The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-12-28

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SLAVES"
merciful law. In the depots the girls
are kept until properly equipped for
business and until engagements can
be procured. The equipment and
board money usually eat up all wait
ress can earn in the next twelve
months; in fact, she is kept there un-
til a bill of sufficient proportions is
run up to give the agent the first call
on all the candidates money for year
to come at least.
The agents hire out mattresses in
all German-speaking countries and in
Belgium and Holland, and to avoid
publishing the criminal character of
| the transactions orders are given and
| contracts made in a certain tele-
| graphic cipher, which designates the
/ human merchandise as eases" In
vestigation in the Myslowitz Post and
Telegraph Office showed that in on
month a single agent there disposed
/ of 100 eases" receiving orders and
commissions for them. The commits
sions vary between ten and hun
bred marks. Here are some of the
dispatches quoted in the report to her
Majesty:
Send us three cases one big, an
other ethereal. the third fat"
AN elegant case wanted" That
means a waitress of fine address,
wearing stylish clothes.
Send ten double cases for the first
Double cases are girls who speak, be-
sides German, the language of the
country for which they are engaged.
Very frequently the kilograms call
for gold cases." promising extra com
missions. Gold cases are mattresses
who understand how to inveigle GUS
toners into buying champagne and
into spending their last penny oilr
the bar
If a waitress ever attempts tr es-
cape the bondage or to spend some OF
her own money without letting it run
through the fingers of boss and agents
she is at once blacklisted to all con-
cerned as a bad case" and, if posi-
Bile. is dispatched to garrison towns
where soldiers and officers mas[reat
her in shocking style just because II
is the fashion there to Jump on le-
male menials, But waitress may
also be blacklisted for refusing to dis
grace herself by making men treat OF
for physical inability to swallow all
the liquor offered to her by guests
yKroro, che ,ooos,,,e pnt--pplpGS she
is gold case she must CONSIDER
herself lucky if the boss pays third
class railway fare for her. Tips con-
stitute her income and out Of these
she must buy at advanced rates loou
for herself while tending to the sa'
loon.
She is usually on duty from twelve
to fifteen hours aud knows helt'ei
Sundays nor holidays; on the eon-
trary, these are her hardest days
Mattresses are never kept longer than
a month in one place, for the treat
kneipen proprietor Graves new at
fractions all the time and the agent
is hungry for commissions. As often
as one of his white slaves changes hei
situation the agent gets fee from
her. The commissioners report 'ha'
those mattresses who bring III uios'
to their employers are worst on nhan'
cially. These are the national cos
tune Mattresses kept in many 81.
looms. The costumes are eXpehSl'O
affairs, and the girls never get throusA
i paying for them, as thsy buy then'
n from the agents on time, az they w
g everything they need. The eonilliio
= sioners hope that this installiieh'
> business may afford chances for proSV
II cution as 1t is identical with the tfuoO
J. system, punishable by law. IL was
+ also found that the agents act Is
70 pawnbrokers for the mattresses ans
IS in short, exhaust every possible 'r0"
Of to keep them in financial depenuehO'
70 Their poor victims move from on'
g town to another. going from pau y
l. worse. for long hours and lneessau
lg drinking soon tell on women, an,
$, they lose their good looks ana sin,
RS from the big estate of a gold case
h. to a mere fiat case" or bad c"se'