Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27
LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.
DRINKS HARD FOR STRANGERS
To GET ON SUNDAY.
Those Who Know the Ropes All Right.

Reporters Interview with a Cross
! Cashier.
Correspondence Of the Morning Nelcs.
NEW YORK, April 24.-One result thus
far of the investigation of the Police De.
partment by the Roosevelt Committee has
been to render 1t comparatively difficult
to get drink on Sunday. Unless one
knows the ropes, or is known to saloon
keepers, one cannot quench his thirst on
the first day in the week with anything
but water except by going to a restaurant
and ordering liquids with ones food. Last
Sunday, saloons which ordinarily make
no pretense of keeping the law were
closed to strangers. An applicant for ad-
| mission at the side door was first viewed
through a spy hole, and unless he was
! known, repeated rings and knocks failed
! to procure an entrance. All the saloons,
| of course, did their usual good business
/ with their regular customers; it was only
/ the stranger in strange land and the un-
| initiated who were thus left ont in the
cold.
! Among the saloons which best kept up
! the appearance OF observing the letter of
/ the law, while literally breaking it in the
spirit, was that of the Stewart Brothers at
Third avenue and Fifteenth street. Their
| Third avenue windows were as dark as
an Egyptian night. Only on the side
! street could little CLEAN of light be seen
/ where the shades did not fit closely. The
side as well as the front doors of the
/ saloon were locked, and admittance could
/ only be gained by going through the ad-
/ joining premises. Entrance to a BOwery
| saloon at Houston street ON Sunday was
/ also only obtained by going through
/ shOemaker'S shop, two doors distant, and
| passing along in the intervening yards in
| the rear to the backdOOr of the bar-rnom.
! To such trouble does Mr.. Roosevelt put
! persons who wish to take little liquor
! for their stomach's sake on Sundays.
/ The law is enforced in Brooklyn far
| more strictly than it is here. A drink
| can hardly be obtained there on Sundays
/ by even the initiated for love or money. In
accordance with recent order of Mayor
| Low, policeman stands at the door of
nearly every saloon. and, as customers
are not wanted while the myrmidOn of
the law is in sight, the Sunday trade is
| proportionately at a standstill. Bottled
beer, however, can be obtained in any
quantities in that portion of Prospect
Park which lies on the dividing line be-
tween Brooklyn and Flatbush. Owing to
the conflict of jurisdiction arising from
the fact that the exact location of the di-
viding line is not known, the law is not
enforced by either the police Or the city
or the cOnstables of the village.
The manager of the Merry-G O-Round,
which delights the children in this part of
the park, by the way, pays respect to the
Sunday law in a grOtesque manner. The
whlrligig goes round as usual to the
sound of music, but, in place of secular
airs, the music consists of Sunday school
tunes. Thus one desecrates the Sabbath,
as the Puritans call the first day of the
week, to the air of ''Tell me the Old Old
Story" "HOld the FOrt,'' "Pull for the
Shore,' etc.
THE PROSPECT OF HARRY HILLS LOSING
THE PRIVILEGE
of selling liquor at his famous resort in
Houston street creates CONSERVATION
among the sporting fraternity. Harry
himself views the matter philosophically.
EFF they want to shut down en- place
known all over the world, which 'as 'ad
(being an Englishman Harry drops his
! h's) license fur thirty years, they ken,
but they won't make me close up. PYe
got theatrical license, and ken keep my
| theayter goin' even eff 1 don't sell no
liquor. An l wont sell none eff l don't
get license. l allus has kept the law,
am l mean ter cOntiner to do so. What's
more, nobody ken say with truth that a
man ever had liquor sold him at my bar
when he 'ad 'ad enuff. or that a man was
ever robbed 'ere."
All of which is true. A man with his
pockets full of money is almost as secure
from thieves at Harry Hips as he would
be at home. He is less liable to having
his pockets picked than he would be at
more respectable place, for his class of
! customers not being entirely of the best
! character, Harry is always on the lookout
| for thieves, and woe to the pick-pocket
caught plying his trade on his premises.
| 1t is no imputation on HIPS place that
| pickpockets occasionally cOngregate
fovs fhor~ % A.f > &nII 4 L.,
! chNrches and wherever there is a crowd,
and persons are continually robbed when
performing their religious duties in the
sanctuary. Not only too is it difficult for
man to get too drunk to take care of
himself at Harry Hill's, but if fellow
I has already got %fulP' elsewhere, and is
known to have money and valuables about
him, Harry viii, if he Is permitted, either
lock them up in his safe or havethe owner
sent home in charge of trustworthy
cabuan.
Of course, Harry's place is not a SUM-
day school. 1t is frequented by immoral
women, aad belongs to the class of resorts
+ which are the sores of great cities, but it
is the best OF its class, and, when others
so much more degraded are allowed to
| flourish, should be permitted to keep open.
| When the rest are closed and not until
then. will it be consistent for the powers
that-be to close Harry HilPs, and the EX-
/ else Commissioners, therefore, are laying
! themselves open to the charge of incOn-
/ slstency in Withholding a license from
| him. From sanitary standpoint they
I are, perhaps, right, however, for Harry
/ sells poor liquor to the general public,
and it is only his especial friends who get
served from his private bottle.
SELDOM HAS MORE SUCCESSFUL ENTER
TAINMENT
been given than MIR. Abbey's benefit at
the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday
| evening, and not often a longer one. 1t
/ lasted from D. m, until halfpast one
/ the next morning. Those of the audience
/ who saw it through were obliged to take
/ an intermissiOn at midnight for supper,
! but the entertainment continued without
/ any break. As might easily be expected,
I the bentlt has been by all odds the grandest
I affair in the amusement line of the week.
I The farewell operas Of the MapfesOn
! troupe are an Old story, and justine" at
| the New Park Theatre in which Selma
/ DelarO poses as an emotional actress,
/ with the other new departures, are poor.
/ The revival of ga Scrap of Paper at
1 Wallack's is Of some interest, for Mr..
Wallack appears in it, his first appear
/ ance in a year.
AN ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER
made retOrt emphatic, if not courteous,
/ to an insulting remark of the cashier of
/ the Park Bank the Other day He had
| gone to the bank to investigate a report of
a deialcation. which proved to be entirely
unfOunded. Mr.. Wright, the cashier, had
/ lost his nights rest in going over his
books only to discover that the report was
baseless, and was, in consequence, in
not unnatural state Of i'll humOr when the
/ reporter began to question him. ''HOw
/ much are you paid, SIR" he said, snap
/ pishly, ''for coming here and ask
/ ing me these questiOnsT' / will
/ tell you that" the reporter replied,
'when you tell me how much you are
| paid for being insOlent to people who ask
/ you for inform ation!'' Mr.. Wright, who
is really a good fellow, was brought to
his senses by the reply. He at once apollo
! gized, excusing his cross condition on the
/ ground Of loss Of sleep, and civilly replied
| to every question which the reporter sub
| sequently asked. He not only thus gave
/ the reporter what information be had. but
| he treated him as distinguished stran-
/ ger and asked him to write his name in
I the banks visitors book.
Arthur got out Of bad scrape at the
! Utica convention in better condition than
! at one time seemed possible. BY beating
Blaine, and dividing the delegates oppOs-
/ ed to him between the hero Of the Multi
gan letters and the Senator from Vermont,
his friends have put him in position 10
show far more formidable front at Chi
cago then he otherwise would. AS he
could not have the Gelegatcs-at-large him