New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-12
the Tammany Hall Assembly Committee or the
XXXINth Assembly District on Saturday night:

XxXIVth Assembly District on Saturday night:
In looking for reformers you must look at a
spot 'em. If he has whiskers like mine or like
Commissioner keating's. you need never pick him
oct FOR a reformer. But if man has his upper lip
shaver ana little bunch OF whiskers on his chin,
he can't be trusted any more than you trust
a chn-tufted billygoat that approaches you from
behind. One man came here not long ago. He $
got that kind of whiskers. and he's reformer.
have great reverence and respect for the clergy.
bat Steers whiskeTs are like that. and haven't
heard that DR.. Parkhurst has shaved.
LETTER MISTAKEN FOR PRAISE.
In his reference 10 DR.. Parkhursts letter Mr..
Mcintyre also paid tribute to the biting sar-
cssm OF the preacher This sarcasm was ap-
preciated in almost every place where the letter
was read yesterday. One notable exception
was strangely enough, in local newspaper
Office where the letter was not printed for pub
LEGATION. but was briefly referred TO as follows:
A letter was sent TO District Attorney Gardner
Yesterday after a meeting of the Executive Com
miree OF the Society Icr me , ~ nrone
c CT @ff for lis hE zeal A'''''' . ''''e
Heaven keep the poor Colonel from much
more of that kind of praise" said one OF his
friends last night
Or. Slicer called Colonel Gardiner ''the arch
protector OF vice" recently, and yesterday he
was quoted as holding Mayor Van Wyck to re-
sponsibility the openness of vice in this city
in the following words:
one else responsible for the condition of this city
lie Is the moral head of the ADMINISTRATION and
the Police Commissioners are his r1ght arm
yohn F. Carroll. Richard Cookers prime minis
ter, is credited by many with having given the
order which closed the poolrooms on Saturday
al II by magic. They had not been closed up so
quickly and completely since 1888, when Richard
Croker having caught the racing fever, took
similar action in the interest of his friends, the
Dryers. Since public attention has been drawn
again so forcbly TO the openness Of vice, discus
sion is general about the habits Of the resort
proprietors One of these is the richness with
which some of the gambling houses. such as
Canfelds, are furnished. Money is spent law
ishiy on paraphernalia and decorations, showing
that, even after paying the heavy assessments
levied by Tammany for protection. the business
is highly profitable. Another is the fact that
official rottenness has permeated even the police
courts and that no matter what precautions are
taken TO keep secret the procuring Of warrants
against these houses il seems impossible to keep
the information from leaking" that as
much as possible Of these valuable fittings may
be concealed before the police arrive with their
warrants 20 make raid \ practice which has
become prevalent among saloonkeepers is to
substitute for the glass doors which the excise
law says they shall provide for their liquor
stores ground glass doors through which the
drinkers within cannot be observed by the police
after lawful hours.
ALLEGED CRAP GAME PROPRIETOR DIS
CHARGED.
Patrick Smith, who arrested in a raid by
Captain Walsh OF the West Twentieth-st. police
station, Saturday night, at No. SO West Twen-
tieth-st., and charged with running a crap game,
discharged by Magistrate Cornell in the Jeffer-
son Market Court yesterday morning, the police
saving that they did have evidence to con-
Wet the prisoner. The Magistrate directed that
she money. dice, and other apparatus captured be
turned the police, and asked his chief clerk
10 make OF the case, II being his intention