New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-08
MOTT WILL SEE FOR HIMSELF.
THE MAGISTRATE TO INVESTIGATE PER-
sONALLY WHETHER OR NOT THE
RAINEs LAW IS VIOLATED AT
HOLLANDER'S

Magistrate Mott will this mOrring personally
visit Hollanders Cafe at No 1i9 West Onc-hun-
dred-and twenty and Investigate the ar
rangement Of doors and partitions between the
entrance TO the resort and the dining room and
the bar. where, during lawful hours. liquors are
! dispensed His investigation will be made for the
purpose Of deciding whether George Weiss. OF No.
c23 West One hundred and -twenteth-st., manager
for Hollander In the latters absence in Europe.
shall be held for violation Of the Raines Liquor
Tax law.
The wording OF the particular part OF the law In
question Is follows: 1T shall be unlawful to
have open unlocked any door entrance from
the street, alley, yard. hallway. room or adjoin-
ing premises TO the room rooms where any
liquors sold kept for sale during the hours
when the sale of liquors is forbidden. except when
necessary for the egress ingress Of the person
members OF his family for purposes not for
hidden by this act
Detectives ShcvIin and Callahan. who have just
been transferred from Captain Moynihnn's pre-
cinct to the Central Office. were the complainants
against Weiss in tho test to decide whether
arrangements such as are at Hollander's are con-
trary to tho statute. At Hoandor's there are
two great dininghos fitted up lavishly Ike a
large Volksgarten. In tho front, on the street
floor. is a barroom open during the legal hours
and drinks are sold under hotel license all day
and night In the prohibited hours entrance is
gained to the halls through large doors opening in
One hundred "A d-twenty- sixth-st. and small
hallway on -hundrcd-nnd -twenty -hfth-st. Be
tween the dinng-hall and the barroom IL room
where luncheon IL served. A door opens into this
room from a small vestibule communicating with
One -hundrcd-and- twenty -ffth-st. The barroom IS
separated from It by a high partition. In when IS
n small opening. large enough TO admit one person
Mt time and without any door or bar OF any
description. 49, ,,, 40 -. g.
close this opening occasionally Is alleged by me
detectives 10 be violation OF the liquor Jaw
Their contention appeared to be that. as there
was a break in the partition that Is never Closed
the barroom practically extended from the en-
trance in One-hundred- nd-twcnty hfth-st. 10 the
doors OF the dining room. and that. consequently
there unlocked entrance to the parroom
John r. Brodsky represented Weiss. and said
that there were three doors between the inter
mediate room, as he maintained II TO be. or mo
part OF the barroom outside the PARTITION as inc
detectives hold II. and the street; both Sues
agreed that there small vestlbule, Ike that
OF a private house intervening. There was no
diagram presented by either side. though MT
prodsky wanted to draw one. and the attempts
TO describe the premises by all the persons IN the
case their contradictions and all. got Magistrats
Mott into such a tange that he declared ne wouIo
hold Wes, in 81 OA ball till 10 o'clock this morn
ing and 20 to Hoander's and examine the place
Uith his own eyes. II see pretty wen WIN
nv ewes vet" he said. and I've got glasses be.
sides ] won't drink any soda water while I'm AZ
either"