| Tribute per month | ||
| Houses of Prostitution— | ||
| Those known as “dollar” houses | $20.00 | |
| “Two and three dollar” houses (for each inmate) | $25.00 | |
| “Five dollar” houses (for each inmate) | $35.00 | |
| “Ten dollar” houses (for each inmate) | $40.00 | |
| Fashionable “flats” | $25.00 to $500.00 | |
| Assignation hotels | $25.00 to $500.00 | |
| High class houses where rich old men bring young girls of virtue | $500.00 to $1,000.00 | |
| Dives of vice where whites and blacks mix | $200.00 | |
| Saloons with women “hustlers” | $100.00 | |
| Cafes with “hustlers” (of prosperous trade) | $100 to $300.00 | |
| Infamous dance halls | $50.00 | |
| Infamous dance halls, extra for immoral dances | $50.00 | |
| All-night saloons | $50.00 | |
| Obscene acting in houses of ill fame | $200.00 to $500.00 | |
| Handbooks and poolrooms | 50 per cent | |
| Faro games | 50 per cent | |
| Stuss (“Jewish poker”) | 50 per cent | |
| Poker and other games | 50 per cent | |
| Crap games | 50 per cent | |
| Gambling houses with all games | 50 per cent | |
| Chinese gambling of all sorts | 50 per cent | |
| Opium dens | $50.00 | |
| Cocaine and morphine selling | $100.00 | |
| Manicure and massage parlors where the women employes are really prostitutes | $100.00 | |
| Pickpockets and confidence men | not definite | |
| Street walkers, or “hustlers” | $20.00 to $50.00 | |
| Professional bondsmen | 50 per cent | |
| Burglars and dynamiters | not obtainable | |
| “Vampire” Trust, (members of which are women preying on patrons of fashionable hotels) | 50 per cent | |
| Professional beggars | not definite | |
| Fake street hawkers | per day, $5.00 | |
| Kimona Trust (to be explained later) | 66 per cent | |
| Laundry Trust | 50 per cent | |
| “Cadets,” or “pimps” | not definite | |
| Chop Suey restaurants in certain districts | $25.00 |
Such is the record of vice and crime and it is not complete. Such is the record as it appears on the debtors’ pages of the Vice Trust.
Hundreds of petty forms of infamy have a price. Other crime-trades pay, but the prices cannot be learned or estimated, so intricate are the workings of the vicious combine.
What do the agents of the White Slave Traffic pay to barter body and blood?
The trust has the secret blood price. Investigation by the state, city and particularly the federal government, has shown its existence. The monthly figure must be upwards of $10,000.
SIDE ISSUES IN THE VICE GRAFT.
Nothing is consumed by the slaves of crime, nothing is used or even wasted that does not hand over its pittance to the avaricious over lords.
We shall give specific instances of the far-reaching, grasping power of the trust to collect.
In the South side “redlight” district but one brand of whiskey can be sold today.
The Directorate of Ten has so ordered.