Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-05-17
SCANDAL AT HOME
OF vASSAR COLLEGE
Crusade Against Road Houss
Almost in Shadow Of Fa-
NOUS institution.
MANN GIRLS LEAVE TOWN
Married Women Also Depart, 1t Is Be'
iieved. to Avoid Being Called Into
Court-Priest Dcnounces the
Hostclry.

P~cuYhkeepsio. y. Y. May min
the opening skirmish in i bis CRUSADE.
for The suppression of VIE III This city.
famed as the home of Nassar college.
a social storm has started that men
aces half a hundred homes OF wealth.
The guns of the crusaders are trained
at the outset on the savoy hotel. Il lit
tie hostelry hat stands barely 100 feet
beyond the municipal boundary and al
most within the shadow of the famous
college for youns women.
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 their
approval. the peWey house, u resort
that a long Heen under the ban of
the police and the advocates OF reform.
has been forced to close It's doors. and
h proprietor, Walter Winagcr. is u
fugitive.
William c. Champlin. proprietor of
the Savoy. has been arrested OF a
charge of keeping a disorderly resort.
and the hearing of the evidence in the
case will begin on Monday. This trial
promises to unearth a social ScandaI
such as the good people OF P%oughkecp-
sic had never dreamed possible.
Nearly Il score of girls belonging to
highly respectable families and rang
ing in age from 16 to Is years nave
fled from the jurisdiction OF the mag
istlate's court, where the hearing OF
h case is scheduled to take place
With these girls the police meant to
contribute to their evidence showing
that the little wayside inn is II resort
for disorderly and immoral persons.
Several of these girl fugitives are
members of w~ell-known families and
the fathers II mothers are in bliss
full ignorance of the true reasons for
their daughters departure from the
city. ON one preteXt or another the
girls got permission to go away for Il
little visit with friends So as to avoid
the service of subpoenas on them by
the police. They are not expected to
return until the storm round the Sa-
voy hotel has subsidized.
Blu these girls are not the only fu-
g%itives. Half n dozen married women
the wives of respected business men
in the city--haNe found it convenient
TO cave town within the last few days
for visits with relatives or friends.
The wholesale service of s%ubpoenas by
the police on those who arc supposed
to know a great deal about the char
acter of the Champlin resort so alarmed
these women that they lost no time i'm
putting themselves beyond the reach
of the crusaders.
More than eighty witnesses ave been
for the hearing. and of these
ave- - ~ - ~ L. CIV lllstI lGA
women. For several days Charles j.
Mccabe, the chief OF police. has been
holding star-chamber proceedings in
his private office at police %headuuar-
ters. In hat 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 Chamnlin is not II desirable
resort for u women.
Champlin's place vas The inspira-
ton Il short time ago for 81 sermon bv
Father DAILY. in st. Mary's church. that
stirred up the entire parish. After the
April grand jury had failed TO indict
C%hainplin in lace of Il big bundle of
evidence tending to show that his hotel
was not of the most orderly character
Father Daily came out In plain words
and warned the fathers n mothers
In the city that they shoVld take care
thai their daughters did not go there
or to any 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.
Il went 20 the police in behalf of q
young girl who had disappeared" saic
the priest, land If the search led I,
"our door. I am not responsible for it,