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Show BAN ON ORIENTAL DANCERS. Lid Placed on Girls Who Amuso Sailors at Philadelphia Navy Yard. Washington. Women who dress In tights and danco Oriental fashion for tho amusement of sailors at tho Philadelphia Phil-adelphia navy yard aro under tho government's gov-ernment's ban. So nro women who wear long skirts and waltz with tho sailors on Sundays In tho yard assembly assem-bly hall. Ifnnct, Undo Sam has pressed tho lid on all Borts of Sunday amusements nt tho navy yards. Theso things woro fully oxplalnod to a delegation of Philadelphia pastors who called on Socretnry Metcalf for tho purposo of registering an emphatic em-phatic protest against "doings" at the navy yard. They told him that thoy vlsltod tho navy yard nssombly hall thero a fow Sundays ngo "JuBt to boo what was going on." What thoy saw was "something dreadful," thoy said, "especially on tho Lord's day." Tho secretary told thom that ho already had received a protest from Philadelphia directed at naval yards nmusemcntB and showed tho pastors u copy of a lotter he had sent to tho naval commandant calling a halt on tho vaudovlllo shows, tho dances and overy other kind of amusement on tho Sabbath. Tho action of tho secretary forestalls fore-stalls congressional Inquiry Into tho moral status of tho navy yards omploycs and tho navy genorally. |