New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-06
TO RENOTERATE THE ISLAND.
CONEYs DIsREPUTABLE RESORTS WILL
BE CLOSED.
BRooKLYN's POLICE FORCE WILL HAVE CON.
troll TO-DAY-GRAVESEND WILL BE THE
THIRTY FIRST WARD OF THE
GROWING CITY

GROWING CITY
A new era dawns for Coney Island to-day as ie
Is a part of Brooklyn. and will be poced like
the rest of the city. and violations Of law will no
longer be winked at openly encouraged Police
Commissioner Welles looked over the "Bowery"
and the other resorts there last Sunday and he
Will be on hand to-day with Inspector McKelvey
and a force OF forty-two men. with four sergeants
and two roundsmen Sergeant Clayton. OF the
Eighth Precinct. will be In command. Two trust
worthy men have been assigned to duty at Coney
Island from each of TIE city precincts and will
report at a. III. Inspector McKelvey said that all
Objectionable places would be closed up.
Mayor Scheren said yesterday that all the IL
censes for liquor shops In Gravesend would expire
.o-morrow, and then Coney Island would come
under the control Of the Brooklyn Excise Commits
sioners The licenses for all shows must be is
sued by the Mayor. All the dives" and "fakir''
shows will be closed. and the excise regulations
will be enforced just as in the rest OF the CITY,
There would be no diGero1 rule for the Thrty-hrst
Ward than for the First Ward In regard TO the
Manhattan Beach. Oriental and Brighton Beach
hotels. the law would have 10 be carefully con-
sidered before concessions were made.
The Mayor added: This administration ia on
posed to the old methods OF COney Island and will
effect n thorough change. so that any man can
take his family there and be as safe as II he were
in any other part OF the city on Sunday or any
other day The situation at Coney Island makes
Il as desirable as a summer resort as even New
port II there is ample protection life and prop
erty and it will be the aim of this administration
to have the laws fully enforced there and see that
full protection is afforded I lived at Sheepshead
Bay for three years. and consider II cooler and
pleasanter than Asbury Park had 10 leave there
because of the many dsreputable saloons and
other places. But now that the town has become
a part of the city we shall endeavor 10 make II q
safe comfortable and attractive place In which to
live Then there will be real prosperity for values
will increase and thousands OF people who have
been prevented by the unlawful conditions which
prevailed from settling there will become residents
A Committee OF Coney Islanders and their coun-
sci called upon the Mayor yesterday to ascertain
what would be done in regard TO Sunday regula-
tons The Mayor said that the police would en-
force the laws there just as In the rest of the city,
There would be noise, outside music, fakirs.
runners-in. shows, minstrel performances all
in costume would be permitted. All variety per-
Police Commissioner Welles issued order yes
terday creating the Twenty fourth Police Precinct,
to include the territory formerly known as Graves
end He was visited by Grow" Murray. who ie
Interested in several places on Coney Island. and
whose use of thieves slang puzzled the Commits
sioner Murray said There are million and
half OF thieves down at Coney Island, and de-
cent man like can't get along
Under the new police control In the Twenty-ninth
Ward formerly Flatbush, the carrousels near Pros
pect Park will not be permitted TO be operated on
Bunday, and the liquor shops WIN have - observe
the law more fixsdly.