Chicago's Black Traffic in White GirlsTurner-Zimmermann, Jean
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Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls
Turner-Zimmermann, Jean
Chicago (Ill.) -- Moral conditions; Prostitution -- Illinois -- Chicago
Seventy per cent of these women have
been aided into _honest employment_.
A Hundred Girls
have been _Saved from Lives of Sin and given a
chance to earn a Respectable Living_.
Our Doors are Never Closed
We are in touch with every _Slum_
and _Vice District_ in the city--every
Prison and Hospital, and with
the Poorhouse at Oak Forest.
We are Non-Sectarian and Co-operative with all Reform
and Christian Works
A dozen Christian Homes and a Municipal
Lodging House care for the friendless
down-and-out man. The
Chicago Rescue Mission's
Woman's Shelter
cares for the Friendless "down-and-out"
Woman. Our Shelter is not a
"Rescue Home" in the ordinary
sense of the word, but
A Place where a Clean Bed, Food, Coffee and Clothing
may be Obtained by any Homeless Woman
not a subject for Police interference,
for One or More nights as she needs;
and where she is given Definite Aid
to Immediate Employment and assured
of shelter until she receives
her week's wages.
FIVE THOUSAND AND FORTY NIGHT'S LODGINGS
TOGETHER WITH
OVER SIX THOUSAND MEALS
have been furnished to cold, hungry,
Stranded Girls and Women this
year by Our Institution.
Seventy per Cent of These Have been Aided to Secure
Honest Employment,
but scores have been turned away
because we lacked Equipment,
Warmth, Funds, etc., to aid them.
Our Work Reaches
Every Slum and Redlight District
in the City
the Hospitals, Prisons, Poorhouses, everywhere
unfortunate women are found.
We co-operate with Churches, Missions, Employment
Bureaus, Charitable Institutions,
etc., throughout the City
Our Institution has Thirty-one Large Rooms
[Illustration: A Corner in Our Woman's Shelter]
What We Need--
We need to add _Forty More Beds_.
We need a _better Hot Water System_.
We need a _Systematic Employment Bureau_.
We need another good Outside Worker.
We need Coffee, Clothing, Coal.
We need _Your Help, generously_, in a supreme
effort to raise _One Thousand Dollars_ with which
to accomplish all these things.
Schedule of Work
Year ending August 31st, 1911.
Number of Nights Lodgings Furnished by the
Chicago Rescue Mission's Woman Shelter 5,040
Number of Meals 5,200
Special Lodgings 489
Special Meals 677
Calls and Distribution of Fruit at Oak Forest
Poor House 4,914
Religious Services White Cross Woman's Shelter 26
Jail, Court and Slum Visits 1,210
Reform Literature Distributed, pages, about 300,000
Yours and His,
CHICAGO RESCUE MISSION
733-735-737 Washington Blvd.,
NEAR HALSTED
CHICAGO, ILL.
PHONE MONROE 4833
Mrs. Jean T. Zimmermann, M. D.
President Chicago Rescue Mission and Woman's Shelter.
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