The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-08-03
The Sunday Closing Law Enforced
at All Saloons and Clubs.
NO PLACE TO GET A DRINK
Not a Single Bar Room Fight Reported
at Police Headquarters for the
Entire Day


a supreme effort to enforce the excise
law here today and to all appearances
they realized their expectations almost
to the letter TO all practical intent
the law was so thoroughly enforced that
not a saloon was open to the general
public and so fearful had the saloon
keepers become of the citizens that it
was a difficult matter for even the
initiated to get a drink at any place
unless the proprietor or the man in
charge was absolutely certain that no
danger would follow the admission of
the would-be customer in the shape of
a summons to court in the demand.
In the jurisdiction of the McDOugall
street police court, where violations of
the law have been for many preceding
Sundays frequent, saloonkeepers have
boosted that no power was strong
enough to close up their resorts, but
It was especially quiet and only two
arrests had been made up to evening.
Within the territory covered by the
Mulberry street police court, especially
in the area filled with Italians, there
was evidence that liquor was being
sold. but it was impossible to catch the
sellers. 1t was considered a notable
sign that no barroom fights were re-
ported on the central office slips from
any precinct in the city after the stroke
of midnight, which shut up the saloons
on Saturday. The oldest men about
police headquarters could recall no
precedent for the lack of disorder
SWELL CLUBS SHUT OFF.
At the swell clubs also the excise law
was to all appearances strictly observ-
ed The precinct commanders had
strict orders from Acting Chief Conlin
to see that the clubs were dealt with
the same as saloons. The barroom at
the Manhattan Athletic Club was not
open during the day and a number of
regular patrons who called were dis
appointed. Policemen patrolled in front
of the doors and watched the ingoing
and outgoing, but no violations of the
law were reported to headquarters.
The University and Knickerbocker
Clubs were unusually quiet and the
patrolmen detailed to watch them from
the outside had nothing to do. 1t was
said that number of central office
men had called and tried to obtain
liquor by asking that sandwiches be
served them, which was not done. The
doors of the city clubs were closed and
guarded. as were those of the Man
haitian and no drinks were served. At
the Manhattan Club a number of pa
irons asked for sandwiches, but as a
regular meal was not ordered they were
refused.
At the hotels it was somewhat diff
ferent. The regular guests were sup
piled with all the refreshments they
wanted at their meals. At the Fifth
Avenue hotel the wants of regular pa
irons were attended to in parlor F,
where a supply of biscuits was fur
nished with every order for drink.
MISSOURI TOWN DRY.
Macon, Mo-, July 2S.-An attempt was
made here today to strictly enforce the
ordinances providing against the open
ing of any kind of business on Sunday.
AS a result 40 arrests were made.
Among those who will appear in the
police court tomorrow are some of the
eity's most prominent grocery and dry
goods merchants, and butchers and
bakers
TALK WITH ROOSEVELT.
Speaking of the excise regulations
Police Commissioner Roosevelt in an
interview said:
THE present law is ingeniously con.
structed so as to make the sale OF
liquor illegal and at the same time in
crease enormously the ordinary diff
culties Of getting evidence. 1t is an ad.
mirable example of an effort to pas.
law in such terms as shall make il
extremely difficult of enforcement
Now. of course, If the law is put on the
statute books at all it ought to be en-
forced. and every effort should be made
by legislators to make that enforce
ment easy"
do you think 1t is too severe to re
woke q mans license forever whom n,
violates the law, as they do in Boston p
without saying that a mans licens,
should be revoked forever, 1 think 4
should certainly be revoked for on
year, and II should be revoked If the Law
is violated by a mans barkeeper, whicl
Is just as If he violated it himself
The liquor question has been the chic
source of corruption in the New Yorl
department, and the difficulties Of en-
forcing it have been in the main wha
we have had to overcome.
TT is astonishing how much bette
off the Boston police are in matter
Of legislative equipment than we are
For instance, think of the fight we hav
to make in carrying out the law closing
saloons on Sunday. In Boston the boar
of police themselves license the saloon
and can revoke the license at pleasure
OF course under such circumstances
It is a perfectly easy matter to enforc
the law. Moreover, the Boston saloo
is required to keep the shades up an
to expose the whole interior to the vieV
of the police at all times. With pre-
vision like that in the law the task @
the New York police would be lightene
by almost the entire burden of keepin
the saloons shut. There would be n