The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

>~~~~~-~~~~~~~-~ | attracted attention in the Tenderloin, and | he Is credited with some of the liveliest escapades in the memory of the rounders. l While maintaining private town res | idence, magnificently furnished and splen- didly appointed with everything marking | a refined home, and country residence on | the same plane at St. James L. l., his | retreat in the tower of Madison Square | Garden was being watched by detectives | of the Society for the Prevention of Cru | city of Children, complaint having been made against White by the enraged father | of a girl but IA years of age.
 | More than one complaint had been | made by parents, but their suspicious were explained away on one pretext or another until such plausible ground for official action appeared that New York | City and White narrowly escaped the spectacle of being arraigned on heniuos charge.
 His Mysterious Second Retreat. l Less than a year ago White engaged | Room in a popular restaurant in Be- hema. White held possession of this apartment for five months. Only one con- 1 struction could be placed on the object he had in view and the uses to which the room was put. He did not need 1t for sleeping purposes within four short blocks of hiss residence. He did not need it for entertaining acquaintances he would not invite to his home; he had his retreat in Madison Square tower.
 | Finally the management of the restau- rant asked him to surrender possession of the room. it being explained to him that they needed 1t for restaurant pur- poses That he always had room at his disposal in hotel unfrequented by his family and their friends is a notorious fact throughout the theatre district | 1z.-. l. | illustrated by the position he held as president of '"The Chorus Girls club" an organization title that Is a misnomer as the club is composed of men, bon-vivants, for need of a better word. The clubs"
 main and sole object was the entertain- ment of chorus girls. The entertainments usually began in restaurants, but not all
 ways.
 | White himself is known to have boasted of belonging to another organization. the objects of which were discussed in safe l company only. Only men were members, and they had no women guests Only as matter of rare privilege would those &C., l ouainted with the object of this club talk about it with their most intimate Tender loin friends. and then only under the l pledge of absolute secrecy.
 Orgies In the Tower.
 His studio in the Madison Square Gar den tower was at once an expression of 1 his skill and taste as an artist and Of | the darker side of his nature. Here 1t | was high over the old trees of the square | that he maintained rendezvous and a | retreat. The place was elaborately fur nished, it's keynote the luxury that pleases and invites. And it was thoroughly ar | tistic as well. for .ate was an artist ! first of all. He gave his fancy fullest sway here, and 1t was a rich fancy. Rare old paintings marked these mid | night playgrounds; there were beauti- 1 full paintings. dainty tahosre.tes, classic i tapestries. divans of the east, everything to charm and please the senses. And here 1t was that White allowed himself full