The "trader" gave to Mr. Whitman the addresses of the three places,
which are known as "stockades." He also made suggestions as to how
their operators might be apprehended.
More than that, Levenson told how the financial arrangements of the
sales are made and how recruits are obtained.
Agents are continually at work obtaining young girls, the prisoner
said. The slave sellers do not want hardened women, he explained;
they want pretty, immature girls. The agents are generally well
dressed women who ingratiate themselves with their childish victims
at matinees and moving-picture shows, and by dining them and painting
rosy pictures of a life of ease, win them away from their homes or
their ill-paid positions.
"When there is a call for girls," Levenson continued, "the buyer
hands over the money paid for them to the keeper. Then an
agent--these are usually men--take the girls to wherever the "order"
comes from. These agents then collect 10 per cent of the girl's
weekly earnings."
Quoting from the National Prohibitionist, May 12: