New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-19
HORRORS Of TRAFFIC
IN GIRLS REVEALED
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young American girls are living lives
of sin in the neighborhood Of Mott.
Doyers and Pell streets. Probably
there are 200 more in the dives Of the
Bowery.
THE dives are dance halls in the
rear of saloons, crowded. nights, with
men and girls. The atmosphere is
heavy with the fumes Of liquor and
tobacco. Some girls sleep night after
night with their heads on tables. ap-
parently having no other place to go.
Many Of the Chinatown girls live in
rooms with little light or air. In many
cases the rooms are windowless.
Many have no bed but an uncom-
forta BILE looking bunk, covered with
old blankets. An old bag of feathers
Is the pillow. Often a box is used in
stead. Numbers Of the girls lie here
the greater part Of the time with
opium layouts beside them. You know
practically all the girls eventually
learn to use opium, cocaine. morphine
and cigarettes. Some Of the girls take
several bottles Of cocaine a day. This
leads TO insanity. Last year many girls
were brought into tenement houses
where decent families and children live
Drugs Aid In Slavery.
"Tn the old tenement houses the
halls are dark. The stairs are steep
and most hard to climb. Again and
again I've gone to the top of such a
tenement and CROPPED my way through
pitch blackness 10 find the girl / was
looking for.
IF q girl IL not taken out when she
first comes to Chinatown she gets TO using
the opium and then cannot leave. They
become slaves of habit and seldom care
to go out of the house. They need some
one to urge them and help them to leave
1 have taken many such girls away, the
youngest ten years old.
Speaking of the pneumonia. two days
before / was taken TO the hospital I had
a temperature of 103. got word that an
officer had had fight with a Chinatown
tough and needed me at headquarters in
his behalf. I went and said good word
for the cop for l thought it right. The
cops wouldn't do as much az that for
me. don't hold II against them,
though. Their superiors are to blame.
81 would lay down my life for girl
under eighteen, and there are numbers of
them"
where do these girls come from?
10
are stolen" said the caller.
"A number OF them come down 10 those
surroundings at first through sight seeing
with friends. Others have been sold into
this life of shame. Lately $50 is no uncom-
mon price for the procurer to receive for
bringing girl to a resort. Prices were
down In 1867, and girls brought as little
as 81 in Pell street Some at the age OF
ten. twelve and thirteen. have been
drugged and ruined and brought TO China
town. Some ere brought from dance
halls. Ny heart goes out to them.
MANY of them are nice girls-I mean
kind hearted. emotional 7 feel sure God
never made them for this wicked bust
ness. People talk as ~ they were
different. Why. tomorrow any one OF
these same people may have a daughter.
cousin or a friend hidden away I'm this
same region.
"All kinds Of methods ara used IN get
girls by traffickers in this business. I
iecollect one dear little girl whose parents
we're decent working people. While the
child was in school a man came there an
nouncing that the girls mother WAS dying
He had come after the daughter Fol
lowed by the sympathy Of teachers. she
left at once The man took her TO China
town. where discovered her and finally
restored her 10 her family. The man had
duped the teacher.
Another young girl whom I rescued
had been adopted from an orphan
asylum into these hideous influences
Not long ago I found a little Boston
girl IN an Italians sub-cellar. took her
away 10 a shelter, sent word 20 her fam
lily and a brother came and took her
home.
Another Boston girl had come to New
York 10 find work. She met some one
who gave her card with an address
which led her TO one of the worst dives.
When / got her out decided to take her
home myself When we boarded a steam
en- 10 Providence, behold, the cadet was
taking her away from was there lie
made hell for me. He kept threatening,
I'll get you yet! Whenever he could do
So h1nnoticed by others, he Jammed his
elbows into me to hurt me- He even tried
to enter our stateroom. At Providence
he disappeared. and ! took my girl home.
where her family met her with 10y.
Afterward / often met that cadet IN
Chinatown. For a while he wouldn't
speak. Then he got over nilking and
used to say, smiling: You did me that
time
Two or three years ago the wife OF a
laboring man, having a good Job. was
enticed from homo by woman who fire.
quents Chinatown dives. The young wife
was taken TO Brooklyn by a Chinaman.
Her husband was frantic. I located her
and went with him to get her home. He
wanted to take along a gun and kill the
Chinaman, but ! made him leave that al
home The wife was glad to return. Now
they have a nice little child. The mother
is devoted to her home and family. | go
TO see them. but we don't refer to the
Chinatown experience"
Bullet, Some Time, Maybe"
Aren't YOU ever afraid OF your enc
mies?" the listener inquired.
NO" she replied. negligently. "Oh,
maybe I'll get a bullet some time. 1t will