The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-25
DANGER TO YOUNG GIRLS.
Experience Of an Iowa Girl With
Agents Of the White Slave
Traffic.


The majority of pecple have been
inclined to accept as true the report
OF the committee appointed III the
east to investigate the so-called white
slave traffic. The experience OF an
Iowa girl recently would go far to
prove that there are many men VINO
give their time to this nefarious traf-
fic.
A few weeks ago an Iowa girl or
remarkable beauty and unquestlonsu
social position in her home city, went
west for a visit to friends ali ,cr
the pleasure of the journey. One day
on the train few hours out from
Spokane a woman sitting in the seat
opposite opened q box nf fruit and 81.
.ered to share viii the Iowa girl,
who accepted the kindness. Later, at
the suggestion of the woman, they
sat together on the observation plat
form, the girl being charmed with
| the ready wit and interesting con-
| yersation of the woman. Before re-
! turning to their seats in the pullman
the woman rang for cocktails which
| the Iowa girl refused, saying she was
not educated UP to cocktails and CT
garettes for women. When they re-
turned to the car the woman sat
with the girl and becoming confiden'
tial, said she was a detective and
that she was shadowing a man who
was on the train and that if he got
off at Spokane she expected to dc
so. The girl replied that she. too
was going to Spokane. Upon their ar
rival two girl friends met her. Botn
girls were introduced to the woman
i who said she was going to the -
Hotel, mentioning a fashionable no
tell and asked the girls to come II
to call on her the following day
When they went to the hotel the mex
day the woman was i'll in bed with
doctor in attendance. The woman
cried and begged the Iowa girl t
stay with her, saying she felt so Tor
lorn, a stranger in strange city
The girl refused to stay but offere'
to get a trained nurse for her. I'M
, doctor replied that it was hardly
, case for nurse, but that she reail
did need friend to stay with ne
l and urged the girl very earnestly I
. stay with her The girls had planne
I to go to the theatre SO they refuse
to stay. Later in the day they Gale
: at the hotel and asked the clerk t
S go up to the room and inquire HOY
f the sick woman was. Upon his retur
e from upstairs he said he guessed sh
i must be better as they were laugt
: ing and talking up there. The follow
ing day the girls went to plctur
S show and as they came up to IN
r window to buy their tickets they me
Y the woman CD face to face dresse
/ in mems attire and unquestionaoly
:. man. Upon seeing the girls an
e knowing that they recognized him, I
a ran and disappeared in the crowd.
q few minutes later in the lobby OF tt
@ theatre they met the doctor" VINO
3 so did the vanishing act. The girls 7
ported the case to the mayor OF u
civ and to the Y NJ. G. A. secretal
who later reported the details to Il
g. notice. The investigation which II
it lowed led the officials to believe IN
these men were in the white sia'
traffic.
lie 1t is a question whether YOU
|. girls ought ever to travel alone, D
IS certainly they should be warned
the danger which is becoming
menace to girls and young wome
!; A. largo religious gathering in t
Il state recently statistics were p'
as sented. which showed that nunare
of girls disappear in this country
nually and are never again seen
es their friends Hundreds OF forel
81 young women who land at Ellis
lie land disappear mysteriously 1t G
nv tainly is a condition to give thoue
to every father and mother IN
land. -