New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-17
BUY OF.THE MAKER
GEO. CLINT Co.
A3.45 ANo 1T WEST 239STs
NEAR BROADWAY.
FACTORY: ISLAND Is6 WEST i9@sReEr

terry to bear upon them. He would not say yes
terday what this would be- In fact, he assumed
an air OF surprise when asked what his next step
would be.
Next stepT' said the superintendent why,
surely next step will be necessary. Has not the
learned District Attorney. a public official who is
entitled to most respectful consideration. promised
that he viii prosecute vigorously all these law
breakers against whom I have procured evidence?
Surely that settles it, Those places could not re-
main open a day If a fearless District Attorney
got after them. And certainly Mr.. Gardiner is a
fearless man. How can there be anything more for
me to do? I have collected the evidence will
give it TO Mr.. Gardiner. My deputies will swear
to il, and also make the complaints against the
keepers of illegal resorts. The colonization Of re-
peaters will be well nigh impossible when these
places are closed. and Mr.. Croker has declared
that he wants colonization stopped and repeaters
punished. Therefore 1t must be apparent to every
that Mr.. Gardiner will close these places with
out any delay"
Mr.. McCullagh kept his face perfectly straight
all the time he was saying this. and amount
Of questioning could induce him to say any more
or to admit that he providing against posi-
BILE repetition of the District Attorneys last alleged
crusade against the poolrooms and the evil resorts
Of the Tenderl0in precinct which proved so futile
Nevertheless Royal Scott, counsel for Excise Com
missioner lyman was at MI McCuliaghs once
lagh's deputies have accumulated against lot Of
dsgTaceful dens the East Side which McCul-
Iagh tod the police are disappearing as Raines
law hotels, but have procured their licenses by
perjury and violating the excise law every
DAY In the year These places are source of con-
siderable income to Tammany. and If their licenses
should be revoked Tammanys campaign fund
would be seriously depleted at particularly awk-
ward time OF the year, 1t behooVes Gardiner to do
some earnest work therefore in short order or Mr..
Lyman may take hand in the game.
ForDes }. Hennessy the Assistant District At
torney who is TO prosecute the cases sent TO him
consider the evidence before Monday. He expects
McCulagh to lay before him in lump all the
evidence his deputies have collected against the
more than two hundred places complained Of.
MT Hennessy will then pick out those cases in
which he considers there is evidence enough to
procure a conviction and Will go before a City
Magistrate and ask for warrants There is hardly
any doubt that in some mysterious manner wholly
unknown to any person connected with the Dis
uict Attorneys office the defendants for whom
warrants are issued will be tipped off" in ample
made. At least that IS what has happened many
times before 1t - reported also that Mr. Hennessy
may resort TO warning the landlord Of the premises
that his tenant is using 1t for dsorderly purposes.
not long ago, and is said in the District Attorney
office to have worked we'll" True, there were
few. If any. convictions and the places are still
open, but IL worked we'll"
Another thing which is working welI' is the
sending of forty unmarried policemen in plain
clothes into the "Red Light" district nearly a
disorderly The result Of their weeks work
has been to drive most of the off the streets
and into the houses. This pleases and profits the
keepers OF such houses, who pay heavily for police
greatly by the competition of the wretched women
OF the street One of the workers at the Pro-
Cathedral in Stanton-st. says these have
disappeared to remarkable extent from the pave
ments in the last few days. but the houses all
open as usual Bishop Potter went out OF town
yesterday, and is not expected to return until
Saturday. His plans to force the police do their
duty in this particular have not yet been made
public.