The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-19
A New Danger MenaceS
Visitors at New York.
Il Is a Girnle Policeman on a
RaineS Hotel Raid.
General SickleS' Tale Of Whisky and
Congress Before the War.

Every day many Rhode Islanders go to
New York ami every night there Is a far
quota OF them sheltered In tho many
hostelries Of the metropolis. Ii is just as
we'll that those contemplating trip 10
the big town should be warned against
the dangers that threaten them. With
the ways of the bunco steerers, the green
goods gentlemen and crooks OF that INK,
but they have not yet encountered the
gimlet policeman the latest product Oh
the Raines law The gimlet l'eeier has
already made himself felt in a way as
DAMAGING to ropose as iacerating to tho
flesh and the Rhode Islander In Gotham
should keep out of his way by avoiding
what are known as Raines law hotels
The methods of the ginlet policeman arc
fully explained by AN occurrence OF Mon
cay morning last which serves as "A warn
ing that II by mishap you are forced 20
lodge in a Raines law hotel you should
be careful not TO sleep with Ncnr BACK up
against the wall, for the detectives are
busy just now examining the thickness OF
partitions by means of gimlets. Ihe re-
vissd Rules of the House" in the hotel
kept by Hermann Schumann, mt No l3oO,
Third avenue, will contain regulation
something like this: All beds are pulled
out six inches from the wall. Guests VINO
move them run the risk of lightning and
the police.
Detective Herlihy went To Schumann's
Hotel Yesterday morning with acunen
and gmlet. He began To examine all
thickness provided by law. He was bor-
ing into one of them when he struck
something soft, ana "A scream rent the air
of the adjoining room:
'I'm stabbed Murder! Thieves
Policor' he heard some one yell.
I,.N u.fl hA
tive II fear that bave disturbed some
one
A wild eyed man In trailing garments
of the night rushed out into the narrow
passageway just then, clutching at his
right shoulder blade and yelling at tho
top of his voice. lie saw tho gimlet In
the detectives hand and made rush Tor
him Herlihy lodged and attempted 90
expain.
"Why didn't you tell me you were pros
pecting you pie-f0ced whelP" yelled
the man, who was Westerner, ms he
pranced up and down. What kind of n
lode were you lookin' for, anyway! I'm
stabbed, and me guns in hook. T"
They took that Western man by the
arm and soothcd him. They. exlained the
intricacies of the Raines law, and tho
proprietor told him he wouldn't charge
him a cent for lodging. 1t was also
found that whisky was beneficial for the
bite of gimlet and the Westerner was
eomforted anew
Then the detective arrested the pro-
prietor, for no found that the hotel
lacked six rooms of the ten rooms pre-
scribed by law. Schumann was held in
Yorkville police court yesterday for exam
inutfon.
A Grand Army man tells the Gossiper
that he saw recently u statement that
General Daniel X. Sickles has once upon
a time written glowing eulogium Of
whisky. That statement the Grand
Army man said, is untrue, and he went
on to explain that IL probably grew out
Of the fact that General Sickles once made
a statement about Congress and whisky
before the war. Hero is what General
Sicklcs said on that matter: II was i'm
the Congress preceding the war. Ii was
whisky In the morning-the morning
cocktail-a congress OF whisky drinkers.
Then whisky all day; whisky and gam
bling all night. Drinks before Congress
opened its morning session, drinks before
IL adjourned. Scarcely committee room
without its demiiohn of whisky, and the
clink of the glasses could be heard in the
capitol corridors. lie fights, the angry
speeches, were whisky. The atmosphere
was redolent with whisky; nervous ex-
cItement seeking relief in whisky and
whisky adding TO nervous excitement.
Yes, the rebellion was launched on whis.
ky. IL the French Assembly were to
drink some morning one-half the whisky
consumed in any one day by that Con-
grcss, France would declare war against
Germany in twenty minutes
Ii is said that the treasure of the
Bank OF France are better guarded h IN
those of any other national bank i'm me
world. At the close of business hours
every day whom the money Is put INTO the
vaults in the cellar, masons at once wall
up the doors with hydraulic mortar
water is then turned on and kept running
until the cellar is flooded. When the bank
officials arrive In the morning the water
Is drawn OIL, the masonry is torn down
and the doors opened. In Ajmere the
great bankers III India sleep over their
treasures at night, and cell their lives
dearly to the bank robbar. In other parts
OF the world the bank officials throw up
their hands when revolver is presented.
But the bank robber in the Bank of
France must work In diving suit, and
break down cement wall before ne can
even start To- loot the vaults.
Tho mosquito season is at hand and
any device or drug that will save one from
the nocturnal attacNs Of the blood thirsty