Sin in the Second City (52 page)

“sloe-eyed”: Hibbeler, 59.

“There is something”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
58; Dedmon, 268.

For months now: Hibbeler, 59. Hibbeler recounted the story of Suzy Poon Tang but did not specify exactly when she came to work for the Everleigh Club.

“We’ve just received”: Ibid., 70.

“It’s better than looking at the original”: Ibid., 80–81.

he’d lectured representatives from: Lagler, 114–115.

“A great many persons”: Wilson,
Chicago and Its Cess Pools,
42.

“All of the fellows around there”:
Chicago Daily News,
February 10, 1908.

Mona’s return to the flats:
Chicago Daily News,
May 27, 1907.

allegation about Mona’s stepfather:
Chicago Daily Journal,
June 29, 1907.

A contradictory version: Roe,
Panders,
40.

“There is a remedy”:
Chicago Daily News,
February 10, 1908.

“more openly vicious”:
Chicago Tribune,
February 11, 1908.

“We have come”: Ibid.

Arthur Burrage Farwell spoke last: Minutes from the directors meeting of the Midnight Mission, February 11, 1908, Ernest Bell Papers, box 4, folder 4-9.

“Three times”:
Chicago Tribune,
February 12, 1908.

The Shanghai was: Hibbeler, 60–65.

“I’ve always found it fun”: Ibid., 102.

“What a beautiful ladder”: Ibid., 25.

the Swinger: Ibid., 35.

the Gold Coin Kid: Ibid., 100–104.

“If I pay you well”: Ibid., 64.

clear that Doll loved women: Ibid., 89–90.

“archaic” and “moss covered”: Roe,
Panders,
144–145.

his people constituted: Bristow, 177.

Between 1880 and 1900: Irving Cutler, “The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb,” in Holli and Jones,
Ethnic Chicago,
133.

“If Jews are the chief sinners”: Quoted in Bell,
War,
188.

“The Jew has been taught”: Bristow, 165.

The House passed:
Chicago Record Herald,
May 6, 1908.

“elated…pioneer state”: Roe,
Panders,
153.

THE ORGANIZER

“I know it is repugnant”: Memo from Marcus Braun, September 28, 1908, folder 38, box 6, page 4, series 3, Bureau of Social Hygiene Records, Rockefeller Archive Center.

federal Immigration Act: U.S. Congress, Senate,
Reports of the Immigration Commission: Importation and Harboring of Women for Immoral Purposes,
58.

“Curiously enough”:
Chicago Tribune,
August 2, 1908.

“I am determined”:
Chicago Tribune,
June 20, 1908.

“I am one of those”: Letter to Clifford Barnes, December 28, 1906, Clifford Barnes Collection, Chicago History Museum, box 1, folder 1904–1909.

feeding their babies beer: Duis,
Challenging Chicago,
137.

Italian population was approaching: Dominic Candeloro, “Chicago’s Italians: A Survey of the Ethnic Factor, 1850–1900,” in Holli and Jones,
Ethnic Chicago,
230.

“We no longer draw”: Francis E. Hamilton, “Restriction on Immigration,”
Forum
42 (December 1908).

“syndicate of Frenchmen”:
Chicago Tribune,
June 24, 1908.

“French Em”: Asbury, 269.

The French had introduced: Langum, 18.

Alphonse and Eva Dufour: Bell Daniels, 62.

“They show that they have been drilled”:
Chicago Tribune,
June 24, 1908.

spies in Sims’s office:
Chicago Daily News,
June 20, 1908.

Springfield race riot:
Chicago American,
August 17, 1908. This riot prompted the formation of the NAACP.

William Donegan: Ibid.

His sixty-nine-year-old mother:
Chicago American,
August 18, 1908.

“unavoidable”:
Chicago American,
August 19, 1908.

lived with his mother:
Chicago Tribune,
September 27, 1908.

Madam Eva Dufour posted bail:
Chicago Daily News,
October 31, 1908.

“It is only necessary”: Edwin Sims, “The White Slave Trade of Today,”
Woman’s World
24, no. 9 (September 1908).

“the roses he found blooming”: Hibbeler, 90.

“I’ve made mistakes all my life”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
162.

IT DON’T NEVER GET GOOD UNTIL THREE IN THE MORNING

“The
Tribune
has come out”: Lindberg,
Quotable Chicago,
198.

“Let’s all go”: Hibbeler, 29; Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
73.

“Entertaining most men”: Dedmon, 253.

“the Derby”: Asbury, 278.

“the party for Lame Jimmy”: Wendt and Kogan, 153.

“reign unrefined”: Ibid., 154.

“Give it to me”:
Chicago Tribune,
February 1, 1894.

“We take it over”: Wendt and Kogan, 154.

“a Saturnalian orgy,” etc.: Ibid.

“don’t never get good”:
Chicago Tribune,
February 15, 1900.

“screecher”:
Chicago Tribune,
December 22, 1902.

“It is the best”:
Chicago Tribune,
January 7, 1903.

“charity, education”:
Chicago Tribune,
December 12, 1906.

“God bless all the little”:
Chicago Tribune,
May 16, 1909.

quit his job:
Chicago Daily News,
June 21, 1907.

“Mr. Farwell is the generally recognized type”: Ibid.

“
Garbage
Farwell”: Wendt and Kogan, 268.

“a little of the bunk”:
Chicago Tribune,
December 10, 1907.

“The annual orgy”:
Chicago Tribune,
December 2, 1908.

“A real description”: Wendt and Kogan, 269.

“They don’t need anyone sleuthing around after me”: quoted in Duis,
The Saloon,
129.

OUR PAL: From the Vic Shaw Family Album.

“The gents with whiskers”:
Chicago American,
December 5, 1908.

“There’s a 4-11 fire”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
161.

“Mercy, a hundred”: Will Irwin, “The First Ward Ball,”
Collier’s,
February 6, 1909.

“Seventy-five tickets?”: Ibid.

“nightly duty”:
Chicago Tribune,
December 9, 1908.

“If you dare to go”:
Chicago American,
December 8, 1908.

newly elected state’s attorney John Wayman:
Chicago Daily News,
December 2, 1908.

“We won’t let parents”: Wendt and Kogan, 272.

At 8:20 on the evening:
Chicago American,
December 14, 1908;
Chicago Tribune,
December 14, 1908.

“You can draw your own”:
Chicago Tribune,
December 14, 1908.

“tone”: Ibid.

“Mariutch, she danca”: Wendt and Kogan, 273.

“Seems to me”: Ibid.

“feminine element”:
Chicago Tribune,
December 14, 1908.

“They’re here!”: Richard T. Griffin, “Sin Drenched Revels at the Infamous First Ward Ball,”
Smithsonian,
November 1976.

Al Capone’s first job:
Chicago Tribune,
March 16, 1949.

“too old and feeble”:
Chicago Tribune,
July 20, 1952.

“So close was the press”: Wendt and Kogan, 276.

“Gangway”:
Chicago Tribune,
December 15, 1908.

“mighty little suit”: Ibid.

“It was usually me”:
Chicago Tribune,
March 15, 1949.

“I intend to stay”:
Chicago Tribune,
December 15, 1908.

She winked and beckoned: Ibid.

“Why, it’s great”: Wendt and Kogan, 280.

“The Hon. Bathhouse Coughlin”:
Chicago Tribune,
December 15, 1908.

“Pour champagne, cul”: Wendt and Kogan, 279.

Another woman, dressed as: Will Irwin, “The First Ward Ball,”
Collier’s,
February 6, 1909.

Courtesans lay facedown:
Chicago American,
December 15, 1908.

A harlot swung a whip: Ibid.

“We saw as many”:
Chicago Daily News,
December 15, 1908.

“Keep it up, Minnie!”: Wendt and Kogan, 279.

DISPATCH FROM THE U.S. IMMIGRATION COMMISSION

U.S. Congress, Senate,
Importing Women for Immoral Purposes: A Partial Report from the Immigration Commission on the Importation and Harboring of Women for Immoral Purposes,
15, 40; U.S. Congress, Senate,
Reports of the Immigration Commission: Final Report on the Importation and Harboring of Women for Immoral Purposes,
123; U.S. Congress, Senate,
Importing Women for Immoral Purposes: A Partial Report from the Immigration Commission on the Importation and Harboring of Women for Immoral Purposes,
59.

JUDGMENT DAYS

“I am not a reformer”:
Chicago Tribune,
May 16, 1909.

Minna’s court date:
Chicago Tribune,
March 14, 1909.

“trade in rum”:
Chicago Tribune,
February 1, 1909.

“spitting evil”:
Chicago Tribune,
February 17, 1909.

Stick to the “small stuff”: Asbury, 277.

“They have us in the middle”: Washburn,
Come into My Parlor,
101.

One night in April:
U.S. v. Johnson,
General Records of the Department of Justice, File Number 16421, Record Group 60; Ward, 146–148.

“Even if I am a Virginian”: Wallace, 60; 57–58.

Inviting Scott Joplin: Rudi Blesh, “Maple Leaf Rag,”
American Heritage
26, no. 4 (June 1975).

When Jack Johnson invited five of them: Ward, 148.

He traveled to Iowa:
Iowa City Daily Press,
February 18, 1909.

Pennsylvania State Legislature:
Pennsylvania Daily Gazette and Bulletin,
February 26,1909.

“That there is a systematic traffic”:
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,
March 21, 1909.

“whole thing looks queer”:
Chicago Tribune,
February 18, 1909.

William Lloyd Garrison: Roe,
The Great War,
19.

HAVE YOU A GIRL TO SPARE?

“It is a conceded fact”: Goldman, 4.

“keep books”: Roe,
The Great War,
119.

“know what kind of a place”: Ibid.

“Madam Maurice”:
Chicago Tribune,
November 28, 1909.

“bad place”: Roe,
The Great War,
115.

Fern: Ibid., 196.

“Now, when you go”: Ibid., 126.

“It was discovered”:
Chicago Daily Socialist,
June 30, 1909.

“The story printed about Miss Barrette”:
Chicago Tribune,
June 30, 1909.

Mark A. Foote agreed:
Chicago Daily Socialist,
July 3, 1909.

“servant girl”: Roe,
The Great War,
119.

fifteen-foot snake:
Chicago Tribune,
June 17, 1909.

As Mollie had promised: Roe,
The Great War,
120.

“I realized that Van Bever’s”: Ibid., 121.

“that Jew girl”:
Chicago Tribune,
November 10, 1909.

“You’re a good-looking”: Ibid.

“I want to go”: Ibid.

“You’ll like it”: Ibid.

“I believe Inspector”:
Chicago American,
July 22, 1909.

both men were members:
Chicago Tribune,
September 1, 1909.

“The revelations made at”:
Chicago Tribune,
October 4, 1909.

Commercial Club of Chicago: Roe,
The Great War,
192;
Chicago Tribune,
September 26,1909.

the architect’s City Beautiful movement: Grossman, Keating, and Reiff, 30–32.

“There is nothing political”:
Chicago Tribune,
September 1, 1909.

Roe had an initial: Roe,
The Great War,
193.

private secretary:
Chicago Tribune,
September 29, 1909.

“Well, dear”: Roe,
The Great War,
112;
Panders,
189.