Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-22
CLUBS TOO LIVELY.
McKelvey Looking After Southside
Social Organizations.
POLICE ARE TO TAKE TAB OF THEN
Orders 10 Secure the Names of Their Re-
spOnsible officers.
NElGHBORS WHO MAKE COMPLAINTS

Inspector McKelvey, of the Southside, is
again after the club people, but this time
only in mild way. He wants to keep
track of them, he saws, so that if the mem-
bers do not BEHAVE themselves he will know
Just who to haul over the Goals. Ever since
the Inspector, several months ago, an
nounced that he proposed to make the
Southside clubs toe the mark, the members
have been prepared to hear from him again
at any time.
Last night when the patrolmen were gath
cred in the Tweniy-eighth ward police sta
tion and answered to their names, they
seemed to know that something was coming,
and it came in the way of short address.
The inspector said to the men that he wanted
them to make careful census of all social
clubs on their respective beats. He not only
instructed them to get the name and location
of each organization, but also the officers.
He did not mean that the patrolmen should
go beyond that, and he explained to them
why he wanted the census taken.
Some Clubs Are Nuisances.
There had been frequent complaints
made to him By people who live in the im-
mediate neighborhood of some of the clubs
OF noise that was kept up until a late hour
at night. This had proved a nuisance in
many localities that should not be allowed
to exist. By having the names of the Of
ficers Of the clubs he could easily notify
them to be more careful. In case the COM
plants continued it would then be easy to
make information against those who were in
authority.
The Inspector said that he considered the
order good police regulation. The num-
Der of clubs, social in their character were
SO large on the Southside that it was neces-
sary for the police to know all about them,
not only their location, but the. names of the
people who have charge of or are RESPONSE
BILE for the manner IL which they are con-
Quoted. Because people have room in
which they NAV gather and have good
time, it Is hardly fair that their neighbors
should be compelled to suffer tor their fun.
Sunday Drinking Clubs.
On the beats of some OF the officers on the
Southside there as many as half dozen
OF these clubs. Some are all right, some are
indifferently good, while there are others
that are positively bad. 1t is the latter that
cause all the trouble; they are drinking
places pure and simple, and a person is sell
dom seen in them except on Sunday. So
long as their members behave themselves the
police can hardly interfere. In many in
stances the police have little or no idea who
compose the membership.
When Inspector MrKelvey spoke some
time ago about putting close watch on the
clubs, and said that it would be a good thing
all around if most of them could be closed
| up, the statement had the effect of putting
many OF them on their guard. There was
less noise and little or no opportunity for
the police to carry out the thought OF the
Inspector. Lately. however, some of the
purely drinking clubs have again become
| lax, and hence the recent complaints from
people who reside in the neighborhood of
some of them.
1t is expected that the inquiry the police
were instructed last right to make will have
beneficial effect. II it does not, then the
Southside Inspector may yet have an oppor-
tunity to proceed against some of them.