Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-12 | Page 16 | Liquor Served Young Girls in Dance Halls, Says Social Worker

liQUOR SERVED YOUNG GIRlS IN IM DANCE MALLS HAllS SAYS SOCIAl WORKER Vice Commission Resumes In Investigation In- In of Immorality m in Chicago April Testimony 11 Testimony as to I the part played b by certain downtown downtown downtown down- down town hotels in furthering the downfall of ot young oun girls was vas given at today's todar's session of ot the Illinois legislative legislative legislative legis legis- white slaver slavery commission which I Is attempting to uncover the reasons wh why girls drift Into Immoral lives George an employee of or a hotel ho- ho 1 tel lei 1 a few doors from Selective detective headquarters head head- quarters told how girls g as young as 15 Iii years years' were were- brought to the th place Young women often oHan brought there In taxicabs In a state of ot IntoxIcation Intoxication Intoxication declared IIo Ho said that he often orten had heard girls sobbing and pleading pleading- In tho rooms The sixteen rooms o of the place were rented nightly night night- ly h to an average o of couples he said Mrs Irs Gertrudo Gertrude Howe owe BrItton president president dent o of the tho Juvenile association charged that dancing the tango b by persons per per- sons song of at social prominence encourages lascivious forms Corms of or dancing among poor girl girls No wor worse Q Influence could bo be exerted she sho said In ln a n. thorough 1 Investigation we wo found round that th there rc arc dance danco halls In Chicago o where liquor is sold to girls under 16 years oJ old said Mrs rs Britton In some Home of or the thA other places tho the so- so called soft drink drinks when analyzed b by tho the city chemist wore cre found to contain contain con con- tain alcohol In ono one dance hall on the north side W wa discovered ered that the proprietor proprietor proprietor pro pro- had served notice on his patrons that a a. friend would be provided for foran an any girl that needed on one Tho The sewing selling o of liquor to girls Is often otten the first stop P toward their ruin Myrtle o S. S bV 17 told the commission lon how a n scolding by h her har r father the chance meeting of ot a joll Jolly fellow ellow and his giving her drugged beer led to her downfall On my parents separating I came cam to Chicago from rom Cleveland Cle and finding it lonesome to stay in m my room at at night I sought company compon said sold the they witness A nA girl introduced m me ne to to- to a friend At first we took soft sort drinks I but later I 1 was waR Induced to drink beer beor Ono n night tho the beer affected me strangely and after nIter th that tha I t was a R. loot o t girl I was convinced my friend had drugged rugged the th beer We Ve often otten vl visited hotels sometimes without any bac baggage bar bag gage going to those In the downtown district which are considered respect respect- able Coroner Hoffman Hortman was ordered sub sub- BUbp p by b by Mr OUara at the tho clo close o of tho v session Mr Hoffman will be asked as to the number of ot suicides of ot girls In shod shady hot hotels ls and resorts I