The times., 1897-05-03
THE RAINES LAW IN FORCE.
The New York Police Charged to
Look for VjoIators.

Look for VjoIatOrS.
New York, May 2.-The Ralnes bin
amendments went into force here at mid
night. Each police captain was previously
instructed as to the principal points he
must hereafter enforce as follows:
mo liquor must be sold anywhere ex-
cept as specified between midnight Satur-
day and a. m. Monday and / a. m
to 8 a. m on other days. Clubs holding
licenses and incorporated prior to March
23, 1896, may sell or distribute liquors
at any time TO members.
mo saloon must open between mid-
night Saturday and 8 a. N, Monday, or
between ] a. m. and a. M on weekdays.
3-The same hours in which the sale
or liquor is prohibited apply to clubs i'll
corporated since March %, 1896, and
popularity known as '.Raines'' clubs OF
course they must have $500 licenses to sell
even during the limited hours.
1-If any resort holds only one license
it must sell its liquors over one bar. For
every other bar used an extra license must
be purchased
5--Liquor may only be sold in depart
nent stores in an apartment having
separate and sole entrance from the pubic
street
6-An boxes and stalls in saloons must
be torn down.
Hotels may sell liquor TO guests with
meals or in their rooms, except between
the hours or midnight Saturday and
a. N Sunday, and between 1 d. N. and 3
a. m. on other days.
S-All-night licenses may be obtained for
public functions, dinners and balls, upon
payment OF $40 per night Such license
must be approved by the mayor aud chief
OF police.
9-No club may sell to anyone but
member
10-Restaurants having licenses but no
hotel accommodations have the same hours
OF prohibition as saloons.
1.-The distribution or free lunch is
permitted.
12-Liquor must not be sold TO intoxi-
Gated persons. minors or Indians.
yiolators OF the law in this city are
TO be tried exclusively in the court OF
special sessions, without jury.
14-Hotels within the meaning of the
law are those which have at least ten
bedrooms for guests above the basement
tions not less than three inches thick,
which must extend from floor to ceiling
Independent access must be provided to
every room from corridor. Every room
must have at least so square feet OF floor
space and 500 cubic feet OF air space
every rooIr must have one window at
least looking out upon an open space OF
air shaft. The hotel dining-room must
contain at least 800 square feet OF floor
surface and have accommodations for at
least twenty diners. The bar must be
separated from the dining-room by a per-
manent partition.
15-Guests of hotels are defined to be
persons who hire rooms at regular rates,
not merely TO be served with drinks, or
who take meals at the regular hours when
meals are served
ia liquor dealer who kno wingly en-
ploys in his business a man who has been
convicted OF felony is guilty of a mis-
demeanor.
17-Beer bottiers must pay q tax of
S100 for every delivery wagon they em
ploy.
1S-The pharmacists tax is reduced
to S25 in the city and So in country
towns, but under the same restrictions
as department stores.
19-Clubs organized prior TO March %,
1896, cannot be entered by the police for
inspection without a special order OF the
excise commissioner.
Chief Conlin is not especially hopeful OF
the immediate result He says:
''There are some provisions which can
be enforced with greater or less degree
of success, but there are OF bcrs in which
we can detect violations only with great
labor We VIII do our best, bIt it is not
the desire OF this department to make the
enforcement too arbitrary, or TO work in
justice to saloon men just at present.
In the Tenderioin Capt Chapman mad spe-
cial men out in uniform and in plain
clothes looking for yiolatOrs OF the law,
but about the only violations they attempt
ed to detect during the hours after mid
night were the sales OF liquors in saloons,
clubs and hotels.
In other precincts the same activity was
reported. 1t was not deemed advisable in
any of the precincts TO spend time on de-
termintng the number of cubic feet of air
in hotel bedrooms nor the floor space of
dining-Tooms. Nor did the police labor
asSiduously to learn whether or not bar
tenders or walters had been convicted of a
felony, or whether any Indian was being
served with alcoholic stimGlants.
Orders similar to those issued in New
York were given out by the Brooklyn
authorities.