The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World — John Shaqi
The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the WorldHarland, Robert O.
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The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World
Harland, Robert O.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Moral conditions; Prostitution -- Illinois -- Chicago
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Houses of Prostitution--
Those known as "dollar" houses $20.00
"Two and three dollar" houses (for each inmate) $25.00
"Five dollar" houses (for each inmate) $35.00
"Ten dollar" houses (for each inmate) $40.00
Fashionable "flats" $25.00 to $500.00
Assignation hotels $25.00 to $500.00
High class houses where rich old men bring
young girls of virtue $500.00 to $1,000.00
Dives of vice where whites and blacks mix $200.00
Saloons with women "hustlers" $100.00
Cafes with "hustlers" (of prosperous trade) $100 to $300.00
Infamous dance halls $50.00
Infamous dance halls, extra for immoral dances $50.00
All-night saloons $50.00
Obscene acting in houses of ill fame $200.00 to $500.00
Handbooks and poolrooms 50 per cent
Faro games 50 per cent
Stuss ("Jewish poker") 50 per cent
Poker and other games 50 per cent
Crap games 50 per cent
Gambling houses with all games 50 per cent
Chinese gambling of all sorts 50 per cent
Opium dens $50.00
Cocaine and morphine selling $100.00
Manicure and massage parlors where the women
employes are really prostitutes $100.00
Pickpockets and confidence men not definite
Street walkers, or "hustlers" $20.00 to $50.00
Professional bondsmen 50 per cent
Burglars and dynamiters not obtainable
"Vampire" Trust, (members of which are women
preying on patrons of fashionable hotels) 50 per cent
Professional beggars not definite
Fake street hawkers per day, $5.00
Kimona Trust (to be explained later) 66 per cent
Laundry Trust 50 per cent
"Cadets," or "pimps" not definite
Chop Suey restaurants in certain districts $25.00
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