The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-26
PARLOR BAR ROOMS
Scheme by Which Saloon Keepers
Are Evading the Sunday Law.
Five Arrests Made by the Police Yester-
day-WOmen Aiding Their Hus-
bands in Selling Liquor.

The police kept a close eye on the Sabbath
violator yesterday. Law breaking was
chiefly confined to the saloon element and
to the proprietor who insisted on violating
the Sunday liquor ordinance. Obviously,
the harkeeper persuaded himself that Eas-
ter Should be holiday, and in conformity
with the usual holiday custom run up his
blinds but he sold whisky indiscriminate-
ly. The entire police force was on the
alert. and last night the slate at the sta
ton house indicated five arrests on the
charge of giving away or selling liquor on
Sunday. The police have come to realize
that there is a determined effort on the
part Of the saloon men to disobey the law,
regardless of the strict surveillance under
which they are being kept. So jealous have
the liquor dealers grown in the determine
ton to thwart the department that some Of
them have converted their residences into
berrooms. There are numbers of saloon
men who live over their places of business,
and by means of improvised bars dispense
liquor both in the parlor and kitchen The
police say that this plan is worked sue
cessfully in many portions of the city.
A proprietor who lives over his saloon
closes his place on Saturday night and
the patrolman who is sent to watch it
The blinds are down and the entire bar is
exposed from front to rear. The patrol
man is satisfied that liquor is being sold
upstairs, perhaps in the parior, but he
dares not Invade the privacy of the apart
ment. In many instances the Nurietor
or a saloon has an able and craft ssist-
ant in the person of his wife.
The police say that on Sunday oman
sits at the window OF a saloon on Noble
Wbe aaa t9e race OF Ve tS man
gate at the rear of her husbands bar. If
the man is a patron of the place she re-
leases the latch by means of wire, one
end OF which is attached to the gate and the
other arranged SO that 1t can be convenient
ly reached. IF the applicant for admis-
does not respond to his touch On Dillon
street another saloon man has his wife
authority for the statement that the woman
gives the alarm the moment a patrol
man appears in that vicinity At another
saloon the favorfte manner OF entrance is
through a side gate. Apparently the gate
is securely locked on Sunday, and it is i'm
possible for the novice to secure admit
ter is simple enough. Fifteen or twenty
feet away from the gate is an aperture
hand to pass through. If the visitor is ia
miliar with the premises he reaches through
this hole, graspS wire and gives a slight
and then closes S With a elicR Which locks
1t. Yesterday afternoon, while seeking for
one of these secret locks, Sergeant La
porte experienced narrow escape from a
cold drsnching. The Sergeant strayed too
near the wall of the saloon and was barely
able to dodge the icy contents of a bucket
directed toward him by a woman who
leaned from an upstairs window. With
wrathful Indignation the Sergeant an
nounced that repetition of the act would
cause he arrest of the lady. Apologies were
forthcoming at once.
The police say that the most exasperat-
ing OF liquor violators is the proprietor OF
the saloon-restaurant. Usually these re-
sorts combined in one room, and IL is
impossible TO sell intoXicants over the bar
after the legal hour. To obviate this diff
Guilty nroprietorS employ an ingenious plan.
A customer seats himself at the table and
orders q cup of beef tea or chocolate. The
waiter, procuring a cup, retires to the
rear and a moment later returns with the
order, which Is usually about -four fingers
of the potion signified by a sign from the
customer. TIE police assert that this plan
has been adopted by nearly every saloon
\ keeper in Indianapolis who combines a
restaurant with his liquor business. Pa
Buschman, bartender at the resort of Jack
Lynch, No S35 Virginia avenue. Joel VIII
Hams at the corner of Mass
achusetts avenue and Noble street, was ar
rested by patrolman Haley, who saw a
glass of beer sold by the proprietor. An
drew Ball. proprietor of place on South
Delaware street. was brought in by patrol
man Balcom. Frank Lloyd was caught at
No 100 Virginia avenue by patrolrnan Sulli-
van. Patrolman Kiefer scented a suspicious
atmosphere about the saloon of Daniel Rost
on, East Washington street and arrested
the PROPRIETOR