Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-02
POLICE RAID THE TIVOLI
EXCITING SCENES At THE NOTORI-
Gus TENDERLOIN RESORT.
Over One Hund1 ed and Fifty Men and
Women Given Rides in
Patrol Wagons.

|
men and women has been recorded in the
| Tenderloin under the present administra-
| ton as that which closed up the Tivoli,
| in West 33th street, New York, last night,
| and landed over $50 men and women in the
| West both street police station. Seven
patrol wagons made trips between the bril-
lantly lighted resort from IL 30 pm. until
midnight.
Captain Thomas and forty of his men
made the raid. The place full.
orchestra was playing and walters were
| serving drinks when the captain and his
men in uniform entered. At once. moe
men in plain clothes, who had been scat
tered around at the tables, drinking with
the women. sprang to their feet and dis
| played their shields.
Men swore and women screamed-some
of them. There were many to whom po-
lice raid was no new thing and they re-
signed themselves pfiosophically to the
inevitable and begged only that the po-
licemen handle them carefully. All the
women We're arrayed in expensive summer
finery, and sleeves and low cut bodices of
almost transparent material were the rule.
Many wore diamonds and much jewelry.
The Proprietor Escaped.
Captain Thomas went through the place.
which is large hall. luxuriously fitted up
and arrested everybody except the one
man most desired-Ackron, the proprietor
Ackron has kept out of the jurisdiction of
the police for three or four days, ever
since he learned that a warrant for as
sault was out for him.
Chief Devery announced early in the day
that The Tivoli must be closed" and the
raid was not unexpected. The women We're
nervous all the evening, and several of
the more hardened Of the Tenderloin habi-
tues kept close to the door all night.
Others who had received no intimation
of the general demand for the Tivolfs sup
pression-a demand which the police at
last have compiled with-were taken I'M
awares. These women were the ones who
screamed and wept
Many of the male prisoners were evil
IDENTIFY prosperous business men Of middle
life All sorts of false names were given
at the police station.
Most Theatrical Raid on Record.
The raid was the most theatrical ever
made in the Tenderloin. Old timers all
said SO. Captain Thomas marched at the
head of his men up It'll avenue to 35th
street and then to the door of the
place so sharply that no one had a
chance to run in and warn the crowd.
The captain left five detectives and a
roundsman at the doors and exits, and
then entered In almost no time word
spread all over the Broadway and 9th
avenue district, and 35th street between
9Th and 7th avenues. was packed with peo-
pie when the patrol wagons started on
their trips The prisoners were greeted
with derisive boots and yells. Another
crowd, numbering 1000, gathered around
the police station.
Captain Thomas entrance was dramatic.
He was in full uniform. and when he had
marched his men inside he took a position
in the middle of the hall and glared around
him for full minute. Everybody was
scared. and when the captain had satisfied
himself of this, he exclaimed Electrically:
Every man and woman in this place is
to consider himself or herself under ar
rest"
Bedlam broke loose soon as the cap
tain had finished his defamation. and
screams and yells of terror, some real and
some simulated, filed the place Iany of
the women tried to faint and few sue
ceeded and the men who had lust dropped
in to see what the place was like. DON
you know" looked sheepish enough
DerisIve Cheers of Crowds.
The women, nearly all of them expen-
sively attired, were taken to the wagons
first. There were ffty-fodr of them, and
many had never before been under arrest.
Some wept, others screamed, but the crowd
cheered derisively as they were driven
away At the Tenderloin station their pedi-
grees were taken. and they We're locked up.
Three well-dressed couples of apparent
responsibility, who claimed they were mar
ried and simply seeing the sights, were
permitted to go free after close question
ing.
Detective Glennon won the plaudits of
the crowd in the street when he escorted
a pretty Salvation Army lass. with a bundle
OF War Crys to the door and babe her de-
part in peace. Al
1t took several trips of the wagons to
carry the men prisoners to the police sta
ton. There were 154 of them, all ages
and conditions, many, of apparent refine
ment and responsibility.
Names and addresses were taken at the
station, and after Captain Thomas had
given warning that he would hold them
If caught again they were permitted to go.