The evening world., 1894-06-25
DIDN'T HAVE A PULL"
Young Mcbride IEoked Up All
Night in o Cell.
Police Wouldn't Allow Him to Send
Word to His Parents.
Excise Violators, However, Had
Courtesy Shown to Them.

T. ]. Mcbride. proprietor OF the news
stand in the Arcade, at Il Broadway.
feels much irritated to-day about the
way in which his son, John Sullivan
Mcbride. seventeen years old. IA Ford
ham College boy. was treated last night
by the police of the West Thirty-seventh
street station.
Young Mcbride while astride his bicy-
Gle in Eighth avenue last night. was ar
rested for fast riding by Policeman War
ner. Some time ago Capt. James K.
Price. of the Thirty-seventh street sta
tion. ordered the arrest of all fast bicycle
riders In his precinct. and quite a num-
Der of arrests have been made by his
men. Warner took the boy to the sta
ton where Mcbride. ashamed Of having
been placed under arrest, gave his name
as John Sullivan, but told his correct ad-
dress. l25 East Ninetleth street. He
told the desk Sergeant that he had plenty
OF friends in the city. and urgently re-
uuested to be allowed to send word to
them, privilege for which he offered to
pay well, as he hau plenty of money
with him.
The Sergeant paid no attention to his
| petition, and ordered him locked up in a
| cell. The place was so foul that he was
| afraid to sit down. He stood up all night
Several times he begged the .doorman to
| send for his friends and urged the great
| anxiety that his parents would feel at his
| not returning home. The doorman did
not pay the least attention to the boys
request.
Young Mcbride was arraigned in the
Jefferson Market Police Court this
| morning before Justice Ryan. who dis
! charged him with lecture not to ride
| fast again on a public thoroughfare.
The elder Mcbride was much alarmed
over his son not returning home last
night. The boy is of good habits. and
the father, imagining that the young tel
low had met with an accident, spent the
| night searching in hospitals and inquir-
ing from the police for information OF
| him.
After young Mcbride was discharged
his father asked Justice Ryan If he had
any redress against the police for refus-
ing to notify his sons friends of his
law compelling them to do SO.
"Of course said the elder Mcbride
to an Evening World'' reporter this
afternoon, - do not see how | car
make a complaint against these police
men If the law does not order them &c
notify a prisoners friends, hut ] think
1t is an outrage all the same that AT
evidently respectable boy, arrested or
n trivial charge, should be locked up al
night and subjected to such misery
when he is willing to pay for having hl'
friends Informed 1s OF MS trouble bt Tho state
ment OF my son that number of saloon
keepers and bartenders. arrested fol-
breaking the Excise law, were allowed tc
send out to their friends and were baileC
out in few minutes is a most viciou:
discrimination.
at looks to me as If the testimony o
the Lexow Committees witnesses abou
the pulls Of saloon-keepers with th'
police Is true.
"If the police allow a barkeeper'.
friends to be told of his arrest, VIII.
should not boy who is sober, respect
able and able to pay be allowed th
same privilege? / suppose we cal
only grin and bear 1t, though I fee
very much outraged all the same"