New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-23
ENFORCING SUNDAY LAWS.
POLICE INSTRUCTIONS ADHERED TO

POLICE INSTRUCTIONS ADHERED TO.
BATHROOMS AND LIQUOR STORES CLosED-oFFEND-
| ERs ARREsTED-A QUIET DAY IN THE CITY,
| The result of Superintendent Wallings instruc-
lions on Saturday to his police captains was seen
yesterday in the closing of the bars of all the hotels
| in the city. No favor was shown by the police,
and tho day passed without the tinkling of glass
and the drinking Of liquor, which have long been
| the cOmpauionable features of Sunday az these
central places. The Superintendent instructions
were that all the hotels should be warned to close
| their bars. and this ayas done. At the Hotel
Brunswick. the Hoffman House. the
Fifth Avenue and the Victoria, the
Albemarle the Windsor, the Grand and the Union
Square Hotels. the Gilsey House. the Astor House
and the Morton House, at Parkers and at the White
Elephant, the edct was rigidly enforced. and all
the bars In these places given over to silence
and to gloom.
Nowhere was the change more perceptible than
at the Hoffman House. CaptanWilliams in whose
precinct most Of the large hotels situated, had
informed Edward s. Stokes that his bar must be
closed at midnight of Saturday, and Mr. Stokes
acted in accordance with the order. The effect
of this became most apparent last evening,
when many q man of wealth and of LEISURE
the banker or broker. the merchant or trader, The
man about-town and all the well-todo ipatrons OF
that noted place of resort appeared for their usual
Sunday night chat. Many of them inquired anx-
ously Of Mr.. Stokes what was the matter, and he in
turn conveyed to them the sorrowful Intelligence
of the day. A faint light in the room showed the
chairs piled upside down, the buffet was deserted,
the bronze figures stood out like sombre shadows,
the "nymphs and the satyr" appeared vanishing
in q world of darkness, and even the two walters
who were cutting off slices OF ham for q hungry
ha calamity
of the occasion. Mr. Stokes said he did not so much
care for the loss OF Sunday profits for the incon-
venonce to his patrons
At the Hotel Brunswick the bar was covered with
shining white linen and the bar-keepers' trade was
no more-for the day. At tie cafe wiro2nd other
drinks were sold with meals, was the case at oil
the cafes such sales, according to Captain Williams
and the views Of hotek keepers, coming within the
law The door of the Gilsey House bar-room was
| locked and the clerk said that it sealed up at
midnight on Saturday, although the notification
did not reach the hotel until IL p. m "This has
| knocked out our receipts to-day" the clerk said
| The Sturtevant bar and buffet were hidden from
| view with drapinGs of white. and the large bar
room of the Fifth Avenue Hotel was entirely
deserted "Our bar has always been closed on
Sunday Mr. Carr, the clerk, stated
Your guests can get wine, they not ~ he was
| asked.
90. YES. il they order it in their rooms. There's
nothing to prevent that"
At the White Elephant, which one Of the
places to which Captain Williams attention had
been particularly called, the bowling alley was
open but no drink was to be had except cold water
which waiter freely offered TO all who entered the
place The bars of the Union Square Hotel and OF
the Morton House were desc sted. AT the latter
place n group of theatrical men stood IN solemn
cOnclave at the end OF the counter ana trleu 10 DO
content with dry COMPENSATION -,
Captain Wllliamss men. several OF whom
were ont in citizens dress, made fourteen
arrests for violation OF the excise law, the
most important one being that OF James Duny
the bartender for Philip Miliigan, the restaurant
and hotel keeper at No. l,2o9 Broadway on the
charge of keeping the place open and selling liquor
The Eldridge-st. police made eight arrests, the
Elizaheth-st squad two and those OF the 0ak.st.
station two for violation of the excise law close
watch was kept on the Bowery, but all the drinking
places appeared 10 be closed. There was hardly
drunken man IN that thoroughfare. Ihe poilce
have been enforcing the excise law 50 closely IN that
| locality that at many grOg-shOps men are kept on
the watch, end such places are found locked when
| the police try to enter them. IT,.
arrested two of William McGlorys bartenders early
Yesterday morning for selling table beer and other
| light drinks. After midnight OF Saturday an az,
mission fee Of 10 cents had been charged, and SO
Justice White discharged the men yesterday, on the
| ground that there was no public exposure OF the
drinks. NJ,
The sacred" concerts at Roster & Biaps,
THESIS Harry Hills and other places were car
lied on last night without police interruption.
Two policemen persons entering and coming
from two liquor shops at Secondave. and One hun
dred and some of them with pitchers,
but no attempt at arrest was made.
In the jefferson Market Police Court the follow
ing persons were held in bail the charge OF vlo
lating the excise law: Leopold GTone, OF No 397
Soventh-ave Edward Kelly, of No. l76 Eighth
ave; Peter kreim, of No. 254 Sixthave. Henry
Vogel of No. 40 Seyenth-ave.; Edward Schuersen.
of no 337 Sixth-ave; Patrick Farley, OF No. 80
Scyenth-ave and George Gallagher, OF No.
1873 Bleecker-st. In the Yorkyille Police Court
Charles Noll, a barkeeper IN Fourteenth-st, near
Third-aye. was paroled, Rachel simmons, OF
Broadway and Meserole-ave, were held in bail
in tho Harlem Police Court on the same
charges.
In tho Essex Market Police Court the following
were held: Peter Kraft No 70 Avenue b.. George
Woinhart, No. 80 Eighth-st.; EvalRader. No. II
Chrystie-st: Jacob SeSs, No. . Chrystie-st Max
J. Parges No 80 Riyingron-st.; Louis Miller. No.
SO Forsyth-st.; Jacob Becker, No. 206 FOrsyty-st;
otto Lomas, No, 239 Bowery,; Leopold Schneider,
No. 100 East Seycnth-st; Herman Peters, No. n
First-st.: John Martin. No. 80 Third-ave.; Lena
Walter, No. 351 Bowery; Charles Krum, No. 1877
Chrystie-st., aud Joseph Brown, No. 13S Chrystie-
The following were held in the Tombs Police
Court, Louis Miller, No. 175 Hester-st Henry
Whitman No 10f West-st.; John Nc Manus, No. 1O4
James-st Anthony Demarng. No. l4S Green
wlich-st; August j. Raschman No 81 Cortlandt-
ST.; Louis Schaubc aud Louis Miller, No. III Mott