Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-30
PULLED BY THE POLICE
The Proprietors of a Disreput-
able Dive on East Park
Street Arrested.
Laudible Efforts of the Authori.
ties to Suppress a Tough
Resort.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
Last night about 10 O'Clock Marsha
Macarthur and officer Lennon arrested
Charles Provost and George Massey OF
warrants charging them with employing
girls in a dance hall where liquors are sold
which, under the city ordinance and stat'
law constitutes a crime. This is the seconc
time an arrest has been made for THU
o~ffense. At the former trial the parti,
arrested set up tie defense thatthe bar aDC
dance hail were located in separated build
ings and did not properly come within the
provisions OF the law; that one Of then
owned the bar Individually while the dance
house in which the girls we're employed val
operated wholly by the other. The former
set up the claim hat if the girls and Their
associates desired to come from the ad.
joining building and patronize his bar he
could not help it, and was therefore not to
blame.
The saloon and dance house in question
are located in q basement on East Park
street, near Wyoming, in damp, smoke and
dirt begrimed rooms, reached by means of
a steep stairway. To the right, on enter
ing. is the bar Passing in aud to the left,
cut off from the bar by a partition, is a
foul smelling place dignifed in name as the
dancing parlor. Here are a number of fade
daisies, whose ugliness, with a few excep-
tions, would brighten a freight train orstop
a Dakota blizzard. From their sensual
and beer sodden faces, their bleary eyes
stick out like pairs OF I, led eggs. Their evo-
lutions on the floor approach about as
near the poetry of motion as the ridiculous
waddle OF a Muscovy duck. At the conclu-
sion OF the dance, and they change with
alarming frequency, each male participant
is expected to escort his female partner to
the bar and buy the drinks.
Standing on q faded piece Of carpet, the
antique appearance OF which suggests that
it is a curio that escaped the ravages of
time since the landing OF the ark, is a
piano, the music of which has a decided
tendency to lower the rent OF the builGiu.s
for a block around. A lean, lank, busby-
haired biped of the male persuasion, whose
expression of hopelessness suggests hay
ing reached that couditloi: where life has
become a burden, thumps away on the
wheezy Keys, while a deep, b~ass-voiced
youth almost browns the alleged music
as he urges on the dance. The Fl wing dan.
GERS perspire t eely in thefoetid atmosphere
OF vile whisky fumes and cabbage leaf
cigars until the odor permeating the
implies proximity to q tan yard.
The place is recognized by the police as a
hold out for frayed out gentility and dis
reputable buns, and the efforts Of Mar.
-hal Macarthur to suppress it will meet the
of all respectable citizens,
The orgies that occur there nightly are
from public view by a PORTER sus-
pended across the entrance. Men in all
of life, from the newly arrived, |
.el-dressed tenderfoot with a BILE |
roll" to the Keeling, drunken bum, swarm |
about the place from the time the sable
curtains OF night begin to fall until the first
amt fush OF coming morn gilds the Eastern
ky. The proprietors are coming money
ind ii left alone will soon accumulate a
When taken into custody last night TIE
'roprieters furnished cash bonds in the
OF 500 each aud were released. The
i ir;f;ssc a and f,a 90 ii%inteGrugtion Of the fes-
,a6 even the piano player skipping a note.
ne girls and their partners braced them
ewes against the sombre colored bar
punished their outraged stomachs with
quo lightning just as usual, while a num-
er OF financially embarrassed hangers-on
oppressed sympathy for the proprietors in
opes OF being offered a drink. There are
,Verai similar places in this CITY but the
lymplc takes first money as being the
'ughest of them all. y"