Show VICE RUN BY TRUST G J kneeland gives secrets 0 of 1 white slave traffic well kept man decked with gems gema Is typical owner of resorts in gotham writer asserts business la Is specialized now new york commercialization ot of vico in new york city Is described in the first four studies of the social evil to be published by the now new york bu reau of at social hygiene the book published by the century company Is entitled commercialized prostitution la in new york city and to Is written by george J kneeland the chief investigator of the bureau who was also the chief of the workers under the chicago vice commission the report which Is introduced by a foreword by john D rockefeller jr says women of the underworld ply their trade in one borough of now new york alone it scores the low dance hall as a chief cause of vice poverty to Is given a secondary place as a cause mr air kneeland holds that oftener women are victims in their ignorance of the agents of commercial iced vice it is idle he ekys to explain away the phenomena on the ground that they are the results of the inevitable weakness ot of human nature human W weakness e a kne 88 w would 0 uld d demand ema a d tar far fewer erand and less horrible sacrifices fies most of tho the wreckage and the worse of it is due to persistent cunning and unprincipled exploitations to bo the banding tb gether in famous e enterprises terp rises of madame procurer brothel keeper and liquor vender to carry on deliberately a co cold ld blooded traffic tor for their jont joint profit profeta a traffic lc but it added from which the girt girl involved procures at the most with few exceptions her bare subsistence and that only BO 0 long as she ehe by ha a trade value prostitution has become a busl business mr kneeland writes the promoters of which continually scan the field for a location favorable to their operations and the aleid Is the entire civilized world no legitimate enterprise Is more shrewdly managed from this point of view no variety of trade adjusts itself more promptly to conditions transferring its activities from one place to another as opportunities cont contract bract here and expand there while keepers of houses are also procurers there is a group ot of men who devote themselves singly to this work these are the typical white slavers clavers sl avers whose trade depends entirely upon lupon the exi existence t ce of houses of prostitution n kap the Thetta det has not yet developed into n to a professional or keeper of a house ile he enters the business when he either ruins a young girl for his future profit or becomes the lover and protector of a prostitute already in the business the women who run houses bouses have as a rule risen from the ranks they were once street or parlor houde bouse inmates who possess unusual business talents they have learned the scereta of the trade they know the kind of inmates boget and where to get them they know how to deal with customers and how bow to make them spend money for several years thirty 1 I 1 houses of prostitution in the tenderloin lave have been operated as a combine under the direct control of 15 or more men the individuals in question have been in business for many years in new york city as aa well as in other cities bothin both in this country and abroad they buy ind and sell shares la in these houses among themselves and it Is seldom that an ou outsider isider unless he be a relative can Z break into the circle and share in the profits the value of the shares depends upon apon the ability of the owners to maintain conditi conditions As in which the houses being unmolested aro are permitted to make largo large profits if a composite photograph could bo be made of typical owners of vice resorts it would show a large well fed ra man an about 40 years of at age and 6 5 feet 8 9 inches in height his clothes are the latest cut loud in design and carefully pressed A heavy watch chain adorns his waist waistcoat cont a large diamond sparkles in flashy necktie and his fat chubby fingers are encircled with gold and diamond rings |