Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-02-28
For washing Dishes,

and china when it's washed with
you wash it with Pearline. ~
San1 Peddlers and some unscupulou
0~AA4 or :" the same as Pearline."
it Back 1 hons IS you, F! s sex sends
ired of pouring charity in constant
stream into the top of the tub when you I
permit all these leakages at the bottom of |
It. We ask you to draw the police hoops |
tighter around the slaves of the cask.
From our long list of unsavory social |
places cite one against which persons en-
gagged in charitable work have several |
times made complaint at police lead quar-
ters. Once the officers were asked to visit
it on a particular night when the inform
ant knew who was there. But to these
complaints the two traditional answers
have been given: first, If you will get evil
dence, we will then make arrests. The
customary idea seems to be that the police
are to walk through Union and other
streets gazing at the stars (the stats have
no friends,) while private citizens are to
go in and get the evidence. Gentlemen,
we respectfully ask you to smash that idea
go that no officer of the police department
will ever put a citizen off with 1t again.
The Other answer given to persons impor-
tuning the department with complaints II
to warn the keeper of . disorderly house.
There was place 30 near headquarters
that the smell of 1t could almost reach its
windows; three persons were ready to tes-
tify to the police of orgies seen In connec-
ton with it. The repute of 1t had become
80 bad that q college professor had come
down to the police station to be treasured
as to reports of 1t which had penetrated
his seclusion; the characters who nightly
resorted to it were we'll known to men on
the beat, and the proprietor Of that place
was at last told to look out or some day
his place might be pulled Lately under
stand 1t has undertaken to reform Itself,
not from fear of the neighboring poles
station, but as a pecuniary venture in
virtue.
There is another place within q short
distance of police headquarters, concerning
the ill-repute of which we have informs
ton enough and to spare,-a moral pset
was greeted the other day In the court
room by q significant laugh from An inter
ested crowd of students and other young
men,-a place before whose open door
policemen have been seen taking Tor q mo-
ment with and giving no-doubt good moral
advice to unprotected females late at night;
but this place which carries on its in
famous business almost within sight and
sound of police headquarters the Law and
Order league will leave to the immunity
which it has long enjoyed; for we chsl
lenge the department, in defense Of its own
reputation and by it's own honor, we chal-
lense the department. to bring the pro-
prietors of that house into court, and to
sow with effectual salt moral plague
spot which tonight, as always, reeks and
rots In the neighborhood of police head
quarters.
The Law and Order league does not
ask you, gentlemen, to show undue Sc
verify simply against pittable class of
women whose day soon runs out; we ask
you to exercise your police authority to its
full extent to drive out of business the
men who are making money and big bosom
pins in peculiar drinking places and hotels
of ill-fame all around this part Of the city.
PRESCRIPTIONS FROM SODA WATER BoTTLE.
Fave confined myself thus far to allegs-
tions which rest on positive evidence in
our possession. We do not lay before you
any of the vague and unsubstsntisted re-
ports concerning the police administration
which in many ways have come to our
notice. But there are known in law GER
tain so-called presumptions of fact to
which, on the basis of our evidence, we
are entitled. For my present purpose
the nature of such Prescriptions my be IL
Illustrated by the following supposition-a
superstition only, which make for the
gains poss ssion of q soda water bottle
with trade mark on 1t of some we'll known
bother of soda water. Suppose, however,
to his surprise he finds that particular bot
tie to be filed not with soda water, but
with whiskey. That single fact would not of
itself be sufficient to establish q presu mp
ton that the reputable bother whose trade
mark 1t bore, had himself filed 1t with g
| hard, instead of q soft drink. For tho bot
! tie might have been emptied and then re-
| filled by someone else. Suppose, however
that he had bought 1t directly from the de-
| livery wagon of the bother whose
trademark it bore; a slight presumption
| might in that case be raised against the
| original bother, but not sufficient legal
| presumption, because the driver Of his
| wagon might have refilled it possibly al
| some one of the many saloons at which in
| the ordinary course of his business ht
stops. But suppose further that the bottle
with the whiskey in 1t could be trace !
nearer and nearer to the packing room Of
the firm from which it originally came
then the presumption, at first sight, would
grow until it became legally admissible al
a presumption Of fact against said bother
of its illegal contents. Now then, we claim
that on the basis of the facts submitted We
have ira ed the immunities of these gam.
bling and other pernicious places up to the
very doors of the police department.. We
do not claim that we have been able to gel
inside and watch the business there; bat
we respectfully submit that you gentlemen
of the police commission hold in you'll
hands the keys to the inside and that We
hsv~ offered information enough to ask
you to find out just what is put up inside.
We call your special attention, not as OF
direct Information, but as of presumptive
Significance to the reports which We find
In frequent circulation among citizens and
even among the policemen themselves to the
effect that threats have been made, both
from without and within the department.,
to patrolmen for being too oficious in
watching s-loons; that they have been
| cautioned to go slow in tackling certain
| places; that belief has gained prevalence
| that q policeman must not see too much OF
report too much if be would not rick his
chances of livelihood and promotion; If
| upon due inquiry you shall find that there
Is anything in such reports, which of course
| We are not in q position to verify, but
/ which we deem 1t only just to call to your
attention, then whatever truth, If any,
there may lie in such popular Impressions
We should have to add to our complaint.
Permit me in connection with such reports
to ask you to note one solid though small
fact of positive testimony bearing upon
! this phase of the matter. On Wednesday,
Dec smber %, in the trial of Christian Fries
In the city court, Officer Cooper testified
that the character of his place was we'll
known to the msn on the beat; that he
had seen girls not over sixteen or eighteen
| entering the alleyway which leads into the
| rear room of that saloon. On the Cross
examination he was asked why, If he had
known the character of the place, he had
| not reported it, and If he did not know
that it was his duty to endeavor to close
1t up. He replied with some hesitation
that he did not know 1t was his duty to
make such arrests without orders, and he
had never received such orders. We ask
you gentlemen to give such orders, and to
give them go plainly that no policeman on
his beat can misunderstood your meaning.
We have no doubt that officers and many
others would gladly do their whole duty In
closing up such places, when they know
beyond possibility of doubt what your de-
termination in the matter is. And our ap-
pearance before you may serve to show
what the will of the people when aroused
will be.
will not take your time further by en-
tering now into the matter of Sunday
liquor selling That is q large subject, be-
ginning near headquarters and extending
to the ends of the city; but I reserve for
the present all comment with regard to 1t.
POLICE COMMISSIONERS SHOULD NOT BE