The sun., 1901-04-03
ANTI-SPITTING CRUSADE.
$50 COPS OUT FOR OFFENDERS CATCR
10 or THEN.
Ignorance Of the Law No Excuse. Magistrate
Mott Rules Only One offender Discharged
Mr.. sexton Says the Expectoratiou Ordi-
nance wont he q Dead Letter Any Longer.

Mott Rules Only One Onender discharges
Mr.. sexton Says the Expectorstiou ordi-
nance Wont he Dead Letter Any Longer.
An Official crusade against the persons who
expectorste In public oonveyances and on
the floors Of public buildings was begun
yesterday by John b. Sexton President OF the
Board OF Health. BY Mr. Sexton'searly order
ls0 policemen from the sanitary squad we're
detailed in plain clothes TO ride up and down
and across town In each OF the i've boroughs
20 detect and take into custody any man,
woman or child who was caught expectorat-
ing in the cars. Up to o'clock yesterday
afternoon. when the men OF the sanitary
squad quit work to begin again at O'Clock
In the evening. nineteen arrests had been
made. OF this number one solitary onender
was discharged. All the others were held In
anywhere from $50 TO $500 bail for eXamlna-
ton, were fined and discharged. or were
parOled for examination. Or the arrests
made. fourteen were In Manhattan. three In
Brooklyn and two in The Bronx. IL Is said
that it should not be inferred from this record
that they do not expectorate In Richmond
and Queens
The first prisoner taken was Theodore
Kaufer of 1872 West Forty-flrst street, a painter.
whom Policeman Higgins caught using the
floor of Bergen street car In Brooklyn lot a
cuspidor at exactly $50 o'clock yesterday
morning Kaufer when taken before Magis-
trate Teale offered as an excuse that he did
not know the law. lie was held in 500 bail.
Five minutes after kaufer had been arrested
In Brooklyn George Diehn, a driver living at
723 HighpOint avenue. Hoboken. was arrested
on the Thirty-fourth street line by Police
man Fitzpatrick Magistrate Meade held
him in slO0 bail. Five minutes later Max
Walbman, a grocer. living at 81 Goerck street.
was caught in tho act on a Canal street car
at Pitt and Grand streets. Policeman Brun-
ner took his prisoner before Magistrate
Hogan, In the Essex Market police court
and the Magistrate. with an expression on his
face which may have indicated that he was
really sorry for Mr.. Nalbman. held him in
| $50 bail.
OF all the Magistrates Magistrate Mott
was called upon oftener than any Of his col-
leagues to dispense justice to eNpectoratOrs.
This venerable Magistrate has, evidently.
| u rooted objection 10 expeCtoratng ~ puO-
| lie lie showed no mercy To any oI lhoao
| who were brought before him. lie Just
| soaked every offender. He gave each the
| alternative OF furnishing 5000 pau pend
ing his examination, or beng locked up
| lhe first offender to be brought before NJ ~
| istrdte Mott was Anthony j. Allen, young
| AuCuOneer living AT 5ii last iLghty-scNchth
street Young Mr Allen was Ildlng down
| town on a Second avenue surface car and
standing near him was sanitary ioHCemdh
| Henry Henry noticed that Allen took
| frequent occasion to eXpeCtOrate on the
| car floor The policeman called the young
| mans attention to the lact that he was vlo-
| lating the law and pointed to the sign IN the
Thank you very much said the young
auctloncer. glibly, but don't let that bother
| you 1t don't bother me any
The policeman again cautioned i,,, Allen
man replied. Say. my friend. YOU ought
| to put signs on the backs of the seats, and
| utter You have tled those you might use
| your back You'd get mgh prices Tor ad-
Young man. said Henry. I'm an officer
Of the sanitary squad ana ! want 10 warn
YOU before | place you under arrest
| That's very good of YOU, Sald Young
| Allen IF you hadn't told me who YOU
were. might hay" thought You wer" Funston
That settled young Mr. Allen lie was
| promptly yanked of the car and taken be-
| fore Magistrate Mott ON finding that lie
| was actually IN police court, h" grew weak
| in the knees lie protested that he dldn
| mean to eXpeCtOratc in "a car ana honest,
| he'd never do 1t again II the Mugl-lrat" would
let him go this time. MagIstral' M"'t
"imph'" said the Magistrate in the cheer
| ful tone which he can use on occasion ina
whnt they all s2y I've % no vrr g>e & i"r 'h@1G T"I,
| spit in private? Why didn't you ~pii IN your
| handkerchief? Every man who swlT IN q
car should be arrested at once nnd locked locked
| up Any one so offending VINO I~ Drought
before me will get justice
Magis,rateN rane hadsthree eHpectorai"rs
| 10 dead with lir ql-ro,ed "I rarh ra-r WIN
| "A fine of a. Magistrate Kramer IN BROOK
| lvn and Magistrate Steers of the sane hor-
| ough had one offender each. and in each case
| the cNpoctOr1tor was pdrolcd lor tNhhliR-
| tiou Magistrate Hogan and Magistrate Iel-
| L., ia bRl minds
| enough bond 20 require and disposed oi all
| cases in that way. Magistrate Pool had
| two casrS to deal with He was not certain
| that the law was constitutional. but he didn't
| think he had better pass upon It's conNilin-
! tioualitv 80 he held each offender IN 500
| thomas Conncll. a salesman living at 30
| Snlyvp-unt street, was the nCkest of Hll
| the cNpectoratOr- arrested lie was Caugh'
| violating IN" sanitary cod" on an AIen4"
| { car hv Policeman Donovan who took his
| prisoner to the nearest police court u- he
| was bound 10 do and there found Magl--
! 'rato Olm-trd The Magistrate took a good
| look nj Mr. COnnel gazed medltauNcly ont
| into space with an l-mght- be caught myself
| snmc-iimo expression ana then W~'hhrgrd
! the prisoner Whether hc Will Toe n l"h"ii'
| to-day and the following DAYS Of the crusade
| rouidsnof ha Irprrcd from him YESTERDAY
Of the $50 policemen sent ont by Acting
| Captain Gchcgan or M" SennrN squad,
| TOO were assigned 90 duty IN MHhhatan' MY
| In Brooklyn and ten In each OF the other ihr"e
| boroughs In Manhattan eight men we're
assigned TO the Sixth avenue ~ face . .,
| ~. HI % III Tn ri " ne ~ face I,
81 70 the SNt, wen elevated and
! four each to the Third. Second and Ninth
| avenue elevated To each Of the INeniv-
| third Tiftv-ninth and l2ilh street cross
! town limos six men were assigned Six were
! assigned to the Fourth and Madison avenue
| line and ciSht 10 the Grand street ferry II
! is the expressed plupo-" of President Sex
| ton 10 keep the entire sanitary squad at work
| i'm enforcing the eNpcCtoratng section or
| the SANITARY code uulh the people of this
| town get a very definite notion that sani-
| tarv laws are made to be enforced. no mat
| ter what becomes of the law against gamb-
! ling The work will b" Kept up for several
| dsy-. m least After that a few men of the
| sanitary unad will be- detailed Ia watch tho
/ elevated and surface cars rs a regular duty
| I'm Speaking Of the enforcement OF the law
| Comms.lonor sexton yesterday afternoon
| said
! This ordnance is not going 70 We a dead
/ letter sections lpi NJ the sanitary code
and 10 Of the J., nal code max" eNpoctorat-
| ing in public cOuyoyanCes and on the floors
| of public buildings mI~doueonor, punish
| nhlc by fine Ot 5000 or q year in the pDni-
| teul'arv Or both We have sent ont $50 men
| ~ catch the violnlor- of the oriIppuu" This
crusade viii be- KEEP, upuntll there is an ahalc-
| mcut of the nuisance