The Washington times., 1915-12-21
BAL TIM9RE SHAKEN
BY VICE REVELATION
Office Buildings and Hotels Told
OF AS Places Where lnlmOr-
atty FlOurishes.
Ccohtinued from First Page )

(Cohtinued from First PsSc)
sexual perversi6n. rare a few years ago.
Is now commonly practiced by immoral
women, both professional and amateur
and by men and women outside the
r6n4Ia. 1t is also declared that Offices
in large office buildings are places OF
assIRhAtion; that waters. porters. and
bellb0ys in hotels are procurefs: that
many manicure girls. especially those In
barber shops and hotels use that call
ing as a cover; that criminal operations
can be procured without trouble. It is
asserted that when IL is too late for
this, many physicians are ready and
willing to Separate the baby from
its mother Immediately after It's
birth so that she will never see 1t again,
and that these babies are. to all intents
and purposes, murdered. and moreover.
that some clergymen will assist in such
separation for a price.
Houses Have Disappeared.
Since the commission undertook its
work, the |"red-light" districts have
SSen cleaned up by the police, and so
q great part of the report deals with
conditions which no longer exist, or
have been very largely eliminated.
But, although the notorious houses
have disappeared. there Isl no evi-
dehce, according to the report, that
immortality is not practiced az exten-
siyely as ever
The report states that many far
nlshed room houses closed their eyes
to vibrations OF the moral laws IN
their establishmenfs. 1t was fourd
that 1876 places allow a woman to re-
ceive more than one man II she is
living in the house. The report goes
on to say:
A.
from the i-ed-light district and some
assiRnatioh house Keepers have OPEN
ed furnished room houses. In few
. instances young girls were in charge
of the houses and some of them arc
run by men"
Information concerning the furnish.
ed room houses was obtained by worn-
en- Investigators, who went to those
In charge and pretended TO be i'm
moral persons seeking places where
they could ply their trade quietly.
They found houses that admit girls
for that express purpose.
Political Protection.
One woman said that she had po-
Iitical protection, and declared she did
not want to get out Of - ward.
He Is a friend of mine and one worth
having, she added, because he Is no
piker.'
Another landIady said:
Il am a good, Christian woman but,
of course, 1 have my living to make
II wait until decent people come
along l wohld wait a long time. Fast
women always pay better than others.
ou can have one man; he will send
your soul to hell fast enough"
One woman said she had as boarder
q preacher who escorted her to the
station house and testified in her behalf
when she was In trouble.
IT is stated also in the report that
several officials have advised the sa-
loonkeepers and the women who run
disorderiy houses how to conduct their
business, and usually when one OF
these places is to be raided the pro-
prIetors are tipped off," some OF the
as dens of iniquity. 1t is declared that
most of them cater to immortality and
depend upon ii lsrgely ror their profits.
1T is the custom in those places"
says the commission, for the walters.
bartenders. and propr1etors to furnish
a girl to q man If he asks for one.
Many times the customer iB openly
spoken to by these men and asked If
he wants a girl
Low Wages and Vice.
I'm discussing it's investigation of
department stores the commission says:
We did not find evidence that the
girls begin immoral conduct on account
nf the low wage, but we have abundant
testimony to the fact that after they
begin such a course they keep 1t ND in
order to earn money. We believe that
higher wage would be advantageous
and conducive to the morality of the
employees; but we hasten to say that
many OF them are intent on obtaining
much more money than they could legi-
timately earn, and are immoral chiefly
to get money for fine clothes and gen
eral luxury"
In the factories the commissions in
vestigators did not find anything on
the part Of the managers which con-
duced to immortality, but" continues
the report, I'VE did find that there are
many coarse, vulgar, and frequently i'm
moral women whose influence on the
younger and more innocent girls is very
Injurious. We believe that this is the
chief danger in the factory"
Taking up office buildings, the COM
mission says:
An investigation of several large Of
flee buildings has convinced us that I'm
morality exists in them to a surprising
extent. We have numerous examples
showing that young and inmatu ture girls
working in these buildings have mot
with repeated and persistent effort on
the part of men to induce them to be-
come immoral"
Sacrifice of Children.
The commission believes that the oc-
cupation of waitress is one Of peculiar
danger to young girls.
A portion of the report which mas ere
ated q profound impression IS that deal
ing with the disposition OF illegitimate
children, to which a separate volume is
devoted. The institutions, the names OF
the physicians willing to procure crini-
nal operations, those who will undertake.
separation OF newborn babes from their
mothers and the clergymen who stated
that they would assist at such a DER
formance are all on the records of the
commission, which states that II 5an