The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-25
IMMIGRANT GIRLS THEIR PREY
LICENSE BUREAU ROOFING OUT
4 NEST or P4NDERS.

rant Foreigners Into the slavery OF
the Di,es-GuIlty Driven out OF Town.
The Department of Licenses. of which
Frederick j. G. Heating Is the head il con-
oentratng its attention on a nest Of en-
ployment agencies in Fast Third and Fourth
streets between Avenues A and c. which
are suspected Of doing large business in
. furnishing inmates for disordery resorts
The clients of these agencies are invariably
Russian and Polish Hebrew women who
cannot speak English. They are generally
caught fresh from Ellis Island by runners
who, under pretext Of getting work as
domestic servants for them. take them TO
rooms and assault them and afterward
try to induce them TO enter houses of i'll
fame.
In the last two days the licenses Of two
agencies have Been revoked and five other
proprietors have been warned to cease
violating the law. Inspector Daniel O'Sul-
Ivan, who has been investigating for Mr..
Heating, says that the agencies are the
rendezvous for cadets and other de-
generates who make business OF running
young girls. Sometimes they act as run
ners. but oftener they merely hang about
and watch for opportunities 10 lure immi-
grant girls TO dives in the neighborhood.
The inspector is of opinion that while
the so-caled cadets have no formal
organization, they all know each other
and have a tacit understanding under
which their infamous trade is conducted.
One Of the licenses revoked on Monday
was that Of Emil Hussar Of IFS East Fourth
street. Complaint against him was made
by Annie Kaschek Of 602 Sixth street. She
swore that on May while Hussar was en-
ployed in the Haboray agency at oil East
Third street he called her in and promised
TO got her a job If she would call the next
morning at $50 o'clock. She went and
HlissaT assaulted her. She screamed, she
said but apparently no one heard her.
She was kept in the place for half an hour
Two days later, she swore, Hussar as
saulted her again in the hallway of a rear
tenement in which she was living. The
girl went on to testify:
Afterward. ON May Q. Hussar called az my
house again and took me to bad house
and put me there to stay. The house was In
roth street. on tho West side. did not
inow the number. J know the Kind OF house
Haborays and she told me what 1t was.
This girl had been discharged and ] was TO
told Husssr ithai the house was bad. and he
said TO me. You are no good II you shy the
house Is not good
When Hussar went into business for
nlinSf'll ne look INTO tllH employ DnCpD W Oill,
who is said 10 be an old hand at furnishing
inmates to disorderly resorts. llonia Balog,
a client of the agency, swore that on pretext
OF getting her job, Nohl took her to his
rooms In Eighth street, closed her mouth
with his fist and assaulted her. After her
child was born she had him arrested, but
when the trial came up she had a place
and could not leave her work 10 prosecute
him.
Two months ago. she said Wohl promised
10 of bar q fNlnr&a in Tyaufv-StNth GfrOs-t
lie took her there, but when she discovered
that il was a house Of III fame sac refused
70 stay. She raid that Woh offered TO take
her 10 the place in the presence Of Hussar.
ing tried to get hold Of Wohl, but he had
vanished He is said 20 be in Philadelphia
waiting for the trouble to blow over,
Another girl who made serious charge
against Wohl was Rosa Traub. who is only
10 years old. She told the Commissioner
that Wohl had offered to get her place.
but instead took her 20 a resort in Houston
street aud assaulted her The girl was
reluctant TO press the complaint against
him. and when Mr.. Heating sent an inspector
70 get her sworn statement she had vanished.
Julia Nenberger, Il years old, testified
that she went TO Hussars agency in search
OF employment and that he promised 10
get her a Job He took her she said TO a
place in Houston street and assaulted her.
Hussar had in his employ one Bella
GrInmich. Lizzie Sijatno, - years old
appeared at the Commissioners Office with
a baby on Monday TO testify against him. .
She said that Grunmioh had seduced her
under promise of marriage. Yesterday
Grunmioh and the girl walked into the Ii
cense Department arm in arm and an
nounced that they were going TO get mar
ried. On being questioned by the Com
missioner, the girl admitted that Grun-
mich had not promised to marry her. but
she was exceedingly anxious TO have pre-
ceedings against aim dropped.
Another license 20 be revoked to-day is
that of Henry Baumgarten of 1893 East Third
street. One Of the runners employed by
him was Joseph Gelb who was convicted IN
Special Sessions on Sept. 3, 1903, of furnish
ing two girls TO disordery houses He was
fined $3.50 and sent TO Jail for thirty days.
He was trapped by policeman and police
matron from whom he accepted $50 to get
two girls 10 send TO resort IN Philadelphia
as sample tho understanding being that
il they we're satisfactory he was TO send
more.
Commissioner Heating said yesterday
that he had been investigating the methods
of these agencies for several months and
he proposed TO weed out all the black sheep
before he got through with them. Very
few we're conducted in conformity with the
law. he said
to correct he continued. is the failure to
give servant girls cards bearing tho names
OF the agents who find work for them and
the addresses of the places to which they
are sent. Very often, after a girl pays a
fee. she is sent to fake address Again.
runners sometimes conduct the girls from
the employment agencies. A runner can
take a girl anywhere he chooses. III he
should take her TO an improper place and
the girl finding this out, departs imme-
diately. she IL often unable TO point out
the house 20 my inspectors, because, being
a foreigner she knows very little about