The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-11-23
Chief O'Hare Escorts Girls
from Dance Hall Floors
on Saturday Night.
BAN PLACED ON TURKEY TROT
Proprietors of the Dance Halls are No
titled That Licenses Will be Revoked
if Girls are Allowed to Frequent the
Places in the Future.

Chief of Police O'Hare and members
Of the Kenosha police department. took
up the reform movement with veng-
eance on Saturday night when they raid
ed two north side dance halls and took
away from them score of girls under
age and served notice on the proprie-
tors of the two halls and of all other
halls in the city that arrests would be
made if girls under age of IS years
are permitted in the places in the
future. Nor was this all for the chief of
the department got busy in looking
over the dances and ordered that
ssGrizzly Bear and Turkey Trot "
numbers be eliminated from the pro
grams in the dance halls in Kenosha in
the future. Moonlight dances will al
so be under the ban unless they are
given with the lights pretty well taken
care of.
The two halls visited were Schlitz
hall and Germania hall, both on Mil
waulzee avenue. The chief and his men
arrived at the halls just after ten
O clock when the dance was just get
ting good and the chief without any
warning walked on the floors and be-
gan ordering the little girls out of the
place Some of them protested and de
clared that they had gone to the dances
with the full consent of their parents
but they were promptly informed that
they would not be permitted to remain
and they donned their wraps and lef
the hall. None of the young girls was
drinking in the rooms connected with
the dance halls at the time of the visit
Of the chief.
In the past few months complaints
have been coming in by the score thai
girls in short dresses have been attend
ing dances at the various halls abou
the city. These complaints have beer
in the form of demands that the city
officials take. some steps to put an end
to these dances.
In the future the chief will have
two police officers on guard at every
dance hall and he will arrest any girls
under the age Of Is entering the places
regardless of conditions. "Girls must
keep out of these dance halls,n de
clared the chief after the visit on Sat
urday night. "The parents of these
little girls should be glad to help us
in keeping them away from these places
and we are going to use stringent meas
ures against the proprietors of places
who admit these girls. We appreciate
the fact that these girls may go~fo
the dance halls with the consent of
their parents, but at that we are 60
ing to look after them if the parents
will not and they will be kept out y
It is declared that some of the dance
halls will be forced to close by the order
of the police eliminating the little girls
from the dancing floors and that the
order against the "Grizzly Bear" and
the Turkey Trot" will take away a
lot of interest from the dances.
AS yet the reform movement has not
reached the stalls in saloons in the city
and it is declared that in the past week
two saloons have added stalls to their
equipment. These saloons will be close
ly watched by the police and it is de-
clared that the first offense against the
law will result in arrests of the pro.
prietors as well as all the people found
in the saloons. The police propose +,
make stringent regulations for the GOV.
serning of these saloons and police Of
ficers have been given notice to keer
an especial watch on all saloons with
stalls for the use of women. IT is
thought that the order viii go a LONG
way toward breaking up the practice
of the use of these stalls as people on
tering them viii be liable to arrest at
any time under charges of disorderlv
conduct.