New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-11
ARDEN, UPU|FT MAN,
SEES RAGGED EDGE .
EnuIishman Guest Of Zoe Ander'
sen Norris at Feast on
East Side.
NINE. FLORIGNY AT PIANO
Bunny Hug Party in Next Room
Furnishes Lifting Tunes,
Which Drown Out
Sonorous Snorer.

Zoe Anderson Norris. authoress Of
suppressed book. entertained Arden
Foster last night at the Cafe Boulevard
as the guest OF honor Of her Rasse9
Edge club Arden. YOU should know
belongs 10 the uplift movement lie -
the tall Ensishman. with white spats
who landed here about six weeks ago
with a mission. and seventeen words In
his title. lie came as the international
CommssiJncr Of the British Federation
for the Emancipation Of Sweated Wom-
en-. Girls and White Slave Victims.
That is all of his title. His mission was
10 let the United States help London
carry $4,000 worth OF its troubles. He
came pledged to raise that small sum oil
money and to take il back with him 10
use I'm the fight going on there against
the white slavcrs and the sweat shop
problem. lie came sure there was that
amount Of money lying around loose
here that was not needed to fight the
same problems in this country.
He sets sail back to London to-day
with 300. more or less, and, likewise, less
the expenses Of his trip. He said last
night the Ohio food came at just the
wrong time.
Wen. anyway. he vas the guest OF
honor last night at Zoe's party in the
cafe Boulevard. In the next room there
was bunny hug party, that danced
most of its viggles to n Hitting tune
called tThe City Hall Crusader viii Get
You IL You Don't Watch Out"
Across the table from Arden sat a girl
who could make the smoke from her
cigarette come through her nose when
ever she wanted it to. At the next table
sat a man with a face that looked like a
Hamburg steak. Zoe said the club was
particularly proud Of him. because he
used TO be a lIeidelberg student and got
his steak race ngnung dueis.
Ardoen's right hand neighbor vas Nine
Ruell Florgny. who. he said. was the
most beautiful pianist YOU ever saw. Be-
tween the ice cream and the cafe noir
she played bang-smashing piece on the
piano with one hand. When she had
finished. Zoe knocked two champagne
glasses together to command attention
Madame played that whole thing with
her left hand she said Just think
what she could have done with both
hands and feet She will play again later
but IN the mean time We viii listen TO
Ardcens speech"
Arden rose and begged permission to
read his speech. because. he said. he had
thought best 10 adjust his regular Grafton
10 his audience. His main idea was that
everybody who was trying 10 solve tho
white slave problem in the United
States, was going about Il wrong.
MIR. Rockefeller" he Maid. with his
N0.v"c1 won't make even so much AS
an impression on the surface IN roofing
out the evil He is beginning at the
wrong end. Ny experience IN London has
taught me what might lessen the evil.
When testified before the committee
at Washington, and they asked me what
was the cause of II. I answered that
had found that % per cent of II was due
10 starvation.
II have found that the New York draw
ing rooms arc crowded with creatures
whom ! don't think ought 10 Dc H. decent
society. have been told by scores Of
girls that life here is a constant struggle
against these creatures
MS ntAt ildln lutt WIS lUab all lHe
policemen Ia New York take graft from
the "soiled doves The other half OF
this idea was that I'm England NO police
man In any city would take graft Then
he gave a lot OF figures on how good the
police were I'm England and how much
good work was being done there IN just
the right way. The best little doer OF
good deeds. Of course. was my organiza-
ton" the British Federation for the
and so forth.
TWO OF the members OF the club were
sound asleep b. this time. and as Arden
reached his peroration-a peroration that
Patrick Henry would have envied-the
sonorous snore OF one Of the slespers was
drowned out by the grand finale Of three
kinds OF ragtime at once from the bunny
hug party next door, and Arden sat
down.