Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-10
THE CITY WILL PAY
Policemen and Firemen Who
Went to Iohnst0Wn.
RED TAPE LAID ASIDE.
The Speak Easies Did n Lively Business
Yesterday, Although Two Were Raided
and All Drunken People on the Streets
Were Arrested = Heavy Forfeits Re-
quired of the Visitors.

Speaking of the police of Pittsburg land the
firemen, too, for that matter) who have been
on duty at Johnstown since the flood of Friday
week, the question has frequently been asked
whether they would be paid by the Relief Com
mittee or the city for their services. An effort
was made last night to find ]. .. Brown, Chief
OF the Department of Public Safety, in order
to see about the matter, but that
gentleman was not at home. Controller E. 8.
Morrow was encountered, however, and when
spoken to said: 1.-THE city will pay all its en-
ployes who have been on duty at Johnstown, to
be sure.
Would Not Hesitate.
''For my part. shouldn't hesitate a moment
to pass pay roll with their names upon it.
This calamity overrides all law, in that its me-
cessities must be met promptly and without
cavil. Chief Brown met me last Monday and
remarked that he should have consulted me
before sending the boys up, but told him that
at such a time it was unnecessary to consult any
body"
The "Speak Easies" Were Running.
The proprietor of Pittsburg "speak easy"
resembled the fabled green bay tree yesterday,
iuasmuch as he fiourished. Fear OF Judge
White and the next years License Court was
sufficient cause to keep the doors of the regu-
lar saloons locked as tight as wax, but these
combined elements of terror had no effect
whatever on the genial gentlemen who, having
been refused the right to sell malt and vinous
liquors, followed the example of the
private; who, upon being Informed that
it was not within his power to place General
in the guard house, Immediately proceeded to
show his contempt for military discipline by
landing his superior officer high and dry within
the military bastile.
The hot weather combined with the fact that
everybody was afraid to drink hydrant water
resulted in hundreds and hundreds of thirsty
men skirmishing around in search of friendly
side door. And in most cases they found it.
too. The officials of the law, when asked if
they had received any instructions not to pay
attention to the speak easies" SO long as
they were orderly and were made almost
necessity by the existing circumstances, replied
that they hadnot
The Officers Were Active.
But the officers were active in a measure,
nevertheless. At Central station yesterday
morning Captain Dan Silvus made little
speech to the day relief just before they went
out for duty. Said he: ~ want Chief Browns
order in regard to Sunday drunks carried out
to the letter to-day. It's not necessary for a
man to be SO drunk that he lies in the gutter
before he is subject for arrest, but if you see
in a hall or doorway run him in" This order
had the desired effect, and by o'clock II
drunks had been taken in by TRULY Shall
having been picked up along Shingiss street.
Old and Second avenues and Water street.
showing that speak easies" were open.
Inspector McKelvy, Special Officer Kelly and
several other officers on the Southside raided
two speak easles" yesterday morning about 10
o'clock They first went to the place of Bar
ney Scanlon. on Manor street, between South
Eighth and Ninth streets, where the proprietor
and five men were arrested. A visit was then
made to the place of Patrick Labelle, at the
corner of Manor and South Ninth streets where
Mr. Labelle and eight other men were arrested.
All were locked up IN the Twenty-eighth ward
station house, where they gave fictitious
names. Later in the day some of the visitors
we're released on forfeits of $50 apiece, but the
proprietors we're both retained for hearing
this morning.