Sin in the Second City (54 page)

“terrible pair of sisters”: Harrison, 309.

“painted, peroxided, bedizened”: Ibid., 307.

“truly historic”: Ibid., 309.

“Close the Everleigh Club”: Wendt and Kogan, 297.

YOU GET EVERYTHING IN A LIFETIME

“How dear to my heart”: Edgar Lee Masters to Carter Harrison, April 14, 1939, Carter Harrison IV Papers, Newberry Library.

“On the square”: Wendt and Kogan, 297.

“rather sharp language”: Harrison, 310.

“The most persistent gossip”: Ibid., 311.

“infamy, the audacious advertising”: Asbury, 259.

“well known as Chicago itself”:
Chicago American,
October 25, 1911.

“cool and comical”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
151.

“You mustn’t believe”: Ibid., 195.

“Is the report”:
Chicago Tribune,
October 25, 1911.

Dearborn Street was alive:
Chicago American,
October 25, 1911.

“Gibraltar”: Bell Daniels, 85.

at the Hotel Vendome in Columbus: Bell to Mary, October 24, 1911, Ernest Bell Papers, box 2, folder 1909–1928 (correspondence with wife).

“speaking partner”:
Chicago Tribune,
October 25, 1911.

“I know the mayor’s order”: Ibid.

“I don’t worry”: Ibid.

“If they don’t want me”:
Chicago American,
October 25, 1911.

“Well, boys”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
202.

“It may be”: Ibid.

“It’s only 10”:
Chicago Tribune,
October 25, 1911.

“Sorry, girls”: Wendt and Kogan, 297.

“We’ve been expecting”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
203.

“Clear out”: Ibid.

“You’ll be going strong”: Ibid.

“Go away for a few”: Ibid., 204.

“What do you think”: Ibid.

“We’re going from bawd”: Hibbeler, 121.

“Let’s go to Europe”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
204.

“What about us”: Ibid.

“I’m afraid there never will”: Ibid., 204–205.

“And neither of you did”: Ibid.

“Poor kid”: Ibid., 206.

“We’re all nervous”: Ibid.

about $1 million: Ibid.

Chief McWeeny telephoned:
Chicago American,
October 25, 1911.

“Vice in Chicago”:
Chicago Record Herald,
October 25, 1911.

close “a score”:
Chicago American,
October 25, 1911.

“Two French blondes”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
207.

“Until I get”: Ibid.

Delft Candy Shop: Viskochil, 53. This book aided me in describing several Chicago street scenes.

“Don’t you recognize”: Harrison, 313–314.

visit from Taft:
Chicago Inter Ocean,
October 25, 1911.

“going strong”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
212.

“You ain’t got a thing”: Wendt and Kogan, 298.

“Do the best you can”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
212.

DANGEROUS ELEMENTS

“It is the code of honor”: Lindberg,
Quotable Chicago,
30.

“known to reside”: Langum, 50.

Congress…played stingy: Ibid., 52.

Bell in Europe: “Some Observations in Europe,” Ernest Bell Papers, box 4, folder 4-8.

“I note that special action”: Ibid., box 4, folder 4-8.

the Office of the Special Commissioner: Langum, 52.

“Mayor Harrison deserves”:
Chicago Tribune,
October 31, 1911.

“My dear Mr. Mayor”: Boynton to Harrison, March 1912, Ernest Bell Papers, box 4, folder 4-8.

“even Salt Lake City”: Boynton to Mann and Taft, March 23, 1912, ibid.

In March 1912, he ordered: Duis,
The Saloon,
269–270.

“I am instructed to advise you”: Starr Murphy to Roe, January 5, 1912, folder 42, box 7, series 3, Bureau of Social Hygiene Records, Rockefeller Archive Center.

a “pretended” disorderly house:
Chicago Tribune,
August 8, 1912.

DANGER!: Hepburn, 4–5.

Cincinnati Vigilance Society:
Vigilance,
May 1911.

“cordial congratulations”: Rockefeller to Roe, April 26, 1912, reel 3, series 3, Bureau of Social Hygiene Records, Rockefeller Archive Center.

“wealthiest men in this country”:
Chicago Tribune,
March 3, 1912.

“Until the public conscience”: Roe to Rockefeller, January 5, 1912, box 7, folder 42, series 3, Bureau of Social Hygiene Records, Rockefeller Archive Center.

“The Greeks construed Apollo’s loss”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
150.

5536 W. Washington Boulevard:
Chicago Tribune,
December 16, 1973.

“final stab”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
213.

Freiberg’s Dance Hall was bombed:
Chicago Tribune,
November 17, 1911.

“This home of vice”: Dillion and Lytle, 9.

“In the days”: Wendt and Kogan, 320–322.

“acting on orders”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
213.

“What’s up”: Ibid., 137–138.

“Take it or leave it”: Ibid., 138.

“all under the age of eighteen”: Annual Report of the Committee of Fifteen, 1912, page 2, Graham Taylor papers, Newberry Library.

“I beg to acknowledge the receipt”: Ibid.

Within the week, Dago Frank:
Chicago Tribune,
August 31, 1912.

“If there had been no Everleigh Club”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
213.

Two of them were rampaging: Ibid.

JUST HOW WICKED

“You can get much farther”: Lindberg,
Quotable Chicago,
115.

“We’re getting nowhere”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
214.

blackened both her eyes: Ibid., 213.

shutting down the madam’s brothel:
Chicago Record Herald,
September 5, 1912.

“Pikers”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
214.

“The Levee has it”: Ibid.

“going to rip off”:
Chicago Tribune,
September 27, 1912.

“The man who takes”:
Chicago Tribune,
October 31, 1908.

“handsomest man in Chicago”: Lindberg,
Chicago by Gaslight,
141.

“This grand jury”:
Chicago Tribune,
September 27, 1912.

“most pretentious street parade”:
Chicago Record Herald,
September 27, 1912.

stated purpose:
Chicago American,
September 27, 1912.

“the aim of the crusaders”: Quoted in Asbury, 298.

“subject of ridicule”:
Chicago Daily Socialist,
September 28, 1912.

float signs and banners:
Chicago Record Herald,
September 27, 1912.

Chief Justice Harry Olson: Wendt and Kogan, 320.

she and that sister of hers: Ibid.

“they aren’t worth the paper”:
Chicago Record Herald,
September 29, 1912.

“half-naked sirens”: Duis,
The Saloon,
270.

“One might expect”:
Chicago American,
September 28, 1912.

“The South Side Levee is rejoicing”:
Chicago Daily News,
September 30, 1912.

“it was not generally known”:
Chicago Tribune,
October 1, 1912.

“Minnie and Ada Everleigh were called”:
Chicago American,
October 1, 1912.

The order left prominent Atlanta madam:
Chicago Evening World,
October 1, 1912.

“Gentlemen, I am through”:
Chicago American,
October 1, 1912.

“furious passion”: Asbury, 299.

“There is an apparent effort”: Wendt and Kogan, 300.

“Wayman’s out to pinch”:
Chicago American,
October 5, 1912.

“Looks like we saved”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
216.

FALLEN IS BABYLON

“Have patience, my friend”: Ibid., 213.

“Another Johnstown flood”:
Chicago American,
October 5, 1912;
Chicago Record Herald,
October 6, 1912.

valerianate of ammonia, etc.: Bell to Carter Harrison, November 29, 1912, Ernest Bell Papers, box 4, folder 4-8.

“Brother Bell, your prayers”: Bell Daniels, 84.

Officers found twenty harlots:
Chicago Tribune,
October 5, 1912.

“It is rather extraordinary”: Longstreet, 471–472.

the men issued the following: Asbury, 301.

The invasion of the harlots: Ibid.

“I’ll take care of any of them”:
Chicago Daily News,
October 7, 1912.

But not one harlot applied:
Chicago Evening Post,
October 8, 1912.

waving handkerchiefs:
Chicago Record Herald,
October 7, 1912.

“Fallen is Babylon!”: Bell to Midnight Mission board, October 8, 1912, Ernest Bell Papers, box 4, folder 4-8.

LITTLE LOST SISTER

“I suppose we all”: Wallace, 55.

“fight to the death”: Asbury, 302.

“We’ll make everything clean”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
225.

“scattering of evil”:
Chicago Record Herald,
October 28, 1912.

“Who is that guy”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
225.

“It can’t be done”: Ibid., 226.

“Five minutes of real”:
Chicago Record Herald,
November 21, 1912.

“former queen of Chicago’s underworld”: Quoted in Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
244.

Freiberg’s Dance Hall celebrated: Asbury, 275.

“It surely wasn’t a disappointed”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
142.

“death bed confession”:
Chicago Record Herald,
October 6, 1912.

“I am sorry”:
Chicago Tribune,
April 18, 1913.

“He was an outcast”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
239.

letter from Chauncey to Bell, January 8, 1916, Ernest Bell Papers, box 2, folder 2-7.

“Our Father Who Art in Heaven”: November 16, 1919, Ernest Bell Papers, box 2, folder 2-2.

“The song you sung at me”: Taylor to Bell, February 27, 1927, Ernest Bell Papers, box 1, folder 11.

genre of films: Lagler, 135.

Little Lost Sister:
Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
242.

“A wave of sex hysteria”:
Current Opinion,
August 1913.

In the spring of 1913: Lagler, 231–240.

boxer Jack Johnson: Ward, 314–315.

arrested in the fall of 1912: Langum, 181.

“We now went”: Ibid., 95.

J. Edgar Hoover: Ibid., 190–194.

“It owed its passage”:
New York Times,
June 25, 1916.

“there never was a joke”: Langum, 35.

“a sort of pornography”: Ibid., 34.

Sociologist Walter Reckless: Reckless,
Vice in Chicago,
43–46.

another young Chicago girl:
Chicago Tribune,
December 25, 1913.

“There has been too much hysteria”:
Intermountain Herald-Republican,
January 30,1914.

Roe died of heart disease:
New York Times,
June 29, 1934.

Only one major newspaper: Langum, 248.

“street of the stately few”: Madsen, 223.

“bad heart”:
Chicago Tribune,
December 2, 1943.

“I can’t stand to see”:
Chicago Tribune,
March 14, 1949.

“My God! A man!”: Ibid.

When Vic Shaw died:
Chicago Tribune,
November 13, 1951.

20 W. 71st Street: Wallace, 48.

“former plantation home in the South”:
Chicago Tribune,
November 1, 1953.

“If you’re all decked out”: Ibid.

“How come your poetry”: Ibid.

in 1933, the Everleigh Club:
Chicago Tribune,
July 25, 1933. The Hilliard Homes, a public housing project, now stands on the former site of the Everleigh Club.

In the early 1940s, Theodore Dreiser: E-mail from Hilary Masters, son of Edgar Lee Masters, December 2005.