New-York tribune., 1900-03-15
MICE WAR ON MUSIC.
cap THE ORCHESTRAS IN
pFSPECTABLE HOTELS.
-~rpy.s APPARENT REVENGE FOR
GfEhi
-rr SHIFTING UP OF DISREPUTA-
.,r RESORTS WHICH PAY TRIB-
TIE TO HIS MASTERS.

TIE TO HIS MASTERS.
bz the robIe principle OF equal rights
o,d special privileges for none Except
nav blackmail to Tammany HalD Chief
,ss,,ed orders last night that all respect
-.s,au-arts and hotels which employ or
S-os in their dining rooms must be COM
- s.op the music take out concert
These cost $500 year and Devery's
r.s not inspired so much by wish to in
the city's revenues. il was asserted, as
e. desire for revenge upon the decent
,snt Of the city which has supported the
=, crusade upon vice that has resulted in
,,e the music in those disreputable resorts
s.,ho,,t the city which encourage the custom
,,sol,te women. In accordance with these
many arrests were made last night, the
IN all cases being violation OF the con-
law as construed by the recent decision
- .b-ee justices Of the Court of Special
s.,s,ons In other cases. the proprietors were
- and in most cases they needed the
Farnng 3d..
:. n Acting Captain Lantry's men that there
g. ~ no music until the house secured con-
= heu license. When his musicians came he
=. them home. and his patrons had TO get on
! Eithout the music.
rho same command reached Delmonico's, and
.. music in the regular dining rooms was
! -.,,sa There was private party in one of
- roorns and IT had music. but this, the book
l w evnlained. was rot objected to by the
l -.Hoa 4 rriyate party had much right TO
| - ,,,,,s,o there as at their own homes.
rta managers Of the Buckingham, Savoy and
l ,--.,,a-,o-d also received notice to stop their
l a-obest-as until they got concert hall licenses
and complied.
= Gil tbe nlaces mentioned there was of
.,rrsa rnore or. less comment and some rather
,.us+ic criticism Of the action Of the police. The
,,A thing that ranked in the hearts of the
f-orseers and guests alike was that the police
bou1d even for a technical test case place them
~ the came plane as the notorious Tivol
cairo Cafe and like resorts, and the men and
vomen who make such places profitable
csD+sin Donahue. Of the West Forty-seventh-
e. station sent his men out TO stop all music,
bt they made no arrests. Some of the more
r-cnlnent places warned in his precinct were
Bector,s and Shanleys. in Longacre Square;
p,bs's at Broadway and Forty-second-st-, and
Pv-ns's. at Sixth-ave and Forty -fourth-st- They
tsa 10 get along without music.
acting Captain Frank Kear, Of the West
i Isry-eighth-st. station, did the same thing
sone Of the places his men warned were the
Brels Majestic Marie Antoinette and 81. An
duF. in upper Central Park West, and the En-
prs at Broadway and Sixty-sixth-st-
j Al the smaller Raines law hotels and restau-
unts where the music was supplied by a piano
piano and some other instrument, were also
vHrned, and obeyed-
Morgan J. Ross, of the Imperial Hotel, and his
rhestra director. Edward Raper, were arrested
i list evening. but were bailed out at once
A summons from Magistrate Zeller, Of the
West Side Police Court, served on Michael
Stanley who keeps the restaurant on the east
/ side Of Broadway between Forty-second and
4 Forty+hird sts.. 10 appear before him at
o'clock this afternoon and explain why he per-
mitted music in his place on Tuesday night.
Charles A. Herman, of Brooklyn, one Of the
tzo men who wrote TO Chief Devery yesterday,
sceompanied by his lawyer. Douglas Levine,
called on Captain Donahue, in the West Forty
sTenth-st. police station, on Tuesday night and
asked why he permitted the violation of the
Concert Hall law in Shanley's. Rectors and
Fsbsts They demanded that he make arrests
srthwith- Captain Donahue declined. He said
Ech action would be manifestly unfair. He
treed, however 10 place the question before
Magistrate Zeller. and the summons issued by
he latter yesterday was the result.
Captain Thomas. Of the Tenderloin. was more
zrsh than the other captains. He gave no
Earnings but made arrests as follows:
lsERT HEssE proprietor Of The Black Cat No 81
West TEentye.ghthst, and his chief musician. BIER
NARD c. KAHLER
flEUEL A. MARTIN OF Martins Restaurant No. 1.437
Broadway.
yHY F MARSH. r Marsh's Restaurant No. 1o4 West
Mdhr1y- nj fourth and his chief musician. GUsTAVE
HGELo MoRELJo Of Morello's, Nos 2 I and 8 West
ENsHAW.
Al were bailed out.
TIE sergeant at the West Thirtieth-st. station
vas asked why the music at the Waldorf-As-
ioTia had not been stopped He said that hotel
has concert hall license and can have as much
music and as many kinds as it wants.
The arrests We're made so quietly that few Of
the patrons in any Of the places visited knew of
them until they made inquiries of the walters
WY the music had been stopped SO early. Many,
Rhen they learned what had happened. expressed
aer indignation at what they called the
Ashclous stupidity OF the police"
Assistant District Attorney Unger in discuss
Eg the arrests said: Well, the police ought
know enough TO draw the line between re-
Sectable and immoral places There is nothing
siong IN the fact that they have music. AT
81 the violation Of this law in such case is
..-ey technical The objection 10 the Tivoli
'aaernia, etc. is not that they have music. but
-'eor and solicit the patronage OF women who
mere FOR palpably immoral purposes. The
s1soe have no right, and ought TO use better
..-gment than TO make the instructions from
Is Office apply 10 places like Sherry's, when
-Sat for such dives the Tivou.'
LIQUOR MEN URGE DEyERY.
ezIEF GIVES OUT THEIR LETTER TO BACK