New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-14
SUNDAY POLICE ACTIVITY.
AN ONSLAUGHT ON MANY KINDS OF
LAWBREAKERS
NUMEROUS BARROOMs CLOSED AND THE PRO-
PR1EToRS ARRESTED-RAIDs on GAMBLING
RESORTS AND DIsoRDERLY HOUSES
THE KNOWING ONES NOT con-
PELI.ED TO Go THIRSTY


PELLED TO co THIRSTY
IN THE TENDERLOIN
The prediction OF another dry Sunday" FOR
yesterday, which sent out from Police Head
quarters last week. We're partially fulfilled. Com
pared with the damp, moist Sundays of old, yes
terday certainly dry. but at the same time
there feverish blisering alchoc dr0uth
No one with a real overpowering thirst was com
PEELED 10 suffer severely or to abide with ii long
In the realms of the Tenderloln where the dry
ness was going to be of a particularly brittle
nature. the "ginmilr' fountains played merrily
throughout the day. The sentry at the family
entrance n little more keen and watchfu
and any with a reform-Eovement bearing
was empha atically denied admission. but the
habitues and the old FOUNDERS found their
wise and knowing winks still the open sesame
All OF the hotel cafes sold liquor by the cracker
and cheese evasion of the law method. and dur
ing the afternoon they were well patronized by
the thirsty ones.
The reign Of terror began on Saturday night
when superintendent Byrnes detailed nearly
sixty Central Office detectives to see that the
Excise law was enforced. The divided
into groups OF three or four and We're assigned
to the various precincts. Several groups were
ordered to do general skrmish work and to patrol
those sections of the town where the excise Of
tenders were particularly bold and bad In order
that success might the more easily be obtained
men who were not known in each district We're
selected. One precinct after another was in
vaded by the general skirinishers. and many
Saturday night jewellers found their supplies
suddenly cut off and the mixers thereof ru'hessly
borne away. In each case. after the arrest of
the bartender the place was put under the sur
veillance of the policeman on the nearest post
The detectives continued their triumphal march
through the city. and left sorrow and bartenders
and thirst In their wake.
With the dawn of Sunday each precinct cap
tain sent out two men. dressed IN citizens
clothes to reinforce the Central Office detectives
After midday whole piatoons were sent ou', ana
the notorious districts were patrol.cd by
small armies of officers
this his coup in his battle against the excise
offenders and he threw his forces against the
enemy with vigoI. In less than an hour many
OF the big ginmills had been 'raded" and closed.
at the Tombs yesterday morning four violators
OF the Excise law were arragned by DrtectiVe
Sergeants Nugent. McNaught and Murphy.
The Oriental Cafe. No. l.l49 Broadway was
robbed Of its proprietor Oscar Neiner. AT about
l o'clock Sunday morning. Neiner was cap
tured red handed. as II were, and long row OF
guilty looking cocktails testified mutely hui
/ powerfully against him. He was taken to the
/ jefferson Market Court by Detectives Evenhoe
| and Vallay OF the Central Office. and was held
| for trial and bail was placed at 500 The sen
| eca Cafe No go Sixth-avc.. shared a like fate.
and its owner, +. c. Wadman, was also held In
! 800 bail.
! The Superintendent did not confine his en-
ereies TO the onslaught against the barrooms.
Gambling shops policy Joints and disorderIy
houses were included in his orders. \ quiet
game Of poker going on Saturday night at No
255 West Eighteenth-st., was suddenly stamped
out Of existence by officers Of the Twentieth-st
station. The alleged proprietor. "Protessor
Cullen with sixteen young poker nends were
arralgned before Justice Taintor In the Jener-
son Market Court yesterday morning. Tho
professor" was held in $1,000 bail for trial ana
the young men were fined 8 each.
A disorderly house at No 213 West thirty
eighth-st was also 'raidcd" and the two women
inmates were held for trial.
The war was carried into Harlem and yes
tcrday morning twenty-five members o' thc
white jacket fraternity were arraigned before
Justice Welde in the Harlem Police Court. All
held in 500 bail for trial
The notorious restaurant at Sixth-aFe ana
| Thirtieth-st.. for almost the first time IN us
| history, was deprived Of its female patronage
! loin Captain Pickett told the proprietors. Lthat
| unless the women who frequent the place %eTe
| Kept out il would be permanently closed.
Policy shops were "raided" at No BrOofne-st
! No. 449 East Thirteenth-st. and at One-hun-
! dred-and- -ninth-st. and Thrd-ave ana their
! propretors placed under arrest -.
| Taken altogether. the day was decidedly
| chilly one for many lawbreakers.
The returns of the arrests when they came
| in from the precincts late last night showed a
total OF 176 arrests This is eighty-one more than
| the number made last week. but sixty-fpur less
than the largest number made in a single day last
| summer when the Superintendent made an at
,emnf 10 enforce the Excise laws. As a matter
| OF fact however the barroOms yesterday were
! more generally closed. but large number OF
| the ,sual offenders against the law were saved
! from arrest by tip as 10 the superintendent =
proposed move. -. l., 80 -,