The sun., 1892-05-02
SUNDAY HUMIDITY NORMAL.
THE ARID SEASON PASSES OFF WIN
THE CUSTOM1RY RAPIDITr.

THE ARID SEASON PASSES OFF BI1H
THE CUSTOMARY RAPIDITr.
superintendent Byrnes Had Heard or No
Hint to the Police that Il Was Time 10
Iet Up, Hut Inspector steers Hnd Hca rd
Something While Ryrnes Was Away.
After n lcisurely stroll along Fifth avenue.
Superintendent Byrnes got to Police Head
quarters yesterday afternoon about 2h o'clock.
and was Mt once overwhelmed by inquiries
from reporters who wanted to know whether
thorc had not been general understand
ing in tho department to "let up" ON
his recent orders to tho police Captains
to keep tho saloon sidc doors closed on Sun
days. In Superintendent Byrnes's absence on
Saturday Chief Inspector Steers. as acting SUI
pcrintcndcnt. Ind summoned all the Captains
and had talk with them about tho Excise
law. The report that was current after this
talk was that tho Chief Inspector had called
Off the men in plain clothes detailed 70 enforce
the Sunday law.
Superintendent Dyrnes told tho reporters
that he knew nothing about Inspector Steers
having talked to the Captains. or OF the giving
Of any instructions to call of the police spies.
He said tho law was being strictly enforced
everywhere
Il don't believe that there is q saloon open
in this city," the Superintendent said as
wind-up 10 his denial OF the report.
He was promptly invited to walk around the
corner and see n saloon side door wide oren
that had been closed tho sunday before for
about the first time IN ten years.
The Superintendent wheeled about abruptly.
calcd up the commander OF the Tenth
precinct on his telephone. and ordered a
policeman to 10 sent to him at once. Tho
copper ramo in n hurry.
Go to Tho Capitol hc said to the copper
III you eau get In arrest every ono in tho
place.
Tho coppor in full uniform hurried around
the corner. walked into the saloon on tho
northwest corner OF Houston street und tho
Bowery. and arrested William johnson. the
bartender. Patrick McColum OF 1914 Mulberry
street put up bail for Johnson. All this while
people were going through the side door OF
a saloon close by the one that the Superin-
tenhent thus summarily shut w.
or not there was certainly lot NJ on the sa.
looms all along tho line yesterday. A good
to oren With prk"ts @ mt at tho side aoors. re
TACT that the saloons. were open was patent to
nny nn or ono who rode in M elevated sars and
Saloons that had been closed for two sundays
:, This occasioned no surprise. for 1t is part OF
tne history OF az thG spasmodlc attemIts to
tolerate il It had home rule. Riong T period no OF
wet Sundays follows tho short intorynl OF dry
sundays us regularly as tho skies clear after
On Saturday afternoon about | o'clock Su-
pssrIntepdent Byrnes had to leave tho city OIL
cd Chief Inspector Steers acting superinten-
Iensi pr; byrnes had not been gone long when
for The aeens ana
the. board last fall prohibiting policemen in
Inth thnG
making cIeis. arrests and Getting N int3 Saloons
by trick and device. This is the resolution:
Ts:s fss% 'Hs he
received and placed on ME and copy referred To the
4" all q. s
psf se q G% 9"
Discharge Of dae AND u,ssy eonds%nns hs shs
aa or s e'ss Q,
brbes Of Kind or character Tor any purpose what
t S.ssd 81 Thu. any ana =, having tnow.axe
reaussed to make the .a,ne Known to tue sos;vi
rs ~ sS S5ssr ,,., ha ssy may
facts established may require.
Acting Superintendent Steers saw tho Cap
abide by the Police Boards resolution strictly
day. The CAPTAINS, dispsrsed then. On the
way out INSPECTOR Williams told several Of the
tsas s M s Ss ad
detectives were not allowed to enter q saloon
in plain clothes.
At least fifteen or twenty Captains heard this
sentiment from Inspector Williams. us they
left Police Headquarters decidedly mystified
intendent Byrnes. 1t Is said. had given them
to understand two Sundays before that tho
resolution had lapsed into innocuous desue-
tude.
The state OF puzzlement OF some OF the Cap
tains led to an irregular enforcement Of the
law yesterday. The arrests by precincts were
us follows: