Sin in the Second City (53 page)

DISPATCH FROM THE U.S. IMMIGRATION COMMISSION

U.S. Congress, Senate,
Importing Women for Immoral Purposes: A Partial Report from the Immigration Commission,
23.

SO MANY NICE YOUNG MEN

“We have struck a blow”: Lewis and Smith, 342.

“it is not always the fault”: Roe,
Panders,
180.

“Now rest as long”: Letter to Mary, October 11, 1909, Ernest Bell Papers, box 2, folder 2-11.

“Gracious God”: Ernest Bell Papers, box 6, folder 6-13.

$400 advance: Letter to Mary, October 11, 1909, Ernest Bell Papers, box 2, folder 2-11.

“score of resorts”: Bell,
War,
261–262.

“When Mollie and Mike”: Roe,
The Great War,
113.

Roe’s best sleuth: Ibid.

“Your name is”: Ibid., 113–114.

“If the Hart woman”:
Chicago Inter Ocean,
October 14, 1909.

“underground railway”:
Chicago Tribune,
October 17, 1909.

consult with Congressman James R. Mann: Duis,
The Saloon,
264.

“Chicago at last”: Ibid.

Chicago’s chief of police, Leroy Steward: Lewis and Smith, 340; Lindberg,
Chicago by Gaslight,
139.

“primal topics”:
Chicago American,
August 17, 1909.

“inherently vicious”: Asbury, 281; “huge slumming party” and “sensational advertising scheme”:
Chicago Inter Ocean,
October 17, 1909.

“If you show yourself”:
Chicago American,
October 18, 1909.

“decentize”:
Chicago American,
October 12, 1909.

“The women have to”: Wendt and Kogan, 288.

“A girl in our establishment”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
104. Washburn didn’t specify when Minna made this speech.

propose a raucous toast: Ibid., 107.

“A man who visits”: Ibid.

“To Evangelist Smith’s young crusaders”: Ibid.

Colonel MacDuff: Masters, “The Everleigh Club,”
Town & Country,
April 1944.

“Dear Sir”: Roe,
Panders,
170.

“How a woman”: Roe,
The Great War,
111.

“sphinx like and brazen”: Ibid., 125.

“He kills his victims”:
Chicago Tribune,
November 11, 1909.

Van Bever’s attorney, Daniel Donahoe:
Chicago Tribune,
November 10, 1909.

“Sarah came to Chicago”: Roe,
The Great War,
135.

“Van Bever’s lawyer”: Ibid., 141.

“Gentlemen”: Ibid., 142.

“thousands of dollars”: Ibid., 124.

“We have positive evidence”:
Chicago Tribune,
November 28, 1909.

“could not be reached”: Asbury, 268.

“Time will show that”: Ibid., 283.

“I haven’t done as much”:
Chicago Daily News,
October 19, 1909.

“We had to shut our doors”: Ibid.

“Greatest business”: Ibid.

“You’da thought”:
Chicago Tribune,
March 15, 1949.

“We were certainly glad”: Wendt and Kogan, 287–288.

IMMORAL PURPOSES, WHATEVER THOSE ARE

“I deplore the Mann Act”: Nabokov,
Lolita,
150.

“You are leading yourself”: Lewis and Smith, 341.

“hoodoo” of the number 13:
Chicago Tribune,
December 14, 1909.

“the head form”: U.S. Congress, Senate,
Reports of the Immigration Commission: Changes in Bodily Form of the Descendants of Immigrants,
7.

“In explanation of the act”:
Oakland Tribune,
December 10, 1909.

“I greatly regret to have to say”:
Washington Post,
December 8, 1909.

A new branch: Langum, 49.

Sims drafted the bill: Ernest A. Bell, “New and Pending Laws,”
Light,
May 1910.

“purpose of prostitution”: Langum, 261.

“Personally I feel that”: Bell Daniels, 72.

seventy thousand copies: Donovan, 63.

P
ART
T
HREE:
F
IGHTING FOR THE
P
ROTECTION OF
O
UR
G
IRLS,
1910–1912

MILLIONAIRE PLAYBOY DEAD—MORPHINE OR MADAM?

“I was the pet of Chicago”:
Chicago Tribune,
March 14, 1949.

“I know it will mean”:
Chicago Tribune,
January 10, 1910.

The boy was a drunk and an addict:
Chicago Tribune,
January 11, 1910.

It was Nat’s birthday:
Chicago Tribune,
January 10, 1910.

a Levee morphine salesman: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
91.

Diamond Bertha: Ibid., 165.

“So damned suspicious”: Ibid., 92.

“Nat was the biggest”:
Chicago Tribune,
January 11, 1910.

“Hattie, you’re tired”: Ibid.

“They’re framing you”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
92.

“What’s going on”: Ibid., 93.

“to China”:
Chicago Tribune,
January 10, 1910.

long purple robe:
Chicago Tribune,
January 11, 1910.

“I was at the Studebaker”:
Chicago Tribune,
January 10, 1910.

“I have been here”: Ibid.

“In the afternoon I was told”:
Chicago Tribune,
January 11, 1910.

“apparently under the influence”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
96.

“bound to be blamed”: Ibid., 98.

GIRLS GOING WRONG

“Many a working girl”: Addams,
A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil,
ix, 72–73.

Mrs. Emily Hill: Asbury, 284.

“determination”:
Chicago American,
January 28, 1910.

“Let the men take”:
Chicago Tribune,
January 25, 1910.

“Mr. Busse, you are the mayor”: Wendt and Kogan, 289.

“I may pray”:
Chicago Tribune,
January 28, 1910.

“vice problem is exactly like that”: Vice Commission of Chicago,
The Social Evil in Chicago,
3.

“Now Lord”: Bell Daniels, 78.

On March 7, he would wed:
Chicago Tribune,
March 8, 1910.

four hundred thousand people had bought: Bell Daniels, 63.

George Kibbe Turner: Turner, “The Daughters of the Poor,”
McClure’s Magazine,
November 1909.

“You owe it as a duty to the city”: Chernow, 552.

The arrangement was a setup: Ibid.

“I never worked harder”: Ibid.

Roe cut out several newspaper clippings: John D. Rockefeller Jr. to Clifford Roe, March 8, 1910, reel 314, series 3, Bureau of Social Hygiene Records, Rockefeller Archive Center.

“admired the ostrich”:
Washington Post,
February 16, 1909.

Clifford Roe push successfully:
Vigilance
24, no. 5 (May 1911).

“The white slave traffic”: Quoted in Langum, 43.

“a thousand times worse”: Ibid.

“headquarters and distributing”: Ibid., 44.

“a beautiful girl taken”: Ibid.

“every pure woman”: Ibid.

“Now let’s hope”: Bell Daniels, 74.

“a tower of strength”:
Mansfield
(Ohio)
News,
October 1, 1910.

“segregation provides the best”: Letter from the Midnight Mission to the Chicago Vice Commission, October 15, 1910, Ernest Bell Papers, box 5, folder 5-1.

A LOST SOUL

“I do not mind”: Wallace, 56.

“A Republican is a man”: Miller, 445.

Roy Jones…was back in business:
Chicago American,
July 11, 1910.

Clifford Roe had tried to implicate:
Chicago Tribune,
July 8, 1910.

donations to reformers: Asbury, 254.

Brick Top:
Sheboygan Press Telegram,
September 27, 1923.

twelve of whom had syphilis: Vice Commission of Chicago,
The Social Evil in Chicago,
77.

“too vile and disgusting”: Ibid., 71.

“highest-grade resort”: Taylor,
Pioneering on Social Frontiers,
88.

“I found the twenty or more”: Ibid., 88–89.

The call from one:
Chicago Tribune,
November 20, 1910.

eleven printings: Langum, 33.

“I am sorry not to comply”: John D. Rockefeller Jr. to Clifford Roe, October 26, 1910, reel 353, series 3, Bureau of Social Hygiene Records, Rockefeller Archive Center.

“I propose”: John D. Rockefeller Jr. to Clifford Roe, January 26, 1911, reel 24, series 3, Bureau of Social Hygiene Records, Rockefeller Archive Center.

“The Everleigh Club, Illustrated”: Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana, Department of Special Collections, University of Illinois at Chicago.

THE SOCIAL EVIL IN CHICAGO

“Here’s the difference between us”: Lindberg,
Quotable Chicago,
81.

campaign flyer: Grossman, Keating, and Reiff, 633, 650.

“I have never been afflicted”: Harrison, 308.

prompting Hinky Dink to remark: Wendt and Kogan, 291.

Hyde Park reformer Charles Merriam: Duis,
The Saloon,
281.

“Hinky Dink has put aside”: Wendt and Kogan, 292.

carter harrison elected: Ibid., 293.

another $5,000: Vice Commission of Chicago,
The Social Evil in Chicago,
9.

detailed every facet: Ibid., 13–17.

$16 million: Ibid., 32.

“The (X523), at (X524), (X524a)”: Ibid., 152.

“gregarious” men: Ibid., 297.

“These women”: Ibid., 169.

“It is undoubtedly true”: Ibid.

“Nine were seduced”: Ibid., 170.

“One madame testified”: Ibid., 97.

“A Dearborn Street resort”: Ibid., 78.

“Pervert methods”: Ibid., 73.

“absolute annihilation”: Asbury, 289.

“Praise God”: Bell Daniels, 81.

When Edwin Sims and Dean Sumner: Ibid.

“enthusiastically looking forward”: Roe to Rockefeller, January 30, 1911, folder 42, box 7, series 3, Bureau of Social Hygiene Records, Rockefeller Archive Center.

“If the methods”: Rockefeller to Roe, February 4, 1911, reel 206, series 3, Bureau of Social Hygiene Records, Rockefeller Archive Center.

They had an ingenious: Clifford Barnes Papers, Chicago History Museum, box 1, folder 1910–1915.

“[Roe] himself does not care”: Heydt to Rockefeller, May 12, 1911, folder 42, box 7, series 3, Bureau of Social Hygiene Records, Rockefeller Archive Center.

“They had little fountains”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
188.

“all of the rules issued”:
Chicago Tribune,
June 17, 1911.

“Those women have got to”: Ibid.

Time to update: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
191.

PAINTED, PEROXIDED, BEDIZENED

“Girls will be”: Ibid., 31.

“sudden longing”: Harrison, 307.

“with all attendant privileges”: Ibid.

“lit up like”: Ibid., 308.

so that one breast escaped: Nash,
Look for the Woman,
152.

“Vic Shaw”: Harrison, 308.

“notorious brothel keeper”: Ibid.

“serve merely to gratify”: Connelly, 107.

“sex must be confined”: Ibid., 110.

Dean Sumner was at it again:
Chicago Record Herald,
October 15, 1911.

“far from my ideas”: Harrison, 308.

Move all disreputable women: Lindberg,
Chicago by Gaslight,
140.

Death of Herbert Swift:
Chicago Tribune,
October 20, 1911.

“Women have no minds”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
151.

“Did one of your girls”: Ibid., 194.

The Hawkeye State had passed: Roe,
The Great War,
358.

“an unpleasant happening”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
194.

“Mind your own business”: Ibid.

“I’m afraid”: Ibid.

“Pretty snappy town”: Ibid., 193.