The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-25
WILL DRIVE WOLVES
FROM DANCE HALLS
sheriff GrifcnhaUcn Ia Name
Deputies Recommended
by RefOrmers.
"SLANERS" HAD BADGES
supposed Guardians Menace t.
Girls. settlement Work
crs Found.

sheriff Grifenhae.n wrote to the Eas,
side Neiehborhood Association yesterday
agreeing To tho appointment Of special
deputy sheriffs able To- preserve reac. at
the Ess; side dance halls, The Sh,un
also offered TO make such appointments ON
recommendation of tho association.
The request for the deputies was made
after the associations committee of nVe.
composed Of Mrs. Edward Mandr, socr"-
tsry Of the Local Needs Association Rob
bins Gilman, head worker Of the Cuiv.r-
sity Settlement Julius Blumberg. the Rev.
Dr. George W. Anthony. vicar Of -. Au-
gnstine's chapel, and Samuel Sohcl Of tie
Educational Alliance. had conferred with
East Side dance hall proprietors at the
University settlement. A letter from the
committee to the Sheriff said:
The undersigned herewith accept the
responsibility and offer Ia cooperate with
you as Sheriff OF this county, and assure
you that they will thoroughly lnvesIiGate
all applicants applying TO you for special
deputy sheriffs shields in connection with
dance halls south Of Fourteenth and east
~ tho Bowery and Fourth avenue"
In his letter to the committee yesterday
the sheriff said
please instruct the various dance hall
propTietors to write me asking for an
pliCation forms Upon receipt of these
communications ! viii forward them th.
necessary application forms
Upon these applications being filed
with me. will refer the names ~ the np-
plicants tn you for your Investigation. roo.
concentration and report, and shah hold
your association responsible a. Ia thc
various men ho are to he deputi2cd with
authority To protect peace and order ~
these places
All OF tho special deputies ~ dance
halls We're removed by the Sheriff when he
took office. and the aim of the Fast side
Neishborhood Association, the University
Settlement and other organizations H. I.
prevent the appointment OF any moro
such Us nourished under the last admin
istration--ex -convicts. white slavcrs, gun
men and gangsters.
"Deputics" Amazed New sheriff.
With such men representatives of law
and dccency II can be easily imagined
what took place when innocent girls wan
dored into a dance hall looking ftT
amusement and went to the gray coat "a
men on guard for introduction 10 come
one with whom they could dance
Sheriff Grifcnhagcn was amazed wher
he took office to find of what clements his
Most of them were decent men but some
noticeab'y those on duty in the East Side
dance halls, had records that would not
bear scrutiny
II found that many Of them We're men
who should have no excuse to go uhuu,
loaded with a revolver, black jack and
club Some uf the men who came To my
ofiice and would hardly surrender ,hciI
badges were men that I would not want
to meet on IA dark night
- had many letters Of complaint
against them, one woman, whose hus-
band was "a special deputy, wrote me that
he had been min" years IN prison and
begged me TO take away his badge so that
he could not carry "A gun. ! have heard
that some ~ them were white slaVcis
but never anything definite"
More definite, however, In his accuse
tions was Jonah iodstrin, executive
secretary Of the East Side Neiehborhood
Association. Mr.. ioldstein is convinced
th1i most 80 ~, rNll n.l lironeo nr lp'.r