Commercialized Prostitution in New York City
Chapter II. The investigator says in his report that X 127 was formerly
with X 126 at X 125, East 5th Street.
There are 13 families living at X 128, St. Mark's Place. In these families are 7 boys under 16 and 14 girls under 16. Five single young men and 3 single young women over 16 also live in this tenement house.
On February 21, 1812, between 7 and 8 P. M., investigator was solicited by a waitress in a cider stube in a tenement at X 129, East 6th Street. The stube is in the basement and the proprietress said she would send out for a young girl, but as she had previously been in trouble because of a 15 year old girl, she did not want to take another chance.
There are 38 families living at this address, with 20 boys and 20 girls all under 16 years of age. Seven single men and 9 single women over 16 also live in this tenement.
X 130 lives at X 131, West 102nd Street, with a friend who has a furnished apartment. The janitress is named X 132, and X 130 says she does not pay any attention to what goes on in the tenement so long as the girls do not become too bold. Some of the prostitutes have been in his tenement as long as 10 years.
X 130 is a chorus girl during the regular season. She has been with several well known companies.
X 133 is the janitor at X 134, West 28th Street. Four street walkers bring men to their rooms in this building for immoral purposes. One of these women said that they each paid $5 per week to the janitor for the privilege of using their rooms in this way. The janitor has a family consisting of his wife and three children. One boy is 10 and the eldest girl 17 years of age.
On February 13, 1912, between 3.30 and 4.30 P. M., two colored girls who appeared to be 17 and 18 years of age respectively were soliciting men on the street to enter a tenement house at X 136, West 40th Street. The children from Public School No. X 137, a short distance away, were playing along the street on their way home. The colored girls were particularly insistent and talked in loud tones intermingled with vile remarks and oaths. Some of the children who did not appear to be more than 10 or 11 years old noticed the two colored girls and laughed at them, pointing their fingers.
Seven colored families live in this tenement. The prostitutes who solicited offered to reduce the price to 50 cents if the hallway were used. On March 4, 1912, a colored girl entered the hallway with a white man. The conditions in this building are extremely unsanitary. The hallways are dark and full of odors, the stairs in a state of dilapidation.
X 138 and a younger girl rented two rooms in a tenement at X 139, East 122nd Street. On January 30, 1912, about 9.15 P. M., X 138 solicited the investigator on the street to accompany her to this tenement for immoral purposes. The girls paid $4 per week for the rooms and the landlord had told X 138 that they could bring men into the house if they desired. A man by the name of Louis has tried several times to induce X 138 to enter a house of prostitution. "This man," said the girl, "is a swell dresser and wears diamonds." He even went so far one night as to impersonate a detective and threatened to arrest her for soliciting on the street, thinking in this way to frighten her into complying with his request. X 138 said that he receives $50 for every girl he secures for houses.
The investigator called at this address again on February 1 for the purpose of talking further with X 138 and tried to obtain a description of the procurer of whom she spoke. The hour was 5 P. M. As he entered the hallway a boy about 11 or 12 years of age asked him whom he wanted to see. "Mrs. X 140 has been out and so has Mrs. X 141," said the boy, "and now there are only two w---- on the top floor." Four families live at this address, in which there are 2 boys and 1 girl under 16.
Mrs. X 118 lives on the third floor of a tenement at X 117, West 58th Street. Mrs. X 118 has two daughters; one, a girl of 18, is divorced from her husband whom she met when her mother conducted a similar business on West 49th Street, and lives here with her mother. The other daughter, X 142, is 15 years of age. On February 24, 1912, about 1 A. M., investigator saw a young man talking to X 142 in the rear of the flat. X 118 said X 142 is attending a business school, but different young men who are customers declare that she works in a candy factory. One day a business man who had been a customer received a letter from X 118 urging him to call. He showed the letter to the investigator, and declared that X 142 had written it at the dictation of her mother who he knew could not write English. In fact, the writing was in an immature hand, and the letter poorly composed.
One of the inmates here, X 143, lives at X 144, East 94th Street and uses X 118 flat in which to meet two steady customers at stated intervals. She has been a clandestine prostitute for several months.
X 118 has a list of addresses of girls in a book which she keeps in her bureau. There are 10 families in this tenement. One of the tenants, a Mrs. X 145, told an investigator that on several occasions the police have been called into the house to stop the noise. She further said that the landlord, X 146, knows the character of some of the tenants and charges them high rentals.
(b) DIFFERENT INVESTIGATIONS OF SAME ADDRESS
As was the case with parlor houses, many tenements were investigated at different times in order to show that the business was systematically conducted:
_X_ 147. _Broadway._
July 27, 1912. X 155, prostitute, told the investigator she "answers calls for this place. $5. Wine sold."
July 30, 1912. X 154, prostitute, told the investigator she "receives men here, $5, $10, $20."
August 1, 1912. X 150, prostitute, told the investigator that "this place is owned by a colored woman; X 149-a, white woman has charge." Prices charged are $3, $5 and $10.
August 1, 1912. There are two apartments in X 147 Broadway owned by colored women. One, X 148, and her sister, X 149-a. These women have white girls conducting the resorts while they, the owners, keep in the background. One apartment, 3rd floor, inside, is operated under the name of X 149. The other is one or two flights above on the same side. Both send for girls supposed to be $3, $5, and $10.
August 8, 1912. 10 P. M. Business and residential district. Six story red brick building. Madame X 148. The investigator counted 2 inmates. Price $5. Girls get half. Drinks $5. Inmates wear gowns and claim to have health certificates. Names of inmates, Stella and Ellen. Girls claim to pay weekly board of $15. Rent paid is $105.
August 15, 1912. X 152, prostitute, told the investigator she "takes friends here."
August 29, 1912. X 156, prostitute, told the investigator she "meets many a good man through this house. Two other apartments here where I see men."
August 29, 1912. X 156, prostitute, told the investigator she "makes many a dollar right in the house. Four good places here."
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_X_ 157. _West 27th Street._
February 6, 1912. 8.30-9 P. M. Investigator reports this former house of prostitution now occupied by families.
March 18, 1912. 2:30 P. M. Investigator solicited by inmate Blanche on 27th Street and Seventh Avenue and went to her apartment one flight up, east. Counted two inmates. Price of place $1. Names of inmates, Blanche (madame) and Bella. Name of owner of property as given in the tax book for 1912 is X 158.
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_X_ 159. _West 28th Street._
March 5, 1912. 9.50 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers accosting men in the vicinity and using the premises for purposes of prostitution. Investigator was solicited by one, Jennie, to enter premises. Price of woman and room $1. Owner of this property as given by the tax book for 1912 is X 161. The previous owner was X 162.
Reports from other sources:
Tenement house, double family tenement, janitor giving women privileges after 10 P. M. for a weekly consideration. A procurer by the name of X 163 living on the premises has shipped his girl Rosie to Pittsburg, Pa., into a disorderly house there.
February 1, 1912. Flat house for street walkers.
Tenement House Department report, June 18, 1909. Disorderly house, prostitution alleged, no basis. July 2, 1909: Disorderly house, prostitution alleged, no basis.
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_X_ 164. _West 28th Street._
February 8, 1912. Investigator reports prostitution discontinued here.
March 17, 1912. Tenement house inhabited by about 10 families. 12.15 A. M. Investigator solicited by two French women on street near the stoop of premises to enter this house. Price of women $1. Soliciting from street and windows. Owner of property as given in the tax book for 1912 is X 165.
Reports from other sources:
February 1, 1912. Ground floor, French flats. Almost on every floor "business" is carried on.
Tenement House Department report, January 8, 1910. Disorderly house, second floor. Cause of complaint removed.
Police report June 18, 1909. Disorderly house, prostitution alleged. No basis.
August 19, 1912. Prostitution is practised in this house. Rosie, prostitute, resides in a flat one flight up, and a woman named X 166, also a prostitute, lives on the floor above Rosie. The investigator was solicited from the window of this house.
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_X_ 167. _West 29th Street._
March 24, 1912. 8.30 P. M. Investigator was solicited by several colored women in front of this address to come to their rooms. Counted five women soliciting. Price of women 50 cents. Owner of the property as given in the tax book for 1912 is X 168.
Reports from other sources:
Tenement. Some apartments occupied by prostitutes.
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_X_ 169. _West 29th Street._
March 9, 1912. Investigator reported about eight families and eight children in this building, mostly colored. House appeared all right at this visit.
Reports from other sources:
February 1, 1912. Some apartments occupied by prostitutes.
Tenement House Department report, March 9, 1910: Disorderly house. Fourth floor, front, west, X 170. No action necessary. Police report.
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_X_ 171. _West 29th Street._
February 2, 1912. A colored woman named X 172 lives in this house and keeps girls. She lately moved from X 173 when X 174 (well known to investigator) was her pimp.
March 4, 1912. Investigator visited this building. Estimated seven families, mostly colored, living here. Saw two suspicious women on first floor. Owner of this property as given in the tax book for 1912 is X 175.
Reports from other sources:
Tenement House Department. February 8, 1910. Disorderly house, basement. Cause of complaint removed.
Police report. February 24, 1910. Disorderly house, basement, east side, front. X 176, cause of complaint removed.
Police report. November 9, 1911. Disorderly house. Prostitution alleged. Cause of complaint removed.
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_X_ 177. _West 29th Street._
April 19, 1912. A prostitute, X 178, lives at this address and uses her apartments for immoral purposes.
June 19, 1912. 1.10 A. M. Investigator solicited on street by colored women to go to apartment in this building. Price of women 50 cents.
Reports from other sources:
Tenement House Department. November 9, 1911. Disorderly house, prostitution alleged. Cause of complaint removed.
Police report. January 27, 1909. Disorderly house, second floor, front, west. X 179. Cause of complaint removed.
Police report. April 13, 1909. Disorderly house, rear, second floor, east. X 180 and X 181. Cause of complaint removed.
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_X_ 182. _West 29th Street._
February 6, 1912. Investigator reports this a tenement occupied by colored families and prostitutes. On third floor, east, X 172, who is a maid in the house of prostitution at X 183, is a prostitute and has had a white man living with her for several months. Investigator visited her apartment with this man and was solicited by X 172 to stay with her. Two other women were in the rear room at the time.
March 4, 1912. Investigator reports about six families (Italian and colored) in this tenement. Suspicious women on third floor, among them X 184, a widow.
March 9, 1912. Investigator reports building mostly occupied by colored people. Two suspicious women on fifth floor.
Reports from other sources:
Tenement House Department. July 25, 1910. Disorderly house, third floor, X 200. Cause of complaint removed.
Police report and police officer. November 9, 1911. Disorderly house, prostitution alleged. No action necessary.
December 26, 1911. Disorderly house, prostitution alleged, second floor, west, cause of complaint removed.
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_X_ 185. _West 30th Street._
February 2, 1912. 6.30 P. M. Investigator saw men entering this place.
March 4, 1912. Investigator reported three families living here. House appeared quiet.
August 21, 1912. Investigator reports some of the rooms evidently used by street walkers. Outside door locked.
Reports from other sources:
February 1, 1912. Bed house.
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_X_ 186. _West 37th Street._
March 18, 1912. 4.40 P. M. Investigator counted 6 inmates, all colored. He was solicited on 37th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues to enter premises. Price 50 cents. Names of inmates, Hannah and Eliza.
May 1, 1912. 5 A. M. Investigator was solicited to go to second floor of this building by two colored prostitutes standing on the steps of this building. Price 50 cents.
August 24, 1912. Colored prostitutes solicit here day and night from windows of this house and on street in front. Thieves and pimps hang out on corner. Name of owner of this property as given in the tax book for 1912 is X 187.
Reports from other sources:
Tenement House. Colored women carry on business at all hours of the day and night with the purpose of robbery chiefly in view.
August 17, 1912. Place occupied by colored prostitutes. Saw them soliciting from windows on all floors of this building.
APPENDIX XI
HOTELS: ADDITIONAL DATA
_X_ 214. _Sixth Avenue._
February 8, 1912. 10.30 P. M. Investigator solicited to go here by prostitute; price $1.
Investigator solicited by prostitute in front of this hotel to enter premises, March 11, 1912. 9.20 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers in vicinity of this hotel. He was solicited by prostitutes in front of place; price of woman $2, price of room $1 to $2.
March 18, 1912. 12 M. Investigator counted 4 street walkers loitering in the vicinity of this hotel. He was solicited by one of them to enter this place. Price $2, price of room $1.50.
March 23, 1912. 7.30 P. M. Investigator counted 8 street walkers loitering on Sixth Avenue, in the vicinity of this hotel. He was solicited by one on the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter this hotel. A police officer stood across the street at the time. Price $2, price of room $1.50 to $2.
May 4, 1912. 3 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers loitering in vicinity of this hotel, on Sixth Avenue. All approached men. He was solicited on the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street by a prostitute to enter this hotel. Price $2, price of room $2. A police officer stood across the street at the time investigator was solicited.
The investigator stood near the entrance of this hotel for 30 minutes and saw 6 women whom he believed to be prostitutes enter the hotel with men. It is said on good authority that the receipts in this hotel on Saturday nights were as high as $400.
May 6, 1912. 5 P. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers loitering in vicinity of this hotel on Sixth Avenue. All approached men. He was solicited by one of these in front of the hotel to enter the premises. Price $2, room $2.
May 9, 1912. 7 P. M. Investigator counted 4 street walkers on Sixth Avenue in the vicinity of this hotel. All approached men. He was solicited by one to enter the premises. Price $2, price of room $2.
May 13, 1912. 6.30 P. M. Investigator counted 4 street walkers on Sixth Avenue in the vicinity of this hotel. All of these women approached men. He was solicited by one in front of the hotel to enter premises. Price $2, price of room $2.
May 22, 1912. 7.15 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Sixth Avenue, in the vicinity of this hotel. All approached men. One of the women solicited him on the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter the premises.
May 28, 1912. 12 P. M. Investigator counted 7 street walkers on Sixth Avenue in the vicinity of this hotel. All approached men. He was solicited to enter the premises. Police officer was in sight at the time of solicitation.
May 30, 1912. 6.30 P. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers on Sixth Avenue in the vicinity of this hotel. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter the premises.
June 3, 1912. 2 P. M. Investigator counted 4 street walkers on Sixth Avenue in the vicinity of this hotel. All of these women approached men. He was solicited by one within 100 feet of an officer at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter the premises. Price $2, room $2.
June 7, 1912. 2 P. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers on Sixth Avenue in the vicinity of this hotel. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises.
June 10, 1912. 2 P. M. Investigator counted 7 street walkers on Sixth Avenue in the vicinity of this hotel. All approached men. He was solicited by one of these women at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter the premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2. Officer was in sight at the time of solicitation.
The following prostitutes are among those who use this hotel for immoral purposes:
May 22, 1912, Lena X 219. May 28, 1912, Christie X 218. May 31, 1912, Rosie X 217. June 26, 1912, Becky X 220. July 15, 1912, Annie X 222. August 2, 1912, Rosie X 221. August 15, 1912, Anna X 212. August 15, 1912, Betty X 216. August 16, 1912, Gussie X 223.
Reports from other sources:
Reported owners are X 224, X 225 and X 226. C X 227, manager.
Proprietors are X 28, X 225 and X 229. Dive of worst kind.
The premises also appear under the address ---- W. ---- Street. Bed house.
February 1, 1912. Bed house.
August 19, 1912. This place is a noted assignation hotel.
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_X_ 230. _West 35th Street._
February 13, 1912. 11.15 P. M. Investigator counted 3 street walkers in vicinity of this hotel. He was solicited to enter premises by a prostitute at the corner of Broadway and ---- Street. Price of room $1. He also saw four couples enter here in half an hour, the women being street walkers. Saw prostitute pick up a man on Seventh Avenue and take him to premises.
February 15, 1912. 9.00 P. M. Investigator was solicited by a street walker on Broadway between 35th and 40th Streets to enter premises.
February 20, 1912. 2.00 P. M. Clerk of this hotel sentenced to two months' imprisonment. It is said the proprietor is a fugitive from justice.
April 10, 1912. Investigator met men who appeared to be cadets near premises. Hotel said to be run by X 231. The proprietor is said to be X 225.
April 26, 1912. 1.00 A. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Seventh Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $3. Price of room $2. This woman lives at X 238, West 34th Street. X 232 is the rebate clerk at this hotel, and this duty takes up his whole time.
May 3, 1912. Investigator counted three street walkers on south side of ---- Street towards Broadway. Two stopped men. Investigator was solicited by one to enter premises. Price of woman $2, room $2.
May 6, 1912. 11.00-12.00 P. M. Investigator counted 10 street walkers in the entrance to this hotel and in the doorways near-by. Four approached men. Investigator was solicited by one on the street near the hotel to enter premises. Price of woman $2, room $2. Investigator saw 5 suspicious couples enter this hotel in half an hour and 3 girls unescorted. Men lookouts in doorways across the street.
May 9, 1912. 7.45 P. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All accosted men. He was solicited by one, in sight of an officer across the street, to enter the premises. Price of woman $2, room $2.
May 11, 1912. 2.00 A. M. Investigator counted fifteen street walkers on Broadway between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by three of these prostitutes to enter premises. Price of women $2, $3; price of room $1, $1.50.
May 15, 1912. 6.50 P. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Seventh Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
May 18, 1912. 1.30 A. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on ---- Street near Broadway. Three accosted men. Investigator was solicited by one on the southwest corner of ---- Street and Broadway to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2. The name of the woman who solicited the investigator is Blanche X 233; she lives with her pimp at X 239, West 38th Street, third floor.
May 20, 1912. 7.10 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited at the corner of Seventh Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. An officer passed by them during this solicitation. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
May 23, 1912. 7.15 P. M. Investigator counted 4 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Seventh Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
May 29, 1912. 7.45 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Seventh Avenue and ---- Street within 100 feet of an officer to enter premises.
May 31, 1912. 8.00 P. M. Investigator counted 8 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Seventh Avenue and ---- Street within sight of an officer to enter premises.
June 1, 1912. 8.00 P. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Seventh Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $3, price of room $2. Investigator talked with X 231, part owner in this hotel. He complained about business, saying it was "too hot."
June 4, 1912. 7.35 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Seventh Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
June 7, 1912. 7.30 P. M. Investigator counted six street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited at the corner of Seventh Avenue and ---- Street, within sight of an officer, to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
June 8, 1912. 8.15 P. M. Investigator counted 13 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between 34th and 40th Streets. All approached men. The investigator was solicited twice, once within sight of an officer, to enter the premises of this hotel. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
June 11, 1912. 8.15 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited at the corner of Seventh Avenue and ---- Street, within 200 feet of an officer, to enter premises. Price of woman $3, price of room $2.
June 15, 1912. 8.00 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Seventh Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Seventh Avenue and ---- Street, within sight of an officer, to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
June 17, 1912. 8.30 P. M. Investigator was solicited by a street walker on Sixth Avenue near ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2. The following prostitutes are among those who frequent and use this hotel for immoral purposes:
May 25, 1912, Anna X 234. May 28, 1912, Sarah X 235. May 31, 1912, Louise X 236. June 6, 1912, May X 237.
Reports from other sources:
August 19, 1912. Notorious assignation hotel.
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_X_ 215. _West 28th Street._
February 7, 1912. 11.00 P. M. Investigator solicited to enter premises.
February 7, 1912. 9.15-9.30 P. M. Investigator solicited at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $1. Price of room $1.50.
February 7, 1912. 1.15 P. M. Investigator was solicited by street walker on Sixth Avenue near ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $1. Price of room $1.50.
February 7, 1912. 1.15 P. M. Investigator solicited by a prostitute on 28th Street to enter the premises. Price of woman $1, price of room $1.
February 7, 1912. Evening. Investigator asked clerk price of room for himself and was told $2.50, a prohibitive rate.
February 10, 1912. 8.30 P. M. Investigator solicited by prostitute to enter premises.
February 19, 1912. 2.00 A. M. Investigator solicited by street walker on Broadway between 31st and 32nd Streets to enter premises. Price of woman $3 for the rest of the night. Price of room $1.
March 11, 1912. 9.20 P. M. Investigator counted 9 street walkers within 50 feet of this hotel. All approached men. He was solicited by one of the prostitutes at the entrance of the hotel to enter the premises. Price of woman $2. Price of room $1.50.
March 11, 1912. 11.25 P. M. Investigator counted 2 street walkers at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street in the vicinity of this hotel. He was solicited by one to enter premises. Price of woman $3, price of room $1.50.
March 11, 1912. 9.00 P. M. Investigator counted 9 street walkers in the vicinity of this hotel. He was solicited by one on the west side of Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $1.50.
May 1, 1912. 3.30 P. M. Investigator counted 11 street walkers on Sixth Avenue in the vicinity of this hotel. Three approached men. Investigator was solicited by one on Sixth Avenue within sight of an officer to enter premises. Price of woman $1. Price of room $1.
May 1, 1912. 2.00 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets in the vicinity of this hotel. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter the premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
May 8, 1912. 5.00 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
May 13, 1912. 6.45 P. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
May 15, 1912. A man sold obscene photographs in the toilet room of this hotel. He had a bundle of such pictures.
May 15, 1912. 5.30 P. M. Investigator counted 4 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets, in the vicinity of this hotel. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
May 23, 1912. 11.00 A. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets in the vicinity of this hotel. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of room $2, price of woman $2.
May 24, 1912. 11.00 A. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets in the vicinity of this hotel. All approached men. He was solicited by one within sight of an officer at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
May 31, 1912. 1.30 P. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
June 1, 1912. 1.30 A. M. Investigator counted 7 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. Six of these women approached men. Investigator was solicited by one of them at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street within sight of an officer, to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
June 4, 1912. 10.45 A. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets in the vicinity of this hotel. All approached men. He was solicited by one within sight of an officer at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
June 6, 1912. 1.30 P. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street within sight of an officer, to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
June 8, 1912. 11.30 A. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $1.50.
June 13, 1912. 11.30 A. M. Investigator counted 5 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street, within sight of an officer, to enter premises. Price $3 for woman, price of room $2.
June 15, 1912. 11.30 A. M. Investigator counted 6 street walkers on Sixth Avenue between ---- and ---- Streets. All approached men. He was solicited by one at the corner of Sixth Avenue and ---- Street, within sight of an officer, to enter premises. Price of woman $2, price of room $2.
The following prostitutes are among those who frequent this hotel for immoral purposes:
April 24, 1912, Laura X 240. July 29, 1912, Mamie X 241. August 2, 1912, Marion X 244. August 12, 1912, Kate X 243. August 15, 1912, Anna X 212. August 15, 1912, Betty X 216. August 15, 1912, Mrs. K. X 242. August 16, 1912, Gussie X 223.
Reports from other sources:
Bed House. Hotel and disorderly house. Proprietor X 245. License issued in the name of X 245-a. One of the worst places in the city. X 245 is manager.
February 1, 1912. Bed house, hotel and disorderly house; proprietor X 245, license issued in the name of X 245-a. X 245 is manager.
August 19, 1912. A notorious assignation place.
APPENDIX XII
SALOONS: ADDITIONAL DATA
February 2, 1912. A man entered the rear room of saloon X 275. With him was a porter from a house of prostitution at X 173, West 27th Street. Prostitutes here were especially vulgar and obscene. A waiter in this place, named X 277, knew the prostitutes by name and encouraged the men to sit at the tables with these women and treat them to drinks. The proprietor, named X 278, also attempted to "drum up" trade between the prostitutes and the men.
February 4, 1912. Between the hours of 7.15 and 10 P. M. the same conditions prevailed with variations. One prostitute who was intoxicated exposed herself. The waiter did not offer any objections to this exhibition.
May 1, 1912. At 12 P. M. a stranger entered the rear room of saloon at X 279, West 42nd Street. The waiters appeared to be familiar with certain girls who were unescorted.
May 23, 1912. 2 P. M. A special officer attached to a notorious saloon and dance hall accompanied a man to this place. He told him it was a resort for pimps, pickpockets, cheap crooks and prostitutes. The dancing on this evening was vulgar and obscene. There were several young girls present between 17 and 20 years of age who gave vile exhibitions. At 3 A. M., six pimps invited the man to go to a saloon at X 280, Seventh Avenue. When they reached this place the pimps talked to several prostitutes. One of these girls was called May. While the young man sat at the table with one of these women, she attempted to steal a $2 bill from one of his pockets. When he remonstrated one of the pimps called to his five companions and said, "Come on, fellows, let's go through him." When they found the man did not have any more money they threw him out of the door and jostled him on the sidewalk. The man threatened to call a policeman who was standing on the opposite side of the street and they laughed, saying, "Go ahead, call the cop and see if he will come over." The man yelled "police" three or four times and the pimps said, "Holler louder, he won't bother us, we stand in."
June 6, 1912. 2.30 A. M. Thirteen girls were sitting at the tables in the rear room. Jack X 281, a waiter in this resort, who lives at X 282, Second Avenue, stated that the boss, Joe X 283, has a small room in the rear where a few of his friends play cards and "roll" dice.
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February 20, 1912. 2 A. M. Concert hall at X 288, West 39th Street. Manager is X 289. The door at this house is guarded by George X 290. A chain on the door. The dances were vulgar and obscene. Carrie X 291 solicited a man to go to a furnished room at X 292 West 39th Street, A pickpocket stole a watch, a stickpin, and $9 in money from one of the men in the place.
February 24, 1912. 3.50 A. M. During the night there were over 100 men and 16 white and colored prostitutes at the tables. A negro named Albert X 293 pointed out the proprietor, whose name is X 294.
April 11, 1912. 4 A. M. Same conditions prevail.
April 19, 1912. 4.30 A. M. Same conditions prevail.
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March 29, 1912. Saloon at X 848, Sixth Avenue. It is said that X 849, the manager of this place, bails out the girls who solicit in his saloon. X 850, living at ---- West 96th Street said that madames send to this rear room for girls. Following are some of the girls who solicit in this saloon: Hope X 852, May X 853, Bessie X 854, Elizabeth X 855, X 856, Nellie X 857, Mattie X 858, Marie X 859, and X 877.
May 16, 1912. Twenty unescorted women counted in the rear room. Several girls solicited investigator to go to the X 860 hotel at ---- Sixth Avenue, to the X 861 Hotel at ---- Sixth Avenue, and to different flats.
June 3, 1912. 9.15 P. M. Fifteen unescorted women in this rear room. Two women from this saloon solicited men to go to the X 862 Hotel, ---- Sixth Avenue.
July 25, 1912. Nine unescorted women, among them being Ellen X 863 and Mildred X 864.
July 27, 1912. Seven unescorted women. One of these is Catherine X 865.
August 14, 1912. May X 866 soliciting in the rear room.
August 15, 1912. 9. P. M. Nine unescorted women. Dancing was vulgar.
August 28, 1912. Eleven unescorted women. One of these was Lottie X 850, who said she had been soliciting in this rear room for years.
August 30, 1912. Seventeen unescorted women. One of these is Beatrice X 867.
September 24, 1912. Lottie X 850 was again in this rear room with others, among whom was Cora X 868.
September 26, 1912. Fifteen unescorted women. One of these was Sue X 869.
October 5, 1912. Four unescorted women. One of these by the name of May X 870 said that she had been coming to this place for 15 years or more.
October 9, 1912. Among the seventeen unescorted women was Lottie X 850, previously mentioned.
October 11, 1912. Nine unescorted women. One of these was Rose X 871.
October 30, 1912. Several unescorted women. Four left the saloon with men. One of the women was Anna X 872.
November 1, 1912. Lottie X 850 was again in this saloon with other unescorted women.
November 4, 1912. Eleven unescorted women. One named Mamie X 873 said, "I have my steady friends come here--they know where to find me." Another girl was Celia X 874.
November 19, 1912. Eleven unescorted women. One of these was Lena X 875, another Clara X 876.
Previous records:
Proprietors of this place have given cash bond.
Concert place and saloon. Women gather here to solicit trade, without interference from the management.
January 26, 1912. Between 6.30 and 8.30 P. M. X 878, East 14th Street. Number of unescorted women in the rear room. Waiters assist girls in finding customers. One of the women named X 877 solicited investigator to go to X 893 Hotel at ---- Third Avenue.
February 2, 1912. 11.05 P. M. Twenty unescorted women in rear room. Many solicited investigator to go to hotel.
April 8, 1912. During the evening eleven unescorted women sat at separate tables. One prostitute said she would go to a hotel for $2.
May 14, 1912. May X 879, living at ---- East 13th Street, was soliciting in this rear room.
May 20, 1912. Nine unescorted women. One of these was Annie X 880, known as X 880-a, living at ---- East 15th Street.
May 25, 1912. The following prostitutes were seen in this place: Ida X 881, Annie X 882.
May 29, 1912. Lettie X 888 was soliciting in this rear room.
June 5, 1912. Seven unescorted women. One of these, Emma X 884, said that she meets some good men in this place. Another girl was Minnie X 885.
June 8, 1912. Pauline X 886 was engaged in soliciting in this rear room.
August 7, 1912. Three unescorted women. One of these was Emma X 887.
September 26, 1912. Five unescorted women. One of these was Rose X 888.
October 2, 1912. Five unescorted women. One of these was Mary X 889.
October 3, 1912. Mary X 889 was again in this saloon.
Previous records:
February 1, 1912. Cafe and rear room. Women enter without escorts and solicit men in this place.
January 13, 1912. The proprietor of this place has given cash bond.
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February 13, 1912. 9 to 12 P. M. X 890, W. 40th Street. Ten unescorted women at the tables. Six of these women beckoned to investigator to come to their tables. A number of these girls have been seen soliciting on Broadway. During the evening 7 couples left this place and went to the Hotel X 891. At 12 P. M. on this date, X 892, a prostitute, solicited investigator to go to a hotel.
June 8, 1912. Number of unescorted women in this saloon.
Previous records:
This place is on the police list, alleged disorderly. Proprietor has given a cash bond.
APPENDIX XIII
MISCELLANEOUS PLACES: ADDITIONAL DATA
February 6, 1912. 3 A. M. Pool room and barber shop at X 300, West 28th Street. Conducted by two or three men who sell liquor without a license at 5 cents per glass. One of the customers in the place solicited a man to go to a house of prostitution at X 25, Sixth Avenue. The man's name is X 301.
A man by the name of X 302 conducts a pool parlor and cigar store at X 303, Second Avenue. A pimp named X 304, frequents this place. X 305, another pimp, was at this place on February 5, 1912.
About nine years ago a woman named Rosie X 306 opened a hair dressing parlor on Second Avenue. She now has the same kind of a parlor at X 307, Second Avenue. It is a rendezvous for prostitutes, and Rosie's husband is a bail bondsman for these women when they are arrested. Rosie sells these women dresses, hats, kimonos, feathers, and hair goods, either for cash or on the instalment plan. One of the methods used by X 306 to draw trade is to allow messages and mail for prostitutes and their pimps to be delivered at her parlor. One of the prostitutes is the wife of X 308. She is a street walker and also a shoplifter. Becky X 309 and her sister Sarah, who solicit on the Bowery, both go to Rosie's to have their hair dressed.
February 9, 1912. Twenty-five pimps, gamblers and crooks were in the restaurant at X 311, Second Avenue. The chief amusement of these men is gambling, playing such games as stuss, poker, and "klobiosh." These pimps receive at this place telephone messages from their women on the streets or in vice resorts, and make arrangements in connection with arrests and other deals. Among the pimps who were seen here at different times were Louis X 312, Harry X 313, Joe X 314, Sam X 315, Joe X 316, and Sam X 317.
APPENDIX XIV
SHIPPING WOMEN: ADDITIONAL DATA
X 47, alias X 47-a, who is part owner in X 46 West 25th Street, has had his woman in England, Russia, South Africa, Dallas, Texas, and Seattle, Washington. He travels back and forth between South Africa and New York.
X 431 took his woman, X 432, to Africa and China, and now has her in a house of prostitution in Texas, the city being either Dallas or Fort Worth.
X 316, alias X 316-a, alias X 316-b, sends his women out to western cities of this country.
X 433, a pimp, had a German girl for his woman and sent her to Denver, Colorado. She "threw him down" and now he has another girl named Ida, whom he broke into the business of prostitution. When she was in Philadelphia she is said to have made as much as $200 for him every week. He then sent her west. She returned, and he sent her west again.
X 434, the wife of X 435, a pimp, has been sent out west. One week she sent X 435 $150. Formerly she was with him in Portland, Oregon, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Billings, Montana.
X 402, alias X 402-a, has sent his woman to South Africa and to Brazil.
X 47-a took his wife, Ida, to South Africa seven years ago.
Ray, the wife of X 407, alias X 407-a, is now in Providence, Rhode Island, in a house of prostitution.
X 406, alias X 406-a, has just returned from Denver. X 436 once took her to Philadelphia; when the houses there were broken up and they were arrested, they "skipped" their bail.
X 410, owner of a house of prostitution, has sent his woman to South Africa, Philadelphia and St Louis. He has a house in Philadelphia, which is now conducted by one of his women, Rosie.
X 437, alias X 437-a, alias X 437-b, has sent his women to the western cities of this country. One of his women at the present time is X 438, alias X 438-a, alias X 438-b.
X 439, who is part owner of the house of prostitution at X 426, Sixth Avenue, has sent his woman Minnie to Alaska three times, and it is said that each time she came back with between $4,000 and $5,000, all of which she gave to him.
X 73, who is a part owner of the house of prostitution at X 67, West 25th Street, sent his girls to all the cities of the west--Seattle, Tacoma, Denver, San Francisco--and also to Philadelphia.
X 440, alias X 440-a, pimp, has traveled with several of his women all over the country. He is now located in Boston.
X 441 conducts a house of prostitution on Percy Street, Philadelphia.
X 442 conducts a house of prostitution in Paterson, New Jersey. X 443 and X 444 have sent girls to him there.
X 445, who is part owner in a house of prostitution at X 441, Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn, has sent his women to Omaha, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Lena, one of his girls, is now in Philadelphia; she has been in Omaha and St. Louis.
X 110 has conducted a house of prostitution in South Africa, and at present is interested in X 109, West 40th Street--a house of prostitution.
X 145-a, alias X 415, who is a part owner in X 416, West 36th Street, has been in South Africa, with his woman, from which place he went to Chicago.
X 34, partner in at least 11 houses of prostitution, has sent his woman, X 87, to Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, and other cities of the west. He also sent another woman, X 86, west over practically the same route.
X 69, who is partner with his brother, X 68, in the house of prostitution at X 78, West 27th Street, had a woman named Becky, whom he sent to the western cities of this country.
X 446 recently sent his woman to Stockton, California. She sent him $150 and he followed her to that city. Since then they have been in Seattle, San Francisco, and other western cities. In going from one city to another with his woman, X 446 was apprehended by the authorities and sentenced to one year in prison.
X 429, who hangs out at X 400, Second Avenue, sent his woman to El Paso, Texas. The immigration authorities arrested her and are at this writing still holding her. X 429 also has a girl in Buenos Ayres at the present time.
X 447 has had his girl in San Diego, Denver, Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. At the present time she is in California.
X 448, who owns X 499, East 13th Street, has been in houses of prostitution in San Francisco and Seattle.
X 450, who is now in New Orleans, had his girl there. She is now in New York City with a return ticket to New Orleans.
X 451, who now has X 452 as his woman, has sent women to houses of prostitution in New Orleans, Fort Worth, and Houston. X 452 lately returned from Texas.
X 424, alias X 424-a, has left with his woman for South Africa.
X 387, alias X 387-a, part owner of X 425, West 28th Street with his brother, X 424, alias X 424-a, had his wife in a house in South Africa, where he ran houses of prostitution.
X 453, alias X 453-a, has sent his woman Jennie to houses of prostitution in Denver, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and other western cities. She was in Denver four months ago. When in Spokane it is said she made $2,700 in two or three months.
X 443, alias X 443-a, has taken his woman Becky to Philadelphia. It is now supposed that she is either in Globe, Arizona or Havana, Cuba.
X 454 has a girl in New Orleans; she left him when he took a married woman to that city. X 454 has another girl named Rosie in a city in the west.
X 455 sent his girl Ida to Brazil, from whence she has returned. He is thinking of sending her back to Brazil.
X 328-a has a girl Sophia in New Orleans. She is about 24 or 25 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs about 135 pounds, dark hair, was born in Russia and has been in the United States about 7 or 8 years.
X 428 has had two women. One woman left him. The other woman is in Panama and he expects her back soon. He has had her in houses of prostitution in Chicago, New Orleans, Brazil and Panama.
X 385 had a woman whom he sent to Brazil. She returned, but with another pimp.
X 456 has been unfortunate. He sent three women west and lost all of them.
X 390 has sent his women to western cities to work in houses of prostitution four or five times.
He has also taken his girls to houses of prostitution in Chicago, and has one girl there at the present time.
X 453-a has had his woman Jennie in cities of the west three or four times. X 453-a is part owner in X 459, West 24th Street.
X 427, a pimp, sent his woman Fanny to Butte, Montana, about five weeks ago, from which place she sent him $150, the first week.
X 444 sent his woman to Panama five years ago and she left him.
X 314 has had his women in houses of prostitution in Seattle and Philadelphia.
X 460 has had his women in houses in Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans.
X 461 has had his women in houses in Philadelphia and Boston.
X 439, partner in X 426, Sixth Avenue, a house of prostitution, sent his woman Ida to Tacoma, Washington. For a protracted period she is said to have sent him $100 every week.
INDEX
Amusement Parks, 75.
Business of Prostitution, 112; Receipts, 126-133.
Cadet, 87.
Call Houses in Tenements, 29.
Census, Tenements, 26.
Chicago Vice Commission, 111.
Cider Stubes in Tenements, 30.
Conditions in 1907, 10.
Concert Halls in Amusement Parks, 75.
Committee of Fourteen, 34.
Correctional Work, 267.
Customers, 13, 108, 111.
Dance Halls, 67, 76.
Davis, Katharine Bement, 163.
District Attorney, 123.
Excursion Boats, 73.
Exploiters, The, 77, etc.
Fifty-cent Houses, 16, etc.
Five and Ten Dollar Houses, 42, etc.
Hotels, Disorderly, 33 etc.; Appendix XI.
Independent Benevolent Association, 41.
Inmates, Numbers of; Appendix III.
Investigators' Reports, 140-142.
Investigation, Period of, 4.
Key, Explanation of, 7.
Law, Tenement House, 24.
Leasing Property, 113.
Lighthouse, 7.
Liquor Licenses, Revocation of, 161; Sale of in Vice Resorts, 15.
Lookouts, 12.
Madames, 92, etc.
Massage Parlors, 45, etc.
Medical Certificates, 9.
Miscellaneous Places, 59; Appendix XIII.
Morals Survey Committee, 111.
One Dollar Houses, 17, etc.
Owners of Houses, etc., 77; of Property, 114.
Parks, 73.
Parlor Houses, 4, etc.; Appendix IX.
Pimps, 64, 87.
Places which Cater to Vice, 52; Appendix II.
Police Precincts, Reports of Police on, 138-139.
Police Rules and Regulations, 137; Appendix VIII.
Police Commissioner, 123.
Prevention Agencies, 253, etc.
Procurers, 85.
Prostitutes, Professional in Manhattan, 100; personal histories, 101; birthplaces, 101, 102, 198, 199, 243; nationality of parents, 200-203; previous occupations, 102, 103, 112, 231, 247; reasons for entering life, 103, 225, 241, 249; salaries in occupations, 105, 106, 210, 234; age of first sexual offense, 106, 216, 224, 232; age when entering life, 107, 245; length of time in business, 108; earnings from prostitution, 222, 239, 246; committed to Bedford Reformatory, 163.
Prostitution, the Police and the Law, 137.
Public Parks, 76.
Reformation Work, 258.
Renting Property, 113, 114.
Runners, 12.
Saloons, Disorderly, 53; Appendix XII.
Shares, Trading in, 118.
Shipping Women, 85; Appendix XIV.
Social Evil in Chicago, Report on, 111.
Special Sessions, 160, 161.
Stars in Parlor Houses, 7.
State Reformatory at Bedford Hill, 163, etc., 267.
Stolen Goods, Buyers of, 97.
Streets, Soliciting, 65; Appendix VII.
Street Walkers, Receipts of, 121.
Tenements, Vice Resorts in, 24; Appendix V, Appendix X; department records, 144.
Trading in Shares, 118.
Venereal Diseases in New York City Hospitals, 134-136; at Bedford Reformatory, 188, etc.; other institutions, 240.
Vice Resorts in Parlor Houses, 3; in Tenements, 24; Massage Parlors, 45.
Watchboys, 12.
White Slaves, 85.
Footnotes:
[1] Attention is called to the fact that the vice resorts described in the following pages are all situated in Manhattan, this being the only section of Greater New York considered in the present investigation.
[2] All statements made on the basis of our investigation are to be understood as of this period. There is no implication as to conditions before or after those dates. Where a statement under any other date is intended, that fact is noted. This caution applies to the entire book and will not be repeated.
[3] See Chapter II.
[4] See Chapter IV.
[5] X 2. The foregoing sign is the key by which the woman referred to can be identified in our records. At this point, I shall explain once for all a system which will be continued throughout this book. The persons, places, and exhibits mentioned or referred to in the text are invariably definite and concrete. A complete register of them has been made, each item being lettered and numbered. The sign X 2 in the present instance enables the writer promptly to put his finger on the name, address, etc., of the person designated. This is equally true of all future references similarly indicated.
[6] For additional samples, see Chapter VI.
[7] Among our exhibits are several business cards belonging to the physicians here alluded to.
[8] X 461.
[9] X 1.
[10] X 473.
[11] X 415-a.
[12] Discharging his present doctor, X 474.
[13] For details and results, see Chapter VII.
[14] Among them X 189, X 470, X 472.
[15] Among the cabmen who are active in promoting this business are X 85, Joe X 22, Louis X 24, X 483, X 484, X 485, X 486, X 487, X 488, and X 489. As a rule the men do not own their cabs, but hire them by the day or night from proprietors of livery stables. In any case, they are supposed to have a license, which costs fifty cents per year.
[16] X 490.
[17] At 10.40 P. M., on March 25, 1912, the bartender in a saloon on Manhattan Avenue suggested to a man that he visit an apartment in a tenement house at (X 475) West 111th Street. A waiter in a disorderly saloon at (X 476) Seventh Avenue endeavored to persuade a man in the rear room to go to a house on the second floor of a building at (X 147) Broadway. The waiter said there were three women in this resort and the price was only $5. Liquor was sold there at $2 per round.
[18] X 3.
[19] X 4.
[20] X 9
[21] X 11.
[22] X 12.
[23] X 13
[24] X 19.
[25] X 20.
[26] X 894.
[27] X 21
[28] X 22
[29] The event alluded to is the murder of a notorious gambler, which shortly resulted in a change of attitude on the subject under discussion. See Chapter VII.
[30] X 25
[31] X 41
[32] X 59
[33] X 16
[34] Additional data, Parlor Houses, Appendix IX; also Appendix III, "Inmates of Vice Resorts."
[35] Including apartment houses.
[36] X 112, X 113, X 114.
[37] X 115.
[38] X 117, X 118.
[39] The original copy of this letter is on file. The woman's name and address are X 119, X 120.
[40] X 121.
[41] X 122.
[42] Bryant, X 124.
[43] X 123.
[44] X 125.
[45] X 126.
For further examples, the reader is referred to Appendix X, "Additional Data--Tenements."
[46] X 147.
[47] X 164.
[48] X 182.
[49] New York, A. H. Kellogg Co. (1910), p. 38.
[50] This $800 fee was imposed in Manhattan and the Bronx and was the rate established by the Raines Law at the time of its passage. The rate of $200 was the tax for saloons prior to the passage of the Raines Law.
[51] Report of The Committee of Fourteen, 1912.
[52] X 207.
[53] X 208.
[54] As to this and other hotels, repeated observation at different periods established the notorious character of the places. Corroborative evidence is collected in Appendix XI, "Additional Data, Hotels."
[55] X 253.
[56] X 261.
[57] X 262.
[58] X 246.
[59] X 248.
[60] X 247.
[61] X 250-a.
[62] X 250.
[63] X 251.
[64] X 251-a
[65] Wanted--Female.
[66] X 251-b.
[67] For a statistical summary of vice resorts, see Appendix I.
[68] "Christianizing the Social Order," p. 268.
[69] Mr. Arthur H. Gleason brought out this point in two articles under the title of "The Saloon in New York," published in _Collier's Weekly_, in the issues of April 25 and May 2, 1908.
[70] X 263.
[71] X 264, X 265.
[72] X 265.
[73] X 264.
[74] X 269.
[75] X 274.
[76] X 275.
[77] X 276.
[78] For additional illustrations see Appendix XII--"Additional Data--Saloons."
[79] X 108.
[80] X 295.
[81] X 296.
[82] X 297.
[83] A "line up" is the ruin of a girl who flirts with men and accepts their advances and immoral suggestions. Finally she yields to an invitation to visit a furnished room and the word quickly passes among the "gang." One by one the boys and men, perhaps only two or three, perhaps more, visit this room.
[84] By X 298 at X 299.
[85] X 298, X 299.
[86] For further illustrations, see Appendix XIII--"Additional Data--Miscellaneous Places."
[87] For detailed statistical statements respecting street-conditions, see Appendix VII, p. 281.
[88] X 318.
[89] X 319.
[90] X 320.
[91] X 321.
[92] X 322.
[93] X 328.
[94] X 330.
[95] X 320, X 320-a.
[96] Given by Club X 341.
[97] X 342.
[98] X 343.
[99] X 352.
[100] X 353.
[101] X 357.
[102] X 358.
[103] By the X 362 Club.
[104] X 368.
[105] X 369.
[106] X 370.
[107] X 374.
[108] X 373.
[109] X 376.
[110] For statistical details as to parks catering to prostitution, see Appendix II, "Summary of Resorts Catering to Vice."
[111] A "creep house" is a place where women take men to rob them.
[112] X 382.
[113] X 108-a.
[114] X 46.
[115] X 34.
[116] X 86, X 87.
[117] X 383.
[118] X 384.
[119] X 402.
[120] X 403.
[121] X 407.
[122] X 467.
[123] X 408.
[124] X 258, 409.
[125] X 73.
[126] X 414.
[127] X 416.
[128] X 421.
[129] X 311.
[130] X 68.
[131] X 426.
[132] For further details, see Appendix XIV, "Additional Data--Shipping Women."
[133] X 385.
[134] X 386.
[135] X 385-a.
[136] X 68, X 386-a, X 386, X 387, X 388, X 389.
[137] X 386, X 387.
[138] X 88, X 163, X 393, X 74.
[139] X 386.
[140] X 385.
[141] X 340.
[142] X 396.
[143] X 393.
[144] X 399.
[145] X 400.
[146] X 427.
[147] X 382-a.
[148] X 87.
[149] X 34.
[150] X 501.
[151] X 260.
[152] X 183.
[153] X 463.
[154] X 44.
[155] X 502.
[156] X 518.
[157] Kept by Madame X 519.
[158] X 116.
[159] X 520.
[160] X 50.
[161] X 108.
[162] X 540.
[163] X 51.
[164] X 46.
[165] X 17.
[166] X 59.
[167] Named X 522.
[168] X 507.
[169] X 493.
[170] By X 508.
[171] X 418, X 509.
[172] X 419.
[173] This expression means that the girls should be broken into the business in some private place, until they were fitted for the public houses.
[174] For statistical details, see Appendix III, "Inmates of Vice Resorts."
[175] See Chapter VIII.
[176] See Report on "Relation between Occupation and Criminality of Women," page 29, being Vol. XV of Report on Conditions of Women and Child Wage-Earners in the United States.
It is further to be remembered, in accounting for the disproportionate number of servants among those arrested, that, as Miss Jane Addams has pointed out, many of these girls have had such brief periods of domestic employment that they cannot fairly be reckoned in the servant class. They describe themselves as such merely in default of any other convenient term; they may have served for a few days here or there, but, strictly speaking, they have no calling at all.
[177] This statement is substantiated by the findings of a private investigation made in New York City during 1912.
[178] X 33 and X 9.
[179] X 541.
[180] X 545.
[181] See "The Social Evil in Chicago, Report of the Chicago Vice Commission," page 101.
[182] See "The Social Evil in Syracuse, N. Y., Report of the Morals Survey Committee," page 95.
[183] X 428.
[184] X 428-a.
[185] X 423.
[186] X 548.
[187] X 111, X 549, X 550.
[188] To X 110.
[189] X 47-a, X 408.
[190] X 12.
[191] X 554.
[192] X 552.
[193] X 462.
[194] X 387.
[195] X 463.
[196] X 465, 466.
[197] X 467, 468.
[198] X 469.
[199] X 109.
[200] X 562.
[201] X 563.
[202] X 564.
[203] X 565.
[204] The other two houses, making the 30 resorts later referred to under "Receipts," are operated by women.
[205] X 34.
[206] X 419.
[207] X 16.
[208] X 583.
[209] X 585.
[210] X 568.
[211] X 575.
[212] X 423.
[213] X 110.
[214] X 109.
[215] X 403.
[216] The houses and individuals involved in all the above transactions are identified in our records.
[217] The parties involved were X 72, X 586, X 69, X 415.
[218] The persons and places are X 407, X 67, X 59, X 72-a.
[219] X 73.
[220] X 72.
[221] Persons and places: X 417, X 403, X 69.
[222] X 751.
[223] The girl gets one-half, the house one-half.
[224] The effort is made to meet these expenses by the charge made for board--a charge paid by the inmates out of their "half."
[225] From this point to the end of the table, shops occupy the first floors of the buildings named.
[226] For itemized account of certain expenses, see Appendix VI, p. 280.
[227] For itemized account of certain expenses, see Appendix V, p. 279.
[228] For itemized statement of certain expenses, similarly obtained, see Appendix IV, p. 278.
[229] For Rules and Regulations made pursuant to charter provisions, see Appendix VIII, p. 283.
[230] This table was compiled for the Aldermanic Committee appointed to investigate the police department, which fact explains why the period does not coincide with that of our own investigations. The table is a matter of public record.
[231] In 40 of these cases, the complaint was dismissed as having "No basis." In 194 cases, the cause of complaint was removed, and in 8 cases no action was necessary. In 6 cases, a violation was held. Police made arrests in 153 of these cases.
[232] X 387, X 387-a, X 424-a, X 596.
[233] X 462.
[234] Among them X 598, X 599, X 600, X 601, X 602.
[235] X 603-604.
[236] The persons and places involved are: X 34, X 108, X 608, X 609, X 610, X 611, X 600, X 598, X 613.
[237] Persons and places involved: X 108, X 44, X 502, X 659, X 415, X 416, X 414, X 542, X 11, X 663, X 664, X 407, X 73, X 67.
[238] X 662.
[239] X 108.
[240] X 34.
[241] X 500.
[242] X 572.
[243] X 665, 666.
[244] X 670.
[245] X 671.
[246] X 672, X 673, X 674.
[247] X 26.
[248] X 9.
[249] X 685.
[250] X 691.
[251] X 116.
[252] X 519.
[253] The commander of the inspection district, X 653.
[254] X 691.
[255] X 108.
[256] Our investigators made frequent reports showing that street walkers and others repeatedly prosecuted their business under the eyes of police officers without interference.
[257] X 109.
[258] X 610.
[259] X 68.
[260] X 9.
[261] X 706.
[262] X 707.
[263] X 230.
[264] X 708.
[265] X 729.
[266] X 556, X 557.
[267] X 626.
[268] X 426.
[269] X 741.
[270] Owner X 34.
[271] X 311.
[272] X 658.
[273] X 34, 47, 413-a, 44, 705, 418, 387-a and 746.
[274] X 502, X 570, X 459.
[275] X 33, X 11, X 403.
[276] X 16.
[277] X 419.
[278] X 34.
[279] At X 108.
[280] X 587.
[281] X 778.
[282] X 33.
[283] X 419.
[284] X 93.
[285] X 781.
[286] X 34.
[287] X 610.
[288] X 598.
[289] These are indexed in our records as follows:
X 791 W. 26th Street, owners X 17 and X 34. X 78 W. 27th Street, owners X 68 and X 69. X 419 W. 28th Street, owners X 418, X 509, and X 34. X 792 W. 29th Street, owners X 15. X 16 W. 31st Street, owners X 34, and a woman. X 254 W. 34th Street, owners X 793. X 33 Sixth Avenue, owners X 34. X 11 Sixth Avenue, owners X 542, X 705, and X 34's nephew and brother. X 659 W. 40th Street, owners X 103 and X 44. X 93 W. 40th Street, owners X 34. X 582 W. 40th Street, owners X 408.
[290] X 17.
[291] X 59.
[292] X 16.
[293] X 415-a.
[294] X 804.
[295] X 12.
[296] X 67.
[297] X 415-a, X 34, X 633 were concerned in this alleged deal.
[298] X 608.
[299] X 587.
[300] X 108.
[301] X 832.
[302] X 833.
[303] The above data are derived from the report made by the Committee of Fourteen for 1912.
[304] For purposes of comparison studies were also made of 610 girls in 7 other New York city and state institutions and of 1106 street walkers. See pp. 197 etc.
[305] See Page 229.
[306] See Page No. 243.
[307] These tests were made by Dr. Archibald McNeil, of the Research Laboratory, Department of Health, New York City.
[308] All smears were prepared and examined in duplicate and were stained by Grams method, pure cultures of staphylococci and colon bacilli being used as controls. In one case the smear was positive and the complement fixation test for gonorrhoea was negative, but as a rule antibodies against the gonococcus do not appear in the blood during the acute stage of the disease, so it may frequently happen that we may have positive smears and negative complement fixation tests in recent cases. At a later period, however, the complement fixation test is almost invariably positive.
The complement fixation tests were all performed in duplicate as a check on any possible errors in technique. The anti-sheep haemolytic system with inactive sera was used with the alcoholic extract guinea pig heart for an antigen in the syphilis tests and an antigen prepared from ten varieties of gonococci was used in the tests for gonorrhoea.
All of the tests were made in sets of twelve, each set being fully controlled.
The blood specimens were unaccompanied by histories and the laboratory results were not in any way influenced by clinical findings.
[309] These percentages were taken from the combined results of the tests made at both incubator and ice box temperature.
[310] That is to say, the only girls who figure in the present study were girls who were before commitment engaged in prostitution in New York City.
[311] New York Tribune Almanac, 1912.
[312] New York City, 290 = 59.20%.
[313] Note: 7 cards, no information.
[314] Preliminary Bulletin issued by U. S. Census Bureau (Census of 1910) Dec. 29, 1911.
[315] See page 271.
[316] See Rules and Regulations of the Police Department, 1908, page 115.
[317] Ibid., page 115.
[318] Ibid., page 120.
[319] Ibid., page 130.
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
Punctuation has been corrected without note.
The following misprints have been corrected: "Ninty" corrected to "Ninety" (page 67) "dispossssed" corrected to "dispossessed" (page 94) missing "XLIX" added (page 165) "syphhilis" corrected to "syphilis" (page 188) "20.33%%" corrected to "20.33-1/3%" (page 216) "Colorada" corrected to "Colorado" (page 229) "home making" corrected to "home-making" (page 259) "Physicial" corrected to "Physical" (page 260) "p. --" changed to "p. 281" (footnote 87) "Statisticals" corrected to "statistical" (footnote 110)
Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.