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HAUNTS OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRADER 57
Terrace actually told me that she draws her
supplies from New York and San Prancisco,
generally by cable code. She explained that
she has a private cable code, and if her agents
in New York or San Francisco are in trouble
with two or three young girls, about whom
inquiries are being made, they cable to her
and arrangements are made to have the young
Americans shipped off in charge of an old and
retired " pro," who dresses in the garb of a
nurse and watches the girls until she delivers
the " goods " at Hong-Kong. The girls pass
through into Gage Street or Lyndhurst Terrace
and, of course, that is all that can be known
of them under the present inglorious system.
This American " missus " rarely trades for the
"
pimps." She declares they are not only
are too avaricious and
dangerous but they
they want all the girls' money ; so she conducts
her own business, principally by cable.
This American " missus " is very notorious in
the East : she is known to the inner circle of
the trade as " Madame Chloral." She earned
this name through her predilection for placing
a grain of chloral in the beer or whisky or
wine of the principal frequenters of her
gorgeously furnished house off Gage Street.
The chloral sends the men to sleep, when
robbing them is made easy. If they have
nothing worth stealing, " Madame Chloral"
considers they are better asleep than fooling
around breaking up her crockery.
Occasionally this woman takes trips abroad
to "do" Siam or Sigon, the French colony.