The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-19

less horrible sacrifices. Most of the
wreckage, and the worst Of 1t, is
due to persistent, cunning and I'M
principled exploitation; to the banding
together in Infamous enterprises OF
madame, procurer, brothel-keeper and
aiquor vender to carry on deliberately
a cold-blooded traffic for their joint
profit, a traffic, be it added, from which
the girl involved procures at the most,
with few exceptions, her bare subsist-
ence, and that only so long as she
has trade value.
1.-THE Exploiters" and the ramifca-
tons of their traffic is treated at
length. BY means Of money and
sErewdness. says the report, the traf-
fickers usually evade the law. Thirty
houses in the Tenderloin were long
operated asa combine, it is cited, un-
der tho control of fifteen or
more n eo o1cesst of them have been
engaged eli their lives in the seduc-
ton an4 exploitation of women. New
York is their Mecca The report. how
ever. follows their tracks through Ar
gentine, Brazil, Cuba, Canada. Alaska
and the large cities of our own coun-
try-San Francisco, Portland, Seattle.
Tacoma, Butte, Denver, Omaha, ST.
Louis, Chicago Pittsburgh, Philade1-
phia- Finally they realize their hopes
made a centre. and from this centre
they go back over the old trail from
time to time"
One of them, the report continues, Is
known as the king. He is interested
in eleven houses. He is supposed to
have great influence with the author
ties, and it largely depends upon his
Judgment whether houses are openly
and fiagrantly, or quietly and cautious
ly conducted. When external condi-
tions are unfavorable, these man ship
their women to points where condi-
Nsa7-f Ia ION
in public opinion and in the attitude
of the municipal authorities are quick
1y reflected in the market. Just be-
fore the RoscntiaI murder prices were
prohibitively high: since that date they
have steadily declined
Owners of realty, ostensibly respect
able, come in for severe condemna-
ton at the hands Of the Investigators.
A woman investigator, the report sets
forth. visited 122 real estate agents, of
whom only II declined to let premises
for immoral purposes. A group of
thirty eight "well-known' men, it is
said. own and operate twenty eight
houses in Manhattan. The value of
shares moves up and down." says the
report, according as conditions are
more or less favorable to the conduct
of the business
An attempt is made to estimate the
vast receipts of the resorts of ill
fame, yet the Investigators are frank
III stating that the sums are SO large
any accurate total. Thirty of the most
tawdry resorts, it is pointed out, earn
in the aggregate at least two million
dollars annually, exclusive of the enor
NOUS profit derived from the Illicit
sale of LIQUOR and toba eco at exorbi-
of the earnings of the itinerant women
of the streets is, of course. out of
the question.
The total cost to society, the report
emphasizes, is staggeringly enormous
taking no account Of that greatest of
report instances an examination Of ZAP
hayward girls in the Bedford Reform
atory-ali of them under eighteen years
of age. Ordinary clinical exanina ton
them infected. More thorough tests
brought out the startling fact that
fully 80 per cent. were diseased.
Unlike the fallen woman herself, who
is described as coming preponderantly
from the ranks of those engaged in
unskilled occupations, her customers
represent every grade of society,"
TT IS impossible" says the report,
''to estimate the number Of men and
boys who become customers in vice
resorts in Manhattan during the course
of one year. On the basis of data
actually on file, it may be assumed
that inmates of vice resorts and wo-
men on the street trade with between
ten and fifteen men per day. This
statement is corroborated by data Sc
cured by the vice in Chi
cago, where the average was found to
be fifteen per day for eighteen inmates
in one house, covering a period Of
twenty two months, we'll as by data
in syria cuse, New York. where
the average number of customers en-
tertained by one inmate during a period
of six months was twelve. Taking the
lower. figure as the basis of calculation,
II the $4,000 professional prostitutes
Of Manhattan entertain ten guests