The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-18
WAR ORDERED ON
GOTHAM'S VICE
Bishop Potter Writes YigOr-
Gus Letter to Mayer.
LATTER ISSUES ORDERS
FOR A CRUSADE
Croker Says That Tammany
Means Business.

New York, Nov, 17--District Attorney
Gardiner, to whom Mayor Van Wyck.
upon the receipt OF Bishop Potter's
letter, directed a communication that
steps be taken by the district attorneys
Office to suppress the vicious conditions
existing on the East Side in the Red
Light" district, today secured fifty war
rants, returnable tomorrow. Mr.. Gar
diners assistants secured 100 warrants
when Superintendent McCuIlagh pre-
scented his evidence and afhdavits
against the disorderIy resorts on the
east side, which resulted in three ar
rests. In speaking of tina crusade, Mr..
Gardiner said:
We viii start where Bishop Potter
says things are in such d bad way on
the east side, and. if necessary, there
form an attack in other parts of the
city They are scared pretty badly
now on the east side since detectives
I have turned their attention in that di-
rect!on.''
The pool room and gambling houses
were omen today as usual, undisturbed
by the wide advertisement of the Tam
many crusade against vice. The only
seeming effect of the publicity that has
been given to Mr.. Cookers declaration
was that dOorkeepers in the best pat
TOnized resorts for betting on the races
have performed their duty in something
more than the 2erfunctOry manner
! that ruled earlier in the week, and
patrons who we're not known had to go
through the form of satisfying the
guards before being admitted. No per
son who had money and the wish TO
bet found any real difficulty in placing
wagers, however, and the downtown
pool rooms were more than ordinarily
busy. The downtown gambling houses.
nearly all OF which are known as day
games, and which are closed a short
time after the trade center is suspend
ed were open in the afternoon. In the
gambling eSta blishments of the tender
Ioiu and hotel district II was said that
there was no idea that a general clos
ing would be ordered. and interference
by the police was not anticipated
Bishop Makes Protest.
Bishop Henry c. Potter Of
the Prote slant Episcopal diocese
of New York today sent a letter
TO Mayor Van WyCk in reference to
vice in this city and especially on the
east side This letter is the one prom
fsed some " eeIs ago. when the bishop
publicly announced that one Of his rec
tors had been grossly insulted by the
commanding officials Of a certain pO-
lice station. and that be proposed to
take up the matter in a manner which
the heads of the police force should
feel
Bishop Potter first calls attention to
the work that Is being done at the
pro-cathedral, 100 Stanton street, in
endeavorins to improve the condition
OF the poor Of the east side tenement
district in which il is located, and says
Il has been recognized as an important
factor in promoting the virtue and
good order of the community in which
il ministers. He goes on TO tell how.
/ when the ClergymeE called at the 20
/ lice station of the precinct TO complain
Of the notorious condition OF affairs
one of them was told by the police
captain that he lied, and that when
disheartened by such an experience. the
clergyman carried his complaint 10 q
higher authority in the police depart
ment. he was met with insolent de-
ris.On-
The bishop continues:
Il am not. I beg TO say, unmindfuI
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