The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-28
BOUNDED BY POLICE.
Haughey's Men Try to starvs
Out Newsman Weinberg.
Drove Him from Ms Stand for No
Apparent Reason.
Patrolmen Put on Guard to SEQ He
Does Not Got Back.

A policeman stood to-day, Just as one
has stood for the past three months, at
the northwest corner Of Sixth avenue
and Forty-second street, for the sole
and only purpose of preventing s. Wein-
berg from placing n newsstand under
the Elevated stairs at that point.
As the newsdealing day covers two
details of police the city is paying a fair
average of 5000 month to prevent s.
Weinberg from conducting his business.
There are two newsstands In the cor
responding spot on the opposite corner
across the avenue in front of Jimmy
wakely's saloon. There is a soundly
established fruit stand under the stairs
/ across the street on the southwest cor
ner
Still the people of New York are pay
Ing s2,4OO a year to keep n newsstand
away from the north west corner under
| the stairs.
Weinberg is permitted to run small
stand of two tables against the mag
mary stoop line OF the building on the
| corner, and the only business of the po-
I lceman Is to see that he does not move
under the stairs.
There must be, at least there should
be, some natural cause for this distinc-
ton drawn to the prejudice of the north
west corner. Here Is a chance to draw
| conclusions as to the reason, for here
Is the story or a part of 1t, as the
whole is so diversified, ramifed and
various that 1t would take a fair-sized
book to tell 1t.
There is a newspaper advertising office
In the area basement at that corner. 1t
Ia conducted in behalf of the advertising
patrons of all the newspapers. 1t was
formerly managed by a man named Be
lasco. 1t Is said that he had a girl in
his employ who had a friend or relative
named John j. Walsh in the Elmira Re-
foratory She persuaded Belasco to get
| Walsh out of the reformatory, which he
Is said to have done, and then given him
employment at IS a week. In addition to
| his advertising business, Belasco had a
| newsstand under the Elevated stairs in
front of his place. Walsh was put In
1t is further said that during a tempo
rary absence of his employer about two
years ago, Walsh took possession In
his own name Of the news stand, and
then defied Belasco to recover It He
, Is alleged to have succeeded in his de-
| fiance. However that may be, Walsh
the advertising business. and Belasco
vanished from the scene.
newsstand and sold out to a man
named Levin for sl,4OO, but he still re-
tanned the advertising business.
Just as soon as LEVIN bought the
stand he found himself in a peck of
trouble. He was repeatedly arrested for
Of despair when s. Weinberg a young
man who supports his mother and a
| large family at 739 Sixth avenue, came
along and bought the stand from Levin
for 81 400, wholly unaware OF the troubles
that attended its maintenance.
A little while after complaint which
is said to have been traced to Walsh was
filed before the Bureau OF EncumbranceS
and the stand was removed.
Weinberg attempted to re-establish 1t
and was arrested. Then he secured the
permission Of the corner property-9wner
declares that the combined pursuit of
Walsh and the police has still been at
his heels. He has been arrested and
fined a dozen times In the past var. He
says that his stock has been thrown into
the street by policemen. His papers have
been stolen, he has been followed at
and his emissaries in every conceivable
Still he has doggediy held on. and,
protected by the owners of the buildihs,
runs his little stand. Fearful that
Weinberg might move back under the
stairs, Capt Haughev, of that precinct.
placed a policeman Oh the orner to pre-
vent it, and has k-r; up he watch
A little while ago Walsh, finding that
the advertising business was unprofit-
able without the stBn1, gave that up.
Weinberg took the abandoned Office and
now continues the ad ertising business
along with his little stand-not under
weinberg said this morning that his
venture had within thu year COS. him
So, 900, chiefly for legal fees and fines: IL.
complains of being persecu;ed, and all
the neghbors say mat his treatmtht
IS an outrage.