The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-02
MADE WHOLESALE RAID
CORRAL TWO HUNDRED MEN
AND WOMEN
WAS A THEATRICAL SCENE
Captain of Police and Forty Men
Pull Every One in the TivOli
Concert Hu1I Last Night
Few Escaped.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-No such whole
sale raid Of we'll dressed men and women
has been recorded In the Tenderloin
under the present administration as that
which closed up the Tivon in West Thirty
fifth street tonight and landed 2O0 men and
women in the West Thirtieth street sta
ton. Several patrol wagons made trips
between the brilliantly lighted resort
from 11:20 until midnight.
Capt. Thomas and forty of his men
made the raid The place was fuis an
orchestra was playing and walters We're
serving drinks whom the captain an6 his
men in uniform entered.
At once more men in plain clothes, who
had been scattered around at the tables
drinking with the women, sprang to their
feet and displayed their shields Men
swore and women screamed-some OF
them. There were many to whom the
police raid was no new thing and they
resigned themselves philosophically to the
inevitable and begged only that the po-
lice handle them carefully All the women
were arrayed in expensive summer finery,
with sleeve and low-cut bodlces of almost
transparent material were the rule.
Many wore diamonds and jewelry.
Capt. Thomas went through the place
which is a. large hall luxuriously fitted up
and arrested everybody-eXcep the one
man most desired, Ackron, the proprfe
tor Ac1ron had kept out of the jurisdic-
tion of the police for three or four days
ever since he learned that a warrant for
assault 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 were nerV-
Gus 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 inimation of the
general demand for the Tivolis suppress
sion, a demand which the police at last
have complied with, were taken unaware.
These women were the ones who scream
ed and wept Many of the male pris-
oners were evidently prosperous business
men of middle life. All sorts of false
names were given at the police sta
ton.
The raid was the most theatrical ever
made in the tenderloin. Old timers all
said So Capt Thomas marched at the
head of his men up Seventh avenue to
Thirty-ffth 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
roundsmen at the doors and exits and
then entered. In almost no time word
spread all over the Broadway and Sixth
avenue district, and Thirty-fifth street,
between Sixth and Seventh avenues, was
packed with people when the patrol wag
OPS started on their trips. The prisoners
were greeted with derisive boots and
yells Another crowd numbering LOCO,
gathered around the police station.
Capt Thomas entrance was dramatic.
He was in full uniform and when he had
marched his men inside he took po-
sition In the middle of the hall and
glared around him for full minute
Everybody was scared and when the cap
tain had satisfied himself of this he ex-
claimed theatrically:
Every man and woman in this place
is to consider himself or herself under
arrest"
Bedlam broke loose as soon as the cap
tain had finished speaking 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 Just dropped in to
see what the place was like, don't you
know looked sheepish enough. The
women, nearly all of them extensively
attired, 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 pedi-
grees were taken, and they were locked
up.
Three well dressed couples of apparent
respectabiiity, who claimed that they
were married and simply seeing the
sights, were permitted to go free, after
close questioning.
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 bade
her depart in peace. 1t took several trips
of the wagons to carry the men prisoners
to the station. There were 154 Of them,
all ages and conditions, many Of apparent
refinement and respectability. Names and
addresses We're taken at the station, and
after Capt. Thomas had given warning
that he would hold them If caught again
they were permitted to so.