The morning times., 1895-07-22
BOYS Rim FOR DElR LIFE
Police Made a Raid on Balhers
at the WhaNeS.
YOUNGSTERS LIVELY TIME
They Scumpered y bout In the Costume
of Adam Before the Fall-Greatly
Annoyed Boating and Sailing Parties
and Broke Up Some Boatmen's Busi-
ness-Ludicrous Scenes.

The protest made last week by Capt,
Nicholas Rayuor to Major Moore, superin-
tendeDt Of police against naked bathers on
the wharves has had good effect
The police are keeping a sharp lookout
aud Saturday afternoon made descent on
a big gang at the National Ice Company's
pier at the foot OF Eighth street. The boys,
ranging from ten years TO eighteen, We're
having a great time disportiDg themselves
in the water oD the piles and boards along
the rivers edge.
They were shouting and calling to each
other in the greatest froIc when suddenly
the white helmets and blue coats came in
sight. Theu there was a scramble for
clothes, each fellow for himself.
If one couldn't get his own gear he seized
some others and they ran up the timbers
ard posts right and left like rats from
storm-driven tide, every one dressing the
best he could as he ran.
IN ADAMITIC CONDITION.
Some got away only half clad and one
or two, unable to get any clothes at all,
hid under the edge OF the pier till the police
men were gone and they could attract the
attention of their comrades aud get some
thing to put on.
or those who escaped a little crowd
gathered on the street with mutteriDgs
and curses and seizing an opportunity sent
| a volley or stones at their puTSuers. They
| then took to their heels.
No arrests were made, but that raid
| broke up all swimming parties for the
evening.
| Dominick Guine, an iceman, who met
| Times reporter near the wharf, said:
! The boys are a great nuisance. They
| gather here by the dozen and go into the
| river without a stitch of clothing on. In
addition they are always up 10 some mis-
| chief and some OF them smoke cigarettes
out on the wharf. This place has been
| burned twice and it's likely II was set
on fire by some Of them throwing down
| q match We can do nothing with them.
If we keep them out at the gate, they slip
| around at tie side"
HIS BUSINESS RUINED.
Mr. Raynor in his letter to Maj. Moore
says his business, that OF letting boats anc
caring for yachts Tor their owners, has
been almost broken up by the indecent ap-
pearance OF swimmers near his boat house
| at the foot OF Ninth street He says thai
| Policemen BTannigau and Coffin have
been disposed 10 do their duty, but wheI
they arrested one fellow recently he was
immediately liberated. The officials al
station No. said the boy arrested was
hardly over SIX years old. Ihey are ready
to hold for punishment any one old enough
to know better.
Capt. RayBor says that Mr.. George Cum
berland, himself and others have tried II
vain 10 mitigate the nuisance, and he u
in despair at their failure. Some OF th'
yachts hitherto in his charge have changed
their moorings, others are Threatening
to do So and parties with ladies no longe
care TO patroniZe him.
pt,sf1f Mt
they had about overcome the trouble b.
closed gates but Capt. Raynor and other
were quito at the mercy of the street gamin
and wharf rats, and Capt. RaynOr's busi
ness had fallen off greatly in the past yea
| or rtwo in consequence.