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New-York tribune., 1906-03-25

A night among the Wild beasts of the New-York
Geological Park compares with adventures in the
Jungle There is Impressive solitude and darkness.
silence broken by sudden roars and hoWls. Eyes
glare through the gloom. As one walks along
narrow path snsrliug creature launches itself
n one. blt the panther rebounds from The sagging
0-re net. rattesnake goes of like a mUf-
fed alarm clock the wolverine Erowis I'm red
fury and fhc ora g-outans yawniugIy stretches his
arms Steartn- footballs and sinister uameIess
sounds arr heard some animals are asleep. 9th
FRS have just begun their nocturnal activities. The
secret might habits of thousand wild creatures
are revealed aud accounted valuable by the sci
enlist
The tlea NJ danger seems absurd AZ sunset when
visitors are streaming out of the gates At mid
night. when the Iampless. f0restli6e park Of PSI
acres i7 wrapped lu mantle ~ mist and there is
oaiy one human being going about with one among
host of savage animals eager 10 break loose, and
one knows that leopard. wolf and python have es-
capped heretofore, has seen the arsenal Of weapons
ready for such contingencies and has read the
oers t0 shoot certain dangerous beasts on sight
then lr seems different The watchman makes his
rounds armed with big revolver There are haIr
p dozen rifles and Slotguus ready for use IN the
service building arsenal
r. D. C0stair. officially entitled captain aT
the watch has charge Of everything lu the park
between j p. DO. and a. m. He has bed desk
and telephone in the service building. which is
hriiIl zee reptile house. His staff consists merely
or tHo men who patrol the walks and houses at
tend furnace fires and look out for untoWard hap
reui1Es. but iu case OF need small army Of keep
sTs could bc summoned from their nearby homes
The commouest emergency is 10 telephone the doc
or 10 attend q sick monkey or assist baby deer
tuta t-e world Besides tie 'capts.u Il the
aatch' and Eis UeE, there aIe only two human
beings E- t-c park ar night One is a culinary per
>5H. wl1 Jocks himself al The top Of the restau-
l4lt building. aIl .ae ether is q city policeman
WHO has no taste for meddIug Hith Wild beasts
lr su0.meT The policeman may busy himself with
routing beiated visitors from benches and thick
es; a. this season of the year be IS wont 10 doze
over pipe by a furnace fire.
u was Lalf an hour before dark and ton tIor!-
END siphrseeeIs we're being cleared out of the
aa.k by tIe automatic system Of closed entrances
and outward 0paHl-g turnstlles when the writer
aI4ved with c-aoentla.s from Director Hornadsv
ghe animals seen ou tie way to She ,yafcbn7a,,s
HEADQUARTERS in tho cellar of the REPTILE hons.
seemed fausued like actors after hard perform,
anec They were nervous and restless with +be
siaia ~ exhibition. the multitude 0f human faces
oi0es and sounds. This is not fancy for ,tc
l1@.arf aaFe noticed rhe bad effect OF hoIfaav
crowds on uieT charges Some animals have zone
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was admitted. on condition that she marry her
lover at once. Now, that was S fragrant ViO-
latiOn Of our immigration laws as if / picked
your pocket il would be violation Of our Penal
Code. That she married did not make her less
dangerous a vile woman. There are men
who make a business Of marrying such women
And that one couple may have worked infinite
harm here; al any rate they are not the sort
we want i'm this country. That was one of the
instances that have made me feel that our
Board Of Inquiry system leaves lot to be de-
sired.
ITO go back TO the white slave traffic proper
the bringing over OF innocent victims to this
cOuntry-nO one will ever know how far 1t is
done until our government appoints matrOns to
travel back and forth on the steamers to act as
detectives. Expensive? Yes; but the only way
OF ferreting out and breaking up the practice, if
IL exists. l think it does.
You know" the inspector added. that sew
eral European governments have lately signed
a so-Called white slave agreement a pact
against the evil It's too bad that the United
States did not enter into the agreement, too
Miss Keor, of the Iutermunicipal Research
Committee. is conducting here in New-York
investigation for the purpose OF finding out the
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Silence and darkness crept over the park The
camels. Iamas and bufaloes slowly marched into
their shelter houses The duck tribe quaCking In
termittent fareweIls. wadded ont Of Lake Agassiz
and prepared to squat I'm the open all night scorn-
ing tho shelters built for them The codest
weather does not tempt them inside A melancholy
swelling vail was heard from the wolf dens and
turning one beheld dim. shaggy forms on tho rocks
facing the pale western sky. The wolves and
coyotes voicine their sunset lament Of captiv-
fly. once. at this time their day Of joyous craft
and wandering began
NOW we're ready to start" said the watchma0
". b Trainor singing a patent time recording
clock over his shoulder. putting a 2s-caIbre re-
volver his hip pocket and taking a common Ian
tern I'm his hand.
The small mammal house was frs; visited When
the rays Of the lantern were flashed into the
there all sorts Of unexpected effects. A pair
Of baby leopards came forward like friendly eats
EXPANDED their yellow ewes in inquiry and permitted
their f9reheads to he scratched The coypu rat n
rodent the size Of an average dog gave forth "a
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@S2@ THE WHITE

A group OF people. AIRS. Charlotte Perkins Gil
man among them. were talking together. and
one OF them spoke Of the social evil I won
der" Mrs. Gilman remarked, why we call II
The social evil2 There are other social evils"
Yes. and some OF them" one Of the other
takers added, ARE in no small degree response
hle for this particular one"
A significant sentence in the report Of the
committee Of fifteen which met in 1902 TO in
vestigste The causes Of the social evil I'm New
York was this, 1T is a humiating admission TO
make, that I'm numerous instances it is not pas
sion or corrupt inclination, but the force Of
sctuaI physical want that impels young women
aiong the road TO ruin A probation officer at
cached 10 one Of the East side courts whose
work brings her into contact with unfortunates
of all degrees. told a Tribune reporter the other
Gay that she regarded the social evil as largely
=n economic problem" Miss Rose Somerfeld.
head of the Clara de Hirsch Home for Jewish
Girls. when asked by the reporter to suggest
a remedy Tor The traffic in women, said:
Trade schools. where girls may be taught how
% work; employment and decent living wages
for them when they have learned how TO work
and comfortable housing for poor girls at rates
within their means. Not long ago as test,
1dvert.sed for board and lodging at So a week,
which is more than the average factory or shop
girl can afford TO pay. had about dozen an
sWeTs, and went 10 look at the places. 1 wish
you could See the holes most Of them were A
girl forced TO live must be pretty strong
10 Dlod along and resist temptations. But. of
course" Miss Somerfeld went on, the rene
dies. Or rather preventive which suggest touch
only one phase of the matter The traffic in
women Is growth with many roots, and should
be attacked with more than one hatchet"
THE recent disclosures in relation to the
Berthe Claiche case and the dens kept by un-
speakahIe negroes" a certain clergyman, who
declined to have his name used, told the re-
porter. cause some people to fancy that there
IS sudden epidemic Of vice in New-York. OF
e0urse. We know that il has been going on con-
staatly. aov and then some accident brings it
% the surface. II came to the surface in 1901
and the committee Of fifteen was appointed to
consider IT, i seemed then as if something
would be done about IL. but the thing was
ouslel up. ] ann wondering what viii be the
outcome of the present shake-up; whether It
will end with "a few police transfers and the
passing AZ Albany Of some bills aimed at the
white slave traffic, or whether something really
viii be accomplished this time. Those bills are
Ed right but We don't need more laws so much
as we need more public conscience about en-
forcing The laws"
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Some of the Traps That Are Laid with Debolical
Craftiness to Catch the Feet of the Unwary
Immigrant Girl.

conditions surrounding immigrant girls during
their first months here. 1t is on the same lines
that conducted by Miss Fried in Philadel-
phia. Miss Fried obtained the names of all the
unmarried Jewish girls under the age of twenty
three who had arrived in Philadelphia during
the preceding three years and the addresses 10
which they released She personally Wis
tied the addresses, and Of the $50 immigrant girls
she sought TO trace 179 could not be found at all
In some cases they had never been heard Of al
the addresses giveni In eighteen instances the
addresses even did not exist Some siXty-four
girls had been released to disoTderly houses, or
their near neighborhoOd. The fact that so many
of the girls could not be traced was certainly
rather sinister. Miss Keor has obtained from
Commissioner of immigration WatchOrn lists to
be used i'm her search, but as the first list alone
and that merely Of girls who arrived at Ellis
Island between November / and November e.
had five hundred names on it-as many
landed in Philadelphia in three years-the task
she has undertaken is rather a big one, though
she has assistants. men who understand the
Jewish dialects.
Commissioner WatchOrn does not believe that
much white slave traffic gets through Ellis
Island Il have said" he told the reporter that
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thls matter speaking generally, is the most
serious phase Of the immigration problem Wheh
d s.rl lands here and says that she comes 10
Work at the trade of seamstress, or COOK, we may
suspect that she comes or is sent for quite an
other purpose, but we cannot go back or her
statement. But as to procurers smuggling their
victims in, well. show specific cases Secre-
tary MetCaR will weed those fellows out, II ne
can get proof against them I would advocate
q law making the present maximum penalty Tor
their offence the minimum one, and have asked
the Secretary to confer with COMMITTEES OF
Congress in regard to the matter. L believe
though, that a rule the immigrant girl VINO
becomes a victim becomes such after she has
landed and been here for while She fails TO
get work she gets discouraged, or in need, she
is ignorant of the ways and speech about her
and she falls prey to the cadet.
Most people who have studied the conditions on
the spot agree that the standard OF morality
of the peasant girl OF Europe is not high,
though. unlike the immigrant inspector quoted
above. they say she seldom engages in life OF
shame for profit. She simply does not regard
certain things as we regard them here An ON
Ger OF the Council OF Jewish Women tells or a
Hungarian maid she had who, discovering that
she was going to become mother (she had not
been long in this country committed suicide.
She had had a child in the old country, ana u
was not considered a disgrace there; here she
discovered to her grief and surprise, II was
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TRAPS FOR THE UNWARY.

one OF these bills attacks phase of the traffic
20 the prevalence Of which there is much
difference of opinion. II amends the Penal Code
1y providing increased penalties for amy per-
SOD found guilty OF bringing female 10 this
state from foreign country for immoral pur-
poses" Many know that there is an interna-
Ioual traffic I'm women, and that there are pro-
-urers engaged iu shipping victims to this con-
dDent from Europe but no exact information is
5btainable as 10 how far the United States is
heir market. There seems 10 be a pretty dis
inCt impression here and there though that to
certain extent il is. Here is what DR. David
Blaustein. Of the Educational Alliance, said
when The reporter asked him what he thought
about the matter.
Il believe that The white slave traffic begins
p many cases iu the orient. and in the little
Countries of Rumania, Bulgaria and Servia In
he first place advance agents will visit the VII
ages. gain the confidence Of the peasant girls
and tell them glowing stories of the United
states tell them that in this country they can
nave fine clothes and everything they want.
little while after one Of these persons has
visited "A village a man viii appear, posing per
laps IS a young Widower, and let il be under
stood that he wishes TO take wife back with
aim 70 America, whence he comes. He wooes
5ne 0f the girls and marries her directly after
Tard he is sure 10 ne called away. bat he gives
The girl money and explicit directions for follow
New-York tribune., 1906-03-25
DANGER AT EVERY HAND.

The New York agent of a society organized 70
protect travellers, especially young women trav-
elling alone. told the reporter some stories that
showed the dangers to which such young women
are exposed. Il got notice from England one
day." she said, ito meet two girls who were
sailing on a certain steamer. Their home was
in New-Jersey; they had been visiting relatives
in London I met them; and they were the
prettiest young most innocent creatures you
ever saw. They were pretty that any one
would turn to look after them on the street
While I was looking after their baggage some
Of their fellow passengers came up 10 bid them
goodby evidently they had been general pets),
and last of all came two young men whose
appearance I did not like it wasn't exactly
f1ashy and they very polite; but 1 sus-
pected them They kept trying in covert way
to corner the girls. to get them away from me.
The girls wanted to stay in New-YOrk a couple
Of days to shop, and I suggested quiet hotel,
and offered to take them there. The two young
men went along: they were not to be shaken;
and imagine my feelings to Overhear one OF them
proposing a furnished room! And naive
were those girls that do not think they ever
COmprehended
we finally got rid Of the men, and left my
girls at the hotel, adjurng them, If the men
came back, not to go out with them; above all
They will drug YOU, I said. Well, the men
called at the hotel three times. but my girls,
happily, Obeyed me TO the letter. was on pins
and needles though, till I got them away to their
New-Jersey home Whether those men were
agents of a disOrderly house or merely lewd on
their own account l do not know, but very
strongly suspected the former to be the case"
This narrator told the reporter of an
other girl who fell a victim just in coming from
New-Jersey to New-YOrk. 1T was a child of
thirteen" she said. daughter of a well-tO-do
man out there. The daughter of one Of their
neghbOrs, older girl, who had or was sup
posed to have a stenOgrapher's place i'm New
York. asked the child to accompany her to the
city to a matinee The father did not exactly
like let the little girl come, but he finally gave
in TO her pleadings. She came; she dropped
out of sight. For three weeks the father
searched and could not find her or the girl
who had brought ner here. Then night the
child was found by a policeman sitting a
doorstep, bruised. beaten and almost uncon-
sCious. She able. though, to lead the off,
GERS to the house from which she had escaped
a house Of the worst character. The people
who kept the house were punished. but the girl
who ured the child there has never been found.
The child's father swears though. that he will
find her and punish her if he gives his life
to it,
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How the Animals in the Zoo Sleep and the Way They
Act When Suddenly Awakened by a Lantern
Flashed in Their Faces.

authorities have set traps eaten these self-ap-
pointed scavengers, but without much success. In
their sleeping habits the bears seem 10 be the most
Ike human beings Of an animals except the mon
keys They sleep all winter in a wild state. but
when brought i'm contact with civilization learn
how To- divide their slumbers into nightly periodn.
Some ultra civilized not to get up before
lo o'clock in the morning. The polar bears We're
sleeping also, but usual out Of doors on the
edge of their ice covered pool The severest bIiz-
zard or below zero weather does not incline them
to seek the warm cavern bed.
When the light flashed in the reptile house
it showed myriad Of cOCkrOaChes. peculiar TO this
building ana the monkey house, on account OF the
tropical heat The diamOndbaCk rattlesuake and
the pale sinister prairie ratter broke the silence
with dun alarm clock Jdngle. Cleopatra's yellow
asp lifted glitterins eye of menace and The
hooded cobra. that Kills twenty thousand people a
siXteenth-nch of glass plate The giant anacondas.
boas and pyth5us lay cured across one auother's
bodies on the gravel like lengths OF fire hose,
lazIiy slaucmg at the light without motion. The
22-foot regal python. with body thick as a
mans upper leg. seemed asleep with his mate. but
his eyes were open. Iu the king cObTa's den there
was the setting OF Il breathIess tragedy. The snake
had just shed his old skin, which lay in the centre Of
the cage and. looking clean ard brilliant in his
garb like a banqueter NE watched the pale. fright
ened little Iizar4s -lUrryins uH the walls. Al any
moment he might decide which one 10 begin with
The snakes always fed at night, generally with
rabbits. guinea pigs rats and lizards. but their
meals are from two days q week apart IN The
alligator pool. surrounded with tropical vegetation
This WAS the head OF Mr.. Gator I'm a doze. Some
times ID, sleeps ON the pebbly bank.
tour OF the rest OF the park. Tie also was
'INlNp'" WIN lantern, revolver ana tlHc CLOCK
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POVERTY DRIVES MANY.

But though there are cases like these, and not
a few Of them, it is sadly true, or at least it is
so declared by people who know a good deal
about it, that a large number OF girls who are
living a life Of shame consented to enter it. 1t
may have been because of poverty. it may have
been merely weakness, but at any rate they
were not forced or decoyed. One OF the people
who say this is Mrs. Elizabeth Grannis presi-
dent of the Christian League for the Promotion
Of Purity.
That does not make it any the less impera-
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sort. The mild weather has given Bruin more
than fighting chance to match his wits against
those Of the hunters, and he has led them
chase that has afforded every opportunity for a
full display Of their knowledge of woodcraft in
all Of its phases Nevertheless, many fine skins
have been secured.
No less satisfied the hunters over the pros
poets OF the sport with moose and deer when the
season opens next October All the big game have
been able to keep themselves and their young in
the pink of condition this winter and those who
know say that when the hunting season opens 1t
will afford some of the finest sport ever had i'm
the Maine woods, and that means much, for there
are few spots in this other countries to com
pare with that region I'm this respect.
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Bear hunting in the Maine woods, always
cupation filled with absorbing interest for the live
sportsman, is said by many to have taken on ad-
dtional attractions this winter because Of the
mild weather that has prevailed There have
been seasons when Bruin, peHned in his lair by
deep SHOWS until near the point Of starvation.
would in his desperation take all OF chances,
in some cases making little or no effort to escape
the hunters and because Of his Cmaciated COndi-
tion being able to put up only a poor fight when
Cornered
That wasn't hunting: that hutcherv."
marked an oldtime patron Of the Maine woods
the other day.
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i've 10 protect and reclaim them" she said 70
the reporter. but il does put different aspect
on the white slave traffic I don't say that
there are not good many victims OF force and
deception. I have now in mind a girl who came
mere from Buffalo; she the oldest Of a big
IamlIy, and she came 10 look for work on the
tram a young man spoke 10 her: they got into
conversation, and she accepted an invitation to
dine with him at a restaurant. Well IL was the
usuaI story, drugged food, and the next morn
ing she was a prisoner. She finally escaped
from the house where she was kept. and we got
hold Of her and found her a place as servant
with good family but she became sick and no
one wanted her in their home. She drifted back
10 the Old life; then we got her back again. and
found some sewing for her: but her health is
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ing MIN to America. Then he goes TO another
image ana repeats the performance The girl.
Niei sAe arrives IN this country. is met bv some
81 passing as relative of her husband and
cue promptly finds herself a prisoner in a dis
O'ueiIy mouse. 1 can give you no specific cases.
ou' 1hat this happens / am convinced from
'hings have observed both in the Old World
and in this country
FOR instance. four years age. when was in
NuInahia' CHANGED to be waiting at the rail-
way s'e ION IN a small village and a couple
Vi women came to take the train was told
''at 'hey were Rumanians. but that they lived
i'll america in Chrystie street New York
AIey We're most expensiveiy dressed and from,
What know of Chrystie stre,tg its denizens
uoH wear expensive clothes and jewels made
d" excuse TO speak to them. but they were
SUSPICIOUS; they did not understand my English
DuI Il iney were not advance agents of the
sort have described, I am much mistaken.
women are brought here for South America.
100 especially for the Argentine Republic.
Last year when l was in the South l came
across what appeared to me to be stations from
America
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LIKE A WORLD TOUR.

10 seemed like voyage around the world, with
cosmopolitan animals instead of people. by the time
the antelope house reached The inhabitants
there. from tie giraffe 20 the Gland. had thought
Of slumber ard were chewing their cuds like do
nestle cattle. The beautiful long horned aute.opes
the fantastic and fabulous gnu. the ngais and the
Persian wild did not mind ths approach OF the
visitors. and allowed themselves TO he petted.
Romeo the giraffe. stretched three yards Of neck
and MS mate. Juliet. kept her lying position. The
tapir stood stoldlv in contrast 10 his wild swim
mings and diviugs 10y day. The Leuc0ryx antelope
and her baby rested i'm straw bed at the back
OF their cage. Little Congo. the child elephant
extended polite trunk TO the visitor who had
lately massaged the snout Of the great ant eater
and was struck by The similarity between the two
appeudagCe. Gunda. the b.g elephant asked for q
bite % eat. ana was disappointed when the visitor
offered him vulgar penny.
What's the Of money ! Eet enough I'm The
daytime Gunda remarked.
you're fool" said the watlhmau Don't ever
refuse the cash. Won't the keeper buy grub with
1t tomorrow"
So the elephant reluctantly took the coin and
deposited Il in the savings bank above mis- head
Guuda has never been caught iu tu. l.t OF sIa..-
ing thoJ gh the straw on his hide shows thar b.
does recnc.
After walking through tuo deserted sheen
ranges amid AN impenetrabIc misty darkness
the visitors came TO the bear deus ana tI.
raccoon u"e with its furry black balls flIutr yi.i
bic against The sky. Except the polar hears ,l
the ursine inh3b!tants had sou, 90 bed iu th...
dcns Big black rats who make their ham, win,
the bears. wer" scuuyiug about The caE,. faa-rtua
on the remnants OF their friends dinners what
the rats disdainad we're sought by little mice. The
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Watchman attended the furnace which heats this
and the small mammal building. used chain
fastened key To register the time of arrival ON the
clock thar he carried and led tho way ND circular
iron stairs. A bassoonlike groau came from the
cage of the black cassowa'v. the emu sluatted
silent in a corner, the demoseHe cranes gave forth
q vibrant c~oak and the hawks and vultures c"u-
tinued fast asleep ON their perghcs- Two of the
giant ostriohes lying down 70 their bodies,
but it seemed a problem how rhcy could rest their
rour-foot upright uecks Tho ;hild ostrich stood
scratching his neck with his right foot. Tho Ian
tern light threw shouettes Of the birds on the back
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SILENCE AND DARKNESS.

crazy and died after playing to 2 summer DAY 2
audience Of forty thousand persons