El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-19

Z curer. I'rotheI keeper and liquor vender
Z to carry on deliberately cold bloOded
traffic for their joint profit a traffic,
be it added, from which the girl in
vOlved p rOcures at the most, with few
exception S, her bare subsistence. and
value
Vice as q Business.
THE EEsplOiters' and the ramifica-
lions Of their traffic is treated at
length BY means of money, and
shrewdnesss says the report. the trait
fckers usually evade the law Thirty
houses in The tenderlOin were long
operated as combine ii is cited. under
Most Of them have been engaged all
their lives in the seduction and eE-
plOltaLiOn Of women New York is their
Mecca. The report, however, follows
their tracks through Argentine Bra
zil Cuba, Ca1adas Alaska and the large
cities of the this country
One Of them. the report continues
is known as the King" He is in
reresued in II houses He is supposed
TO have great influence with the au-
thorities. and It largely depends upon
his judgment whether houses are
opened and flagrant1y or u1etly and
cautiously cC1GuctCH
aRespectable7 Landlords.
Owners of realty, Ostensibly respec-
table, come in for severe condemnation
at the hands of TIE Investigators. A
forth. visited 122 real estate agents,
of whom only II declined to let prem
ises for immoral purposes A group
of So well known men, it is said,
own and operate IS houses in Manhat-
tan The value OF shares moves up
and down says the report "acord-
ing as conditions are more or less
favorable to the Conduct OF the busl-
ness"
An attempt is made to estimate the
vast receipts of tn e resorts OF III
fame. Vet the invest gators are frank
in stating that the SANS are so large
as to make it impOs sible TO arrive at
any accurate total nirty Of the most
tawdry resorts. it IS pointed out, earn
in the aggregate at least two million
dollars annually. excl uSIve Of the enOr-
mons profit derived from the Illicit
sale Of liquor and tobacco at eGorDl-
tanr price To arrive; at any estimate
of the earnings Of the 1unerant women
of the streets is, Of course, out OF the
spread of Disease.
The total cost to society the report
emphasizes, is stagge -ing1y enormous,
taking no account OF that greatest OF
an costs-disease In. this regard the
reDOrf instances an examination OF
142 WayWard girls in the Bedford re-
fOrmatOry-au Of them under Is years l
of age Ordinary clinical eXamina-
ZION had shown less than q percent
of them infected More thorough
tests brought out the startling IacI I
that fully 90 percent were diseased
Unlike the fallen woman herself
who is described as coming prepOn- /
derantly from the ranks Of those en-
gaeed in unskiued occupations, heC
customers represent every grade OF
1T is impossible SAYS the report |
'tO estimate the number Of men ana
bows who become customers in vice I
resorts in Manhattan during the course [
of one year. If the 1000 professional I
s-H II 4
guests apiece. the customers total at I
least 10000 persons every day
How Trade II applied
With reference to white slavery per I
60 Mr. Kneeland deprecates the preva- /
lent idea of physical detention. locked
doors barred windows. and elabOrales
IN the more sinister methods Of en-
avemeut-intimidaC and senunen-
tan LOYALTY of the undOrtunates 70 their
nan masters. ''Uneducated, with lit
tie or no comparison OF her legal
rights or of her powers which cOulu
he invoked TO aid her he says, "oIen
she is soon cOWed by the brute TO
whom she has mistakenly attached
herself should she make an effort TO
break away, she is pursued ana
F,lDIsining the various kinds of re-
sorts the report lays stress on the
menace Of those IN tenement houses
investigation showed that - suCn
places were in tenemeuts where al
foTd nearly 500 children under 16
wears of age were playing about the
halls. Strangely enough, a deIlcatessen
store is described as perhaps the most 1
notorious meeting place for traffiekers
In women
Women Slave Masters.
According to the report pracIlcally I
an OF the resorts founded on woman
shame are conducted by women VINO
nave risen from the ranks. Far
from being sympathetic with their
wards. the chief aim OF these house
--ea-sre is to make as much money 1
as POSSIBLE for their masLerS-lnVa-
-iabIv men Thus though the inmate
Of a house theoretically receives ha1L
the money she earns, she IS taxed
erTaii- for board. clothes, toilet ar
-fcles and. probably drugs, so that as
rule she is continuously in debt
60 R-Te- At T.rDden Hose.. Best