Our records abound in material illustrating the foregoing account. For example, on May 19, 1912, at 7 P. M., and again on May 20, 1912, at 8 P. M., the investigator visited a vice resort in a tenement in West 43rd Street.[40] There were four inmates in the receiving parlor, all claiming to have medical certificates. The madame[41] declared, however, that if none of them suited she would for a larger price call up a young girl who was not "a regular sport." Thereupon she summoned the girl by telephone.[42] The newcomer appeared to be about eighteen years of age. While talking with the investigator, Irene said she had been in the "business" since last September but worked in a department store in Brooklyn.[43] Previously to this she had been employed in a store on Sixth Avenue. About one and a half years ago--so she says--her sweetheart, a shipping clerk, who makes $12 a week, seduced her, promising marriage: he does not know that Irene is making money "on the side" in this manner. Her aunt, with whom she lives, is very strict with her, requiring her to be home at ten o'clock every night. The investigator pretended not to be satisfied with Irene; thereupon another girl, Margie, spoke up: she knew a "kid" that would suit, but the price would be ten "bucks" (dollars). From other remarks made, the investigator believes that the "kid" referred to is her sister. Margie leaves the flat at 5.30 P. M., for her home in Brooklyn, where she lives with her parents. They are under the impression that she is employed through the day in a wholesale millinery store downtown. The madame still insisted that if the supposed prospective customer really wanted young and pretty girls she could get them: "but," she added, "these girls come high, five and ten dollars." On November 6, 1911, a woman who was afterwards employed in this investigation received a letter concerning a cider "stube" in a tenement in East 5th Street.[44] The letter read as follows: "Reading of your good work in lending your services to assist the unfortunate creatures, I hope you will give your undivided attention, for this certain woman[45] is engaged in this business for the last seven years and is too shrewd to be caught. You will have to watch carefully her movements. She keeps a cider store on East 5th Street, New York.... Look up her record and you will see she was arrested a few times.... She just was sentenced four months over the Island.... Please I beg you to look into this matter. I would give you my name, but it is impossible for me to do so. I am a citizen of the U. S. A. I know this place ruins many young girls."