New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-23
4 RAID ON TIE BROADWAY CONCERT
SALOONS.
THREE OF THEM CLOSED-THE PROPRIETORS AND
20 WAITER-GIRLS ARRESTED.

THREE OF THEM CLOSED-THE PROPRIETORS AND
20 WAITER-GIRL ARRESTED.
Tho concert saloons on Broadway have long
ham Migrant disgrace TO the city One after anotner
wss started until at length there were nearly 70 oeI"een
an, NJ. and Fourth-stS Nearly all OF these displayed
haunting aims and transparcIcies. setting forth the
attractions 20 be seen inside, and inviting all to enter
Many Of these places fitted up at great expense
and receipts often from $1,000 to SI1O eaeh
per week. In several OF them the waitergirls were
st-ad in fancy dresses aording an Indecent display
Capt Walsh Of the Fourteenth Precinct, in which
nearly all these saloons were be found. was trans
fsrred short time sDoe, - the Seventeenth and capt.
Mount ono OF the efficient officers on the force was
sent 10 the Fourteenth Two three days ago super
utendent Keso sent for Capt Mount and directed him to
ascertain the Of the prOpretors Of the Oriental
IN tie basement Of No &C. Broadway the "Canterhury
on the first floor Of No C3e. the Assembly Rooms,
gu the second floors Of No Cos and 65s Broadway In
each places the girls We're atIec IN SNORT Jah
bezecd with gilt ANA silver lace, ana snort trunks
end who stockings TIC wearers were generally pros
nfc and their speech and actions such Az to dis
gust all but the most hardened. Capt. Mount ascer-
S,orTetnr Of the Lion PARK Brewery at Onehundred
andeuth st. and Eighth-ave and lately of the Casino,
In Bsst HoustOnst.; Edward Barlow AID Edward
the three places "GreenhOrns either city bred
the country, who evinced disposition to spend their
money for the compound politely termed WINE, were
steeSed from another OF these places by the
Sa,ed ON them until all their money spent Several
complaints have been made TO Capt Mount by persons
money by fraudulent bills for wine III some OF these
pHeTinr obtained the requisite information which to
base his complaints, Capt: Mount went before Justice
ia warrants issued by the magistrate
Tor th6 arrest Of the three propetors and all those en-
nIoyed in the saloons One section OF police, under the
ngmand Of Sergeant Douglass of the Sixth Precinct,
u.s. detailed 70 aid Capt. MOUNT In his projected
% 1on' under the command Of Capt Mount. sergeans
Banders ard Oates Of the Fourteenth. and Sergeant
Douglass OF the Sixth Precinct assembled in the spring
Al PojcestatOn They divided into three detach-
nenfe under the command respectively OF Capt, Mount
aud SergeaDs Douglass and sanders. capt mount anu
tbs squad we're TO take the Canterbury Sergeant Sanders
sembly Rooms, and the descents were 10 DC
eimultincous. The plan worried perfectly, me
az ulbcrry-a, 20 Beecler through Blocker 10 Broad
way and entered the saloons at the same moment Sew
sra men had been stationed by Capt Mount at the rear
entrance " the Canterbury, on CrOsbyst 10 prevent
the escape Of the in that direction. On the APP
syss I b SeI e Fi S the CsnterbuTy made smG
aneous rush the front and rear entrances only
49,. tie nicbt IN the station house Many of the girls
began crying. others treated IT an excellent joke and
laughed long and loud the adventure while others
oblOsopbcally walked 10 the bar and drank to their
hbcrati0n on fbe morrow All were ordered don their
street dresses a. possible, as there was 10
Costumes and tins girls were engaged in putting on
oyerskirts and waterproois Outside immense crowds
had congregated the ncws having spread rapidly along
F,roadway Many of the prOprctors Of the other
cOso9 tein, on ; ii ~, ' i Tu, anu IN eo,f tnI
ort OF the oicers, the pTOpretOs and the girls from the
were one by escorted 10 the SprUgSt
POcp station Many OF them had pTudently caught up
the sandwiches and other provisions the eating
ers evidently resolved Tot 10 suffer with hunger dur
ing tbe:r short Of Imprisonment At the station
house their names taen aud they locked
I'M In the cells allowed the corridor, the cells
being sufficient in plumber 10 accommodate all
About II pm. Superintendent Keso, Justice Bowling.
Coroner keenan,, aud several other Democratic poll
tciaDs called at the statiOnhOuSe. The girls were
brought before the MAJ satc, and AFTER giving them
reprIaud for being round IN such dsrcpuabc places,
hs announced his Intention Of discbargHg them lie
warurf them however. that should the saloons again
ffevN Inc n J
fentiOn o. the authorities 10 suppress these places Inc
Rirls were thcu allowed 20 depart much 10 then relief