New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-08
LITTLE RELIEF FOR THIRST
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ouircs and directed all patrons to the restaurant
The cafe in the Grand Hotel was dark, and the
same was the case at the Gilsey House. The Hol-
land House did rushing room business, but the
marble cafe was deserted. The Brunswick had
the doors OF Its cafe closed and bolted. In the
Hoffman House the barroom was open but the
white-aproned bar-tenders. who. sunday at'er
Sunday have been on duty. yesterday mad va
cation. The room looked dismal without light
in It, except in one corner, where the cigar couh-
ter stands. and the dim flicker from the cigar
lighter alone served to make the gloom more pro-
nounced.
There was one hotel where there can be no
mistake about meals or guests That Is the
Fifth Avenue This hotel Is run entirely on the
American plan, and has no cafe. 1t was impossi-
BILE to get a drink there yesterday, unless IL was
in the dining-room
DRY on THE EAST SIDE.
The consensus Of opinion on the East side
Yesterday was that there had never peeh
drier Sunday known, and that the Excise law
had been vigorously enforced. Those VINO had
any doubts about the enforcement OF the law
we're satisfied after making round or those
saloons which heretofore had the reputation Tor
defying the law and the orders OF the ponce 10
close. There may have been rev VINO sue
ceeded In auenching their thirst with foaming
homes with a greater thirst than they started
out with Unless the thirsty ones purchased a
regular meal costing at least twenty-five cents
they could find little &c drink on the East Side
except soda water, ginger ale and other soft
drinks. Hotel proprietors. as rule, kept well
within the law on the East Side. They were
annarentlv still in doubt as to what constituted
"a NEAL within the meaning OF the Hotel act
nermitting drinks 10 be served with meals. At
most Of the hotels In this section OF the city
guests who called for beer or liquors and merely
ordered a sandwich or cheese and crackers did
not get any drinks.
AT some OF the lower downtown hotels on the
East Side drinks were served with lucent
meals But where drinks were served with
meals that only cost Is cents, 20 cents and up
10 20 cents. persons can any day In the week, as
well as on Sunday. get meals consisting OF
meats and vegetables for ID cents ana upward
At Ieggeit's Hotel. No. 70 Park Row. drinks
were served with regular meals costing from
25 cents upward, but not with sandwiches or
cheese and crackers. 49, =, ,
The saloons on the Fast Side to all outward
annearance were closed all day, but judging
from the closed blinds and the watchers on the
outside many OF them were open 10 those who
were known To the proprietor ana MS watchers'
BLINDS Up IN THIRD-AvE.
In Third-ave., throughout almost the entire
length, the inside OF the saloons and the bars
were screened from view OF the passerby by
green blinds and ground glass. Some OF these
blinds were only high enough TO prevent per-
sons seeing the bar. at others the blinds
reached to the top OF the windows. Few bars
in Thrd-ave. were to be seen from the street
and IL was a noticeable fact that where the
blinds were down and the bar could be seen
from the street, there were no men hanging
around or occupying chairs near the SIDE en-
trance. .
The further down town the reporter walked
on Third-ave and into the Bowery. the more sa-
looms he saw with the blinds up and men lettering
around the rear entrances. Not far from Bayard-
St on the Bowery was a saloon whose blinds
were up at all the windows. and even the ground
glass doors were screened by dark green blinds.
Two men stood near the front door and another
one was at the rear entrance. During half an
hour that reporter watched this rear door ne
saw more than twenty men go in the door some
came out after a few minutes, others remained
longer When some Of these were asked II they
got drink they declined to say. One told the
reporter TO try for himself He did. but found
the door locked. Evidently the watcher at the
rear door was suspicious and did not give the
signal to the doorkeeper to OPEN
But these were rare cases. AS a rule the Saloons
on the East Side were closed.
The streets were almost deserted. and for once
the Bowery seemed asleep. Commissioner Roose-
Welt certainly gave the East-Sders dry day.
VERY DRY SUNDAY. PICKETT SAYS
Captain Pickett, OF the West Thrtieth-st. sta
ton said late in the day that he had forty men
out on Excise duty. When asked II he thought
the day was drier than the previous Sunday he
said he did.
IT have made tour Of the district" he said.
land could see no evidences'that the law Is be-
ing violated. All the saloons seem to be closed
tight 1t is a quiet Sunday and my men are
watching for any violations that may occur"
The Captain said his men were not taking any
extraordinary measures to catch propretors of
hotels or restaurants violating the Excise law.
These men say they pursuing legitimate
business and do not wish to break the laws. the
Captain said. Il am not causing III! men ~
harass them.
There are several saloons near Broadway, be-
low Thirtieth-st., that are favorite resorts Tor
sporting men, men-about-town and Tenderloin
FOUNDERS. The side door has been chained,
with a sharp-eyed attendant on previous sundays
to admit only the habitues. Within. a wearied
New-Yorker or well-known out-of-town visitor
could always get the beverage he sought Not 80
yesterday. At a well-known resort In Twenty-sev-
enth-st., west of Broadway, several OF the sunday
freouenters went up the side entrance stoop and
passed into the hallway. The way seemed opened
to speedily obtaining the cooling draugnt they
had sought vaiLly along broadway But the
inner door was locked, and only an echo an
swered repeated raps, Of the usual peculiar
kind. The place was closed In good faith' as
were several others Of similar class.
There considerable business done In
Sixth-ave.. but under close guard. foncemen
in uniform stood on most OF the corners ana
kept an eye on the saloons. Policemen In plain
clothes went about from place to place, and
tried to simulate ordinary thirsty New
Yorker in search of an "extingulsher. Ihey
did not meet with much success. Whatever 1t
was in the policemen's appearance. the guard at
the side door Invariably suspected him, and
would not give the signal 10 admit the dis
gused officer within the saloon. Then the de-
tectives would go over on the opposite corner
and watch the side doors He would sec men
pass in. and others come out wiping something
off their mustaches. Standing near the saloon
he could hear the Jingle of glasses and the
sound OF mems voices. but by this time the
guard had become confirmed In his suspicious
and there chance of getting in.
TAKE MEALS IN sIXTH-AvE.
At the small hotels and restaurants scattered