The sun., 1888-05-01
PULlTZER'S "HELL" "EMPTIED
1T WAS "THE Sun" THAT DID IT.
THOUGH, NOT THE PROPRIETOR.

AHA street Allowed To Escnpo Win tnetr
Apparatus-Nstice to Quit v,rtuensly
Served After thoy Had Gone-Thsy Had
New Lease, obtained Since Pulitzer
Housht the Place. and they Paid High
Rents, fer They Could Afford it-A Hig
Game with Many SIctims-Was It There
C. u. Vanderbilt Played his Last stnkef
Joe Pulitzer's Gambling He'll, at 7. 8, and
IL Ann street. moved on yesterday. His
lieutenants knew very we'll. after The SUN eN-
posed the place in Sundays paper, that tho
proprietor OF tho World would not dare to shell
ter them any longer. All Sunday afternoon
the windows OF the big second-hoor room on
IL Park row were open to let in air. though
the blinds and shutters were closed, so as to
prevent people on the street seeing what was
going on. 1t was the bitterest Sunday thnt Mr.
Pulitzer's business associates have passed in u
long while. They told the men from The Sun
who were In there over week ago that they
had always shut up shop on Sunday. There
aren't many people down town on Sunday
they said. and, besides we get tired and
want days rest, and are we'll enough satisfied
any way with what we get in the six days"
When they found that a history of their busi-
ness had been put in print the gamblers came
down town and for the first time In a long
while they did some work ON Sunday. And it
was manual labor. too. They ripped up the
carpets and moved the heavy tables in their
long saloons and got ready to decamp. Police
Captain Carpenter of the Oak street station
would be likely to be after them on Monday.
and SO they were mighty quick about it. The
World set no detectives to bother them. and
did not even warn the policeman on post not to
let gambling apparatus be carried out, and
when Capt. Carpenter went to Mr.. Puitzer's
place yesterday morning at 101a there was
nothing left to raid.
He went into the doorway Of II Ann street,
that disreputable doorway where bunco steer
a Nd to lounge. and passed up the rickety stair
case through the hall OF squalor to the gam
pentsr % says says the Place at that time was Stripped
Of everything criminal The faro table and
roulette wheel the chips, and the cards we're
sishor sS ass fatzer % SAW 50 @ there's and
one on tho street said positively that he had
not been there so far during the day.
Capt. Carpenter said later in the day that he
to % raid W the place. il necessary. @ Solely on the
strength of tho evidence given in The Sun as
to the husnefs carried on under the Pulitzer S
hadn't been able TO capture some OF the gam
bling instruments, and said he was sure the
Are you going to do anything more about
II shall make a report to Superintendent
Murray about the, case"
Other se Re ne eo1 .sf e
compelled to say editorially, in the World yes
terday morning that Mr Pulitzer really didn't
Building. ana that Ii there we're gamblers there
they would have to go.
be said IN Of TaT M Has erme
mighty weak excuse rs said , one man: inter.
a If t. and the o rs S
who have written about gambling houses late
y have been mighty careful not to refer to the
reasonable to believe. too that Pulitzer want
ed to have the mbling business kept right on
ss ii place sn and fnS doudp
because the rents were 50 high. Yon see the
queer too that the Ann street property
faeu rsnns in ssi sa Of w I
Hotel property should be in the hands OF g. W.
Turner. the W2rlFs @ business agent fer re renting
was afraid to make the leases with the gam
S %s N sSuh his
blers. In this way Pulitzer shrewdiy provided
himself with n chance to say that not he, but
the real estate men who made the leases were
years, infested with gam blers and that Pulitz;
ers place was the chief place Of business. And
i Is pretty certain to- that Pulzsrs gam
had not THE SUN exposed it., It wasn't the
World that attacked the scoundrels, and drove
penter over the Goals as it hauled Capt Reilly
never. at any rate. since Pulitzer got an inte-
In IN hs sA Ann fro s baea bsn1 Ea a.
rect representatives didn't go straight to the
gamblers and tell them to clear out. Puitzer's
paper said apologetically Yesterday: " II gam
bers are lodged in the dark corners Of the
building at 7. g. and II Ann street they will be
hem sH he o~ % oee It really @SfH WAS Sn" not
absolutely necessary: to be sure, for these
and skipped hprriodly on their own account
before the World got its chance to promise re-
PuIitzers newspaper establishment was in
state OF CONSERVATION Sunday and yesterday
over the blow struck at Pulitzers faro estab-
sent for the real estate agents, Scott & Myers,
who had had charge Of the Ann street annex of
came from the real estate Office. that the Jig
WAS up; Then ne tod Sa the Q agent M that ne guess
e man saa Scott SaTs in the
day. Their Representative said: I'VE have 81 sent eint
for tho lessee. He is Patrick Maher When we
place any longer II it's used for a gambling
den. Why. we wouldn't have let him Stay there
II we had known about the rooms being used
How did he get the loase2'
-" He had II from the former owner"
Was it renewed under Mr.. Pulitzer?"
Yes, !, was recently renewed, but 1t will be
The mixed apology and excuse and denial
which appeared In the World yesterday said:
The Park row buildidg was purchased subject
That's not the point. The point is that whether
the leases matured or not Pulitzer could have
removed the lessees at any time II he had been
That he could have done this ho admits by
doing 1t now. And the point is that the gam
bling saloon lease has beenlrenewed within
did mot know and II Scott and Myers did not
know they are about the only people down
town. who had anything to do with the place.
or saw it. or heard Of II who did not know that
1t was II gambling house.
After Capt; Carpenter left Mr.. Pulitzers
place yesterday morning tho gamblers came
back TO look upon the scene, The seedy old
chap in tho blue coat. with tho pine and the
cane who used TO stand on guard in the dis
reputable doorway whom it wasn't guarded by
the better dressed men in the high hats was
the street. After while he moved UP TO Mas
sau street and sauntered sadly away. The
In the chair inside the hallway reading that
Innocent journal, tho World. loitered on the
sidewalk ON Ann street most Of the afternoon
He wouldn't tell The Sun man anything about
the affair. Every little while he held confer