Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1909 — No Coliseum Orgy To Be Tolerated By Mayor Busse. [ARTICLE]

No Coliseum Orgy To Be Tolerated By Mayor Busse.

“Bathhouse” John Coughlin and “Hinky Dink” Kenna, the Chicago alderman who for several years past have 4)een holding an annual dance at the Chicago coliseum that attracted all the demimonde type of males and females that could crowd into the big building, will not get to hold their orgy this year. The big event has heretofore cleared these men about SIO,OOO and many tickets had been sold this year when Mayor Busse sent for the two councilmen and informed them that no dance of the old type could be held, in fact, that no dance of any kind could be held but that he would allow them to hold a concert that must close down at midnight. No liquor will be allowed sold nor drank in the building, however, and no one will be admitted that does not have a seat. The lovers of all the filth that accompanied the annual dance will be disappointed, but it is said that the “wink” has gone around that the concert is not to be a sacred one and that many‘will attend it in the hope of hearing some very improper things.