New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-31
BEATAND ROBBED SENATOR
JOHN FORD THE LATEST VICTIM OF
THE TTvoLI BANDITS
CURIOSITY GROWS AS TO HOW FAR THE PO-
LICE ARE GOING TO LET ACKRON
GO IN HIS vICIoUNESS.


New-Yorkers are wondering how far the brazen
efrontery of Charles Ackron will be allowed to go
before the Tammany Police Board decides that
the backmail he pays for protection does not
wholly offset the public indignation which he is
stirring up against the Tammany leader who could
crush him with word. but does not For long
time Ackron has been allowed to conduct
disreputable resort in West Thrty-ffth-st, close
to Broadway, called the TivoIi.
OF course the desires OF the respectable people
OF this city are never considered by Tammany
Croker caters to the tastes of the sporting ele-
ment when he considers anybody at all but him
self and his pocket and his ostensible reason for
allowing places like the Tivo1 to flourish is to
make NewYork an attractive place to those who
want TO see life and have good time" Many
who do not know Tammany thoroughly give IT
credit for wishing to run a cosmopolitan city in
a broad and cosmopolitan way" and for being
brave enough to defy what they call the Puritan
zeal zeal of the too good, which made this city
dull resort for gamblers. all night jewellers and
dissoIute persons when Governor Roosevelt was
Police Commissioner.
But any who thinks that the sporting element
Of the city is being looked out for by Tammany
Han need only visit Ackrons Ttvoli any night in
the week, display little money and then get tipsy
and he VIII have hts mental eyes opened, though his
feshy ones may violently closed In the opera
ton He will realize by feeling his pockets after
he has been thrown out upon the sidewalk that the
Tivo is run first, last all the time for the pur-
a
high degree of honor in the class known sport
ing men. but honor is unknown characteristic
among the creatures who conduct the Tivol, among
the police who protect" It and squeeze IT at the
same time. and also among the men who share the
regular payments which Ackron makes for the
privilege of plundering his patrons.
percentage OF the money stolen in the place is
paid to the dissoute who decoy their
victims thither It is generally understood and also
to the walters who rife the pockets Of drunken
thaxyf hut
ures allowed to keep only a small part of the
"swag." Most of it must go higher up or the
place would be closed by the police In a jiffy All
over the civilized world no words are considered
expressive enough fifty to describe the contempt
and loathing which decent people. sportsmen in
cluded. feel for those who profit by the deg
radiation Of women yet in Tammany Hall such
stand high receive the homage of some who
know well how they get their wealth. and are re-
spected by many who do not, because they think
these moral lepers the champions in this city
OF the sporting community"
The loathsoneness of Ackron's business is only
equalled by the holiness with which he conducts
it. Glittering electric signs of large size attract
the eyes of all who cross Thirty-hfth-st at Broad
way to the Tivoli There IT stands sink of in
expFessble vice. close to the centre of the theatre
district. close to the Metropolitan opera House,
close respectable restaurants and concert halls,
Haunting its Sign of debasement before the
and the refined. No effort is made to keep 1t in
the dark. pretence is kept that II exists upon
sufferance boldly its place alongside of the
legitimate amusement resorts. though Ackron
should say: Il defy any one man, woman child,
TO pass by my moral cesspool here without notic-
ing it,"
Greatly to the joy OF many persons. there seems
to be at present, however slight chance that
this exeerable parasite upon society has gone
step too far m allowing his walters to rob and beat
a State Senator in the Tvol last Friday night,
and that he may, in view Of the fact that cleo
ton is approaching be forced shut up his gilded
pigsty until after November G. at least. On Friday
night Senator John Ford and his friend. Charles
c. Mas, drinking IN the TlvoI Mr.. Ford
gave the waiter a $40 bill and received change for
$ only Naturally he protested. Mr. Ford was I'M
accustomed to the ways of the Tivoli. To protest
is useleEs Il Is also dangerous. Instantly several
of the thugs who wait there as the cat waits
for mouse, bounced him. thumped, kicked, bit
and gouged him. and elected him from the place
with the same care that the ashnan returns the
empty garbage to the curb Senator Ford de-
scribed the outrage yesterday in the following
words:
Mr.. Mas and myself with several other friends
were going up Broadway last Friday evening, when
we heard story which all Broadway to
the effect that cabman mad been killed at the
Tivol, and suggested. as We passed Thirty-ffth
go and # there was any truth in the story
five minutes I ordered round of drinks ana ten
dered IN payment go bill; but the waiter only
tested, and the first thing I knew several walters
without any cause or provocation, upon and
was beaten and beaten we'll and knew we when
had enough. 1t was the greatest outrage l ever
BILE to me that such lawless resort should be per-
mitted to exist In civilized community. The Tivoli
ought be closed inStanter.'
Ackron is said to have fed che city last week to
aban who was not killed but o2y badly adj By Seae ee
Pggnt t9e PeSoTt Reepg is thought by some and
Tivoli.