The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-12
Fashionable Guests Found
Watching Chicago Cabarets.
Women Into Hysterics-Men
Try to Bride Police.
TANGO and APACHE WIGGLES
Girl Wore Pink Tights and
Skirt of Chiffon.
Sensual Acts Send Young
Women to Their Ruin.

Chicago, April 12.-Agents of the
!. Illinois vice commission late last night
land early today brought consterna-
ton to the fashionable guests of two
down town administrations and
the States-ag ainst reputation of
which there rested no question, except
Il the nature of the cabaret entertain
i ments.
From these cafes only the managers
and members of the cabaret shows
i were Subpoenaed. The witnesses thus
summoned were questioned by the
! vice commission as to smut songs
which are alleged features of cabaret.
! From the tenderloin, men and
women sightseers out stunning"
were gathered wholesale, and brought
before the commission. One woman,
/ in hysterica1 fear of disgrace, tried to
jump from a window when the invad-
ers with subpoenas reached a restau-
rant in the vice district. Another
woman fell on her knees and wept. A
man jammed a roll of bills into the
hands of an officer. Take this, for
Gods sake he cried, land let my
party go. You don't know what this
| means"
| Officers kept back from the doors
the rushing mob inside and finally re-
stored order. Then the prisoners
| were bundled into automobiles and
taken down to police headquarters.
Chicago, April 12.-While the cab
aret was in full blaze investigators OF
| the senatorial vice commission enter
| ed two down towns restaurants and
wine room in the tenderloin last night
and brought performers, managers and
guests to the Hotel La Sale for inter-
rogation at a session which lasted un-
til o'clock this morning.
| From some of them the senators
drew reluctant admissions that few
of the songs and dances might be-
effect upon the diners. A girl sing
er, crying as she testified. asserted
she never would sing, I'm My Harem,"
song Lieutenant Governor O'Hara
was inquisitive about. The manager
of a well known restaurant said the
restaurant business had degenerated
into vaudeville show and he did not
know when it would stop.
After Investigators and members
of Summing party said they had
heard an improper song in a place
on Twenty-first street, the commission
voted to recommend to Mayor Harri-
son that the cafes license be revoked
and will call the attention of the states
attorney to the testimony of the man
ager who said nothing indecent went
on. Senator Bea1l said he saw girls
not more than s or Is years old i'm
bibing mixed drinks in the cafe and
some of them were more or less in
toxicated
Mrs. Maude Joseph described the
singing and dances at down town
restaurant. She said in one dance the
performer might just as we'll have
had no skirts at ALL She stated that
girl did an oriental dance, wearing
pink tights and a sort of a skirt of
black chiffon she said she thought
the dance was suggestive, judging
from the remarks made by male din
ers at nearby tables. She said a cou-
pie did a fancy dance, a combination
between the tango and the Apache.
Was it art or suggestion ?" asked
O'Hara.
There was no art in it,
Peculiar Kind of Dances.
She said such a dance might not
have any effect upon young women,
but 'tshe wouldn't want to risk it,"
The performers then led a free-for-all
dance on a space made by clearing
away tables she said. There was a
girl about 10, who danced a peculiar
kind of dance for a public exhibit
ton, she said. Her partner held her
at arms length and at intervals would
suddenly embrace her. No, there was
not any art in it,
The professionals who led this free
for-all dance said they tried to elimi-
nate anything which might appear
sensual in their act but admitted they
might not have been entirely success
full.
Don't you think that where you see
art others might see vice?" asked Mr..
O'Hara.
81 guess it appeals differently, but
don't see anything obscene about
o. B. Stinson, manager of another
downtown restaurant, asserted the
business had drifted into a show, but
he had to put up f1rst-class cabaret
to get the trade. He was of the opin-
too far and said he did not allow
I'm My Harem' to be sung in his
restaurant. He said guests did the
bear dance in the aisIes between the
tables but that they never got raw"
An entertainer in this restaurant said
there was nothing out of the way in
the song "All Night Long,
It's all in the way you sing it,
she stated. Some people are so weak
minded they will take up anything"
At 2 o'clock this morning the hear
ing adjourned until 10 o'clock when
proprietors of several disorderly houses
will testify.
Girls Groan and Sob in Rooms.
Testimony as to the assistance of
certain downtown hotels in further |
ing the downfall of young girls was |
given at Fridays session of the I1li- |
nois legislative white slavery commits
sion which is attempting to uncover |
the reasons why girls drift into i'm |
AAlO1 oh lives A1lSI juvenile court Oh |
ficers and social workers had testified |
concerning immoral dance halls and |
one girl witness had told her story of |
ruin, George Tollen, an employee of a |
hotel a few doors from detective head |
quarters. told how girls as young as 5 |
years of age were brought to the |
place. Young women were often |
brought there in taxicabs in state /
of intoxication. Tollen said. He said |
he had often heard girls sobbing and |
pleading in the rooms.
A pitiable story by Tollen of the |
suicide of a sweetheart under stress /
of n0NRrfX 1nd a is L