Girls Lured to Cities by False Offers
A Sioux City, Iowa, despatch to the Cedar Rapids Gazette tells of three girls, one aged 18 and two aged 16, who were intercepted when just ready to depart for St. Louis. They had been infatuated by the glittering prospect of a career on the stage during the great fair. They had been engaged by an agent, whom they refused to identify, to become members of a "merry-merry" comic opera chorus, and were to receive a fabulous salary, a fine boarding-place, and all expenses paid. The procurer had told the girls that a woman would meet them at St. Louis, and take them to their boarding house. He also told them that he had sent two other companies of girls from the city. And it has been discovered that men and women agents are engaged in various cities procuring girls by such flattering offers, and beguiling them to the great show city for immoral purposes. Girls, as well as parents and guardians, need to be on their guard against, not only St. Louis, but the allurements of every city.