The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-02
RAID ON THE TENDERLOIN
200 WELL-DRESSED MEN AND wOM-
EN SENT TO POLICE STATION.
Sensational Incident at New York
Many Persons to Faint.


sale raid of well-dressed men and women
trict under the present administration as
that which closed up the Tivoli. in West
Thirty-sixth street. tonight, and landed
two hundred men and women In the West
Thirtieth-street station. Seven patrol
wagons made trips between the brilliantly
lighted resort from 20 until midnight.
Captain Thomas and forty of his men made
the raid. The place was full. an orchestra
was playing and walters were serving
drinks when the captain and his men in
uniform entered. At once more men in
plain clothes, who had been scattered
around at the tables drinking with women.
sprang to their feet and displayed their
police badges.
Men swore and women screamed-some
of them. There were many to whom a
police raid was no new thing and they re-
signed themselves philosophically the
inevitable and begged only that the police
men handle them carefully. All the women
were arrayed in expensive summer finery,
and sleeves and low cut bodices of almost
transparent material were the rule. Many
wore diamonds ard much jewelry.
Captain Thomas went through the place,
which is a large hall luxuriously fitted up,
and arrested everybody except the one man
most desired-Ackron, the proprietor. Ack-
on has kept out of the jurisdiction of the
police COR three or four days, ever since
he learned that a warrant was out for him.
Chief Devery announced early in the day
that the Tivoli would be closed and the
raid was not unexpected The women were
nervous all the evening, and several of the
more hardened of the Tenderloin habitues
kept close to the door all night. Others
who had received no information of the
general demand for the Tivolis suppress
sion-a demand which the police have at
last complied with-were taken unawares.
These women were the ones who screamed
and wept. Many of the male prisoners
were evidently prosperous business men of
middle life. All sorts of false names were
given at the police station.
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 Seventh avenue to
Thirty-fifth 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 rounds
tered In almost no time word spread all
over the Broadway and Sixth-avenue dis
trict and Thirty-fifth street between Sixth
and Seventh 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 one thousand, gathered
| around the police station.
Captain Thomass entrance was dramatic.
| He was In full uniform, and when he had
| marched his men inside he took 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, theatrically:
| Every man and woman in this place is to
consider himself and herself under arrestr'
Bedlam broke loose as soon as the captain
| had finished his defamation, and screams
| and yells of terror, some real and some
| simulated, filled the place. Many of the
women tried to faint, and few succeeded.
| and the men who had lust dropped in to
| see what the place was like, don't you
| know" looked sheepish enough. The wom-
| on. nearly all of them expensiyely at
| tired. were taken TO the wagons first. There
| were fifty-four 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
pedigrees were taken, and they were locked
| up.
Three well-dressed couples of apparent
| ried and simply seeing the sights, were
rfied and simply seeing the sights. were
| permitted to go free after close question
| ing
| Detective Glepnon won the paudits OF the
| crowd In the street when he escorted a
pretty Salvation army lass with bundle
| of War Crys 10 the door and bade her de-
| part in peace
| 1t took several trips of the wagons to
| carry the men prisoners 10 the police sta
| ton. There were 154 of them. of all ages
| and conditions, many of apparent refine
ment and respectability. Names and ad-
| dresses were taken at the station. and after
| Captain Thomas had given warning that
| he would hold them il caught again they
| were permitted TO go.
Gold at the Seattle Assay once.