The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-14
BOOTHS MUST CO.
A Disgraceful Feature OF
Our Licensed City
Rum Trade.
Why Did Not the Aldermanit
Rumsters Investigate This
Before Issuing Licenses.
YOUNG GIRLS DEBAICHED,
Vile Scenes in Numerous Saloons
Police Superintendent Smith
Takes Up a Good Work.

AesAOo OP q OUVU YVVIhe
Saloon keepers who are permitting theii
stores to degenerate into dives, are to be
given severe shaking up. Police cap.
talns, sergeants, roundsmen and patrol
men have just been Iectured to by Super.
iptendent Smith, and ordered to report to
headquarters the location OF saloons of
questionable character, or frequented by
persons of ill-repute or by young girls.
Last week the attention of Super4ntend-
ent Smith was called to the fact that nu-
merous saloons in the lower section of the
city were supplied with private boxes,
made more private by the presence of
spring locks on the doors. Reports also
came to the Superintendent that women
visited certain of these dives nightly and
drank with men who frequent the places.
1t was further stated that young girls
were being induced to enter, and several
Instances were cited where girls from IS
10 ~ years OF age were found in such a
state OF fntoxication that they were .un-
able to walk without staggering.
A SHAKE UP.
The Superintendent promised to make
an investigation at once. He did SO per-
sonaily, and secured list of places
which are notorious. sas in his own lam
guage. "houses Of assignation." Last
Monday the Superintendent read the
Police Captains rule in the police man
uel, which makes it compulsory for them
to report dives OF this sort. The Super
intendent demanded that reports be made
to him at once. Personally the Superin-
tendent directed the patrollmen to report
the places on their respective posts. Dur
ing the past few days reports have been
made and yesterday the Superintendent
issued an order to this effect:-
All saloon keepers having booths in
their saloons for the purpose of admitting
men and women, must remove them"
CITIZENS COMPLAINED.
In speaking of the matter YESTERDAY
afternoon the Superintendent said:-''My
attention was called by the parents of
several girls to the fact that certain saloon
keepers were Inducing their daughters TO
frequent their saloons. / Investigated
the matter and found in the First precinct
that many OF the saloons were supplied
with booths. ] also learned that women
well known to the police and young inno-
cent girls frequented these places, occu-
pied the boxes and there waited for Gus
toners to come in and treat them. In
O few saloons / have found that
the proprietors have placed locks on the
booth doors and permit them to be Locked
only presume what occurs inside when
these beasts, who call themselves men,
get the young girls drunk. / have heard
of many incidents which have occurred in
saloon not far distant, and l intend that
1t shall be stopped. don't propose 90
have dives and houses of Rssitnation
operated here. have located the saloons
which are fitted up with booths. I
have warned the police of the various
precincts to direct the proprietors to re-
n Tla
not necessary adjuncts to saloon. One
booth at the head of the bar for the pri-
vate Office of the proprietor is sufficient
in any saloon. All other booths must go.
| have warned the policemen to report
these places and I have directed them
further TO report to me, after having once
directed proprietors to remove them II
they refuse to do SO, and continue adj
mitting women to their saloons to drink.
RAIDS THREATENED.
II will raid every saloon Of this charac-
ter that does not obey the order, and
policemen who fail to report these places
must take the consequences. I will
bring every man In this department who
disobeys the order to the front. This
thing has been carried too far. The de-
moralizing effect it is having upon the
community is apparent from the increas-
ing number af young girls who appear IN
the police courts charged with being
drunk.
st have no doubt but what saloon
keepers will refuse to remove the booths
buo II l lind Ii necessary, / will have
policemen located near these places and
if women enter, l will cause the place TO
be raided. These saloons are a disgrace
to the city. 1t is a surprising fact. too.
that the men who drink with tn ese girls
are in most part of good standing in the
city. Some of the most disgraceful and
7 hou Of
have occurred in some Of these saloons
and in many instances young girls have
taken active parts in the affairs"
SOME OF THE DIVES.
Word has reached the Superintendent
of saloon in Monmouth street, near
Railroad avenue, where young girls are
permitted TO do almost anything in the
numerous rooms connected with the
place. Another place of this character is
on Railroad avenue Just above Barrow
street. There is another in Warren street
and one near Police Headquarters, of
which numerous complaints have been
made.
That the Superintendent intends carry
ing out the programme he has laid out is
apparent and 1t is highly probable that
sever al raids will be made before another
week has passed by.
Some Specimen Cases.
Theirs were but few cases to be disposed
of in Police Justice O'Donnell's Court
this morning, and the majority of the
prisoners were women. John Garlck
was fined S. as disorderly person.
Kate McInerney of Brooklyn. Lizzie
Lee of No. 316 Grove street and Julia
Jarvis were given each four days in the
City Prisousith latter two In order to
sober up. Complaint was made against
the McInerney woman by Mrs. Collins
of Wayne street, who said she came into
her house few days ago without invita-
ton. The woman said she was stopping
with Mrs. Collins.
Lizze Lee, while intoxicated, was sur
rounded by crowd of hoodlums on
Grove street last night. When Patrol
man Quinn tried to disperse the crowd
the woman fought him like tigress.
She scratched and bit Quinn's face and
tore his coat. Julia Jarvis thought she
was in Gutenberg.
Weather Indications.
WASHINGTON, July IA, 1892. Weather
in6icationa for tyentp -four horrS FOR