New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-16
ANTHONY rs SHOCKED.
In Horrifed Tones he Tells What He Saw
In Midway Plaisance.
Hard Featured Wemen Who Disgust Far
More Than They Please.
Insults to Womanhood and Shameless
Depravity.

trOm inc Midway flalSanCe. lie n2S
seen a great many things to talk about
more than any one can guess - but re-
fuses to talk so much as he might. He
says that this IS Il time TO act, not to talk,
saws the New York Recorder. He will
do the talking later, if it is necessary.
So soon as people knew that the NOV
ing spirit of the Society for the Suppress
sion of Vice had visited the Midway
Plaisance, they became interested. 1t is
no secr,t that there are features of the
Midway Plaisance which are casting
blemishes upon the brilliancy of the
worlds fair and reproach upon the fair
name of Chicago. Unwholesome stories
have been brought back by supersensiti We
visitors, and those who profess to know
thing or two have been looking at each
other with significant glances whenever
Midway PlaisaEce was mentioned. The
press dispatches from Chicago have
steadily ignored these queer things, how
ever.
Anthony Comstock Was lectaring in
! the West few weeks ago, and casually
dropped o.Chicago. He didn't want
to be known. He wanted to see all the
nice things of the fair just rs so many
other distinguished people have seen
them-incog. He had heard the queer
stories, too. A minister had been the
first to confde in him. Then came a
laywer from the Equitable building who
had been shocked by a few things upon
I which he came quite lnnocently when
doing the Midway Plaisance with his
family.
So Anthony Comstock entered upon a
careful study of the Midway Plaisance.
He spent two whole days in his investi-
cations, and came back to New York
Friday Last so completely unstrung by
what he had seen that he fastened i'm
mediately to his pretty little summer
cottage overlooking the quiet waters of
Villa Park, near Spring Lake, N. j., to
try to collect his thoughts.
Before Anthony Comstock left Chicago
he met President Higinbotham, several
of the directors of the fair and many of
the board of lady managers. They shared
his apprehensions and promised to purify
the atmosphere of the Midway Plaisance.
Their actions were kept SO secret, how
ever, that a Recorder reporter was sent
TO question Mr.. Comstock.
The reporter found Mr.. Comstock Sit
ting in a big rustic arm chair behind a
round table upon his front veranda. The
table was covered with papers. The
lynx-eyed exposer of vice was bareheaded,
and SO busy with his writing that he did
not hear The carriage as it drew up al
most within reach of his arm.
"Good afternoon, Mr.. Comstock"
He looked up abstractedly and then
recognized his caller.
':Good afternoon, sir; good afternoon -
81 have come from New York to talk
with you little upon a very interesting
subject explained the reporter.
''Yes!"
Zone that everybody is hearing good
deal about. lately"
''Yes?'
s.Yes.'
"Well?"
'.The Midway Plalsance.'
"Ah!
It was an exclamation of mingled dis
appointment, displeasure and regretful
recollection. Mr. Comstock laid his pen
down carefully and mused while.
81 don't know whether tits or not" he
murmured. -
"But you undoubtedly saw great
deal there?'' suggested the reporter.
There was one eloquent sweeping side
glance of those vice penetrating blue eyes
and then they were closed while Anthony
Comstock rocked rapidly back and forth
in his big arm chair.
EYES," he exclaimed, dreamily, ssI did
see a great deal. saw enough. A great
plenty. saw what astounded me and
made my blood boil with indignation at
that burning insult to American women
to our mothers, wives and daughters.
Yes, sir, couldn't find words to express
my Indignation and astonishment and
loathing for what saw in the Midway
Plaisance."
All three shades Of feeling were faith
fully registered in the blue eyes, as An