He had written down the hymns for several future services, one under the other, and on the way home was stopping to look at them, under convenient lamp-posts, and finally by the light of the lamp in a tenement-house hallway; and it was this conduct which struck the sagacious man in uniform as "suspicious." One of the saddest features of police work is dealing with the social evil, with prostitutes and houses of ill fame.

In so far as the law gave me power, I always treated the men taken in any raid on these houses precisely as the women were treated.

My experience brought me to the very strong conviction that there ought not to be any toleration by law of the vice.

I do not know of any method which will put a complete stop to the evil, but I do know certain things that ought to be done to minimize it.

One of these is treating men and women on an exact equality for the same act.