New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-15
40 REGARD FOR Ia ".
BRAZEN VIOLATIONS OF EXCISE REGU-
LATIONS CONTINUE.
THE POLICE MAKE NO EFFORT TO CLOSE THE
PLACES RICH ENOUGH To PAY FOR PRO
TEcTION"-SIDE DOORS OPEN AND A


PLACES RICH ENOUGH To PAY FOR PRO
TErTIoN"-sIpE DOORS OPEN AND a
THRIVING TRADE EVERYWHERE.
Tho screaming farce. entitled Maintaining the
Excise Law" was again played yesterday. amid the
derislon Of everybody who saw 1t. only four days
ago Superintendent Byrnes. In talking with news
paper men on the continuation Of this open and
shameless violation of the Excise law. said in eff
feet: "Gt IL my determination to see that the law
In this respect is carried out to the strict letter
will hold every captain and every inspector heavily
account lbln for any failure to keep these liquor
stores closed during hours Of prohibitlon Thirty
six big men I'm blue AMI gold were summoned from
every precinct in the city. marshaled into the SUI
perintendents room. and it was understood that
the erintcndent had given out strict orders for
the maintenance of the Excise law.
But Tammany Hall said that the liquor shops
should remain open, and open they The
might and power Of Tammany's influence for evil
was brazenly evident. Any one with half an eye
walking through Captain Slevns Fourth Precinct
and through the Nineteenth anl Twentieth pre-
cncts could have seen it all. The little side door
swung o. and fro without the slightest cessation
from midnight 10 midnight. The notorious Andy
Horn standing IN front Of his resort in Park Row
with one hand stuck deep IN his trousers pocket
and a cOntontci grin on his face. said:
Were shut tight: don't you see are?" and
with Jerk Of his thumb pointed 10 the door at
his elbow opening to admit line of men into the
store. Ills case was only sample Of the rest.
All the richer element In the rum-sellers' combna-
tion who could afford TO pay for protection did
perhaps the heaviest trade OF the week in the
forenoon and evening: but the poorer class We're
kept rigillv within bounds Eight arrests
portel in the Fourth Precinct. and the prisoners
ali came from obscure little holes in the inner
most recesses of the district.
captain Schmlttberger. in the Tenderloin Pre-,
cinct apparently only just started in the work or
closing the SiXth-aVe. liquor stores lls hrst Shot
Yesterday was aimed at the Imperial Music Hall
Detective Savage walked into the orchestra circle
last night and asked for glass of beer when
II WAS brought 10 him and the money taken ne
promptly arrested Maurice Hansen. the walter.
who was afterwari released on bail furnished by
George krausc. the proprietor or the pldcr. -
John + Doylc. 40 lgI SiXth-aNc.; Nl!ihm - Nell
No 1852 broadway; Ernest Luhrs. No. 60 sixth
ay. and Charles Angus. No l29l Broadway, were
th. other cases But the notorious restaurant AT
'Tlrtlefh-st and SiNth-ave.. where many women are
ia h. found ana tho calloW Young man IL allowed
tn drink himself nto "A condition Of blind madness,
had It's usual throng OF worshippers. while nearly
,lar, Nquor store In the precinct was ape ID lur-
nl.h unlimited drink to its patrons. ,
In Captnin Prices Twentieth Precinct the condi-
mons described few weeks ago still prevailed.
Nnnel's the Abbey. the WaVerley and other con,
c.r, nails I'm tn, line of Eghth-ave, were open and
Iourishing last night each with rs sacred con-
rart and drink -soddened crowd. The police report
- totoI record of l33 excise arrests for yesterday:
'rh.v might easily have had 800 prisoners ana SUN
l,ft a majority of the places untouched.