The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-10-05


of the city counsel were introduced
to Councilman Everharts proposed
ordinance against the existing private
boxes in fashionable restaurants and
cafes in this city last night. After a
stormy session the bill was laid over
for consideration until Monday night
at the regular meeting of the council
Chief of Police Wilson handed in
revised list of these restaurants which
comprised fc-ty-eight saloons and
twenty-eight restaurants, thus violat-
ing the law. The first speaker was
Richard T. Kessler, proprietor of
Pabst Cafe, on Eleventh street, who
represented the restaurant men in the
fight. He said:
Il stand for law and order. AS
| far as boxes are concerned they are
for people who want privacy, where
they cannot be overheard or intrud-
ed upon. No lady under the age of
Is can get any liquor in my restaur-
ant. The best people of Oakland
have required me to put them in, and
| | represent the feeling of the restaur-
ant keepers here when [ say you will
not punish us by this ordinance so
much as you will your city"
First Step TO Ruin.
Carlos ID. White was next to speak.
| He said: There is a difference be-
tween privacy and secrecy. In Los
Angeles and San Jose there is an or
dinance against such and all the
compartments are open at one end
and open not into the hall or the
a
room. Gentlement of the council, the
records of the probation office show
that the first step of a girl downward
in the majority of cases is the en-
trance into one of these curtaiued
| booths"
Beatrice Mccall, assistant probation
officer, was next called upon to tell
of her experiences. She said: Il
had hoped that by telling the Nom
bers of the council in private that the
matter would have been settled With
out this public demonstration. | vii!
have to contradict the restaurant men
who say that there is nothing out of
the way going on in hese boxes. Care
full questioning into girls probl ans
! has revealed to me many q case
which otherwise would have escaped
the light. Last month girl If years
old went into one of these boX-s and
stayed there until s o'clock. At y
| o'clock she was in a house of prOsti-
tuition and had been there a month
when we discovered her. A woman
looking for her Is year old daughter
one night not long ago happened to
hear her voice behind ono of the
curtains of respectable cafe box
She tried to open the curtain and
found it buttoned. She tore it open
and saw her daughter, n:oxlc lted,
sitting on a mans lap. A month ago
a girl of Is was known to have stay
cd in one of these places drinking
until o'clock"
Miss Mccall was asked 10y til,
committee to tell where these places
were, and after being urged she
stated that the former case occurred
in Pabst's cafe and the latter in
Milan e Dams.
Miss Susan b. Fenon o. the Asso-
C ated Charities, next spoke Of Il
ward of theirs, aged II, who two
weeks ago. working her way in a
store, had been brought to ruin
through the innocent drinking of
wine in one of these places.
Asks Sharp Question.
| Bessie j. Wood, president of the
Child's Welfare League, Wno had got
up from sick bed to attend the
meeting, next arose and spoke vol
umes in one que ton. "Is it posi-
BILE" she asked, chat we women Of
Oakland have to come here ard ask
you men to protect your " YES aud
daughters and sisters? If you will
not protect us women, maybe the fact
that young men are also led into
crime through this agency will stir
you to action"
Christopher Rucss, probation Off
Ger, who was next to speak said:
you have plenty to protect proper
ty. but it t. time we are passing laws
to protect character, This ordinance
is not going to ruin anybody's bust
ness. it will only curtail a small lille
Ultimate and immoral profit. If
these were your girls who had started
down through the primrose path,
would you not feel like taking some
measure against them?'
pat" Kissich proprietor of the
Saddle Rock Cafe. arose to deny the
three allegations that there had been
two college students drinking in his
place with a girl Is years old and
replying to Reuss' statement that
there had been three young couples
enter his place between II and 1890
Saturday night, he claimed that if
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