New Britain herald., 1915-05-27


 disorderly Haymarket. The situation is bad, but not new
 Tt is not in the night dance halls that the real danger lies; it is the day dance that has. done the most harm. It is to, these dances that young girls go without chaperons. From the afternoon dance it is easy to graduate to the night dances. Young mar ried women, left to their own re- sources during the day while their Husbands are at business, are in par ticular danger.
 The police say that they cannot get evidence was suggested. i Committee Has Evidence. "The committee has obtained evil dence that it will be glad to present to the commissioner. Some member of the comittee will probably call on 1 the acting mayor tomorrow and lay l the facts before him. This will be done not>so much to begin crusade against any particular place, but to bring about a conference of the heads ]! to the city departments, to the end 1 that a comprehensive scheme of action may be worked out. This Kelly case has done good in [ bringing the attention of the fathers 1 and mothers of this city to the dan- gers that confront their children. Hitherto this danger has existed in l the poorer quarters of the city. Now 1 the dangers that formerly beset the 1 girl of Second avenue threaten the daughter of Fifth avenue.'' Val O'Farrell said yesterday that there are perhaps 1,500 men in New York who make their living dancing in and hanging about the tango shops. Of this number probably twenty per cent live off the earnings of women. They have f1ocked here from all parts of the country in the last few months. "At the court hearing on Tuesday, he said, there was a group there from Atlantic City in a high-power 1 racing car. Oh, yes, they travel in style sometimes. Who pays for it is another story.
 Just now the dives are tightening up. But they will reopen. There is no limit to the crimes committed in or planned in these places. Why, one crime expert tells me that s40,000 will not cover the amount of the robberies in one hotel that maintains a bacS room tango parlor. That place is in Forty seventh street Just now it is Q. snuffing coke openly and passing the stuff around to all who may wish to partake.
 Easy for Picl<pockcts.
 If you could get hold of the squeal book at headquarters you would get small idea of the amount of robberies that are committed. At that not one in ten robberies gets into it. The victims dare not com plain It is easier for the.a to pocket their losses.
 That makes it easy for the pick pockets and other thieves and gang sters from the underworld of this and other big cities that can dance to reap an easy harvest. It is easy to lift jewel or pick a pocketbook. And you seldom can see gangster that is not dancer.
 This craze for dancing has got so that at times women hire partners at the rate of $5 day or more. This brings them into contact with men who ordinarily would be shooed away from their back doors. Remember the tango burglar that got shot? There are lots of them that have not been shot or even complained Of.
 Work all Games. Fl
 These crooks work every type of 1 robbery. The badge game and black | mail are good.
 What brings them here in such big | punches is that the pickings here are better than in any other place in the country. New York has more rich 1 girls to be trimmed than any other city. There are hundreds of girls in | this town with $100 or $15O week pin money and as much more as they can coax of Pa. and they are easy marks for these social gangsters, who are more dangerous than gun men, because they plunge these girls into moral bankruptcy
 Have Women Working.
 "A lot of these men have women working for them, not on the streets, but around the hotels and dance places, picking up men to be fleeced in card games or in other ways. These lads can be seen around any of the tango places. Those are the sort of persons Mrs. Moskowitz has in mind when she says the police can get evidence.
 "Close the dumps? Of course the police can do it. All they have got to do is to crack the whip, and, bang the shutters are up. If you doubt it, look at the way the dives closed up last night, or rather, this morning. Why, even the so-called clubs went slow
 Eight Tango Clubs.
 There are eight of these tango clubs according to the records at Police headquarters. All are incor- porated and some bear fancy names. l Members of the exclusive Fifth avenue set will be interested to know that one of these clubs Is known as +bn sMntroroIiton cy,,l,s Il