Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-24
MIISCLEDANCE MILD,
NOT ORGY AT BANQUET,
SAYS BACON DEFENDER
Corporal Van Dyne Says Clique
Made Scandal Of Affair and
Deposed Captain of
Company G
PROTEST. BY A WIFE

A conservative muscle" dance was the
only lively feature OF the much.talked-o off
First Regiment Armory stag dance on the
night OF February IL, which caused the
dianissal from service of Captain John +.
Bacon, commanding Company G, 1st Regl.
ment, on the charge OF "unfitness for
duty"
Corporal clifford Van Dyne, Of Com.
pauy @. came 10 the defense OF Captain
Bacon. with the announcement that a
conservative muscle" dance had started
The whole rumpus
"This IL a lot OF scandal about nothing"
said Van Dyne. II made all the arrange
inents for this affair, and was there all
the way through II, so 1 know what
m talking about. I was also at the regi-
mental ball last Tuesday night. and
want to say right here that the ball
Furnished more real food for gossip than
our little stag dinner. There were women
at the ball who walked about the floor In
3lissfuI absence of clothing from necklace
to the waist and yet nothing was said
about IL.
THE ART OF MUSCLE DANCING.
LAS for our little stag dinner ] want
to say that Il was extremely tame com.
pared to the ball. We had little muscle
dancer. but she did her little turn from
purely artistic standpoint and there
wasn't the least thing Objectionable in her
act.
1T is true that she wore tights and
abbreviated skirts as would be expected
of stage dancer, but she kept her act
absolutely within the bounds of propriety.
Her act was mild compared with that
given recently before West Philadelphia
Business Mems organization
Every day you see much more risque
performances given by dancers in the
theatres of Philadelphia. Our dancer wore
more apparel than Is assumed by Ruth
st. Dennis
OTHER DANCES CITED.
THE performance given at our stag
dinner was mild Compared with many
which are given Philadelphia. The
dancer was provided, with clappers- and
she performed her act or the floor. and
not on table, as has been reported.
This whole rumpus about nothing is
elearly an attempt ON the part of certain
clique at the armory to get back at Cap
tain Bacon. There are two cliQues and
for long time one of these factions has
been trying to get the captain. They
seized upon this dinner as their chance
LETTER. FROM A WIFE"
Captain Bacon announced today that he
had engaged counsel and would enter suit
for $4,000 damages against the person
or persons responsible for sending the
anonymous letter signed "a Guardsmans
of Public Safety.
This letter is now in the hands of SUI
perintendent Robinson. The writer says
she is stenographer helping with her
worlS to support her husband and family.
The letter states that her husband re-
turned from the stag dinner intoxicated
and that from him she learned of a
'shameless orgy" Soon after the re-
4eipt of the letter the Adjutant Generals
department at Harrisburg announced the
discharge of Captain Bacon.
Certain persons" said Captain Bacon
who have been nursing a long-standing
krudge framed this thing on me.
tColon6isrW. T. Eidell told me that a
man by the name of McCrea wrote the
letter, out Il do not credit that statement
In the first place. | want 1t understood
that the stag dinner was not given by |
Company G. 1t was given by number |
of men from the different companies We |
have little social organization which Is
known at the armory as The Little Sons
of the Rich.
DENIES STATES RIGHT.
"The armory board gave us permission
TO hold the affair The State really has
very little 10 do with our affairs, you
know We own the armory, and the
State helps us a little with an appropria-
tion. We feel that with the consent of
the armory board we were within our
rights TO hold the affair
There was nothing Objectionable about
the dinner. There was a dancer and two
women singers As for booze there was
a little beer. but no one became intoNi-
Gated. If anybody reached home in an
Intoxicated condition he continued his
drinking after leaving tile dinner"