicago<br /><span style="margin-left: 2em;">W. C. T. U.</span></p> +</div></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><b>Footnotes:</b></p> + +<p><a name="f1" id="f1" href="#f1.1">[1]</a> 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.</p> + +<p><a name="f2" id="f2" href="#f2.1">[2]</a> 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.</p> + +<p><a name="f3" id="f3" href="#f3.1">[3]</a> <span class="smcap">Note.</span>—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.</p> + +<p><a name="f4" id="f4" href="#f4.1">[4]</a> 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.</p> + +<p><a name="f5" id="f5" href="#f5.1">[5]</a> 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.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><b>Transcriber’s Notes:</b></p> + +<p>Footnote markers have been added on pages 38 and 45.</p> +<p>Other than the corrections noted by hover information, printer’s inconsistencies in +spelling and hyphenation usage have been retained.</p> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls, by +Jean Turner-Zimmermann + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHICAGO'S BLACK TRAFFIC *** + +***** This file should be named 31615-h.htm or 31615-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/6/1/31615/ + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls + +Author: Jean Turner-Zimmermann + +Release Date: March 12, 2010 [EBook #31615] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHICAGO'S BLACK TRAFFIC *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + 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. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls, by +Jean Turner-Zimmermann + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHICAGO'S BLACK TRAFFIC *** + +***** This file should be named 31615.txt or 31615.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/6/1/31615/ + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. 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