_The_ TRAGEDIES OF THE WHITE SLAVES [Illustration] TRUE STORIES EXPOSING METHODS USED IN TRAPPING INNOCENT GIRLS Tragedies of the White Slave True stories of the White Slavery taken from actual life. Each one dealing with a different method by which white slavers have lured innocent victims to destruction. TEN TRAGEDIES OF TEN GIRLS The Tragedy of the Want Ad The Tragedy of the The Theatrical Agency The Tragedy of the Maternity House The Tragedy of the Girl with the Hair The Tragedy of Mona Marshall The Tragedy of the Little Immigrant The Tragedy of the Army Lieutenant The Tragedy of the Young Wife The Tragedy of the Little Cash Girl The Tragedy of the Ella Gingles BY H. M. LYTLE, Special Investigator for the Metropolitan Press THE CHARLES C. THOMPSON CO. (Not Inc.) COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THE CHARLES C. THOMPSON CO. Contents. Foreword 3 CHAPTER I. The Tragedy of the Maternity Home 9 CHAPTER II. The Tragedy of the Want Ad 23 CHAPTER III. The Tragedy of the Assignation House 39 CHAPTER IV. The Tragedy of the Immigrant Girl 48 CHAPTER V. The Tragedy of the Stage 59 CHAPTER VI. The Tragedy of the Five Thousand 77 CHAPTER VII. The Tragedy of the Little Lace Maker (Ella Gingles' Own Story) 92 CHAPTER VIII. The First Night 103 CHAPTER IX. Arrested 117 CHAPTER X. The Second Orgy 126 CHAPTER XI. Ella Gingles On Trial (by Hal McLeod Lytle) 140 CHAPTER XII. The Return Home 191 Foreword. The lives of 5,000 young girls are laid upon the altar of lust every year in the city of Chicago alone. The insatiable rapacity of man, the lust of the hunt, the demands of brutish passion ordain it that these 5,000 young innocents be led forth to the slaughter, annually. This statement is not a matter of guess. It is the estimate of officers of the Chicago Law and Order League, the Illinois Vigilance Society, the police authorities and Assistant State's Attorney Clifford G. Roe. There are 68,000 women leading a nameless existence in the city of Chicago alone. This is the police estimate, based upon a census made by the captains of the different police districts. It includes the women who live--and die--in the temples of shame on Twenty-second street, on the Strand in South Chicago, on the West Side, and on Wells street and vicinity on the North Side. It includes the "street walkers," the girls who infest such dance halls in Twenty-second street, the women in private flats, and the mistresses of wealthy men.