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I? If" THEDAYBOOK 500 SO. PEORIA ST. , 398 TEL. MONROE 353 Vol. l,No.49 Chicago, Thursday, Nov. 23, 1911 v One Cen't JANE ADDAMS TELLS HOW CHICAGO WHITE! , . SLAVERS TRAP INNOCENT FOREIGN GIRLS V The Promise of Marriage The "Kind? Lady Who Will Look After You And' the Registration as a Prosti i tut e at the Police Station. - Here is anpther stpry told by Jane Addams'in the current num ber of'McClure's magazine to ill ustrate, how :the white slavers of, Chicagoaccomplish their ends., "One day a telephone message came to Hull -House from the in spector, asking us to take charge of a young girl who 'had been brought into the station by an olderwoman for registration. . "The girl's youth, and the inno cence of her reply to the usual questions, convinced the inspec tor that she was ignorant of the life, .she. was about to. enter and that she probably Delieved . she was sihiply registering her choice of a- boarding house. "Her stqry, which vshe told at Hull House was as follows: "She was a Milwaukee factory girl, the daughter of a Bohemian carpenter. "J "Ten days beforeshe had met .a Chicago young man at a Mil waukee dance hall, and after a brief courtship had' promised to nia'rry him arranging to' meet him in week. Chicago .the following "Fearing that her Bohemian mother "would not approve of this plan, which she called "the Amer ican' way, of getting married," the girl had risen .one morning even earlier than factory worknecessi Jated, and' had' taken the first train to Chicago.' "The young man met her at the Station, and took her 'to a saloon, where he introduced her to , a friend, an older woman, who, fye said, would take 'good care of hen - "After the" young 'man 'disap peared, ' ostensibly for 'the ' mar riage license, 'the woman pro- ' fessed'to'be much shocked, be cause the little bride had brought no luggage, and persuaded her that she must work a few weeks in order to earn" money for hdr ' trousseau, 'and that she, an older woman who knew the city, would find" her 'a. "boarding house and"$ place in a facto'ry for her. J "She 'further induced 'her 'to write postal cards to six of her girl friends in Milwaukee, telling them of the kind lady in Chicago Qithe-gobd chances for wdrk, an,c( fct..w, jwr..-