Commercialized Prostitution in New York CityKneeland, George J. (George Jackson)
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Commercialized Prostitution in New York City
Kneeland, George J. (George Jackson)
Prostitution -- New York (State) -- New York
[15] Among the cabmen who are active in promoting this business are X 85,
Joe X 22, Louis X 24, X 483, X 484, X 485, X 486, X 487, X 488, and X 489.
As a rule the men do not own their cabs, but hire them by the day or night
from proprietors of livery stables. In any case, they are supposed to have
a license, which costs fifty cents per year.
[16] X 490.
[17] At 10.40 P. M., on March 25, 1912, the bartender in a saloon on
Manhattan Avenue suggested to a man that he visit an apartment in a
tenement house at (X 475) West 111th Street. A waiter in a disorderly
saloon at (X 476) Seventh Avenue endeavored to persuade a man in the rear
room to go to a house on the second floor of a building at (X 147)
Broadway. The waiter said there were three women in this resort and the
price was only $5. Liquor was sold there at $2 per round.
[18] X 3.
[19] X 4.
[20] X 9
[21] X 11.
[22] X 12.
[23] X 13
[24] X 19.
[25] X 20.
[26] X 894.
[27] X 21
[28] X 22
[29] The event alluded to is the murder of a notorious gambler, which
shortly resulted in a change of attitude on the subject under discussion.
See Chapter VII.
[30] X 25
[31] X 41
[32] X 59
[33] X 16
[34] Additional data, Parlor Houses, Appendix IX; also Appendix III,
"Inmates of Vice Resorts."
[35] Including apartment houses.
[36] X 112, X 113, X 114.
[37] X 115.
[38] X 117, X 118.
[39] The original copy of this letter is on file. The woman's name and
address are X 119, X 120.
[40] X 121.
[41] X 122.
[42] Bryant, X 124.
[43] X 123.
[44] X 125.
[45] X 126.
For further examples, the reader is referred to Appendix X, "Additional
Data--Tenements."
[46] X 147.
[47] X 164.
[48] X 182.
[49] New York, A. H. Kellogg Co. (1910), p. 38.
[50] This $800 fee was imposed in Manhattan and the Bronx and was the rate
established by the Raines Law at the time of its passage. The rate of $200
was the tax for saloons prior to the passage of the Raines Law.
[51] Report of The Committee of Fourteen, 1912.
[52] X 207.
[53] X 208.
[54] As to this and other hotels, repeated observation at different
periods established the notorious character of the places. Corroborative
evidence is collected in Appendix XI, "Additional Data, Hotels."
[55] X 253.
[56] X 261.
[57] X 262.
[58] X 246.
[59] X 248.
[60] X 247.
[61] X 250-a.
[62] X 250.
[63] X 251.
[64] X 251-a
[65] Wanted--Female.
[66] X 251-b.
[67] For a statistical summary of vice resorts, see Appendix I.
[68] "Christianizing the Social Order," p. 268.
[69] Mr. Arthur H. Gleason brought out this point in two articles under
the title of "The Saloon in New York," published in _Collier's Weekly_, in
the issues of April 25 and May 2, 1908.
[70] X 263.
[71] X 264, X 265.
[72] X 265.
[73] X 264.
[74] X 269.
[75] X 274.
[76] X 275.
[77] X 276.
[78] For additional illustrations see Appendix XII--"Additional
Data--Saloons."
[79] X 108.
[80] X 295.
[81] X 296.
[82] X 297.
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