The herald., 1897-04-26

free entertainment. This was given by
one of the girls mounting box and de-
scribing a most enticing entertainments
that would take place in still another
room beyond-for 10 cents. The subject
was made more enticing to the male vis-
itor by large colored picture on the
walls of this room representing three
pretty girls "unadorned" except by
small ribbon across their loins. Above
them was painted in large letters:
"Great Indian Piute Dance" although
visitors could not see any resemblance 10
squaws, and perhaps did not care. Be
low the picture were the words: Just as
nature created them" 1t was evidently
intended as the best drawing card in the
pack, and 1t did draw the dimes.
The show auditorium was about 12xl2,
with a. rough rail across a few feet from |
the stage. No seats for the visitors were
visible and they lined up and leaned on |
the rail. The grand orchestra was COM
posed of a fiddle and guitar. Before the |
regular performance on the stage, sew
eral Of the most probable suckers were |
invited into small curtained room, to
see something special" Upon entering
this room. which contained a chair for
the visitor, a woman politely asked for
his left hand and read the lines accord
ing to palnistry. When the fortune
telling was completed a fee of 90 cents
was asked, which of course many paid
The stage performance consisted OF
three acts, occupying about three min
utes' time, little dancing OF the snort
skirted girls and an attempt to lit the
magnetic" girl from the floor There
was some complaint by the visitors
while inside. but they said nothing after
passing out.
WORK OF THE POLICE
I'M spite of the loud cry against the
carnival time and the assertion tnat
drunkenness and crime are largely IN
creased by the license of the time, yet
the police records fail entirely to sup
mort the statement Notwithstanding
the immense crowds that paraded the
nrincipal streets for far the greater por-
tion of Saturday night, aside from ac-
cidents, the police were not required to
exercise their powers more frequently
than on any other end of the week night.
The record of the department from
| Saturday morning at 1905 o'clock to
Sunday morning at Ais o'clock includes
twelve arrests for drunkenness, six for
medical treatment, three for vagrancy,
| four for disturbing the peace, one Tor
assault with a deadly weapon, and one
| lost boy Twenty-one arrests were made
altogether, not including the six cases
for medical treatment, and these latter
| formed the only unusual feature of the
work of the department for the twenty,
eight hours they represent.
Clerk Bean says that the arrests were
not as frequent as on many ordinary
Saturday nights, and the statement
goes far to disprove the saying that
an increase of small crime is noticeable,
consequent upon the liberty allowed for
that one night
After all is said, the fact remains that
only those who made 1T their business
to seek ths>saloons, low dances and 9TH
er questionable resorts were confronted
| with anything which could cause
blush of shame. The best of order was
| maintained in the Streets the maskers
generally kept to the center of the road
way and those who preferred to look on
rather than participate in the revelry
were unmolested. That there were
many who availed themselves of the
opportunity to see from behind dis
guise the seamy side of the city's life
is true. Many hundreds of women VINO v.iln
their identity entered the bar-rooms.
drank, and in some instances became
| intoxicated even to the point of help
| lessness.
| Those who went to the balls did so
| with a full knowledge of what would
| probably transpire, paid their money
| in this expectation, and would have
been disappointed had things not oc-
Cured as they did. Even at these places
| the spectator who minded his own busi-
ness was not molested. That the het-
erogeneous crowd was out for fun was
manifest, and, safe behind their masks.
which they were at no time compelled
to remove. those who sought for shady
sights and scenes found them, as they
can at any time in certain sections of
the city.