Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-09
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Last Sunday Was Really a
Dry" Day.
ALL SALOONS CLOSED
RUMoRED DEAL BETWEEN JER-
ONE AND POLICE.
Former Said to Have Ambition to Be
come Governor-Politicia
Are Puzzled
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, April 8, 1902.
Owing to the spread of the ''patrolmen's
revolt all over the city, New York was
substantially dry on Sunday. Twelve
hundred policemen, representing all the
eighty-one precincts in the greater city,
met Saturday and decided that not only in
Manhattan and the Bronx, but in Brooklyn,
Queens and Richmond as well, the excise
laws should be rigidly enforced. Every
section of the city was represented, and
there was not a dissenting voice to the
resolution. To. accomplish this end the pa
trolmen sacrificed the little leisure that is
allowed them under the two platoon sys-
TEN. They went without food and sleep
Sunday, and worked together in order that
no violation of the excise law should escape
them. Banded together in a solid phalanx
now for the upholding of the law and the
adjustment of their grievances, big mass
meeting will be held by the policemen at Car
negie Hall next Saturday night, at which
prominent officials and citizens who favor
the three-platoon system will make one
more plea for the restoration of the patrol
mems rights. The spread of the revolt to
Brooklyn was not unexpected. Two excise
arrests in that city on Friday gave a hint
that the policemen of that city were alive
to the principle involved in the battle
against the system.
Action of Liquor Dealers.
Pending the meeting of the Liquor Deal
ers' Association at Terrace Garden Tues
day, the presidents of the thirty-eight local
associations directed all the saloon keepers
to close up Sunday, and make note If the pa
trolmen enfoce a Sunday trade laws out
side the saloon business. 1t is not the sa-
loon keepers intention to have retaliatory
arrests made if violations of the law are
found, but evidence will be obtained, pre-
scented to police magistrates. and the Of
tenders will be brought to police courts to
answer Committees of % loon keepers Wis
tied all parts of the city where stores were
usually kept open all day Sunday, which
applies particularly to the little places on
the East Side. When evidence of the sale
of goods was obtained against these places
the patrolman on the beat was notified. If
he refused to take summary action against
the onender a complaint of neglect of duty
was made against him to Commissioner
Partridge. That no complaints were made
is evidence that the police did their duty
There is a little story back of this sudden
wave of revolt, or, more properly, reform
and around 1t buZZes gubernatorial bee
Republican state politicians from far and
near are continually dropping in at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel Headquarters and talk
ing excise. The name of District Attorney
Jerome figures very prominently in their
talk There is, in fact, a great deal more
serious attention being given by these men
to Jerome at this time than when he went
to Albany with his Sunday opening bill
According to some of them Jerome is loom
ing up very considerable factor in the
coming gubernatorial campaign. For va
rious reasons the present excise situation
is not received with much enthusiasm by
the republican state leaders. They realize
that rigid enforcement of the excise law in
the present condition of things is not CAL
culated to make that law popular in a
great many quarters. For precipitating this
n IF hn h1f,.,y,
hold one man responsible, and that man is
Jerome.