New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-10
SIDE DOORS SWING FREELY
FACTS AND FIGURES AS TO SUNDAY
EXCISE VIOLATION.
POLICEMEN WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE BAR
ROOMS WHERE THIRSTY THOUSANDS GO
DIR PARKHURsTs CITY VIGILANCE
LEAGUE GET SOME INTEREST
ING STATISTICS

DR. PARKHURSTS CITY VIGILANCE
LEAGUE GET SOME INTEREST
ING STATISTICS.
Everybody knows in more less general way
that the liquor shops Of New-York CITY 60 'hIlN-
ing business on Almost any and every sunday Inc
Executive Committee Of the CITY Vigilance League
took a notion recently TO IND out, with some uc-
gree Of accuracy. how much aw-breaking OF TINS
kind is INDUCED in with the connivance and appar-
ent sanction OF the police force and to supplement
the general knowledge of the fact or such Vioia-
tons with statistics thai could be vouched lot
Accordingly. preparations were made for placing the
entire city, or as much Of it possible under watch
on Sunday. March Is and large force OF members
OK the league ana others. at the request OF Dr.
Parkhurst agreed 10 undertake the work The re-
suits OF ;hcir efforts viii Doe set forth In detah IN
the April number Of THE city Ngilant." which IS
to be- issued tomorrow That publication is the
official organ OF the league. which has grown out OF
Or. Parkhursts municipal reform movement
The work of takins census Of the open liquor
shops WAS accomplished under the direction O: the
Assembly district leaders Of the league and their
election dstric; supervisors. Very great credit
says THE city Nciant,' IS due to the men WAC
have rendered 50 faithful AID laboriols service
and We believe It will prove great oye-openrr 20
the community so far AZ relates to the vicious and
defiant negligence with which our police for" disc
charges important part % tho obligation that IS
deyovcd upon a."
REPORTS FRoM NINETEEN DISTRICTS.
When the reports from al The districts had come
In 80 Or Parhhurst ani his co-workers. q was
found that nineteen Assembly districts had been
effectively covered In these nineteen districts 300
liquor stores were reported - have been ogcn AMI
doing business. ., these ~ shops We're watched
from periods Of from ten minutes 10 an hour In
that time there were seen - enter these 9e liquor
stores 1856 mon. - women. 81 children AMI eight
policemen The eight policemen were oyiier-ly not
.bo -f.h r.s- .rft -aa he IA
neither were the ih.rty-niae hlue-coitcl officers
who were found loung!ng within a fcw steps - 'he
popular SIZE doors Business went right on regard
less Of their presence.
with these actual figures before one. estimate
becomes temptirgly cnsy. II I'm an average period
q say half hour 500 people were seen - enter
20 liquor stores. how many persons At the same
ratio would have entered 800 liquor stores during
the day OF ten hours? And how much larger would
the figures become n they were to cover thirty
Assembly districts instead 81 nineteen Tho answer
would hover somewhere about the thro quarters ~
a million mark. with blue fringe 81 about 2oO
policemen within doors. and a thousand IN close
prox.mitics TO the doors.
The article in THE CITY Vgiiant." however.
wisely rcfra'rs from estimate. and confines Itself
20 asceriaincl facts Tho summarize ~ the de-
tailed reports which q gives are ~ foilows:
WHAT THE CITY vIGiLANT" SAYS.
In tho ia Assembly District o. liquor stores were
found to be doing business. That seemed to DE
natural and expected thing there That the report
says simply: "No time occupied In making
reports upon Individual cases. The attention az
the public has been drawn to this dlstrc, q a very
considerable extent since the last election and the
average citizen hns been made acquainted with many
OF It's peculiaritios through the daily press Suffice
It 10 that those saloons comprise about all that
the district contains"
out ~ ~ liquor stores In the TIA Assembly Dis
trct. seventeen found be closed. thirty-nye
were classcd doubtful and 2ii were going "ful
blast" at least with fun blast the side
door trade permits Of At one OF these places In
the Bowery a policeman stood by the little side
door for fifteen minutes. while forty men passed
b. him to get inside. Another In Sprng-st. was
guarded by the officer the beat. while men,
women and children went In and out freely. In
Canal. Allen. Delaney. Forsyth. Eivington and
other streets the same scenes to be witnessed
with extraordinary frequency.
a partial inspection OF the WITH Assembly Dis
trct showed eighty open liquor stores The With Dig
trct, which Includes the territory between Stanton.
Grand and Ludlow SITS and the East River, was
more thoroughly canvasscd. out Of total OF 227
liquor stores. 2l8 were open. The Supervisors brief
comment was: II am unable 20 account for the
other nine" lie added: "One policeman entered a
saloon and remained there nearly five minutes. \
saloon In the neighborhood OF Dclancey-st. was
open. and a rounds'nan and n patrolman stood in
front Of The door while three men camc out"
Ia the Win Assembly District bounded by
Eishth-st. Avenue y. Seventh. Clinton and stan
ton sts. and broadway, there are 4Sl liquor shops.
They run as high as nineteen places OF the kind TO
the block. while twelve ana fourteen TO n block can
be counted In a number Of instances. OF these cs-
t3bllslipents. 40 were open on March S and nearly
all Of them were carefully watched by members
Of the league. policeman stood in front OF one
liquor store during half-hour, In which twenty
seven men entered the place and twenty four men
and boys came out He could have seen. and
should have seen. also. twenyfour customers enter
Of time.