The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-05-09
PLENTY OF BEER FOR SALE.
PLAIN- cLo1HFs POLICEMEN SENT OUT
IN EXCEPTIONAL CAsEs.


T. IN EXCEPTIONAL CAsEk
Nnnber OF Arrests. Finy.two. Which II
Aprrsaahing the Average of Thirty OF
80 Asnin--An Army OF sentincis Out
p Capt. Reilly Moves Thsn or the Cor~ers
What llr. Ryrnes Says.
Superintendent Byrnos reacie cd Police Hcad.
quarters at l. o clock yesterday. lie saw all
inaulrcrs. and invariably answered:
Tho Excise law will DO uniformly enforced
as II Is Interpreted by my superiors. ] am
only a subordinate. and nm governed by the
instructions OF those In authority. I intend to
Let tho meaning OF tho law DO fought out
among the statesmen who ore Interested in Its
construction. am not lawyer but will carry
out the law as it is construed by lawyers"
Tho saloons In tho immediate nelGhborhood
OF Headquarters woro closed tight, but around
on the Bowery and tho cross Streets watch-
dogs md spoilers stood guard before hall
open doors At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
two detective sergennts from Headquarters
strolled down tho Bowcry. They Ind not
gone half block before all tho spoilers In
sight had vanished into tbelr respective
saloons and locked the doors behind then.
After the detectives had passed there was q
slight raising OF curtains aud window bllnds.
an opening OF side.door slides. aud then gen.
oral rcappcarance OF spotters
1t was. on tho whole. u very moist Sunday.
The owner OF n dry whistle had no trouble in
voting It II ho possessed q spark OF common
sonse and o little patience. All no had to do
was to walk along n street and ratio tho door
knobs of.each saloon. Pretty soon his fncs
would assume that peculiar why in the blank
can't-I-got-n- drink expression that allayed tho
suspicious of the next toorkoeper and then he
would got il. Some. saloons were omen. some
cali nelthor open nor closed. Tho first might
safely have been estimated ~ being in the
proportion OF two to 1--WE to the total number.
dftI. saloon seemed to be ON tenterhooks al
the time. oron in tho morning. closed at noon,
and thon opnn again nftor lew hours. But
this saloon was very conservative and admitted
only regular customers.
Interpret the Excise Excise. law. Would pasronen
lco did all the Watching for excise violations
There we're no plain slot hi men h opt Tor H.
eleventh, Fifteenth. Sixteenth. Nineteenth. or
Tasrector Williams said Mt night:
VOL. haven't seen any drunken men to;
day. came down tho Bowery apd saw several
sfS3 fsSA f$ s' Sss
the x sa sr T9 sr %saa the
tiny beer
psI GH fhS ePSaSr ssi5 THAT dSps pSSSo
thing to drink { You sought sandwich with
it. This Is; sandwich was set before you and i'm
ssa 81 otRe Sn
sa%ss T %F%ssy + Ea IN
s0" small M"sece A TaEiSe stsk 'a xens
SOUTH Park aay tna Side aooss
Of the iluor stores. pr. Trncey l. member
d. as 81 e. Tars sao 5ons
$50 Third avenue. which is on the Fifty; eighth
street corner and then hurried AROUND t3 the
Reilly that the plaee, was open. It was the
third time In That he had been to soc the Captain
e I psn eosss sek
70 the saloon again with DR.; Tracey. The lat
snI seia d. Tr"sey %hss Tracsy sssss for
M. G,Sy Ga C sn the door for Dr. Traoey"
: Yes. I aid tIG and told him politely that
couldn't sell him anything" replied Raiders.
=, You opened t6e door. ana You must take
he locked him UP. Raders was bailed out
ohs a Rs sst Dr. If Rn ee eehss to
but tho men couldn't get in. The Doctor
seemed nettled at this.
The trouble is" he said. that your men
don't drcss well enough. POLICE in plain
CLOTHES are good enough for excise duty il
wear good clothes to make arrests in tho
7, dis. district They could catch the
DR.. Tracey is small man. with thin mutton
chop wlHskers. BE is tho man who made a
to close saloon ct sixth avenue and Thirty
ninth street on the night after the Hotel
Royal fire. the saloon having been opened by
tho proprietor to accommodate the newspaper
reporters. who made il an information bureau.
=, After Tracey left the. station at 81, O'clock.
Capt; Reilly ordered his squad OF natrolmen to
try all side doors. and come back and report to
the station any that wero opon SO that the
Sergeant at tho desk could send policemen In |
platn clothes to arrest the bartenders. He
lott cred at snloon street corners
Policeman Doran 81 tho Tenderon district |
went out In plain clothes on excise duty along |
seventh Avenue yesterday. Tho keepers Of
the Seventh avenue saloons had heretofore
paid little heed to Superintendent Hyrnes's in
.tructions to close UP on Sunday. Doran got a
rink OF Horny Hnhlhulin. Mt POT Seventh ave-
nue.. and another OF John Konlly. at :aJ7
seventh avenue. in the rftornoon. and arrest
I'd both OF thom. Capt. Mclaughlin locked
hem ny.
There wero llfty-two excise arrests yestor.
iny. as against seventy on tho previous sun
lay. ThO recort! is gradually being reduced
~ tue general average OF thirty which PRO |
'ailed before it hogan TO be extra dry" Tho
'ecorl OF arrests by precincts follows:
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