These are the women who live in the levee resorts, the inmates of flats and hotels and the slaves of the cafe owners.
Those women who live within houses whose owners pay protection for their inmates, give up half of the weekly earnings to the “madam.”
Those women who are known as “hustlers” in the slang phrase, give fifty per cent of their earnings to the police for individual protection.
No matter how and where that protection money is paid, it eventually percolates through the hands of the police or agents to the members of the Vice Trust.
The women of the street who frequent the hotels with their victims, pass their protection money to the hotel owners. They act in furthering protection, in the same capacity as do the keepers of the houses of ill fame for their victims.
The police trail these girls to the favorite hotel and then compel the hotel men to collect from the women.
POLICE PRICE FOR THE SCARLET WOMAN.
Investigation again discloses a terrible condition of things.
We are going to show what these unfortunate women pay to exist:—the amount of money they pay the police for protection and the money that is passed on.
The prices exacted from a levee house by the police or other agents of the Vice Trust for police protection, varies according to the liberties given these slaves.