On April 5th, 1911, the report of the Vice Commission was presented to the Mayor and City Council of the City of Chicago and the following action was taken:

The Clerk presented the following communication submitted by the Vice Commission:

CHICAGO, ILL., April 5, 1911.

Hon. Fred A. Busse,

Mayor of Chicago, and the

Honorable, the City Council,

SIRS:

The Chicago Vice Commission, authorized by ordinance of the City Council of the City of Chicago passed June 27, 1910, and appointed by you under date of July 5, 1910, transmits herewith, in compliance with the terms of the ordinance, its report on existing conditions respecting vice, together with its recommendations for the suppression thereof.

Very respectfully,

(Signed) WALTER T. SUMNER,

Chairman.

(Signed) EDWIN W. SIMS,

Secretary.

Alderman Foell moved that the report transmitted with the foregoing communication be placed on file, and that the said Commission be continued in existence until June 1st, 1911, or until such time thereafter as might be necessary to finish its outstanding business. The motion prevailed.

Alderman Foell thereupon presented the following order, which was, on motion, duly passed:

Ordered: That the Vice Commission be authorized to print, publish and distribute such number of copies of its report as the appropriation already made will warrant and that it be further authorized to print, publish and distribute such extra copies of its report as the Commission may deem necessary, provided that the publication of such extra copies be without expense to the City.

Outline of Study

Made by the

Commission

f. Number, age, previous occupation of inmates.
g. Price, character and amount of service demanded.
h. Sanitary conditions.

Character of neighborhood.

j. How are police rules obeyed.

k. What are the police relations to the resorts.
Social allurements in resorts.

1.

p. Robbing of patrons.

q. The "Cadet" problem.

r.

Extent of use of cocaine and drugs at present time.

S. Method of advertising.

2. Assignation houses.

a. Number.

b. Location.

d. Prices of women who solicit for these places.

II. COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL EVIL AND SALOON.

1. How the saloon makes for prostitution.
a. Saturday night dance.

b. Saloon dance.

2. Co-operation between the saloon and resorts.
Resorts with entrances through saloons.

a.

b. Bed houses and saloons,

c. Midnight closing.

d. The sale of liquor in resorts, sociability; physical influ

ence.

e. Joint ownership between saloons and resorts.
f. Saloon keepers and prostitutes.

g. Resort runners in saloons.

III. COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL EVIL AND POLICE.

1. Efficiency of Police under present conditions.
Records.

2.

a. Character of records desirable to be kept:
1. Owners of property.

2. Houses.

b. Should police officers be permitted to retain such records,

C.

or

1. Should they be filed at headquarters as official matter. Advisability of establishing a bureau at headquarters for records of entire city, and from which point, and through which bureau a more or less complete control of the situation might be had.

3. Inspection.

4.

a.

Should police inspection and surveillance of resorts include a room to room visit at unstated periods, to 1. Search for liquor.

2. Examine into sanitary conditions.

3. Collect data for reports.

4. Listen to complaints.

5. See that rules and regulations of Department are carried out.

Protection, question of:

a.

Police protection of inmates and keepers against disturbance of the order of the places.

b. Should resorts be guaranteed police protection, when they comply with rules and regulations. The word "protectection" used in its legitimate sense, and not in the