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Show WOMEN MUST QUIT I IT LUKE CAFES H Salt Lake Tribune: Women enter- lH tainers disappeared from the cafes H and cabarets of Salt Lake last night, H following a summary order from Chief iH of Police White to tho proprietors, (H this notice in turn following several l weeks of prodding of the police au- thorltles by F. D. Brown, commission- :IH er of immigration, labor and statistics. ' Mr. Brown's action was premised on complaints which had reached him y that tho law was being violated. He fished from the shelves an old statute M covering the matter and dispatched M this to Mayor Ferry with a polite in- M tlmation that it would be well for tho authorities to see that the law was fl enforced. Another impelling- facto- H was the fact that several women enter-1! H tainers whose contract with a local M hotel had been summarily canceled M had appealed to Mr. Brown for finan- H cial assistance in getting back to San ! M Francisco. M The tardy action by tho police chief IH was none the less emphatic. Notice j was sent to tho cafe proprietors citing sections of the old statute and con- H eluding "You will govern yourselves accordingly and see that all women nH entertainers, waitresses, etc., arc Im- IH mediately dismissed." IH Obeyed to the Letter. M The order was obeyed to the letter fl last night. In nono of the downtown !H hotels, cafes or cabarets were women H in evidence as singers or dancers. H There was music and dancing, but H the musicians were men and the danc- jJ ing in dulgcd in was by patrons of the H rosorts. There was no inhibition H against that. In some of the less pre- H tentious cafes and cabarets nothing IH but a piano was resorted to in an at- H tempt to furnish diversion. It was H said last night that tho order would H be permanently enforced. H In a communication to the mayor on IH April 28 Mr. Brown cited two sections H of the "crimes against good morals" H act of 1907. a dead letter since its pas- H sage. Two sections of this law raako H the retention of waitresses and women jlH entertainers punishable by a fine of jH $300, imprisonment in tho county jail JH for thirty days, or both. Tho em- IH ployes affected by tho law may be fM held equally responsible for its viola- iH tlon nnd aro liable to fines not ex- H ceediug ?100. JM |