National Republican., 1877-01-31

RS 4 deemed yersh man an, n%os
| know In what business he is engaged.
yRKp. rRIpLEy.
| The next place, and one Of the most important,
ha f'd Sdy fym q sss pSrin n Ss sSs
i Co, and does a large business. All these
HILTON AND co.'s OTHER PLACES.
Chapman, on Thirteen. .shd-a. half street, between
ssp, fSTtSS' By oS Man to sc
personally a nice man and father Of all the Frid.
Is: been there many years and made thousand;
Sa Tsp as u TO- have who S.s: .s:
often his large room e crowded with customers,
Re norhsa corner .ns Of sns nna
streets in the rear Of barber shop. The trade
No. 7 Is aalIagher's, on. Eighth street, near E.
and next to tho Marshall house. The business Is
10. g on seventh r. sifee, near II, KEEP, by Gal
! lasher's brother and "oid Man Hahn, Large
No. is on street, east Of Seventh street north.
west; The place is unimportant, and tho business
Mouse bsIidlng on 8 street Kept By one Fenirsss.
The trade Is heavy. as tho place is hequented BY
Department clerks.
| to Knox's express, and is kept by George Barn.
| well. A very largo business is done here. Tho
place was formerly the headquarters OF Hilton
No, IL Is that kept by. "Doc.n Groves, on Third
street northwest, few doors south Of Pennsyl
vann avenue Groves Is one OF the Oldest writer's
for the firm, and docs a good business with Gov
eminent employees and eolered people
Government Printing Once, who does very
heavy trade with that ONCE and colored people;
Is sad to be worth t7s to 300 per DAY:
street on the west side Of Four-ands-haif street.
Medium trade.
the rear Of the Adams Express once, said to be
kept by "Old Man Davis, or his son.
hilton Co are also saId 70 have q an once g.; nss,
and perhaps more. The receipts Of these places
Say os any sss sss
round numbers, Sib0, 600 year. This 10 but one
hrm. One third Of the profts goes TO the man.
ayers OF the lotteries.
WILLIAMSON AND VAN SLACK.
Besides the numerous shops under tho manage
ment Of Hilton 90. there are many independ-
ent concerns; Chief Of these is that Of William.
not connected with the managers Of the lotteries.
Their headquarters arc over DeAtieyy's saloon,
on Z street, next door to the Club" Van Slack
h Co., and was afterwards connected at different
times with Reed n Black, two prominent ooiored
Williamson came here from baltimore In
me ,P5sn business @ uS aad has h, 'sssSy asOas
ingtcn % nv" and % Georgetown. They have two
shops on the north side of Z street, between
Of a colored barber shop. The writer Of one Is q
colorcd man, named Albert johnson. and the
writer Of the other Is an cx-Dopartment clerk,
called "Oliver.' One OF their most important
offices Is on II street. near the intersection Of
New York avenue, Just wost Of Thirteenth street,
Another is In the rear Of shoemaker's shop In
the wooden row at the junction OF III and Thir.
teenth streets and New York avenue. The
writer here Is very bright young mulatto, called
In "HooEer's Division, D and 9 and Th!.teenth
"Clod SSt diIe Ieee," se. W ~" 'H' "'A"'' '"''"'
Another shop of this company is in the base.
Ninth and Tenth streets, at the corner Of the
alley just west Of Ninth street. Another Is on
BY by Billy M oBrIen, SON % Of Old Man o Brien, who
with Hilton %. One Of O'BrienI sons also
writes At the shop on street. near Thlrteenth.
pcitSn hotel and next 10 Martins % paint Int shop.
the @ ao Of the % old BRICK block on thS ssst
aide Of the street, running from the allsy to MIS-
They have also three or four shops on the Is.
land: One on Virginia avenue near -Four. and-a-
half street, one In the alley between Ninth aud
streets ne aad
northwest and the Northern boundery line saw
Eleventh street, Edjoinins the residence sf Doc.
tor Buckley. They are said to have three or
four shops IN Georgetown: Most Of the men en-.
BRN. BEvKRIDGK
Ben. Beyeridge, of the Washlngton.hOuse
restaurant, corner Of Pennsylvania avenue and
Third street, has about dozen offices scattered
around the city; principally In ALWAYS. His
headquarters and main ONCE Is in the rear Of his
saloon, and presided over BY one Shepherd.
| A eolored man named Jones, formerly with
Black, backs three or four books, the most i'm.
one SenS SIKH street. opposite the
| this place is q light mulatto called "Sam."
Another Of his writer's Is Jim Lacy, eolored, at
| the corner OF Ninth and + streets southwest.
JOHN DOUGLAS.
| One OF the latest who have embarked 10 tho
tiers ere on Psnpsylyanis avenue No. i2io. two
\ the rear Of a shoemaking shop, which Is there
merely as a blind. It 10 said That Douglass has
made several thousand dollars In the short time
he has been in the business, having nothing when
| he commenced. He has seven or eight shops.
HIS most important branch office is that at 1905
| 4 street, in the rear Of shoe shop, and kept by
a man called Charley Gosher." These two
shops do very large trade, principally with col;
ored people, and ne daily receipts are esfimafed
Another Of Douglass's shops Is on Thirteen.
| and. a-half street, nearly opposite Chapman's
| shop, and kept by George Myers
Another Is in the rear OF Albert Cooks barber
| shop, on the north side Of Thirteenth street, be-
| tween q and ID streets
"Dug," as he is called. has another shop ad-
joining the new market on street, kept by
man named Frank Douglass. He has another
plrce at the corner Of Third and @ streets north
| west, kept by Charles Morris, colored.
II is stated that Dug has three shops In
| Georgetown. During the uneaslness among the
policy men last September he hid himself from
| the police when the arrests were made, and there
| fore was not arrested. A warrant has been out
for him ever since, and he was arrested Saturday
His case, with many others, is waiting to be called
| In court.
The above list contains only small portion Of
the numerous policy shops In the District.
| RAIDINo A POLICY DEN.
Some time ago Lieutenant Noonan, OF the Sec.
ond precinct, received Information OF the exls.
tence of Ia policy den" on N street, between
Eighth and Ninth streets northwest, and de-
tailed Sergeant Acton to work up the case. The
Sergeant, after shPdowinB the place for several
days, became convinced that the policy business
was carried on there, and accordingly determined
to raid. Last night, about II o'clock, with sIr
| other oficers, he made descent upon tho prem.
ises and csptured the proprietor o. Cromw ell and
| six others engaged IN playing policy, together
| with the parap pherna la OF the Establishment, The
whole party were escorted to the station. house,
and locked up for hearing In the Police Court