New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-07-27
HOTEL BAR-ROOMS INVADED.
vxc,reurNr AT THE HOFFMAN HOUSE.
..vv,vc THE LAw-READY TO BAIL AS MANY DA"'
'.' KEEPERS AS ARE CAUGHT.

". KEEPERS AS ARE CAUGHT.
.esoers in citizens clothes filed out OF
&ha Thirteth Street Police station ycs.o'""I
afternoon and departed Oa IN nue. man entered the
Hoffman House bar-room looking eA..onroiby s face
and wearing an innocent expression OH nnd d sooE a
He glanced around az az Of mem drinking and tue
Sasnt Contents of their glasses Then he stepped
mn to the bar and remarked to M,iia% taIe some
Che chief He had Of
&he Touor than he threw back the lappei OIL hS J
exposing a star placed hand on iow In An
insfant the bar-room was q scene oi COMMUNITY .hat ths
Mem sprang from their glasses fearing shas so sne
place was being puiieah had to 90 to the station
resistance anu Go" proprietors Of the bar. were at
f. sesch and was also ont Of
The to ths station Ills
doiiOGed the money as bail for Muyhall was declined
Int a man was speedily found VINO gave 'ho IT,
aSls this affair was taking place another officer
.rrsstsS James Burr bartender Of the Albermars
Hotel The proprietors, Janvin q w hnreLsener Of
pan III Hennes bar-room No. 1921 Broadway was
arrested and immediately baed ont; during , tne
afternoon in the same prechct sa' the Excise law
jnnn r. Fenton. bar keeper of Elizabeth LeT Sar
Mace. No. i32 Park-ave.; James s6crock,, o Da'
keeper Of Peter H%hIs stor1 sU Of John Lero
place at No. 3O1 Seventh-ave All Oh INC D"f'
feepers were baed ont. .,.o.r,o hors
The arrests at the Hoffman ana Aioelnai 70 ,t S'ao
mada M difference in the liquor trainc az thSse
niaces The officers had barely left the rooms 9e
fnre calls for drinks of all kinds were n1horeaii
LAT evening the bars were runr' al sci uai
capacity as they have done on each Sunuaan an i,
fofore One Of the bar. keepers OF the honm t ~
speaking of the affair said were rnipcs dnnt
scare us here. We shall sell liquor right along 10
any one who paws for IT, ..,,so remorked.
The night clerk of the same mouse Iehai S Sn
q THE Holman will not stop selling liquors on sun
DAYS and we shall furnish bail for as many OF our
h,r- kee ners as are arrested" - c...
Tho sergeant at the Thirtieth Street otanon
said: aWarnings were sent TO al persons M ai
were known to sell hquor Sunday that the tralnc
was 10 be stamped out on that day. To-Day yer
tain number of officers in citizens clothing
we're ,"ar detailed from each precinct 10 arrest
ali yioIatOrs of the Excise law ana ., SO
far as we are concerned ~ Ihis
nrecincf. we have obeyed the order in fnli.
When informed that the hotel bars had noi
stopped ceiling after the arrests were MADE ne sa
that such open defiance Of the law wouid ieao 70
Al Roster & Biaps last evening the usual concert
was in progress ana liquor was SOLD In the wlnc
room and ont of it. Captain Williams, In reference
TO this place, said that il arrests were rot made
there II would 20 hard with the officers whose
duty it was to look after It, ~ .
Il is estimated that at least fifty arrests were
made during the dav for violation OF the Excise
law. IL was said last night that some
of the liouor men were extremely dehan., ana that
Superintendent Murray had got his spine I'D gop '
shape to fight them from now on, IN spite o. .ne
sfrenuous effort which has been made 10 Tx
things with the proper authorities.