New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-02
DOHERTY'S NEW VENTURE.
THE BROKEN" POLICE CAPTAIN TO
OPEN A "GINMILI" IN BROOKLYN
IT'S IN THE NAME or HIS BROTHER "PAT.'
TAILOR But MIKE" Is PUTTING


TAILOR. But MIKE" IS PUTTING
Up THE DUST"
when you lose your political job. go into sa-
looming and wait until the storm blows over.
This is the last article In Tammanys Handbook
for the Guidance OF the Faithful" The article has
not been consulted in several years. because the
braves were not in serious apprehension Of losing
their fat salaried Offices with the attendant per
quistes but since the LeXow Committee began
work the Faithful have been thumbing over the
leaves OF the Wigwam manual and have been pom
dering over this last article.
Michael Doherty. the broken" TanImany police
captain has been one OF the elected braves to
follow this sage maxim. and is making arrange
ments 10 open ginmill OF paatal proportions and
condiments at No i73 Washington st. Brooklyn
In orier that his exile from the unerateful city
that has repudated him may seem as homehKe
as possible Mike" as he will now he called by
his customers has selected site for his liquor
palace a house ana lot three doors from the police
station OF the Brooklyn Bridge. while few doors
on his other side is the Lewis House. Almost every
day since Mike lost his job the police force he
has been in Brooklyn looking after the eX
tensive alterations In ne mouse tlat Is 10 p ,'o
future OF operations. The house Is In thc
name OF his only brother Patrick VINO i3I HVe
or six years has been DONG Woursl ' ~, ms
business In Brooklyn Whether brother Fat ac-
cumulated the money to buy this mouse by ct. ,,If
out trousers. or by dropping N'9 IN IN" SIVt ana
drawing out 10000. or not. Is point on when tna'
worthy
one fact only remains assured and that is that
brother Mike during the last few weeks mas pc.h
over to Brooklyn taking an active interest In the
extensive alterations being made IN me house anu
marshal!ing the carpenters. brIckaNcrS ana IN"
cunning workers of bar fixtures in a way worthy
of an ex-commander Of a platoon OF New lork DO
lice Some OF the ncighbors say that Mike Is 10
inc all this out of pure brOtherly love FOR rat
Then. again. others are cruel enough 10 Dcl'Nc
that Mike is putting M all the money Tor the al
terations and is merely using Pats nam" 10 CON
ceal the identity Of the real owner and proprietor
OF the ginmill At all events. the new "saloonlng
h. mod he "A
few weeks with all the spendor that ptte-slass
mirrors. white mahogany. onyx railinss ana Sr"asy-
haired hartcnderS can give. and several ma he
matcally inclined citizens OF Brooklyn have cafu-
lated that the whole business Will cost Just some
where about the good round sum OF S2o"fl.
The house that stood the site before broth"r
Mike was "broken'' Old-fashioned, two
story-and-attc frame building. in which some
Methodists who attended the original sands street
Methodist Episcopal Church lived Br3thcr Nike
has lacked this time honored building off its foun-
datons to the dizzy height OF fifteen feet a1.- haS
built a brick first story under IT, making the pulII
Ing four stories high in all. The spacious PACK
ward where good Methodist sisters were wont 10
hang out their Mondays wash In times OF yore mas
been entirely covered by one-story brl'k cN,
tension which Will be used a billiard and pool
room Such is the march of progress.
The floor of this ginmi has not yet been laid, hut
II is whispered around that II will be set in with
the limitations OF a New-York police captain 8
shield while the freze the walls will be deco
rated with police clubs rampant. swinging sign
sci a few inches further on the sidewalk than the
law allows will bear the inscription The Broken
Heart