The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13
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There they meet lawyers. capitalists
and politicians, and keep in touch
sitli civic life.
They necessarily see banal dances
near vulgar songs and listen to music
nat Is designed to awaken the lower
emotions.
This passive Endorsement OF the
suggestive cabaret by recognized
leaders, of society gives the unthink
ing, uneducated working girl suffi-
cient excuse in her own mind to &C.
cept the more vulgar and cheaper
shows OF the tenderloin.
The numbers of moral idiots to be
,ound in city life ought to make the
linking man stop appalled, when he
soks into the future. 1t is time that
the sense of the people called a halt"
Mayor Harrison today closed two
resorts, "Maxim's" and Roy Jones.
Their licenses were revoked and to-
night these familiar haurts of the un-
ierworld were empty
A lookout" stood at Jones door
and informed patrons that the place
was temporarily out OF Business.
Don't you worry Kid" he added to
most OF the girls. This is just one OF
the regular spasms of virtue the re-
formers have. Come back In about a
week.
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City hall authorities say other IL
censes will be revoked as soon as the
evidence against several dives is sub
mitted
The committee will resume its ses.
sions Monday but no more of the
society folk taken in the raids on
Rector's and States restaurant early
today will be forced to testify. Evil
dence gathered from frightened pat
rons Immediately after the net fell,
the senators hold, was sufficient to
establish the connection between so
called artistic terpischorean move
ments" in fashionable cafes, and sug-
gestive dancing in saloons and restau-
rants whose patrons take beer i'll
mugs.
But the effect of the raids early to-
day was felt all over the white light
district tonight. Cafe proprietors and
managers of restaurants where caba-
ret performers amuse the crowds un-
til after midnight complained of lack
of patronage. The story went the
rounds that the raids might be con.
tinued tonight and not few refused
to take what they considered an UNI
warranted risk.
Big State street merchants, who
told the senate probers behind clos
ed doors they would consider the
financing of big hotel where work
ing girls might obtain board and
lodging at low prices, announced to
night that they had abandoned the
scheme. The decision was arrived al
| at a secret meeting OF the State
street retail association, composed Of
! most of the big department store
/ heads.
! Prominent social workers who have
been at work organizing the depart
ment store girls into union, declar
! ed that the proposal on the part OF
/ the employers was move to check
/ the work of unionizing the girls. They
objected, too, because they held thai
/ the problem of getting better wages
/ for the girls would become infinitely
/ more difficult il the hotel were bull
1 by the employers and that the girls
1 themselves would be held in yirtua
bondage.
D. F. Kelly, secretary of the asso
citation, said tonight that the plar
was dropped, partly because of the
criticism of the social workers ant
partly because the employers though
1t was a step backward toward the
old apprenticeship days and would
be looked upon as an improper eff
fort of the employers to further con
troll the activities and opportunities
of the employees"
i The senator's, in their probe O
dance halls and conduct of cafes to
day, obtained admissions from dance
hall proprietors themselves, In some
instances, that their resorts were no.
Of the kind they would wish their owr
daughters to visit One dance hal
proprietor, Walter Bassett, had the
courage to describe to the committee
scenes Of immortality he had seen II
his own hall and volunteer the sug
gestion that the police put the dance
halls under more rigid supervision.
The cabaret performers and restau
rant managers put the blame for sen
sational dances, mporta. ions from
Paris, upon the public, including the
tired business man" They were
willing. even eager to cut down ex
penses by dispensing with high kicks
between courses. they said. but the
public insisted on thrills
"In the afternoon "tea dances" thai
Mayor Gaynor clamped the lid on ir
New York, Abe Frank. manager OF
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