The evening world., 1892-01-13
THE PICKWICK FORCED TO CLOSE.
Even Bowery Dive-Keepers Thought
1t Wise to Shut Up Early.

Even Bowery Dive-Keepers Thought
1t Wise to Shut Up Early.
Morals are undergoing forced change for
the better in the purlieus OF the dens man
aged by New YOrk's outlaws.
Mr.. Dan Scribner closed his Pickwick to
all comers last night, and Mr.. August Gull
dons French Hotel In sullivan street was
not open for business" Even the bars
which served rs an excuse for the existence
OF these dens were closed last night, and no
drinks were sold over the counters. The two
| places were dark and deserted.
| Probably no two men could be selected to
better represent the extremes OF metropOli-
tan outlawry than Scribner and Guidon.
| ScriDner represents the aristocratlc extreme.
His den Is on the city's great thoroughIare,
Broadway, near Thirty-sixth street, where
gentiemanly looking Victims only are lured In
by crooks who wear Ihe outward seeming OF
gentlemen and gently proceed TO get their
victims intoxicated and to relieve them OF
their valuables in as gentle a manner as is
possible.
Guidon keeps a dive whose patrons rcek
with vice and debauchery In Its unglCved and
unvarnished form. In his den the victim
need not be gentlemanly or we'll dressed, so
long as he mas money.
SOMETHING IN A NAME.
SCribner's den is called the "Pickwick; !"
Guidon's "The French Hotel" and the
| 4" Black and Tan" The names, as well as the
propretors, show the difference In the char
| acter OF the places. One Is "high-toned
joint" the other a"low dive !" but who shall
say which exerts the most harmful influence
| In the community
| For the frst time since THE EVENING
WORLDS crusade was begun, sunday night
excepted, Scribner last night locked every
door to his den and shut up entirely.
Dan himself was gathered In by one OF
capt. Reillys policemen early In the evening,
but he had pleaty OF company In the ten
other outlaws, whose arrest at the request OF
the Grand Jury is detailed elsewhere.
| Three lone females crawlcd In out OF the
dripping wet into the Pickwick dOorways and
said mean things about newspapers In gen.
eral and THE EVENING WORLD In particular.
| Guidon had already had one night In u cell
| and didn't care for another, 30 he, too, kept
| his bar and dive securely closed.
| "IIoncst John Kelly locked and darkencd
his asS!gnation-room last night, as also did
| Mr.. Mccormick, whose den Is up the avenue a
| few doors Their friends heard OF their arrest
early In the evening, and remarked that the
wind seemed to be blowing up the East River
towards popuous II not popular resort.
Mr. wELCn WISHES he HADN'T.
The same Kind OF "A chilly breeze seemed To
| be blowing over on Fourth avenue through
| The deserted 4" Hole In the Wall" Mr. Carey
| Wrlch'S frantic desire to surrender
"Dumlny" George Meningitis license had
been OF no avail. The Grand Jury was
yearning Tor him, and about D o'clock yester-
day afternoon Mr. Wclch realized that his
persistent defiance OF The EVENING WORLDS
crusade had been almost equivalent to break
Ing into the Pcnitcntiary.
Jim sullivan, his old partner, escaped ar
rest last night, but an unusually quiet and
subiucd air pcrvadcd his den, Farley's Hotel,
at rs Third avenue.
The same state OF affairs existed at the
Excise Exchange, 800 Bowery, where the
dive annex was SIN closed THIS barkceper
seemed to have his doubts about the pro-
prlcty o. keeping even the saloon part Of the
Exchange open, and his nervousness was
painfully apparent TO the few customers for
| drinks.
OF all nights for indoor work last night was
the proper one. The weather demanded II.
Most VI VI" evening lhe ram icii III torrents,
and yet The outlaws positively refused TO ad-
NIT their old female patrons 10 their dives,
BowERY DENs OPES Till niDSIGHr.
| That IS, most OF them did Ignatz Buttner.
who Keeps the Orphcun, at 204 Bowery, al
lowed everybody IN up TO midnight, but then
excluded all women. promising them admis-
| sion tonight.
Louis stajer, at 25o Bowery, Fan full blast