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56 THE WHITE SLAVE MARKET
of Italians, which abolished the American
Consul's jurisdiction over them.
The Hon. John Goodnow, baffled in his
good work at every point, unsupported by
Washington, abandoned his office as though to
shut out from his mind the fearful traffic in
the East of the daughters of the most civilised
nation of modern times. Mr. John Davidson
succeeded him and did not try to go beyond
his routine duties, so the trade grew and
flourished, and stands to-day as a monument
of mocking iniquity. In the Par East that
is Hong-Kong, Shanghai, etc. the poorer and
meaner " pimp " does not flourish so conspicuously
nor thrive at his nefarious business
as he does at Singapore, Siam, and other
places. The traffic at Hong-Kong and Shanghai
is principally in the hands of American
" "
missuses
that is, the big traffic in white
girls is in the hands of these women. In
Hong-Kong Gage Street, and other streets
running off Gage Street, are full of bad houses.
In Lyndhurst Terrace too are houses occupied
by American " missuses." Hundreds of
American girls pass through Gage Street and
Lyndhurst Terrace during the year, and, if
they live, eventually find themselves, when
their bloom is gone, and they become addicted
to drink and drugs, in the Chinese quarter
in Takkn Eoad, where nearly three hundred
brothels exist, each house containing from a
dozen to twenty unfortunates of all colours,
creeds, and castes.
One of the leading " missuses " of Lyndhurst