The herald., 1895-09-24
RAIDER HOLDS THE RE|NS
The Mayors Policy Regarding
Saloons
SECRET MEETING YESTERDAY
The Police Commissioners Hold a SEES.
sion
A New Beginning to Be Made In the Sunday
Closing Crusade-This Time the Ad.
ministration Heans II

The city administration took new
shift in the matter of rigidly enforcing
the Sunday closing ordinances yesterday.
The policv just agreed upon. while aimed
to be different from the old line of attack,
has apparently been readiusted to fit new
lines.
When Mayor RAIDER returned from the
east last week and was informed by the
Catesby of his office, Walter +. Parker,
the executive clerk, what had been done
by the board of police commissioners
during his absence, he was annoyed. The
mayor had been opposed to the grar ting
OF a saloon license to Theodore Baue r
behind the fence. and be had kept Bauer's
application hid under a bushel for several
weeks previous to his departure. Bauer
was fully aware of Rauer's opposition,
and SO were his gang of politicians who
are the beneficiaries of his muniticence.
The king of the tenderloin therefore
sought to make hay with the shining Vf
the sun, and he mors than realized his
expectations If this portion of Parker s
tale was OF interest to his chief, the chap
ter detailing the policy of the police com.
m ssion upon the subject of the fence and
the story OF the perfunctory efforts which
had been made to enforce the Sunday
closing ordinances proved doubly roman
tic. The mayor does not ofteo lose his
temper, but he felt inclined to duo some-
one damphool forthwith.
The mayor imm ely set himself to
correct what he considered had been the
first real mistakes of his administration
He called an informal meeting ot the po-
| lice com mission, which meeting was held
| yesterday mo'ning in his office. All of
| the mem bers of the commission were on
| hand. and after a thorough exchange of
| views it was decided to begin at the be-
| ginning. In other words, the owners Of
saloons are to be again notified that they
| must obey the law or else forfeit their
several licenses. No quarter is to be given
to anyone. report that any resort has
been surreptitiously doing business on
any Sunday, made by any police officer,
| will be accepted as prinIa facie evidences
| of guilt and will result in forfeiture OF
the license of any man complained
against.
| 1t was also decided yesterday that I'M
| der no circumstances will licenses be is
sued to new owners for any premises
| where there has been a forfeiture. Some
of these latter applications, made by new
owners, are at present pending. and it
was decided not to grant them unless it
was founu thar the applications are be-
! ing made in good faith, and are not being
requested by old owners as blind.
| The Alameda street fence was not di s.
| cussed at yesterdays meeting and will
not be heard from today. Chief of Pc.
lice Glass is out of the city and until he
returns nothing will be done in the mat
| ter.
The attorney for the California Protec-
| tive association was present at yester-
days meeting. The association is com :.
posed of the wholesale and retail liz uor
dealers of the city an they were repre-
scented to inform the commissioners that
the ASSOCIATION stood ready to assist the
authorities in enforcing the law.
The board will hold its regular weekly
session this morning, at which time Chief
| Glass will present list OF some seven
saloons which are alleged to have. weeks
ago, kept open house. The saloons are
all of tn EN- side street places some being
wholesale concerns whose owners claim
that they were ignorant of the law. The
! list was handed in at the last meeting
of the board and was for some reason
then Withdrawn befnre the reporters
| could see it. No formal action is to be
taken in the matter TO-DAY. The paper is
to be simply filed.