MR. SAMUEL PAYNTER WILSON.
Chicago, Ill.
My Dear Friend:—
I have read your book with great interest. It tells the truth, though no book can tell all the truth. You have been a great help to our community by the practical and useful service you have rendered in the investigation of vice and the bringing of those responsible for it to justice. Our city is the better for your work.
I hope your book will do much good. If parents but knew the dangers that confront their boys and girls in our great cities, they would at least take some ordinary precautions before turning children adrift amid these perils.
Very sincerely yours,
MORTON CULVER HARTZELL,
President of the Douglas Neighborhood Club.
Contents.
| Pages | |
| [Dedication] | 3 |
| [Hartzell’s Letter] | 4 |
| [Preface] | 7-11 |
| [Chicago] | 13-22 |
| [Chicago Society] | 23-34 |
| [The White Slave Traffic] | 35-58 |
| [Smashing The Traffic] | 59-74 |
| [Why Girls Go Astray] | 75-85 |
| [More About the Traffic in Shame] | 86-90 |
| [Crime in Chicago] | 91-103 |
| [The Police] | 105-119 |
| [The Lost Sisterhood] | 121-140 |
| [Chicago’s Crowning Curse] | 141-148 |
| [Gambling Hells] | 149-160 |
| [Criminal Operations] | 161-163 |
| [Life Under the Shadows] | 165-173 |
| [The Pawnbrokers] | 175-184 |
| [Pacific Garden Mission] | 185-191 |
| [Churches] | 193-196 |
| [Concert Saloons and Damnation] | 197-201 |
| [Divorces] | 203-215 |
| [Tramps’ Paradise] | 217-219 |
| [Theatres] | 220-223 |