The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-18
WHITE SLAVERY.

by the actual purchase OF lOuT
young girls in New York's under
world the agents of the special grand
jury which for months has been in
vestigating the white-slave trade in
that city have removed from the pub
lie mind the last lingering doubt as
to the existence of such a traffic. In
merely proving that this evil exists,
declares the New Orleans Times
Democrat Nle investigators have
progressed further in their cam
paign for it's eradication than they
perhaps realize This opinion is
evidently shared by Mr.. Edward
Carpet, counsel for the slave deal
er" who admits having sold two of
the girls purchased by the Govern
ment agents. District Attorney
Whitman" declares Mr.. Carpet in a
signed statement, has broken the
back of the white slave system, not
only in New York, but throughout
the country" And he adds that
"the amazing revelations yet to come"
as a result of Mr.. Whitman's efforts
will practically put stop to the or
ganized traffic in women.
1t will be remembered that in
January special grand jury, with
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., as its fore
man, was sworn in to investigate the
| truth or falsity of certain widely
published statements to the effect
that the City of New York is
center or clearinghouse for an or
! ganized traffic in women for immoral
purposes, or what has come to be
known as the white-slave traffic"
| The definite and conclusive evidence
was finally obtained by two women,
/ college graduates, whose services
were enlisted in the cause. In or
der to win their way into the conf
dence of New York's underworld
one of these women began her cam
paign in Seattle, the other in Juneau,
Alaska. The story is thus told in
the New York World:
AT these places the women went
to work to become acquainted with
the underworld. They made friends
with scores of keepers of disorderly
resorts, and finally the young woman
in Alaska told some of her under
world acquaintances there that she
was going to New York to get some
new girls
THAT sounded good to the men
and women of the disorderly resorts.
New York seemed far off, but they
all had friends here, and at the re-
quest of the young woman investiga-
tor several proprietors of resorts
gave her letters to persons in New
/ York where she was told that she
, could buy girls at a reasonable fig
p ure.'
) This Investigator stopped off al
: Seattle, and by degrees-not too rap
/ idly-became acquainted with hel
: fellow investigator.
3 "They obtained more letters. TheI
t by easy stages they came to New
= York.
= Finally the two college womel
g found the time was ripe for the BIZ
y move in the work they had set GU
h upon. They told their Now Yorl
e acquaintances of the underwood,
= that they wished to get eight or tel
S girls to take back to Alaska.
y ] AII WGlG maui lOl III
e delivery of five girls to the investi
n gators. Then there came a hitch
:. 1t was found that one of the girls
& the one said to be only eleven year
: old, was in a city hospital. Tn
l. purchasers expressed indignation an
e said they would not pay for NOR
q than the four ready to accompan
Is them.
e by this time the women invest
J. gators had won their way to the Ell
d tire confidence of the slave dealer
le The money was paid and the foJ
y. white slaves were turned over
a their new owners"
fe One of the girls thus purchased
a. said to have cried because her do
r. was lost in the transfer, while a