The record-union., 1893-09-19
WILL STAND BY THE POLICE.
What Mayor Steinman Says He Pro-
poses to Do.
He Roasts Anderson in scathing Ian
guage-The Side-Entrances Go
Over Till Next Week.

you can De sure OF LnaL, Sd1O May u
Steinman yesterday morning. at the
Trustees meeting.
1.-The Chief of Police and the Captain
recommended that it should be closed,
and we did as they requested. l shall
take their word in the matter-they are
public servants and under oath, and we
ought to stand by them. The police have
done splendid work the past two weeks.
and deserve credit for it. Heretofore
they have had fifteen specials at State
Fair time, but this year the regular offi-
GERS have done the work alone and done
it well. No, I shall stick right by them,
as far as l am concerned.
''Here is one Of the saloons we close
to-day. A man was killed there last
week and no one knows anything about
it. If the other members wish to vote to
re-license such places, let them, but will
not"
Hiram w. Johnson had appeared be-
fore the Board of Trustees IN behalf of
Gibson IL Cook of the Lafayette Saloon,
asking hearing for them in the matter
OF revoking their license, and presenting
"a petition, signed, he said, by every prop
erty-owner in the block with one eXcep-
tions All the proprietors asked, he said,
was to be heard in their own defense.
The petition set forth that the defend
ants had always kept quiet and orderly
place, and that the petitioners asked that
their license be not revoked.
The Mayor asked what the pleasure of
the board was, and Trustee Conklin
moved that it be referred to the Board of
Police Commissioners, and it was so or
dered.
Mayor Steinman said, in response to a
request from Mr.. johnson that the pro-
prietors of the saloon have a hearing, that
the Chief of Police and Captain Simmons
had requested that the saloon be closed,
among others, and he would take their
word for it and stand by them. The Chief
was a member of the Board Of Police
Commissioners and the Captain was
elected by them. As a member of the
board he should stand by any recon-
mendation they should make, and as lar
as he was concerned he should vote for it.
That was his position and he should
stand by it every time.
At this juncture the Chief of Police pre-
sented list of saloons which he recon-
mended should be closed, comprising
Frank Gisler's, southeast corner of Sec
ond and l; LeSser's, on K, between Front
and Second; the Salvador, 3l5 X; John
Norton's, OH K, between Second and
Third, and Charles Yates on l., between
Third and Fourth, and they were unani-
mously ordered closed and a rebate made
on the licenses.
The board refused at first to refer the
Lafayette case to the Police Commission
ers, as both the Mayor and Chief declared
they would not change their votes. Chief
Rodgers stating that Captain Simmons
had acted under his orders in presenting
the recommendation for its closing. 1t
was finally, however. referred TO the
Commissioners.
A delegation of ladies of the Women's
nj tod
the board in relation to closing side en-
frances, and Mrs. Mayhem made strong
appeal, saying that the City Attorney had
decided that the board has power to close
them. The saloon at the corner of Ninth
and X was watched one night, and in less
than an hour over forty women and girls
went into the side entrance. These places
Wonld ruin the wives and daughters of
the members of the board as well as other
citizens, if they were able. She asked
that this stain be removed from the city
These ladies, she said, We're not working
for themselves; they were not personally
concerned, but were working in the in
terest of humanity.
Mayor Steinman said that an ordinance
closing all side entrances would work a
hardship on a number of respectable
places. There were several places where
he took his wife and daughters and which
were properly conducted. He would not
ladies will point out the Objectionable
places, and have the Commissioners rec
ommend their being closed, the board
Will comply with their recommendation,
as the ladies had seen. There is no use
for passing an ordinance and making it a
dead letter, as in Los Angeles.
Trustee Conklin was not willing to
revoke their licenses without warning,
but would close the side entrances and
give them q chance to do better. He
would vote for an ordinance to close the
side entrances.
On motion of Trustee Conklin the
matter was deferred for one week.
Then came more music. Charles An
derson. who kept a place on Eighth
street, between j and 4, came inside the
rail and asked the Board to reconsider
the revoking of his license.
Mayor Steinman jumped on him and
gave him probably the worst tongue
lashing ever listened to in that room.
''You call it a saloon, do you?" said he.
''you kept an assignation house, that is
what it was. l have seen ten and twelve
year-old girls taken into your house
little girls in short clothes-time and
again, and you allowed it. l hate no
patience with you or your kind, who, in
order to make little money, would ruin
children body and soul. Get outside of
the rail, there is no place for you in here,
You are not fit to live amongst civilized,
decent people. l won't talk to such
thing as you are. The other members
can listen to you if they want to-"
The Mayor turned his back on Ander-
son with the utmost disgust on his face.
and the burly saloon-keeper got outside
the rail, renarking that of course he did
not turn anyone away that wanted to
come in.
Trustee Green said the matter had
been already settled and he did not care
to listen to anything more, and as Trustee
Conklin agreed with him, Anderson's
form faded away through the door.
Z. c. Hart then essayed to get a rehear-
ing of the revocation of Frates' license.
but the Mayor told him what had already
been said and that it was of no use.
Hart succeeded in getting it referred to
the Police Commissioners, although he
was warned that it would not help him
any.