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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, MONDAY, MAY If), 1010.
Rockefeller Vice Report Shows
Trade in Women Is Established
on Commercial Basis,
XKV\ YORK. May T9.—White sla
very in the city of New York-is estab
lished upon a commercial basis, and
those engaged are thoroughly organ
ized, according to the report of George
J. Knee land, of the Bureau of Social
Hygiene, of which John D. Rocke
feller# Jr., is chairman, made public
to-day.
: Investigators found that an im
moral life was not often the alterna
tive, of starvation. They did learn,
however, that the great preponder
ance of fallen women came from the
ranks of those engaged in unskilled
occupations. Hundreds of immoral
resorts were investigated and hun
dreds of proprietors and inmates in
terviewed. It is the conservative es
timate of Mr. Kneeland that there
are not less .than 15,000 fallen women
in New York City.
More Found in Streets.
The tabulation showed that 6.759
were found in the streets and 8,167 in
immoral resorts, tenements, massage
parlors, hotels, saloons, concert halls,
etc. The report estimates that fully
90. per cent are diseased.
Men who procure girls, act as “light
houses,” own resorts, rent their prop
erty for immoral purposes and “drum
up trade 1 ' are described. Men seem
to be the real owners of most of the
evil resorts, and one, described as the
“king,” owns eleven houses of ill
fame.
In making investigations. Mr. Knee-
land, with a trained body of social
investigators and detectives, also
probed into the underworlds of Chi
cago, Philadelphia and Syracuse. Sub
sequent reports will deal with these
cities and with other parts of New
York City. The report made public
to-day deals only with Manhattan.
Others Also Banded Together.
From the report by Mr. Kneeland
it is evident that not only those actu
ally engaged in vice as a busi
ness are banded' together, but
that the proprietors of establish
ments such as saloons, concert halls,
a certain class of cabaret shows,
dance halls, burlesque theaters,
atnugement parks and excursion
boetts make an open business of ca
tering to vice. Vice and alcohol are
even, more firmly allied.
During the investigation, from
January 24, 1912, to November 15,
1912. 142 parlor houses were found
and investigated and 1,172 resorts
found in 575 different tenement
houses, Furnished room houses used
as houses of assignation are branded
as particularly dangerous. There are
390 massage parlors in New York, the
report says, many of which are be
lieved to be for immoral purposes.
Of 765 rear rooms of saloons investi
gated, 380 were found to be regular
gathering places of slaves and vic
tims.
Public Dance Halls Scored.
The public dance hall was found to
justify the worst that has been s&id
of it. Of 75 dances reported on be
tween January 24 and June 24 only
five were characterized by the in
vestigators as “decent."
These dances are attended by many
innocent working girls. who seek
legitimate recreation, arn^ the hired
cadet, usually well-dressed and well-
mannered. These ‘powers that prey’
are a constant danger in public dance
halls and find there an easy quarry.
Speaking of resorts where those in
th£ “trade” discuss their affairs, the
author gives an astounding descrip
tion of a delicatessen store, used for
that purpose, located in one of the
poorer sections of the city.
The final chapter of the report
is contributed by Miss Kathrine
Belnent Davis, superintendent of the
New York State Reformatory for Wo
men, at Bedford Hills, and contains
a detailed study of the 647 inmates.
THE TRIPLE TE
The 'Man of Mystery* With
the Three Ties Makes Every
thing Clear in the Great Story
A STORY FOR BASEBALL FANS THAT WILL
INTEREST EVERY LOVER OF THE NATIONAL GAME
nt
THE PLAYS
THIS WEEK
NEW POLICY AT THE BIJOU.
Beginning with the matinee this after
noon, a new policy will be inaugurated
at the Bijou Theater. This week and
hereafter tabloid musical comedy, inter
spersed with vaudeville, will be the
bill The offering this week is “A
Trip to Joyville.“ There will be no
change in the Bijou prices which have
prevailed all season.
KEITH VAUDEVILLE AT FORSYTH.
Variety, is Urn keynote of this week's
baiVof Keith vaudeville at the Forsyth
Theater. The headline act is Ed Gil
lette's rtfon keys, “Adam" and “Eve,”
billed as the smartest simians alive.
Gallagher and Fields will present “The
Battle of Bay Rum," said to he really
amusing, qml another featured act is
that' of the Dunedin troupe of cyclists.
There are three pretty girls in this
number. Other acts are Josephine Dun-
iV'e. vocalist; Bradshaw brothers, gym
nasts: John Geiser. vionlinist, and
\< via mid Frwocd in a comedy skit.
This 'bill will be presented for the first
time at a matinee this afternoon.
‘THE DEEP PURPLE" AT THE AT
LANTA.
--The Deep Purple." Paul Armstrong
and Wilson Mizner's play of the “under
world." will hr presented for the first
•inie in Atlanta by Miss Billy Long and
Her capable company at a matinee at
t-he Atlanta Theater this afternoon. The
play was a tremendous hit in the north.
It -'is strong in plot and deals with a
condition of affairs but hazily under
stood by the average person. The char
acters are all drawn true to life, and
Mfss Long and her associate players
should appear to advantage.'as the play
gives opportunity for excellent acting.
There will be no performance of "The
Deep Pi-rple" Wednesday night.
SMALL ARMY OF OFFICERS
TAKE 7 OZARK DISTILLERS
ALTON, MO.. May 19.—The big
gest round-up of moonshiners made
Jr* Southern Missouri'in fifteen years
was completed yesterday by a party
of eleven Federal officers, six deputy
United-States marshal* and five rev-
'enue agents, who captured seven ''hill
billies”' distillers ‘ in central Oregon
rqiinfcy ijt the very midst of the
Ozarks.
BY A. H. C. MITCHELL.
CHAPTER I.
I T was 16 o’clock in the morning of
March 1. Low, dark clouds,
driven from east to west by a
brisk wind, raced over Ponce DeLeon
Park. Before the street car came to
a full stop in front of the Atlanta
baseball grounds a young man jump
ed off the step and walked swiftly
toward the park. Within three sec
onds these things happened:
First—Without the slightest warn
ing, without even a few preliminary
spatters, rain poured down in sweep
ing, blinding torrents, as though mil
lions of buckets of water on high
were emptied at the same instant.
Second—A terrifying scream from
the throat of a woman burst in the
ears of the young man. It was in
stantly followed by a hoarse “Get out
of the way,” written here in five
words, but yelled at the time in one
quick command.
The young man shot a startled
glance over his shoulder and then, with
incredible swiftness, sprang forward.
As he did so a high-powered, under
slung automobile rushed past him.
Ohe inch farther and he would have
been clear of the car, but the front
wheel of it struck his flying heel and
he was flung sprawling on the rain-
soaked pavement. There was another
scream. The car raced on.
For a brief period the young man
lay as if stunned. Then he arose
and looked to seo what hit him. The
car was rushing up the hill on high
speed and by this time was nearly a
furlong away, hardly discernible
through the heavy sheets of rain. But
as the young man looked, the car
slowed down and came to a stop close
to-the sidewalk. Two persons were
in the car. One of them started to
get out of it, but paused and then
sat down again. The car took mo
tion, turned and coasted back to the
point in front of the ball park where
the young man still stood motionless.
The Girl Interferes.
The driver gave the emergency
brake a vicious jerk and glared at
the young man. His heavy features
were flushed and he scowled at the
bedraggled figure in the road as he
spoke.
“Why don’t you look where you’re
going, you boob?" he snarled. "You’re
not up among the pine needles now,
you understand. You ought to have
a colored mammy with you when ”
His companion in the car, a young
woman, reached up a hand
smothered further words.
“I’m sorry I didn’t come back
alone,” she said to the driver In a
low tone. «
The young man in the road strode
to the side of the car and, looking the
driver full in the eye, said, very
quietly:
“I want to say to you. sir, that I
don’t know much about automobiles,
but if this young lady wasn’t here
I’d yank you out in the street and
mop up some of this rain with you.
Civil talk is what I want from you
or none at all.”
The driver made a threatening ges
ture and started to speak, but again
the restraining hand was placed on
him and he contented himself with
glaring savagely at the young man
in the road. The young woman arose
and stepped on the running: board.
The driver caught her by the arm.
“Don't be foolish, Mildred,” he
growled. “Sit down and we’ll get
away from here. You are drenched
to the skin. I must take you home
in a hurry.”
“Wait a minute. Forrest, please. I
can stand a little rain." the young
woman replied. She shook off the
detaining hand and. jumping to the
ground, walked around the front of
the car, stopping close to the young
man in the road.
“We are very sorry. I am very r/
sorry. Are you badly-hurt?" she ask
ed gently.
Face Flushed.
The young man, who had .not taken
his eyes off the driver of the car,
turned his head and looked into the
glowing brown eyes of the young
woman and a slight flush stole over
his features. His gaze was long and
earnest, as though he had never seen
such eyes before in all his life. Fin
ally his mouth broke into a smile,
disclosing two rows of strong, even,
dazzling white teeth.' The corners of
his eyes wrinkled, giving his features
an expression that showed beyond
question that he was blessed with
the saving sense of humor. The young
woman smiled, too, and when she did
so the young man found his tongue.
“I guess I was just scared.” he
said. "I’m not hurt in my body as
near as I can make out, but my feel
ings were injured when your friend
spoke to me the way he did. Maybe
it was my fault; I guess it was. I
ought to have kept my eyes open. It
was your scream that saved me. I'm
much obliged to you.”
The young woman held out her
hand.
“I’m right glad you are not hurt,”
she said.
The young man took the hand and
held it. The rain beat down upon
them in torrents, but neither seemed
to mind it. The ride in the automo
bile had loosened the hair of the
young woman, but the overpowering
rain had soaked through her small
hat and the driving spray had plas
tered the loose strands to the side
of her face and neck. As she stood
there she looked as though she had
just been dragged from a river. Yet
in spite of everything it was easy to
see that she was a handsome woman.
She—but this is not the time or the
place to describe her. The condi
tions are unfavorable. Wait. She
plays a not unimportant part in this
narrative and there will be plenty of
opportunity later on to tell all about
her.
Stood Holding Hands.
And what of the young man that
held/her hand out in the roadway in
that driving rainstorm? Well, he is
the central figure in the story. Strange
events are involved in his career. But
please be patient. This is not a mag
azine editor’s preliminary announce
ment. It is the story of a great base
ball mystery. Let us to it in regu
lar order.
The two young persons stood in the
roadway holding hands—ten minutes,
and J one would imagine from this reading
of it, but only ton seconds in reality.
Ten seconds make a long time un
der certain conditions. The young
woman doubtless thought so,
for at last she smiled again, gave
the hand that held hers a "healthy
pumplike shake and broke the clasp.
“Good-bye.” she said, and stepped
quickly into the automobile, the motor
of which had been softly purring all
the while. The driver eased in the
clutch, the car gathered headway, and
as it turned in the road, the driver
leaned out and said with a harsh
laugh:
“Get some of that cotton seed out
of your hair, young fellow, and you
better go in out of the wet now.”
The car sped up the hill. The
young man watched it without stir
ring until it had disappeared in the
distance. But he had noted the num
ber of the car. It was “50000 Ga.“
The rain ceased as suddenly as it
began.
Walking to the entrance of the ball
park, the young man tried several
doors and gates without being able
to gain admittance. At last he found
a door that opened to his touch and.
cocHne - issuing from the chim
ney of a little kwithin the in-
clofure, he went to the duo.*, Vno'*k®>i.
and, after a moment’s pause, entereu.
“Love Must Be Decided by the
Heart,” Says Divine Sarah.
Scotes Divorce and Alimony.
NEW YORK, May 19 —‘'Love and
marriage can never be things of in
tellect. They must be decided by
the heart,” said Mme. Sarah Bern
hardt to-day in giving her opinion
on the American idea of matrimony.
“Marriage is, alas, such a lottery
with so many blanks in it that every
girl and every young man should
be given all the chance possible to
experience love.
"L can not understand how a young
woman can accept alimony from a
man she has ceased to care for. I
must work, work!
“Sometimes it seems to me divorce
and alimony are two channels Amer
icans find for getting rid of super
fluous wealth.” *
When asked if she thought the
French parent-made marriage result
ed better than the American marriage
for love, she replied:
“No, a thousand times no! If the
heart makes a mistake- 1 —ah, well, at
least there has been some sweetness.”
Everybody Has
Some Curiosity.
Six-Day Babe Weighs
Only Pound and Half
—— %
SYRACUSE, tylay 19-—The village
of Mlnlius, nine miles east of here
boasts qf having the smallest six-
days-old baby on record in Central
New York. The infant—a boy—was
born laet Saturday to Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Foote. It weighed at birth a
trifle more than a pound, and has
been gaining arr ounce or more each
day. It tipped the scales to-night at
a pound and a half.
The infant is well formed, but is
in a weak condition. Mr. and M.rs.
Foote have five other children, and
none of them weighed less than nin<
pounds at 'birth. One weighed twelve
pounds.
“This is the most unusual case in
my experience,” Dr. O. E. Curtiss, at
tending physician, said to-night.
PAULINE WAYNE RIVAL
APPEARS IN OKLAHOMA
DURANT, OKLA.. May 19.—A. M.
Hall probably has the best mi^k-pro
ducing cow in Oklahoma and he is
willing to make affidavit that at one
milking recently he filled a pail six
times and left the calf a square meal.
The cow is a Jersey and 5 years old.
“Everybody in Atlanta must have
been born with a big bump of cu-
Viosiity,” remarked the West End
man as he sat down in a front seat
of the Whitehall car and addressed a
friend across the aisle. “Every day
I notice hundreds of folks ‘rubbering’
at any and everything that’s to be
seen. On my way to and from
the office I have to pass a fish mar
ket. This market has a display win
dow and every day the exhibition of
fresh water and deep sea animal life
made there is large and at times va
ried. Whenever I pass this place
there’s a crowd around the window
looking at the turtles, crabs, lobsters
and queer fishes.
“I have seen the same sort of peo
ple at the Aquarium in New York.
There seems to be a fascination about
fish life for a majority of people. T,
myself, frequently stop before this
market window to view’ some new
fangled deep sea monster and 1 guess
1 have about as little curiosity ,
the next one. 1 notice that when a
horse or a mule or an automobile
stalls anywhere a crowd springs up
immediately to offer suggestions and
view the work of solving the prob
lem which confronts the driver. Let
the fire bell clang and the chief’s
red wagon dart by and instantly
horde of the curious clog sidewalks
and street to see where the depart
ment is going. . I guess we were all
born with a good deal of rubber in
our necks.”
Enjoying Life
On the Other Side.
Continued To-morrow.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
WILL DISTRIBUTE PRIZES
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 19—Mrs. Eft a
Wheeler Wilcox wJH dkstribuit:
prizes at the annual competition.' in
v music -urni dancing.- in
• oriectioi.1 wi.it* . t $uU»n
May 31:
“I had been wondering,” sajd a well
known young lawyer, “what had be
come of Julian Harris. I knew' he
had gone to New York to live but
had heard nothing from him for quite
a while. The other day I was agree
ably surprised to get a picture post*
card from him. He was then in
Rome, Italy. He is taking a long va
cation, and to my personal knowl
edge, a much needed on6. Tie will
visit Switzerland, Austria. Germany
and France before returning to this
country. I understand he will arrive
in New- York About September 1.
“For years he has had the Idea of
going to Europe but this is the first
opportunity he has had to indulge
himself. Although one of the hard
est worked young business men iie
has .taken time in which to study
history and I doubt if there i» a man
in Atlanta who knows more about
this world and- its happenings than
Julian Harris. He can tell you all
about Napoleon and his battles and
deluge a person with details of fa
mous engagements that are aston
ishing. You'd never suspect him of
being a deep student, but he is and
he certainly knows the game of
“burning midnight oil.”
“Julian Harris is the sort of chap
who would learn more things about
h country, in a couple of days than
you or 1 would in a year or so. ID*
i: a human blotter; he absorbs
knowledge as a sixmge absorbs wa-
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