The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-29
SOCIETY STIRRED.
War on Rich Club Men of
Whites Glass
Will Follow as Result of the Ar
chitect's Death.
WILL DRIVE THEM OUT
Anthony COmstOck Declares
Moral Peryerts Must Go.
Stories Of Revels and Midnight
Suppers.
DRIVE THEM OUT


New York. June 2s@The American
says; The murder of Stanford White
on the roof of Madison Square Garden
last Monday night by Harry Thaw is
going to bring about a war on moral
perverts in New York. Anthony Com
stock, of the Society for the Proven
ton of Vice. has already begun work in
this crusade, as Harry Thaw had taken
him into his confidence two weeks be-
fore the murder.
Il will drive every moral pervert out
of New York" said Mr.. Comstock with
the utmost decision to an American re-
porter who saw him last night at his
country home, No. So Beekman road,
Summit, n. J.
Let me repeat that the moral per-
vert must go. The murder of Stanford
White has given US an opening wedge
that We have long needed.
THE investigation must go on now
to the bitter end, without fear or favor,
or how brilliant the perverts may be.
The trails will lead into the most ax-
elusive clubs, and many a man who
has been generally held in the highest
esteem must be tumbled into the mire,
where he belongs.
Put a Watch ON White.
eff all the things I have heard about
Stanford White, or half of them even,
are true, he richly deserves his fate at
the hands Of young Thaw. Complaint
was made to me about a year ago of
the vile proceedings in his studio in
the tower of Madison Square Garden.
We were quite certain that young girls
were being led there to their ruin.
The outrage of such behavior on the
part Of a man of Whites wealth and
prominence impressed the society,
and two men were detailed to watch
he ekr. kg-4r- .4--T-k
more effectively an attempt was made
to rent a studio in the tower, but this
proved impossible. The only reason
White was not arrested for these
escapades was that the evidence was
not complete.
ago to tell me Of White. He explained
his own trouble and told of many
young girls whom White had ruined.
He cited various instances and de-
clared that he had the proof He was
much worked up over the whole affair
a great surprise to me.
II really believe that ThaW was act
uated by the very best of motives in
this matter. I agreed with him, when
we discussed It, that moral perverts /
should be driven out of the city and
that every effort should be put forward
to protect young girls from these rich
and influential men,"
Mr.. COmstock was unable to give The
American names and dates OF the cases
cited by ThaW in his complaint against
Stanford White. They were with the
other records of the society in his Mas
sau street office He offered to give the
fullest Investigation to any evidence of
perversion which The American might
bring to him.
AS the authorities began to probe in
to the private life of White. they no
longer marvel that he was shot down
last Monday night.
The investigation has already shown
that there is an organized band of rich
clubmen and artists who make victims
and of the poorer homes. Their treat
ment of these girls, many of them mere
children, is too brutal for description.
Called Them Little PARTIES
Little parties is the way the devo-
tees love to characterize their revels
The police are now probing for details
as to the hosts and guests at these
little parties
Chief among the episodes recalled last
night in the Tenderloin in which Stan
ford White and his band of cronies in
social and sO-called art circles figured
SO prominently were the dinners given
by two Of his closest friends, James
Lawrence Breese, the society artist, and
Robert Reid, the noted club man and
ecclesiastical decorator.
The Breese dinner. which became
famous for the girl IN the pie incident
was held in Breese's carbon studio"
No. West Sixteenth street his present
home. Breese, Stanford White and
Robert White were the organizers of
club called THE Carbonites,'' which
took its name from the Breese studio,
one of the most luxuriously equipped
places of its kind in the world. The
features of that dinner were many and
curious, but the climax was reached
when the door was opened and four gi-
gantic walters entered bearing a NAM
moth pie from which, at given signal
and to the strains of the nursery lula
by, -Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Baked in a. Pie" Susie Johnson, a Is
year-old model, scantily draped in black,
with wings attached to her shoulders,
burst forth. AS the child emerged she
released twenty-four canaries, which
flew around the room that had been
transformed into a bower of roses.
The following named men we're
present as guests:
John Elliot Cowdin, Robert Reid, J.
Alden Weir. Cooper Hewitt, Henry w
McVickar, Augustus st. Gaudens, Stan
ford White, Charles F McKirn, Charles
Dana Gibson, John D. Cheever, VIII
liam Astor Chanler, ". Rutherford
Mead. Robert Bacon. J. Kennedy Tod,
George E. Perkins, William T. Lawson,
John Twachtman, Rene La Montague,
Whitney Warren, Thomas L. Manson,
Jr., James Barnes, Henry c. Mortimer,
R. Suydam Grant, Alfred L. Collins,
Edward Simmons, Willard Metca1f,
John Greenough and John Ames
Mitchell.
All the guests We'd with one another
in their eagerness to honor this child
model, taken from the tenements only
a few months before by an artist
named Thomas Shields Clark to sud
denly become the star Of the palaces
of art maintained by rich men OF the
Stanford White clique.
The New Model Vanishes.
Two days after the revel Sadie John
sen disappeared. Her mother, dis
tracted, made the rounds OF the studios
in vain All the artists professed
ignorance of the whereabouts of the
girl Then the mother went to the
nnlica and Rreesa. II Is said exneri-