The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-09
SPECIMEN OF THE WORK
Case of the Little Girl Of the Rue de
la Paix Who Narrowly
Escaped the
Gang.
by William Philip simms, Paris cor
responden+ of the Tinted Press

PARIS. Nov. S.-Alarmed at the
growth of the white slave traffic In
spite of the closest surveillance, the
police here are organizing crusade
by means of which they hope to stamp
out this trade in girlish innocence, or
at least reduce it to a minimum.
The detective department of the
city of Paris has a squad Of men en-
gagged solely in the task Of tracking
down dealers in human flesh, and the
internationally famous Pierre Lacam,
the Prince OF Cadets is now In
light. His arrest, however, Is daily
expected.
Lacam's latest exploit was to en-
tice to South America one Of the
beauties Of the Latin quarter. Mile.
Raymonde Fecamp, sixteen year-old
working girl belonging to good fam
! lily. She had been thrown out of a
position owing to the failure of her
employer, SO when she met the hand
some Lacam, prosperouslookin and
of distinguished bearing, she was
!. ready to accept the position In Buenos
Ayres a "rich" and equally dfstin.
| guished-looking friend of Lacam's Of
j fered her
BY chance Frenchman located
/ her In house OF i'll fame, a prisoner,
! in the Argentine capital and secured
her release through the intervention
of the French consul who saw that
she was safely returned to her par
ents.
i In the last three months scores OF
heart-broken parents have reported to
the police the disappearance of their
young daughters. The cadet is blam
ed for many of these disappearance
A police official told the correspon
: dent that many French girls find their
way to New York, and from there to
other American cities, though the
number of white slaves taken to the
United States is considerably smaller
now than 1t was before the American
authorities began its war against such
; traffic The Argentine republic Is now
the cadets bonanza, the law beins
! less severe there and the lookout less
keen, while trade is brisk among tbs
! latins.
The smoothness Of some Of the
more finished" dealers in white girl
/ is proved by the fact that we'll pait
!, girls In the Reu de la Paix district
: che shopping quarter of the elite, ar
often victims Here is a specimen o
: their work, the story being told t
the correspondent by the proprieto
of fashionable perfume shop in thu
Reu de la Paix.
Germaine, as she may be called, wa
the daughter Of parents, formerl.
well-to-do but now in Strengthened cir
: cumstances. She had been educate'
in England, at one Of the most exclu
sive girls school there, and sp k
: English fectly. She began work a
! is.
One day beautifully gowned Amer
lean woman entered the store an
n ordered some of the finest perfume i
y the shop She fell to talking to Gel
= maine-in English and seemngl
;, took quite a motherly interest in hel
a. When she left she asked the address
of one of the most fashionable dress
=. makers in the street.
n. A few days later the same woma
IL came in to see Germaiue agar Sh
wanted Germaine to do her favo
Would she accompany her to tn
q dress-makers and help her with he
/ advice at the fitting? Germaine wer
8 and was given 100 francs for her tro'
" BILE The gowns were worth hundred
lie of dollars. 1t may be remarked
,e The next day the lovely lady cam
e in a third time. She had nice pc
s, sonal talk with Germaine. German
b. pleased her very much. The lady ha
" son, handsome, rich, in his ow
III name, and heir to bigger f7rtune
re still. The lady was looking for
IS suitable wife for him. Germaine, I
good family, fine breeding. exeellel
education, splendid taste, was natu
)c ally just the wife for a rich man, bu
of course, in France poor girl CO