New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-10
EAST SIDE DIVES AT NIGHT.
SUDDEN ACTIVITY OF THE POLICE
FORCE
MORE OFFICERS THAN GUESTS IN SOME PLACES
- 90, . xvsrr IN THE DISTRICT.


RESULTS OF VISIT TO THE DISTRICT
4, Believing that It is of little avail to deno"nee
Nosh.s SIN Of drunkenness or the wckedness OF the
C,,,.. =, ,ha plain while the evils condemned IN
Asia Minor 1000 years ago being daily ana night
lv repeatcd In this city. the Rev. John s. Dev'"S' "
Home Chapel, In East Fourth-st. an East eue pa.
for with a church officer visited severa' "o'e'
and cafes and gardens on the East side OIL 'e>N''
evening. orrarent-
To- ma. dr,nking beer with all the commence Vi
those older in years. while young "o"". W 49,.
stara was singing a stree. song l" d ~ ,a
snnealed less 10 the ears than to the eyes ~ .
was entered which any man or woman 49, NJ,
,,,s nd no disguise worn. the aim oeihs 10 US.
u.s. -. ,omn,a,ions surround the young peope
~ 49, New-York with the purpose OF iesse""s
them. II possible. 49, l., .s,. a,s,,ict which
one OF the proprietors OF ''hoter cai'ed '"e C.
ouar.er" OF the city, the great numoer vi p
40. q, uniform and citizens dress. There were ie"
rsona in the street. but the first impression was ''a
= nrocession was due and the Police Depar' "'e. 30"
arranged to keep the crowd back. La'e'' We"
discovered from interviews with the o"ce's an"
an. nronrietors OF the barrooms and dives mat Ao
,nr Captain Hogan was determined mat no "',o
a., s,ou,a he nermitted in his precinct; the Vis'o's
entering one of the most notorious places III ~
~ which an officer was standing iouha se0o W.
cer sitting in the so-caed 'dinins-room' a"o So''
third officer entered. spoke 10 'he o''o y" e ~
went out .,, u,ho
nsa charge OF this resort for women who he saio
were known TO be OF ill-repu'e and men whose Gnu
acter he did not define. was no. pleaseu WIN .''
presence of so many representatives OF the romeo
Denartment especially al that time tnere were
only two men In the room who were DRINKING Deer
lie s.,d that he considered II unfair for his place
20 be an object Of suspicion. when several places Oh
amusement above Twenty-third-st were as oes'r"o-
two OF morals as any place below Twen'y-thrd-s|
II was true he said. that women from the Bowery
.+,ye and o.her women went there 10 drink and
enjoy themselves after their nights work was enoeo'
but he though: that he was "philanthropis' 10
proyide a place where women OF this KIND couid meet
and have little time" He had nothing TO 90
with the moral influence OF the place. he was IN inc
business for what he could on. OF H. The names
law was a great blessing him. because 1t gave him
the opportunity TO keep open all night his pest
trade was after midnight Saturday. 1t was true mat
the people got little boisterous. but no rude IAN
guage had permitted since the police have been
here As the visitors left the place and were taxi
ing with the proprietor who had followed them 10 the
sidewalk two women entered the side door. He said
that II rather early for the regular patrons as
II was not quite midnight then
At another "hotel" the visitors mistaken for
Parkhurs men, possibly because the supply Of settler
had been exhausted before their order was given
The heavy German who has conducted the place for
many years entered the room and shouted Park
bursts men are here; give them the Parkhurst
march," The fifty sixty men on the floor turned
toward the newcomers and twenty or thirty
vugar-lookng women in the gallery gave glance
In the same direction and then the men and women
resumed their drinking and the proprietor began a
ns FRIEND To- r proG o this
which his friend had written declining to grant
that the typewriter letter bore the well-known sig
nature. &C. II. Parkhurst. was dearer to MIN tnan
received
far ,b2s Hns
biz k sceA ua se NOT ss % By him e
morals S%ss' did III not concern him While he was talking
the Tnk 81 Of a
in the gallery ss WIN %ond n naa
signal to the waiter and OCCASIONALLY man would
to the one ep who i had received his money Wv "
Across the street was cafe In which there were
other nS aS
young woman asked for drink. "a lady's drink"
thirsty. 4 young man entered, drank cup q cones
Uniform had Charge Of cafes and he spent
his time opening first one door and then another:
the law The offcers were all loud in their praise Of
their superior; who they said. was determined to
in front Of every barroom and cafe and another
II the design Of the Police Department is to make
the dive unpopular by making IT respectable wise
press these dens Of inquity. which have toIer-
ated long that their propretors to think they
carrying reputable business. the policy would
seem to be as unwlse as possible. When complaint
was made once that Alderman Taits barroom. in
feminist, open Sunday. In violat Of the
Excise Law then in force. the captain OF the precinct
where the Alderman's ''niooence is so great. sent
two policemen in uniform TO see II they could find any
vloators They looked up and down the street but
there wasn't one In sight. As soon as they left the
corner. men and women and children with pals and
baskets continued the march which had been inter-
oaesrs. One would not question the honest purpose
OF the police officials in their dive policy. but so
fav do,e IL
they might as wei send platoon Of officers to
round the house in which II Is suspected that burg
larry Is about be committed and place two three
policemen in the room where the men are about to
carry their work.
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