New-York tribune., 1881-09-13
A BLAST AGAINST POOL SELLING.
CONDITION OF THINGS TO WHICH THE MAYO
CALLS THE ATTENTION OF THE POLICE con

CONDITION OF THINGS TO WHICH THE MAYOR
CALLS THE ATTENTION OF THE POLICE COM
MIsSIoNERs.
The Mayor recently received from A.. v. Bresen.
of No. 229 Broadway, letter calling his attention
to the condition OF Barclay-st near Broadway
Mr.. Briesen SAYS:
TO- to. the proeotion which the police afford
q the spots the SSs' city LADIES % On their
cause Of The hundreds Of gamblers loafers and drunk
ards who crowd the sidewalks opposite the pooroOms
permitted exist but fail to obey the law The stores
IN IN near Broadway are no longer patronized
n9 casses nnder the broad sanction of the authorities
disgrace Perhaps it is Somebody's business to keep at
least the semeance of ecency the surface of one of
the officer who responsible, and ask him that
the street is restored TO lawful traffic.
The Mayor yesterday sent to the Police Commits
siOnCrs copy of Mr. Brcscn's letter. and in com
munication of his own to them he says:
Gambling upon horse races and other OF
the Immediate past TO an alarming extent and its evil
nuehces are working the greatest harm TO the
tehti9 ana careful obse walton has demonstrated to
Whlca MI w. Bresen complains, has become the haunt
ra6n l gers d9 SiueWas in front Of the different pool
VINO are interested i'll the result of the pools
careful inspection, MIR " BTiesens complaint SO far
as 1t refers TO the condition of Barclays entirely
officers of your force doing duty this point should fail
10 DO aware OF laCts now being them,
thC should a to suppress the evil the insidiOusness
ana shanetunesS of which cannot be exaggerated in
order however that there may be mistake and that
you may be enabled TO call the attention of
ordnates explicitly and with denitcness to the places
complained OF, name those which notorious
almost to have become institutions in city. They are:
sails at No. 10 Barclays Lovclls at No. Barclay
ST.; Caseys, at No. Barclay ST. Lovells, at No. 10
West Twenty hst and ely & Bss's, ut No. 15
West Twenty-eighthst.
AT each and all of these places gambling establish
ments are openly maintained in defiance the and
OF your police powers Before and about those Bar
clay-Stv on day when is being run at Coney
island Saratoga or Monmouth Park gamblers assemble
IN beVles, while they discuss the event of the hour
blockade the sidewalks and niure the legitimate
ness OF the entire nelghDorhood The these
pidces cdSses, however, Il much more Widespread
chel IN that they are most powerful corruptcrs of the
morals or our community. Among their trequcntcrs
are Hany young men, and even boys and these places
are nevertheless permitted in open day light and under
the very eye of the law which denounccs
them to entice these youths to their ruin The
explicit IN its condemnation of gambling houses and it
Is he duty OF your department to abate all such
lshments The attention of your suborduatcs should
be forthwith called to the places l have named, and
every possible measure taken by you for the
notorious and constant breaches law can surely
be punished and prevented ii the desire exists
part OF the officers of the law, and these places be
abated.
No reply had been received from the Commits
soners up to the time the Mayor left his Office for
the day.