New-York tribune., 1910-06-29

.ionad are cafes or other so-called hang
outs' where people interested in the various
branches Of the business report These ana
the bouses of prostitution are also referred
to as markets
.The only association composed mainly
or wholly OF those profiting from vice, oI
the present existence of which we have VI
dence. is the New York Independent Benev-
olent Association, organized in the city N
1894 and incorporated in 1896. This asso-
citation has had an average membership OF
about one hundred. It's alleged purpose is
TO assist its members in case of Illness, TO
give aid in case of death, and to assure
proper burial rites"
Types of Individual Traffckers.
Brief reference is made in the present.
ruent to the cases of Belle Moore, Aleck
Anderson and Harry Levinson, the three
persons Indicted as the nearest approach to
the types of individual traffickers in women
found by the grand jury's investigators.
'An of these persons boasted to our In
vestigators of their extensive and inter
state operations in the past" states the
report. They specifically mentioned the
cities TO which they had forwarded women
and described the operation as having at
that time been entirely free from the dam
ger of detection
Considerable space is given up to the
business Of the procurers and the creatures
~ho exist upon the earnings of women of
the streets.
The moving picture shows are referred
to as one of the means adopted by the
latter class to lure young girls to lives of
shame, reference being made to thirty
~, s-ls far n,icv-
mating in these places.
Drastic Measures Recommended.
The manicure and massage parlors and
the Raines law hotels as mediums for
spreading prostitution are dwelt upon at
length and drastic measures are recon-
mended to wipe out the procurer and pam
der. This is one of half a dozen recon-
mendations made by the grand jury. The
others are for more stringent laws to safe
guard patrons of moving picture shows, to
minimize the possibility of the Raines law
hotels becoming disorderly houses, to place
the massage and manicure esta ablishments
under control of the Health Department
and to rigidly enforce the regulations for
tenement and apartment houses relating
to prostitution.
AS last word the grand jury recon-
| Hlenos lnat the Mayor appoint a commission
| 10 make a study of the laws relating to
and the methods of dealing with the social
evil in the leading cities of this country
and Of Europe, with view to devising the
most effective means of minimizing the evil
in this city.
Jury Which Made Report.
The members of the grand jury which
presented the report to Judge O'Sullivan
are:
John d. Rockefeller. jr., foreman; George
/ F. Crane, Aaron J. Bach, Peter ]. Cooney,
| Charles H. Paddock, Gilbert Francklyn,
Augustus G. Paine, jr., Eugene H Pad
| dock, Francis E. Ward, Joseph P. Day, Ed
ward B. Patch, Isaac J. Cohen, Bruno Rich
ter, Robert H. Gibbons, J. Sinclair Arm
strong, Samuel Aufhauser William T
Walton, James B. Ford Richard Lewis
Morris. John D Barry, Charles ". Romeyn,
Lawrence P. Bayne and Ernest F. Greet
They were members of one of the regu-
lar grand Juries specially assigned by
Judge O'Sullvan to investigate the charges
of the so-called white slave traffic made
by George Kibbe Turner and others. and
which became an issue in the last municipal
campaign.