Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-23
ATLANTIC CITY GAY
PROMINENT CITIZENS, Y. M. c. A.
MEMBERS, ARE HIT.
REFORM CLUB RECEIVES SHOOK

Atlantic City. May 20. = Many
lights in the glass house of respecta-
bility of the Business Mems League
of this city have been smashed with
clatter and bang of scandal enough
70 open Pandora boxes in a dozen
homes and cause some three hun
ored citizens to run to cover and
search for alibis for the night of
May Z, when a smoker was held at
the Hotel Islesworth to commmeo-
rate the coming of age of the organi-
cation.
The Citizens Reform League,
which has succeeded in parching At
iantic City with the dryness of Sa-
nara on Sundays. is the cause of the
smashing of windows in the glass
house and so we'll have they done
their work that tonight Public Prose
cutor Abbott, of Mays Landing, is
sued subpoenas for ten citizens to
appear before the grand jury and
tell what they saw at the smoker
and give their opinion as to whether
or not the events of the evening
We're "disreputable. disgusting and
disgraceful' and a violation of
every common edcency."
Mo-" emphatically say the mem
bers of the Business Mems League
in public and private and they are
determined to fight the Reform
League to the bitter finish. The fes-
tive occasion was participated in by
three hundred members of the
league. which is composed of the
reputable business men in Atlantic
City.
A soubrette was the cause of all
the scandal. This particular SOU
brette. if reports be true, was a
dizzy blonde. with lips of marvellous
redness. skirts of marvellous fluff
ness. She danced. she sang and she
stood on her head and told stories.
There were other artists, too. So
wonderfully did she move a staid
member and official of the Y. NJ. C.
A, it is said. that when she pursed
her lips he sprang forward as gal
liant as could be wished, and receiv-
ed the loud cheers of the assemblage
Tor his hardihood
why, of course. Why not?" he
said later when he was asked if he
really did salute the soubrette II
saw the young fellows hanging back
as though they were scared, and to
teach them by precept and example
had to kiss her"
Other things happened that were
told of in whispers at street corners.
but they passed as episodes and We're
forgotten for the most part in week
until their memory was revived with
a sudden jar that has got the town by
the ears. The revival of memory be-
gan with the suggestion on the mart
of the Business Mems. League that
committee be appointed to confer
with a committee of the Reform Club
on the subject of saloons.
Back came the answer. tart and
incisive. The Reform association
would gladly confer with any five
but it was beneath their dignity to
confer with committee represent
ing an association that could coun-
tenance such a ''di1susting. disgrace
full and disreputable smoker which
went to such point that men of
standing and with regard for their
families should have left for home"
None of them left for home. the Re-
form associations answer noted;
therefore none of the Business Mems
League for The Reform association.
The letter itself was a bombshell.
and its authorship was ascribed to
hardshell Baptist who has been par
ticularly active in the saloon crusade.
But tonight came the hardest blow.
when the public prosecutor sent out
summones for V. B. Griffin. presi-
dent of the local Y. NJ. c. A; Carl
Voelker. proprietor of the Freie
Presse: F.. n. Manning. Chelsea
real estate man; City Solicitor Harry
Wooten. NJ. j. Collins and five others.
They must go and tell.