Contents.

PREFACE

CHICAGO

Chicago Society

The White Slave Traffic

Smashing The Traffic

Why Girls Go Astray

More About the Traffic in Shame

Crime in Chicago

The Police

The Lost Sisterhood

Chicago's Crowning Curse

Gambling Hells

Criminal Operations

Life Under the Shadows

The Pawnbrokers

Pacific Garden Mission

Churches

Concert Saloons and Damnation

Divorces

Tramps' Paradise

Theatres

BY

SAMUEL PAYNTER WILSON

Author of “Chicago by Gas Light”, “Wilson’s Epitome
of Historical and Chronological Facts” and
“Wilson’s Concise History.”

DEDICATED
TO THE GOOD
MEN AND WOMEN OF THE WORLD
WITH THE HOPE THAT THE
VICIOUS MAY BECOME BETTER
MEN AND WOMEN

CHICAGO
SAMUEL PAYNTER WILSON
SIXTEENTH EDITION

MR. SAMUEL PAYNTER WILSON.
Chicago, Ill.

My Dear Friend:—

I have read your book with great interest. It tells the truth, though no book can tell all the truth. You have been a great help to our community by the practical and useful service you have rendered in the investigation of vice and the bringing of those responsible for it to justice. Our city is the better for your work.

I hope your book will do much good. If parents but knew the dangers that confront their boys and girls in our great cities, they would at least take some ordinary precautions before turning children adrift amid these perils.

Very sincerely yours,
MORTON CULVER HARTZELL,

President of the Douglas Neighborhood Club.