Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-10-05
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

Nesc York'S spell Of sErtWousaess.-l Tee
Gambling Houses clesed,-Pa(tcs VtgtL-
Gnce.-I Chapter Of the Inner History
of the Increment. The Police against
1inkerton -IheatIicdI NOpetEGeS.--
Ballet Girls IN Wears PGrS0nage.-
Fail sh0pping KILLED by the lceGther.-
Winter WrGpS.--1he FaShi0n Notes.
Literature and ART.
New YORK, Sept 26.-lf people who are
in the habit of speaking of New ork as
wicked Gotham were sull to keep W that
designation they would, at the present time
make themselves amenablc TO the law OF
libel. The fact is that to all intenrS and
purposes the metropolis at present is
kind of an ArChadia. milling is a thing
of the past. All 'thc gilded dens which
lead to sure destruction" to use Brother
Talmage's phraseology are closed. The
whirr of the little ivory bah as ii rolls
along the cells of tho cavity III the roulette
table is heard no mOle; the beWitchlng
click! clekc! of the chips, the glitter Of the
Law out on the faro table and the wonders
of the dice board are things of the past,
and the accomplished gentlemen who
manipulated them are without employ
meut. Nor must ii be supposed that play
is stopped only in the small or middle
class gambling house. The edlct covers
every establishment even 10 the four or
five swell "club houses" where man has
got tobe u gentleman and has TO be intro
duced before he is admitted, are closed.
These rich and elegant up town establish.
ments are visited by detectives twice day,
ut irregular hours to make sure that play
is not resumed. A special policeman is
stationed in front of the door OF e ach and
every resort, :and besides, the policeman
on patrol is Bound to enter every supposed
gambling haase on his beat each time that
he passes it Captain Williams is of course
not doing this on his own account. He is
simply UJeying the orders Of his superiors.
So far as he himself is concerned, Live
and Let Live" is his motto, and II must
:. pain his gentle disposition sincerely to be
a forGeT to violate the latter part of his
KAepf conduct.
.1But how long is this going to last?
Some say until the elections are over while
others maintain that as soon as the local
nominations are made all will be we'll
again for the devotees Of the green cloth.
The crusade arose in this way. Mr..
McKeop, the present District Attorney, is
an old man, and in some respect, bit of a
crack Strange to say, although he is an
Irishman, he IS not fond of horseraCing,
aud thus when the piOus hypocrites who
fleece their neigbors ii Wall street, and
who would never refuse straight" tip
on the race track, began to complain that
the law forbidding horse racing was being
constantly violated, and that men and
women were being demoralized, MIR.
Mckeon shut his eyes to the existence of
the dens of infany whose tinsel leads men
on to worse crimes against themselves and
their families, and went for the pool sell
lers. Such dens as McGlory's, Owney
Geoghegan's. The Aliens the resorts of
the most abandoned women, and places
where human life is held in lower estima
ton than that of pet animal were al
lowed to keep open, and even to announce
and openly advertise additional 'attrac.
tions" for the unwary. Next lie went
for" the policy dealers and finally for all
gamblers. Now Mr. Mckeon's efforts in
this respect were praiseworthy in the ex-
IRENE. As Young, Tscheng, the Emperor
of China said in his famous edict against
gambling in 1740, gambling. this dis
sembled spoliation must ever be heinous
crime, for it ever drugs Il victim in its
wake" but the fact that Mr., Mckeon ig-
nnred the prevalence and spread of other
and certainly worse crimes seems to point
to the fact that he had special bone to
pick. Next came his quarrel with the
police whom he reCklessIy charged with
aiding and abetting the gam bcrs ny giving
them notice whenever any movement
against them was contemplated by the
police. He was unable 10 prove this
charge, but he clinched the accusation by
employing the private detective force of
Pinkerton's Office on ole of his raids.
This of course engendered a very bad feel
ing among the police department, which
anybody possessed of particle of tact
would have avoided. Mr. McKeon made
some additional very wild statements, but
when he was called upon to ''make good"
what he had said, he was not there.
Pinkerton's men on the other hand now
claim that the members and heads of the
police force having been snubbed through
them, now use every means to thwart them
in 3he accomplishment OF their legitimate
work. For three years the Coney Island
Jocky Club has employed Pinkerton's men
during its race meetings to prevent thieves
from gaining access to the grounds
Robert Pinkerton himself Is always at the
gate, and thief would have 10 be STUART
indeed to escape his vigilant eye. For
three seasons eve "ything went well until
two weeks ago, When Lucky" Baldwin,
the California millionaire, who had come
to the East with his stable of horses, was
relieved of his watch. Pinkerton was of
course greatly chagrined, particularly as
the thief escaped and the watch has not
been recovered, and some of his men
claim that the New York police struggled
man into the grounds and assisted him
to the working" of big game, in order
that they might haye an opportunity of
parading the ALLEGED incompetency of Pink
erton and his men.
Maggie Mitchell has followed the advice
of her friends and thrown up her new
play. an Indifferent adoption of "Geier
Wally," and revived "Fanchon," which
has brought her fame and fortune. She
has played it SO often that now she can
scarcely play anything else, and in the
mind of the public her personality has be
come SO closely identified with that of the
child of nature, that they are satisfied to
see the play with Maggie Mitchell in the
title role, run forever Lou and Alice
Harrison opened at Niblo's last evening in
their new play Il suppose il must be called
SOY by Grover, entitled Viva" 1t is one
of those concoction of absurdities which
enable these two charming specialists TO
show al thew can do, and which keeps the
audience in roars and tears of laughter
from the rise TO the fall of the curtain
1t is sure antidote against the blues.
attended dress rehearsal of it and feel
sure that's the novelty will succeed as well
in this city and on the road rs the previous
extravaganzas of the Harrisons. At the
Standard Theatre this evening Black
Cloaks, with gorgeous Selma Dolaro in
the leading role, will be produced for the
first time. The "Vicar of Bray" the new
comic opera by Solomon, the author of
"Billee Taylor" is shortly to be produced
under the management of D'Oyiey Carts
This is a novelty, if ever thereawas one,
and will cause great deal Of amusement