Those women who are known as "hustlers" in the slang phrase, give fifty per cent of their earnings to the police for individual protection. No matter how and where that protection money is paid, it eventually percolates through the hands of the police or agents to the members of the Vice Trust. The women of the street who frequent the hotels with their victims, pass their protection money to the hotel owners. They act in furthering protection, in the same capacity as do the keepers of the houses of ill fame for their victims. The police trail these girls to the favorite hotel and then compel the hotel men to collect from the women. POLICE PRICE FOR THE SCARLET WOMAN. Investigation again discloses a terrible condition of things. We are going to show what these unfortunate women pay to exist:--the amount of money they pay the police for protection and the money that is passed on. The prices exacted from a levee house by the police or other agents of the Vice Trust for police protection, varies according to the liberties given these slaves. From investigation of a thorough character it is safe to say that the average protection price paid per woman in Chicago is twenty dollars a month! Figuring on the basis of 5,000 women who are prostitutes in the accepted sense of the term, this means a payment of $1,200,000 in protection money a year. In support of our monthly protective price of twenty dollars, we quote the following from a woman, for twenty years the owner of a big house of prostitution in Chicago and now a married and reformed member of the best society of Cedar Rapids, Ia. This woman in speaking of the question of protection money, said: "During my experience of twenty years as the keeper of a Chicago resort, 900 girls passed through my hands. The protection prices I paid depended largely on the profits that the girls made. I had as many as forty-five girls in my establishment at once. The girls got half of their earnings and I got the other half. From my part I paid my protection money. I paid from fifteen to thirty-five dollars for each girl to the police. The average for all the girls was twenty dollars a month for each girl I kept. I will not give the names of the police or the collectors." When prominent investigators were searching for facts to use in a crusade against the sale of liquor without a license, they visited the Everleigh Club on Dearborn street. Minnie Everleigh, one of the two women who own that notorious resort, made the following statement, showing the existence of police protection: "I would be perfectly willing to pay a liquor license of $1,000 a year. I would like to see the entire business legalized. I would pay the price legally demanded. "As it is today, someone permits us to conduct our establishment. I am paying in other ways." The payment which that dive keeper made "in other ways" was the protection money and a dozen allied forms of graft to the Vice Trust through its "lieutenants."