The evening world., 1893-10-26
IT Up NOV, I,
Tom GouldS Dive LiccnS" Expires on
that Date.
WE'RE THE EXCISE COMMISSIONERS
HOODWINKED?
MYTHICAL LlCENSEE AND BONDSMEN,

No application ior renewal Of the license for
Tom Could 5 rc.ori. ut No. 81 West Twenty
lourtl, street, has lrcu made yet. The Worlds
exposure Of the notorious dive keeper in hiH
last place has cooled his ar!nr. The bare
faced nature Of the farce Ivy which the license
under which Gould's unlimited Utopia now
run IS revealed by even "A superficial mNos'r'
CATION. II Henry ". chapman, In Mio'e
name Tie license was granted, has any exist
cncc at all, Or at least any place ct residence
in New York. a diligcnt search yesterday
iailcd to dis cover the tact. In tho nrid!cnti"n
tor the license, made oct. q, 1902, the alleged
CHAPMAN gives his ad lrcSS as the Hotel lin
coin, FIFTY. tccond street and broadway. TIL"
Lincoln is n worry fine establishment. The
mupr,rtor IL +. II. Mccain. lie said Nc,t"r.
day TINT he dhl not know and had never
known any such person .. Nj. H. W. 'h'?-
man. 1.-THE man iu.t not live here now, - he
said. "nnd ncv"t Inns rlycd hrs. II he SAYS
this i, hi home he is liar and a scoundrrl,
and YOU may say that | said So
Inspector charles Antilles Is the excise Hawk
shaw Who reported iavorhlly on the arllira
t:on of. the runurrl chapman His report, II;
taeEci to the chapman application, "ny>;
"uGving made 4 special inSr c",ipn in uhiS
case. as directed, ! hc'chy report ihat | have
visited the above place $50. 81 M'st twenty.
iauth street, and his given address, and
could not find applicant. ! will try again.
Thc" given address - referred 10 Is the Hotel
Lincoln, and ii Mr.. Antilles hal met the pro-
rrictor Of tina. hotel h. would nave gotten the
same information that The Word reporter did
Yesterday. However that may he, h" seems
10 have satisfied himself, Tor ten days late" the
application for n license was iaNorlNly reported
upon. II was actually l'sUrl SOY, 4 ~,
! The report wns approved ny only two Oi the
tnrn Excise commission. rs Koch ana An
Gr,ws. Commissioners liolme sarh yesterday :
- refused To sign that application. DIV
not approve it. | had rca on to believe that
Tom Could was back OF it. | directed that the
paper We held, 50 far as my signatur" was CON
r,TrrI, and it wa, held. speaking Tor myself
nlonr, | should say that in view OF t'Ouli :
reputation if he was In any way roHu-rtrl
with u place that would he sufficient rLusc Ia
refuse tnHt place license. There has been no
applicatiOn fur a renewal Of the Chapman Ii
Oi course | cannot say what would |r. done in
ca~r such an application were made.
In the arrlicattom, The, rnmo, OF Sismmnd
Goldberg. dealer III artists materials, No: ;iS;'
sixth av"uuc. Is given rs the owner oi tine
Twenty fourth street house in which the ITO
pia Is conducted. Mr.. Goldberg Is also put
down S Nuurhinu for the good moral character
OF the applicant Chapman, Mr.. .roldhcrE 5 store
!, not AT No. 3SS. hut at No. jS5 Sixth avenue,
and he was very ioggy ahoIt the mysterious
/ Chapman.
"Oh, ycs,' he said. 81 have soon hi
ut moi Tor seven or eight months. lie lived
at No. ~ West Fifty first street. but he doe,
not live there now. He used 70 do some Kind
olhook. advertising business at No 1i5''rrene
street, hut is not there now don't know
where he is. get my rent every month. Tina
is all ! know about it.
WHO pays the rcnt?''
"oh, they send it down from up, there.
brings it, and l make out the receipt to Henry
W. Chapman. Oi course everybody know
that Gould runs the place. hut | lid not rent i
In lin; | rented it to Chapman. never -
there. lhNvc 10 time to 80 there during til,
day. and it is Il place | do not care about soin'
The bomdsmcn whose names appear on tho
y1r1r%6HS , cn9&Tmn4's WE ynllisS vito cr aTS c I,pnat
Hundred and Fifteenth street, Each, accord
ing to the law, must qualify as property
owners. They are only second In point OF il
lusivcncss to Chapman himself. No. ~ Yves
Fifty second street is a fat house on the cornc
OF sixth avenue. Actual trace OF II JobSon wa
obtained there in n shadowy way. A ring, n
the door bell brought IL i%anitress, who said TIM
there was a Iobson, but to get at him you, mus
ring the bell over the name sheldon. A knocl
at the door OF the sheldon fiat brought out thu
servant girl, who said there was a JoDSon. bl
he was not in. Further inquiries resulted IL
the appearance OF n touslr- headed, middle
aged woman. she, too, said that there was
JohSon, but that he was IN philndclphiG. Job
son had not said when he would be back. Thu
dmggis, on the corner said that n man nance
DObSOn had boarded in the building recently
but that there was no one named JOhSon there
The Shcldons, he said, had moved away.
Pursuit OF the intricaCics oi the farce b.
which Tom Gould got II license for the dive b
is now running is hardly interesting. Tn
whole proceeding was toO Glaring to deceiN
anybody who did not want to be deceived. am
ii is 10 cast unwailnatablc di>rrcdit on the i'll
tclligrncc Oi Commissioners Koch and Andrew
to assume that it deceived them. The investi
cations of Inspector Antilles were, of course
: equally iarcical. II he did not find out tina
the whole scheme was merely II hraIen piece q
| trickcry to put Tom Gould back in his old bust
: ness oil divc keeping, he is too hopclcSsly stu
!, pid to he employed for another moment IN hi
! capacity OF inspector.
the most abandoned and wrctuhed dive keeper
: New York has ever known, wanted n liccns
2 and got it, just rs he had in the past and, yer
? likely, Just as he will again.