When she reproached the agent for sending her to a disreputable house he shrugged his shoulders and replied: "Well, I send girls where they're wanted.

If they don't like the place they can leave." The fact is, they cannot always leave when they want to.

Miss Kellor's investigators found an office in Chicago which sent girls to a resort in Wisconsin which was represented as a summer hotel.

This notorious place was surrounded by a high stockade which rendered escape impossible.
The investigators found offices in other cities which operate disreputable houses in summer places.

To these the proprietors send the handsomest of their applicants for honest work.
Three girls sent to a house of this kind found themselves prisoners.