"He showed me some cheap rings and bracelets and earrings. I paid $20 for a bracelet, some neck beads and a ring which were not worth any more than $4. They fell to pieces a short time later." These girls, according to their own stories are obliged to pay two dollars for a pair of stockings that are not worth more than fifty cents. That is the system of the Kimona Trust! Increased value on articles of clothing sold the inmates is about the same in every instance. Three hundred per cent excess profit is the taxation made by the agents of the kimona trust! The purchase prices on all things are so increased as to make that enormous profit. There are 2,000 women buying clothes at a yearly expenditure, or rather robbery, of $500. That means $1,000,000 spent by these poor, dying, unfortunates yearly to feed the avaricious grafters! That enormous sum is spent for materials that are worth only one fourth of that value. That means that the Kimona Trust brings an annual harvest of graft of $750,000! The figures are so startling as to strike one dumb with horror, yet they are as true as the annual statement of the earnings and capital of a reliable bank. The Kimona Trust agents are satisfied to make the normal profit on the goods as if they were sold at their legitimate price. They raise the price and create the graft in return for the favor of having a big business with no competition. The $750,000 is then split up. To the police undoubtedly a small share goes for their general work in the district, the keepers get a share for compelling the girls to buy and the big bulk goes to the directors of the Vice Trust. THE LAUNDRY TRUST. The Kimona Trust has not eaten to the last bill in the purse of the vice slave. She still has money left which the Vice Trust must batten on. The Kimona Trust has a logical successor, the Laundry Trust. This combine proceeds in the same manner as the combine that furnishes clothing to the 2,000 prostitutes in the houses. It proceeds by boosting the prices and robbing its victims. In the ordinary laundry service, the laundry man with a cleaning establishment is satisfied with sixty per cent of the income of a man who has a private route and brings his collections in clothing to the place. He is allowed forty per cent for himself and for his wagon. In the levee districts the privilege of the laundry business is hard sought after, but it is limited to a few men. These men pay for the privilege. They add 100 per cent to their prices for work done, so that the Vice Trust which grants the favor may reap its profits. Speaking conservatively, every girl is obliged to have a laundry bill of two dollars a week. Two thousand girls with an average laundry bill of $2.00 means $4,000 a week or $208,000 a year! The just laundry bill for those poor, fleeced women of sin should be but $104,000.