Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1913 — NEW YORK CAPITAL OF VICE [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK CAPITAL OF VICE

S. H. London So Calls It—Finds 6,100 Men Take Profits of 26,000 Women. New York. —With his evidence reduced to the matter of fact form of a card index, Samuel H. London, formerly prosecuting attorney of KI Paso, Tex., who said he was semi-

officially connected with .the department of justice at Washington, has laid before the aldermanic committee which is investigating police conditions here the result of his seven years’ study of the white slave traffic. He called New York the capital of commercialised vice and said that, with the assistance of fourteen agents placed at his disposal by the government. he had carried on investigations "from Fairbanks in Alaska to the canal zone.”

Mr. London declared that his census in New York revealed that there were 6,100 men profiting from commercialized vice, in which 26,000 women were involved? He charged that the police officials aided the traffickers. He believed that only individual policemen were concerned in the business and doubted that the number of these officers would exceed 100 out of 10 000 men on the force.