The herald., 1896-12-04
Ministerial Union Has Be-
gun Its Crusade
800 ARRESTS ARE CONTEMPLATED
A Number of InfOrmati0ns Laid
Last Night
TWENTY SALOON KEEPERS
Are TO Be Hauled Up for Violation OF the
0nly Shadow Of the Revelation Which Is to
Come
TWENTY SALOON KEEPERS
0nIy Shadow OF the Revelation Which Is to
Come
Chief Glass Pays Little Heed to the
"Meddling Minister'S" Who VIII
Hold Sensational Meeting at
the Tabernacle Tonight.

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Since John NJ. Glass, chief of police,
will not down, the Parkhurst society
is determined to force him into a corner,
if possible.
BY the aid of detectives imported from
San Francisco it has secured. so its
leading spirits say, evidence enough to
bring about not less than 800 convictions
for violations of the city ordinances
pertaining TO public morals. And all
these violations. the spokesman of the
society claim. have occurred under the
very eyes of the police and with the ac-
quiescence and connivance. apparent
ly, of Chief Glass and his subordinates.
Two attorneys. l.. b. Scranton and
w. r. Bacon. have been collaborating
with the San Francisco detectives. and
yesterday twenty-three complaints We're
drawn up. The gentlemen interested
went at late hour to Police Judge Nor
rison's court room. but that judicial
disciplinarian having vacated the bench
and retired for the day. they swore to
twenty of the complaints and left them
in the possession OF Clerk w. w. Ever
ett disappointed at not being able to
get the warrants issuee. 1t had been
their intention to swoop down upon the
offenders last evening, and thus exc
cute coup in behalf of public morals.
1T seems the Parkhurst society pur-
poses to dispense with the services of the
police a. much as possible in the prose-
cution of their cases. and much of the
work OF making arrests may be shifted
to the conStabes and their deputies.
Indeed. the society proposes to have spe-
clal officers of its own to perform its
work of rounding up the persons re-
sponsible for the alleged infractions of
law.
Some time ago Rev. C. c. Mclean of
simpson tabernacle and Rev. John A.
=. Wilson of the First Methodist Epis-
copal church. as the inspirers and lead
ers of the Parkhurst society movement
in this city, decided upon plan of noe
turnal investigations through the means
of private detectives, and supposng
that it would be better to get "sleuths"
from some other city, they entered into
communication with the c. j. Stillwell
detective agency of San Francisco
Stillwell is familiar with Los Angeles,
as he and A. B. Lawson ran a detective
concern here for some time. He has
made something of a name for hmsef
in California, particularly on account of
his connection with the Heath murder
case in Stockton.
He responded by sending two of his
men best fitted for the kind of work re-
quired and provided them in advance
with a rough diagram of the business
center of Los Angeles and information
liking in their minds the location of the
saloons he supposed would be most like
ly to be caught in the commission of
slight breaches of the closing ordinance.
They arrived about three weeks ago
and have been at work ever since. going
around with such of the eight members
of the Parkhurst societys committee as
ha
the committeeman also went around snd
acquired some personal and practical
experience of the workings of the sa-
loon closing ordinance, or rather, to be-
lieve them, of the instances where it did
not work, and they are to so testify
when the cases come before the police
court
The committee and the detectives re-
ported daily to DR.. Mclean. the chair
man of the committee, and the work
was mapped out systematically. Some
times DIR. Mclean himself went around
to verify with his own eyes the reports
brought to him, but he was careful not
to enter too far into the haunts of the
wicked.
Last night another round of the city
was made and more evidence secured.
AS fast as they visited place word was
carried over to police headquarters by
swift communication, so that at any
doing their investigating.
OF the twertythree places charged
with violating the saloon closing ordi-
nance, Bob Kerns two resorts, the Rich
elieu on Second and Spring streets, and
the Wellington on West Third street,
loom up conspicuously. The society has
very eager desire to cinch Kern be-
cause of his close relations with Chief
Glass.
Next come the Nadeau and Hollenbeck
bars, run by Fl. W. Edelman and C. A.
Schroeder respectively. Then Fox &
Kellerman's Del Monte, on West Third
street, next to the Wellington, and, to
complete very prominent trio of places
where the best of liquid refreshments
may be had at almost any hour Jerry
Illich's place is included in the list
South Spring street seemed to have en-
gagged the attention more closely than
any other thoroughfare of the detectives
and members of the Parkhurst commit
tee, after West Third street was cleaned
up, for, besides the Hollenbeck and Ma
deau bars. Mike Pulaskis Hoffman Cafe,
Charles Bauers Anheuser, McInnes
Bros Los Angeles TAeater Cafe and
Gilmore & Zorbs Fountain are all spot
ted. Among the other places are The
Peerless, run by ]. l.. Wallace on South
Main, The Eintracht, on North Spring,
W. Garms' Olympic and G. Basler's Lau-
rel Palace on West First, and Maxwell
4 Germans California on West Second
The other complaints are for what in
polite language are commonly known as
"parlor houses" that is, places where
the demi-monde sell liquor either with
or without license. The warrants, as
soon as signed by Judge Morrison, will
be turned over to the police. Altogether
the society has fully 100 complaints in
process of preparation.
Nothing Is to be overlooked now that
general raid has been planned and
the places where the national game CT
poker whether for cent ante or IS
blind) is played are to come in for a
large share Of the societys attention.
REV. j. A. b. WILSON EXPLAINS.