The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-05-11
SCANDAL AT HOME
OF vASSAR COLLEGE
Crusade Against Road House
Almost in Shadow of Fa-
nous Institution.
MANY GIRLS LEAVE TOWN
Married Women Also Depart. 1t is Be,
iieved, to Avoid Being Called Into
Court-Priest Denounces the
Hosiery.

Pcughkeepsie. N. Y, May 9.-With
the opening skirmish in a big crusade
for the suppression of vice in this city.
famed as the home of Vassar college,
q social storm has started hat mem
aces half a hundred homes of wealth.
The guns of the crusaders are trained
at the outset on the Savoy hotel, a lit
tie hosiery that stands barely 100 feet
beyond the municipal boundary and all
most within the shadow of he famous
college for young ONE
This roadside resort the crusaders
have vowed to destroy, and then they
are pledged to march on and drive out
all others that do not meet with thei
approval. The Dewey house, u resort
that a long Been under the ban Of
the police and the advocates OF reform,
has been forced to close its doors, and
the proprietor, Walter Winager, is a
fugitive.
William c. Champlin, proprietor of
the Savoy. has been arrested on a
charge of keeping Il disorderly resort,
and the hearing of the evidence in the
case will begin on Monday. This trial
promises to unearth a social scandal
such as the good people of Poughkeep-
sic had never dreamed possible.
Nearly a score of girls belonging to
highly respectable families n rang
ing in from 16 to is years have
fled from h jurisdiction of the mag
istrate's court, where the hearing of
the case is scheduled to take place
With these girls the police meant to
contribute to their evidence showing
that the little wayside inn is a resort
for disorderly and immoral persons.
Several of these girl fugitives are
members of well-known families and
the fathers and mothers are in bliss
full ignorance of the true reasons for
their daughters departure from the
city. On one preteNt or another the
girls got permission to go away for a
little visit with friends so as to avoid
the service of subpoenas Oh them by
the police. They are not expected to
return until the storm around the Sa-
o hotel has subsidized. /,
But these girls are not the only fu-
gitives. Half a dozen married women
the wives of respected business men
In the c~ity--have found it convenient
to leave town within the last few days
for visits with relatives or friends.
The wholesale service of subpoenas by
the police on those who are supposed
TO know a great deal about the char
acter of the Champlin resort so alarmed
these women that they lost no time in
putting themselves beyond the reach
of the crusaders.
More than eighty, witnesses nave been.
for the hearing, and of theaN
nearly half are young girls and married
Women Fol several days Charles J.
McCabe, the Chief of police. has been
holding s~tar-Snamber proceedings i'm
his private office at police headquar-
tiers. In that time he has had before
him twenty or thirty girls-daughters
of some of the best families-and many
of them have made fearful confess
sions tending to show that the hotel
kept by ChamDlin is not a desirable
resort for young wo1nen
Champlin's place was the inspira-
ton a short time ago for a sermon by
Father DAILY, in St. Mary's church, that
stirred up the entire parish. After the
April grand jury had failed to indict
Champlin in face of a big bundle of
evidence tending to show that his hotel
was not of the most orderly character.
Father DAILY came out in plain words
II warned the fathers and mothers
in the city that they shotld take care
that their daughters did not go there
or to II of the other resorts of that
character.
A few days later Father Daily was
halted in the street not far from the,
hotel by Champlin. who demanded to
know why he had been made the sub
ject of an attack. Father DAILY told
him that he had done no more than his
duty.
81 went 20 the police in behalf of a
young girl who had Disappeared" said
the priest, "and if the search led to
"our door, ! am not responsible for it,"