Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-04-12
Illinois Senate White Slave
Investigating Committee :
at Work.
MINISTER'S l N N E T.
Thrilling Scenes When Officers Make
Descent Upon Fashionable Chi
cago Dance Halls.

Chicago, April 12.-Crowds fought
today to obtain admission to the
Red Room of the Hotel La Sale
when the Illinois Senate White Slave
Investigating Committee resumed its
sessions.
Expectations that dozens Of soci-
fashionable loop district cafes early
ETY. jewellers, caught in the raid on
fashionable loop district cafes early
today would be forced to testify was
the attraction. In the big throng
that damned the lobby of the hotel
were men and women of prominence,
who themselves escaped the net of
the investigators. They hung back
evidently fearing they would be
recognized and forced TO the stand.
Meanwhile, a dozen women, red
eyed from a night of weeping and as
many of their male escorts, nervous
" watching the crowd in the lobby
below, waited outside the door Of
the committee room to near the deci-
sion of the probers. Senators were
late in arriving, and not until all had
gathered, Lieut., Governor O'Hara
announced he would determine wheth-
err persons captured early today
would be questioned.
Several dance hall proprietors,
owners of hotels that were under
suspicion and managers of cafes in
the old red light district had OK
pected to testify today.
Spectacular raids on two fashion
liable downtown cafes early today
threw several hundred midnight rev.
elers into panic and brought in a
score of witnesses from the so-called
"society" element.
Cafe guests, faces flushed with
wine, were intercepted as they whirl-
ed and glided in the "tango" or
turkey trotted" to the seductive and
dreamy music, served with subpoenas
by special Investigators for the COM
mittee and hurried away to the Hotel
La Sale to tel what part the fast
life plays in the social evil.
Cabaret singers were ordered to
don something more than pink silk
tights and appear before the COM
mittee at once. Managers of Rectors
and the States the two loop district
cafes that were raided, were like
wise served.
Two married women, from Peoria,
TIL. on an automobile Summing tour,
went into Mysteries when investiga-
tors ordere dthem with their male
companions. to climb into an automo-
bile and speed to the hotel La Sale.
A. woman member of another slum-
ming party leaped through the win
dow at the Cafe of Roy Jones, Wa
hash Avenue and 21st street near
the old segregated district.
Women in cafes and red light dis
tricts all night restaurants fell on
their knees and begged the investl-
gators to permit them 10 go. Men
waved bandfulls of bills and pleaded
to be given their freedom. And Off
GERS, who aided the Investigators
blocking doors held back hysterl-
cal, weeping, curing crowds while
the probers hurried witnesses into
automobiles and off to the room
where the hearing was held.
Four male guests at Rector's whose
names were Suppressed are said to d
capitalist, a manufacturer a stocs
roker,and a member of the Chicago
Board of Trade.
The committee was informed TO-DAY
that four other guests in Rector's were
clergymen. They were seated al
table reserved for an informal supper
of clergymen, lawyers, an da physic'
ian who nightly attended the cabaret
performances in this fashionable res.
taurant. The senators said that tt
summon these men and make public
Fheir names would create "unneces
eary scandal"
Herndon, Pal-The favors given a