The sun., 1899-05-22
TOWN WIDE OPEN STILL.
CONCERT HALLS AND SALOONS WENT
ALONG IN THE SAME OLD WAY.
Property Sandwiches Trotted Out Once More
I'm Few Places and Short Skirts Tabooed,
but Drinks Sold Freeiy-Few Arrests
York Pays tho Tcnderloin visit.

tnS uHknOWlUE, WHD Ieul VI Nnltl DeNeTy \
orders to the precinct commanders. thought it
was going to be dry Sunday. but anybody
who walked through the streets in the after
noon and evening could not help seeing that
the town was still wide open. The police
had no intention OF shutting things up
Even Chief Deverys order about sacred
concerts" didn't have any great effect. for
sacred concerts" at which drinks were sold
were running full blast all over town. Tho
police returns showed thirty-cight excise ar
rests for the day. a number Of the arrests being
in concert hall cases. These were test"
arrests the police said. They didn't stop tho
concerts or the liquor selling
Up and down the Bowery no one could have
told that the police were any more vlgilant
than usual. From the concert halls there were
heard the strains OF the usual melodies. saloon
side doors were wide open and anybody could
get what he wanted to drink without asking
or being asked any questions. The Man
haitian Music Hall. at 1O6 Bowery. was
crowded all the afternoon and evening. Men
sat at the tables drinking and listening to the
sacred concert" The only difference was
that on nearly every table there was property
sandwich and the girls who sang on the stage
wore long skirts and didn't dance. The alb
sense OF short. skirts and dancing made the
The Manhattan did business all afternoon
without interference. In the evening the Null
| DeTTV street Dlllce arrested tHb manager,
James Cunningham, and a waiter, Charles
T2ha r Ss1s % IL shG unSnr nuI
| $500 bail each and told to appear ut the Centre
Street Court this morning. The Manhattan
went ho on ceiling gwarx drmkS m IN Chic, novorvs
| bailiwick. was gutter than usual. Beer flowed
| freely, side doors We're lighted and open. but
the concerts were dispensed with i'll several OF
:, In the, Tenderloin. under orders from Capt;
| Price. the ward men OF the precinct reported
| to him at u O'Clock last evening They
were taken into the CAPTAINS private
There were three ''sacrcd concerts" nd-
YertIssd in the precnctIat KosteE B4s, the
Twenty third street. Capt. Price said that no
liquor must be sold at any OF these places. no
must appear in costumc-,in fact, that the law re-
garding such affairs would be strictly enforced.
the theatres to see that his orders were carried
| out. As II to prove that the threat to close
d ON sxcs y
ssed sHnaw%h was h1"nEh 9Ia out
the West Thirtieth street station last night for
the first time in several mouths. lio entered
tioning a man who had been arrested for
refusing to nay cab fare, The man said his
Are YOU married ?" asked the Sergeant
That's my (hicl private busincss.' yelled
Where do you iiSe%" continued the Ser
refush t. ansher on same. lhc grounds" :"
| replied the prisoner. who had evidently been
charge OF dsorcrly conduct.
direction of Chief Deverys, and the tip was
p;nssed along that York was looking the pre-
On the west side Of town the order to close
things up resulted in the capture OF one sot
saloon, which had piano going in the back
room.
Lynch Of The West lO0th street station got the
slot machine IN saloon at $50 West Ninety
the proprietor. on the charge Of having Il gam
bling instrumcnt,on his premises
| Down in the Twentieth precinct the saloon
was closed. OverhauIng a batch of com
GGai,nts nr tr@m rrorGHrty So 0wmGrs about dI9r
found t%" about ne noises 'rns from '@ Saloon pn at
334 Eighth avenue. Just one block south
S p'sFy B.csVc lGHT @hsds RF went at % ESr@ I
closed, It W and arrested William ", Kenny,
In the West Fifty-fourth Street Pole" Court
waived examination and was held in 500 for
trial. kenney was held in 5000 for further ex-
ip Chinatown some OF the Chinese merchants
took their first lesson in sdG-door trade yes;
tsr4ay; The ChInese lapndTymen from AL
shopping OIL sundays, had hard time Of it
trying o get into the Chinese groceries.
| The police not only went around on Saturday
and al most frightened the merchants to death.
but also kept a pretty strict watch on their
was done in Mott Pe and Doyer streets only
to- regular cTsomeFs VIZ wSEs cHmp1hS1
auiskiy hurried our ot the neshHorhood. Wv
There was slight Gh2nse ny in Harlem from
detectives Of the West I25th street station wa,
sent to IIurtIg seamon's Harlem Music Han
nj Asf IN "a Ian
found no cause for, coomGlalnt until The
iIIle billed as Mnsigal Mixes. ! arrived Then II"
detective Gasned with horror, for although the
dancing or acrohatic work. they were murder
i9G ths MI; MiierS% from Troynt3,f;" BY :,
TSSans Toaueo hS 'gs song s from
wit mr pus%al Isd. bIocIs Of weed Q, ,,o
tective, rushing TO tho box ofrlce.
ager Lee Burk hardt
Then III pinch you instead" said the de-
II haven't violated the law" protested Burk
hardt, There 5 no dancing or acr0hatic work
and the performers are in street clothes"
6a GSs % s6% and mGeP 5 R%sks R6, HP Ge5Gs 5
oi sacred concert, said the detective, You
,Burkhardt was balel out later hv Manager
HuTtig The remainder 81 the programme
william ]. Gardner Of Wc"hawkcn. the de-
l'arkhurSt society, was arrested on FOrtysec-
ond street. near Eighth avenue, soon after
midnight on Saturday. for ntoXicatiOn. He
was fined $3 in the West Fifty-fourth Street
| Court
COSEY ISLAND WIDE oPEN.
No games Of chance. no muscle dances. nc
wearing of anything hut street costume 10y
concert hall performers no pool. billiards oi
bowling, no pianos. banlos or clog dancing. ne
automatic machines. no barkerS thar talk, and
no songs or music that are not sacred"
| Those were the orders issued 10y Cant. Ken.
ney Of the COney Island police to h men last
Saturday u ght as to what was to be allowed
on Coney Island on Sunday.
The word had gone ont, from headquarters in
New York that cold bloohed sabbath brcakinG
must stop; IL must stop or something was
going to drop. Something must have dropped
Around COney Island they say positively that
something did drop and that it was the heaviest
! assessment yet.
At any ratio Coney Island was wide open yes.
terday. Among the things to which admission
was unimpcded hy ANYBODY except a ticket
taker was the exhibition of a naked woman
under strong electric light the muscle dance
in all its variations in Mt least three theatres
| by three only original Fatimas;" high-k kick
ing in twice as many places: dance halls. witt
full brass bands going every, minute, and