The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-14
DIR. FUNK GOES C%RUSADING.
SENDS FOUR TEMPERANCE MEN TO
WA1CH RAINEs HOTELS.


ting Department. and Elk ciso Men Guilty.
Four members OF tho American Temperance
Union started out early on Saturday evening to
collect evidence of violations OF the Raines law
on the lower east side of the city. They stayed
out until noon yesterday and then set to work
preparing their reports. A t 3 o'clock in the af-
ternoon they submitted these reports to l. X.
Funk and some 600 other members of the
Union. who had assembled IN Chickering Hall
70 hear. on the authority of their fellow men,
bers, to just what extent the law was being vio-
lated.
The Rev. C.. II. Mead presided. Hero are sam
pies of the reports. the names of tho investlga-
tors being kept secret:
1.-THE district south of Third avenue and east
OF the Bowery is throngcd with disorderly cafes.
] visited ak Of them. and in each one was ao-
costcd by women and invited TO accompany
them to small rooms in the rear. At Allen
street four girls greeted me; ut t. Allen street
four women sang disgusting songs for me. and
at - Allen street three or four girls went
through indecent dances to the music of q gui-
tar played by a l2-year-old boy. The boy after
ward took up n collection. Outside OF this
place | afterward found two little girls. one 8
and the other 10 years of age. dancing around
the sidewalk, trying to outkick each other and
doing splits. They said they were only doing
what mamma does
AT - East Houston street / found q cafe
conducted by a man and three women. They
INVITED me to come in. and when l left got into
half u dozen women and "a IN any men acting
In q highly indecent manner.
The dance houses were running full blast.
Tho Palm dance house at 139 Chrystle street is
located next door to the Camp Memorial Church.
f~re-trap OF wood, running in utter defiance of
the building laws for hotels. On tho rear q
wooden shed has been built and Is used as n
dance house. y dozen nainted women WATN
drinking and trying to keep step with u cracked
ali SiSR %sr IN m sS%e oa lsss w drnn al m fhs k ne1; S Is ieSs
than ten feet square, and has n little stove of
Jour holes, such as could be bought i0r thTse or
were two or three private boxes filled with men
mo. 49, Bowery was running as a concert in
the rear OF the saloon. A small stage was fitted
mp, and wretched SOPRANOS sang while kali
y commission on all sales of beer negotiated.
dance hall at-Chrystie street wasrun-
Italian girl OF IL years who danced the notorious
couchee-couchee. stood on her, head, and
The balcony was thronged with painted women
sitting on mems laps, urging them TO buy beer
concert was advertised for this evening. which
walters, said would contain the same features
Eight Raines law hotels were visited at
random. and four were found filled with drunken
women who were soiiciting. Al Bowery. Lhe
men aud thirteen women. The men were re-
peatediy urged to ~omp The women. and
raid.
Across the street, at = BoweEy. there were
buy US some beer said one Of the women. II
nobody bu,s us beer the bartender kicks us out
I, e. eo : for Less than 81 PER hour; Most of
Attic hotel. - Bowery. a small room in the
rear OF the saloon. scarcely ten feet square. was
were eighteen OF the females. Some of them
were drunk and asleep in the corner. There
meeting was being held in a hallway when the
night clerk or bouncer came in. and with u vol
corners. Get out OF here. you damned old hays
and cats. and give the girls q show what have got
lett: 1t was nearly half past IL, and the sand
witch meal had put In its appearance. The ao.
iRarse as H a full meal. It Tf had been sold %S to %' every
one at the table, apparently, as 1t lay there
POLICEMEN stood UPON nV the walk in pp plain sig sight iouf
The proprietor OF the Raines law MOTEL at 80
B0weFy was sentenced to ten days in !nil the
Excise law, but his hotel was filled with men
and women. A policeman was at the door push;
feeled out on the sidewalk. back into the hotel"
Mr.: Funk. in a speech on the subject of Vio-
lRtions of the Raines law" said:
I've VIII find out some day said James
Russell, Lowell, that nothing pays but God.'
politically. even here in New York city. but
righteousness, 1t is gross trihing with the pub:
his committee to come here and ask whether
the Raines law has been enforced. That law has
in operation: violated with the knowledge OF
senator Raines, with tho guilty knowledge in
perintendsnts Of the Building Depsrtme ins of
the Boards Of Health. with the guilty knowl-
sassS Ge te ei District al. Wiz Aiiht0t the fn a9&i %s't Of in the
state see ofi tSss appointed OH snto,c under vh The Law
these State OffiCera lona Init 10 draw
their saiaries2- Who has heard OF a
s 81 z siS SSi%p ac. IT f tEs lin nss on ,hs %h Gu eSi h %Sa
doesn't Senator Raines cross-examine them
Ao wishes to know from us citizens why We
IL shS aut Sf S Of t and b paid aaf Gttlee TSsy Th w}n are ae
o. w wili study The Actions Of these oftlsefs
20 know what Senator Raines and senator Platt
methods. Senator Raines knows. his officers
know. and all men know that the enforcement
has been in the Interest of liquor men and notin
Che interest Of good government; that its man.
the saoredn ness of the law into contempt.
In Brooklyn Commissioner Welles tells you
sunday, because il he does il Il viii lose votes
Tor his party. When he took the oath of office
2 member OF the executive department OF the
S9vesnmSnt; usnFps the fu TSs : 9n OF sns Lsgis11
Police. with Himaiayan effrontery, tells us the
law OF the Legislature Is wrong, therefore he
won't enforce IL. He swore to enforce IL! John
Y. McKaGe is In Sing Sing now for refusing to
enforce the law In order to get votes. Send
Commissioner Welles to the penitentiary for
trading of law for votes and the sanctity of law
Will receive an emphasis in this country that
will be better for the party that does 1t than n
million votes. The people OF this country, must
be taught that law is a sacred thing. and that
any executive officer who puts contempt upon
It or who nullihes IL or refuses TO enforce IL
commits treason against the Government.
I'VE are told that an effort OF great proper
tlOnB In 10 be made to OpeG the saloons Tor GER
tain hours on sunday. Morris Tekulsky tells
eenalor Ralnes that u the saloons can be opened
legally on Sundays from . u. NJ. TO 10 u. NJ.
then the liquor men Will obey the law. Extraor-
binary condescensionl The thieves OF Baxter
street will obey the law II they are permitted to
rob legally five hours n day.
I'VE are told that the people will consent to
the modification Of the law. don't believe II.
Men and women, will you consent TO the sale of
iiauOr az n beverage at any time or NJ any place
on sunday Z Already we hear the the roar of
the rising tidn OF Indignation. Here are II few
OF many letters on the subject received by me-"
Here MIR. Funk read letters from Robert Coll
yer. Dr. John Hall, DIR. Henry Van Dyke, Ly-
man Abbott, and a number OF others denounc-