Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-27
WOMAN GRADUATE OF RADCLIFFE
COLLEGE MAKES SACRIFICE
FOR SISTERS.
LIVES AS ONE OF FALLEN
TO CONVICT TRAFFIckERs
Remarkable Story of Mrs. Foster, of
New York, Who Is Aiding Crusade
Against Traffic in Young GirIs-Al.
ready Has Caused convictions-News
of the Day.

New York. May 26.-The sacrifice
which Frances M. Foster has made to
help destroy white slavery by which
thousands of girls are dragged down
every year into shame almost surpass-
es belief:
In the battle against white slavery
Mrs Foster risled everything that Il
woman holds dear, for she entered the
very depths of the underworld, asso-
ciatng with the lowest barterers in hui
man bodies and souls and representing
herself to be one of them
She didn't draw the color line, be-
cause she found that the folks of the
underworld were not particular about
Ii.
Yet she was q graduate of Radcliffe
college and had always been surround
ed by refinement.
Her testimony caused the conviction
of Belle Moore, a nesress, who had sold
her two girls.
Mrs. Foster, who has dictated her
life to helping others, was assigned to
Seattle in the white slave hunt. She
was to help George A. Miller. a New
York detective. They plunged into
the underworld, Miller introducing her
sometimes as his wife and sometimes.
to use an underworld term, as his
madam They posed as keepers of
houses of ill-fame.
Night after night they witnessed
scenes that were distressing. Mrs.
Foster assumed bravado that was no.
hers. They had thousands of dollars
to spend.
Il went by the name of frankie Full
lc, ire ba, 4
gained the confidence of the people OF
the underworld in Seattle we told them
we wanted to buy young girls, and they
told us to go east. They gave US let
tiers and much informa ton which help
ed us to gain entree to the under
world circles of New York.
"One night Mr.. Miller and myself
went to the home of Belle Moore, a ne
to her as Madam frankie of Seattle,
who was looking for girls.
after several meetings with her we
got down to business. She said it was
hard to get girls, but asked me to come
up to her house.
In the meantime Mr. Miller had
bought two girls and was keeping them
at hotel in Atlantic City, making be-
lieve he was getting ready to take them
and the girls 1 would buy from Belle
Moore, to Seattle.
"She finally got them for me-
In the witness stand Mrs. Foster said
that it had been necessary for her to
| rent an apartment in g Broadway hotel
and that, to, keep up appearances. it
had been necessary for Miller to oscu-
by one of the rooms.
ness stand or in a court room before
she testified in the white slavery cases.
Occasionally she flushed or stammered,
but then, as if realizing that her mo-
tives had been high and her stake had
been the souls of thousands of Ameri-
can girls, she would straighten up
proudly.
There was something queenly in her
attitude as she admitted that, in order
to fool the white slavers, it had been
necessary for her to ride in q taxcab
with negro women, to drink with them
and to share in their dances and music.
1t is certain that no American WON
an has gone as deep into vice as has
Mrs. Foster in the effort to save girls.
Even now, after the conviction of the
prisoner. little is made public regarding
Mrs. Fosters identity. When the Of
ficals asked the reporters to respect
the woman's natural desire for secrecy
and to remember the sacrifices she had
already made, they agreed, with one
accord. not to pry into her private life
She testified on the stand that She
had been married in 1900, but that she
was not living with her husband The
judge generously protected her from
further questions regarding her private
life.
1t was not until after the conviction
of the prisoner that Mrs Fosters iden-
THY was revealed. During the trial
she was known as Mrs. Foster. mar
ried who separated from her husband.
The judge refused to allow the defense
to ask any questions relating to Mrs
Fosters private life.
She is the only daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas II. Drury of Somerville,
Mass, and wife of Edwin l.. Foster. an
attorney of San Francisco. She grad
uated from Radcliffe college with hon
ors in the class of '9S when she was
twenty years old
After leaving Radcliffe Miss Drury
went to work in the office of the Char
ges street home Boston "A year later
she became assistant Of the principal OF
! the Brockton high school.