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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- Get College Pennants Old Gold and White. From Your News Dealer For the convenience of our readers we have arranged with the following news dealers to redeem Hearst’s Sunday American Pennant Coupons: JACKSON-WESSEL DRL’G CO., Marietta and Broad Street*. MARSHALL PHARMACY, Peachtree and Ivy Streets. 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