The sun., 1902-03-10
SAME old EXCISE CONDITIONS.
RuM WAS PLENTIFUL AND SAND
WICHES NOT OBLIGATORY.

About Liquor Law Enf0roemeht-s
lin 10 the Captains" jerome says
.scso ,oes chorus OF police and sd'oonSe'pe'S
IL tell the whole trith
will get the Old Nick;
II don't tell the truth,
The Old Nick will get me
Fuu chorus 0ortO;
We would and we wouldn't.
We will and we won't
Wen be damned II we do
Damned II We dont
For the most part they did, speaking OF
the ssloonkeepers: the police force ior
the most part didn't. Which is TO say that
the saloonkeepers very generally sold rum
Yesterday and the policemen very generally
didn't arrest them for doing so
There we're some closed saloons in New
York Yesterday but the task OF finding
them was arduous. II was 40 much easier
to nun into the open ones that assuming
that there was an earnest search Tor law
violators Yesterday, it would have been
perfectly safe for the closed places to have
been omen, for the sleuths would never
have found them while taxed with the duty
OF keeping tally on those that were open.
Conditions were much like those obtains
ing last Sunday Rum was plentiful and
sandwiches we're free but not obligatory.
There were saloons with blinds opened TO
show that they were really not doing busi-
ness. and there were saloons with curtains
hung so as 10 screen the interiors from the
street to show that they were doing business
with decent regard both for the feelings OF
easily offended passers-by and of reclusive
drinkers, II without regard to the provisions
of the law Of Senator John Raines, to which
the State Of New York has lent it's name.
There we're saloons selling in their back
rooms and paying there the sincerest
fattery 20 the Raines hotels by Offering
imitation sandwiches. To call the eco
nomical bits Of juxtaposed breadlet which
they supplied Sandwiches" would be
to strain the term But there was the
meal with the drink. and II would be
difficult TO demonstrate that the real
Raines hotels had more comforts to offer
to the traveller
This sort of entertainment was provided
chiefly In rooms designated by outside
signs as ladies parlors" and ladies
cafes" In the dining rooms Of the real
things in Raines hotels. as distinguished
from hotels, sandwiches were supplied
In some instances, but in others this for
mality was dispensed with. Where
sandwich was supplied the little matter
OF charging for it was usually overlooked,
whether from prudence or fear OF prose-
cution for false representation is as. one
who NAV have seen the sandwiches may
choose to believe
By far the oldest thing In the form Of
a meal furnished in difference to the law
appeared in Broadway in hotel which
would bear the same generic name II Mr..
Raines had never been heard of. At this
hostelry there was placed on each table
In the cafe plate bearing genuine and
edible sandwich. beside which lay check,
marked lunch, 10 cents
The marking was in large letters and
figures and in view of the character OF
the sandwich and the prices Of the house
the offering might be supposed 10 be in
the nature OF bargain. But diligent
observation failed to detect the man who
dared pick up the check. Even the walters
overlooked them.
At some places where last Sunday It
was possible 10 drink standing at the bar,
drinkers were obliged yesterday to go
into rooms other than the bar 70 get their
tipple Observance OF the law varied
in different parts OF the town, but the dry
parts were not near enoygh together TO
cause distress, nor extensive enough 10
overtax the pedestrianism Of residents
within them.
Five more excise arrests were made
yesterday than were made week ago.
There were thirty-one arrests In Man
haitian alone, Brooklyn having three. The
Tenderloin precinct had the largest number
OF prisoners-fve. The Elizabeth and
Leonard street stations had three each,
and the Macdougal Eldridge, Fifth and
West Fortv-seventh street precincts two
each. Twelve precincts had an arrest
apiece.
Brooklyn wasn't any drier than Man
haitian and conditions were much the same.
But Richmond had one of the dryest days
that borough has seen in three years.
There were no arrests. Queens was wet
and drinks were served without sand
witches. There were two excise arrests
in the borough.
District Attorney Jerome would only
say yesterday afternoon that 1t was up
10 the captains He would not explain
himself further, nor say what, If anything,
he was doing in the way of learning what
the captains were up to.
Il was said that the county detectives
we're not out yesterday on excise business,
but that the Parkhurst society had mel
out as usual The police did not appear
10 care very much one way or the Other
who was out, and neither did most of IN,
saloonkeepers apparently, although several
Of them kept III personal touch with their
places of business, If not directly in at.
tendance upon them.
In the Tenderoin and elsewhere, on the
East and West sides of town and in the
middle, the conditions generally were
practically the same, with indications of
slight tightening of the strings up IN Harlem
Fifth avenue did not differ materially from
Broadway.
Two oxcise prisoners were taken before
Magistrate deuel. in the Centre street police
court Both were held. Michael Elk of
S82 Amsterdam avenue was the only ex-
else prisoner in the West Side court He
was discharged because the policeman
who made the arrest had no evidence against
him
In the Essex Market court Joseph Whito
Of lle Bowery was the sole excise captive
and his arrest came about through a shoot
ing AFFAIR which occurred in his saloon
about ? A. VI. As tho back room of tine
saloon was crowded with men and women
when the police arrived they had TO arrest
White, hut tA- policemen were unwilling
10 swear that they saw any liquor sold
or served, 80 he was discharged
In lorkyille court, John Cook was held
for trial on the double charge Of violation
of the Excise law and keeping dsorderly
place at us Fourth avenue His case was