The Washington times., 1913-04-12
VICE PROBERS RAD
FASHIONABLE CAFES
Midnight ReveIers of Chicago
Subpoenaed to Testify in
State Senate inquiry.

into the net of the Illinois senate white
slave probers score of witnesses from
the so-called society element
Cafe guests were Intercepted as they
whirled and glided in the tango" ol
turkey trot." served with subpoena.
by special investigators for the commit.
tee and hurried away to the Hotel La
Sale to tell what part the fast lif.
plays in the social evil.
Cabaret singers were ordered to dor
something more than pink silk tight.
and appear before, the committee a,
once. Managers of Rectors and the
States, the two loop district cafes that
were raided, were likewise subpoenaed
Stunning Party Caught.
Two married women from Peoria. ILL.,.
on an automobile Summing tour. went
into Mysteries when investigators or
dered them. with their male companions,
to climb into an automobile and speed
to the Hotel La Sale. A woman men,
ber of another Summing party leaped
through window at the cafe Of Roy
Jones' wabash avenue and Twenty first
street, near the old segregated dis
trict. ~
Women In cafes and all night restau-
rants fell on their knees A.isi begged
the investigators to permit them to go.
ed to be given their freedom.
Then, while hundreds of other
guests, who a few minutes before had
NED wildly from exits, called all
available taxicabs, and dashed to
their homes. fearing more raids. the
Senators pulled up big chairs in the
lockwood dining room of the Hotel
La Sale, talked over the sights they
had witnessed, sights that prompted
the raids-and calmly waited.
women's voices raised in protest.
BE seated. ladies and gentlemen"
said Lieutenant Governor OHara,
head Of the Senate probers. I'VE are
Just looking into the variations Of the
latest In smut songs and animal
dances. Just be seated"
The witnesses from Rector's and the
States, cabaret performers, guests in
evening clothes, fashionably gowned
women and young girls some of them
showing the effects Of a might of it,"
Others apparently sobered, were
shown into the big room.
Now" announced the young lieu
tenant governor, I'VE are ready to be-
GIN"
81 Cabaret Dancer Testifes.
Natalie" a cabaret dancer. featured
1t Rector's, took the stand Ma
talie" is nineteen years old. Her
"act" is series of dances-the first
done in costume of gauzy texture
that was afterward described by a
woman investigator for the commit
tee as almost nothing at all"
Natalie said she danced the "tur-
key trot" and the tango" for the
Chicago-and anywhere else, when
they were willing to pay the price.
There Is nothing improper that L
can see about my dancing" she said.
1T might be improper for persons
who were not artists-who had no
temperament but for newell. I
never thought of il that way"
-Four male guests at Rector's whose
names are suppressed are said 20 be a
capitalist. manufacturer, a stock
broker. and member of the Chicago
board of trade.
The committee was informed today
that four other guests IN Rector's were
clergymen- They were seated at a table
reserved for an informal supper Of
clergymen, lawyers. and a physician
who nightly attended the cabaret per-
formances In this fashionable restau-
rant. The senators said that to sum-
mon these men and make public their
names would create unnecessary scam
dal'' .---.-
A long telephone conversation between
Harrison preceded this mornings ses-
sion of the probers.
Lieutenant Governor OHara later eX-
piained that the mayor told him over
the telephone that as the result of the
discovery bv the committee of alleged
violations Of the law IN the cafe run BY
Roy Jones, raided early today, and in
the Maxim Cafe, that both of those
places will be closed. Their licenses,
the mayor said, will be revoked at
frrr fn h.
ernor
Crowd Is Disappointed.
big crowd that focked TO the Red
Room of the hotel in expectation that
more OF the society revelers caught in
last nights raid would be placed on the
stand, were plainly disappointed when
Frank Bement. proprietor Of a dance
hall was ordered to the stand as the
first witness today.
Bement and several persons living
near the dance halls declare that II was
properly conducted and that private de-
tecuves were employed to look after
the morals of young girl dancers
AS a matter OF business the moral
dance ahll is profitable" said Bement,
who declared he personally had con-
Quoted crusade against disorderly re-
sorts and questionable hotels in the dis
tnct surrounding his dance hail.
Bars Questionable Songs.
Abe Frank, nlsn snaget of Rector's and
the North American restaurants, said
he put on the tango and turkey II y
In his cabaret bill because his patrons
wanted them. They came from Europe
TO New York and from New York to
chicago. he says. He denied that
song 'All Night Long had been sung
In Rectors and dec Jared that he barred
In My Harent," and 'Goody. Good.
Good"
A. B. Simpson. manager OF the
States. said he advertised dancing in
the open places in his restau urant as
the latest thing from Paris" but he
said none of the dances We're indecent.
He would be willing to cut cut the
restaurant proprietors followed suit
Cabaret performers salaries cut big
hole I'm the profits" he said.
Two Peoria women caught In the raid
while they were on a Summing tour
with the t.other Of one OF the women.
" no Is the wife of a prominent whole
sale merchant in Peoria, were sadly EN-
barrassed when asked to testify.
Merely Seeing Sights.
The brother testified that he took the
women to the Jones cafe because he
knew il was one of the sights of
Chicago
Mrs j. L." wife of the wholesaler.
skirts, but could not catch the word of
"why. I belong to the vice crusade in
Peoria myself she said. But / never
Eent my daughter 10 see Chicago cafe
life