New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-19
SAYS SLAVE TRUST
EARNS MILLIONS
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army. Of white slaves" are held in
! check.
That 1906 real estate agents in differ
ent "TenderIon" sections Of Manhat-
| tan were willing to let premises for
immoral purposes.
That the total cost to New York Of
it's army Of vice was so "staggeringly
enormous that the Investigators would
/ not even estimate il at this stage of
their work
| \ series of chapters in the report deal
with the minute and sordid details Of
the operation If notorious resorts
/ throughout the city. condemning par
ticularly the lack of protection around
, public dance halls and tine spread of the
so-callcd massage parlors."
The public dance hall was found 10
I justify the worst that has been said of
it," says the report. "Of seyenty-iive
dances reported on only five were char
acterlzed by the Investigators as de
+ cent Nor are these dances attended
girls. some inuoccnt-others. If not en-
tircly innocent. at any rate not wholly
! dcpraved-and young men not yet alto
gcther vicious. attend the gatherings in
/ search Of amusement and change. Many
are innocent working 9'-ls who seek
I legitimate recreation. The sinister ele-
ment in attendance is the hired cadets,
who attend with the cold blooded pur-
pose of finding new subjects II de-
hauchery and of subsequent eXploita-
ton FOR gain. These agents of COM
mercialiZed vice are usually well
dressed. we'll hammered and introduce
themselves politely and easily to stran-
gers.
They often pretend 20 love at frst
sight and exhibit marked devotion. by
which the girls are deceived and 90
which they too often yield. When the
seduction II the girls is accomplished
they are put on the street and their
ruin IL complete
White slave traffickers, according to
the report. usually eyade the law by
money and shrewdness. In New York
+ city. which they have made the centre
Of the traffic for practically the whole
| Western Hemisphere. one man, known
| in underworld circles as the king" Is
| Interested In eleven disorderly houses.
/ lie is supposed 10 have great influence
/ with the authorities. and il largely de
pends upon his judgment whether
houses are openly and hagrantly or
quietly and cautiously conducted.
| When external conditions are unfa-
/ yorablc these men ship their women 10
points where conditions arc more pro-
pitious" says the report. Variations
i'm public opinion and in the attitude
If the municipal authorities are quickly
reflected in the market. Just before
the Rosenthal murder prices were pro-
hibitively high Since that date they
nave steadily declined
The investigators reported that while
II had been found that thirty of the
most tawdry vice resorts in Manhattan,
operating as a combine. earned in the
aggregate S2.OOO,OOO annually, eXclu-
sive of a swollen profit from the sale OF
liquor and tobacco at oXorbitant prices,
il was impossible To arrive at any esti-
mate of the total income derived from
vice at this stage of the inquiry.
The total cost to society" the report
says. lis staggeringly enormous, taking
no account .- the greatest of all costs
disease. In this regard 1t was
brought out that 90 per cent of group
of girls. all under eighteen years OF age,
in Bedford RcfoImatory, were dis
cased.'
While the fallen woman herself
comes prcponderantly from the ranks
of those engaged i'm unskilled occupa-
tions. her customers. the report empha-
sizes. represent every grade of So
ciety."
ct is impossible" says the report. ito
estimate accurately the number of men
and boys who become customers In
vice resorts in Manhattan during the
course OF one year" But from figures
compiled from vice commission IN
quiries i'm Chicago, Syracuse, y. Y,
and the present Manhattan inquiry the
bureaus Investigators, making an arbi-
trarv reduction OF SO 2-3 per cent from
! the Chicael figures. estimate that the
customers of vice resorts in Manhattan
alone total at least 10000 every day.
I'm it's census, enumeratng total OF
.6O6 vice resorts of all grades in Man
haitian, the report gives their re-
spective locations by police precincts,
and emphasizes. as the worst menace,
those found in tenement houses. Ac-
! cording To the bureaus investigators
the most notorious meeting place for
white slave" traffickers in Manhattan
is an East Side delicatessen store.
practically all of the resorts founded
on woman's shame are conducted by
women who have risen from the
ranks" the report says; and, far from
| being sympathetic with their wards,
the chief aim of these housekeepers is
To make as much money as possible for
their masters-invariably men. Thus,
though the inmate of house theoreti-
cally receives half the money she earns.
she is taxed cruelty for board, clothes.
| toilet articles and drugs, so that, as