Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-02
New York Police Begin Ac-
tive Campaign.
GOT INTO CANFIELD'S
PLACE ALSO RE-
CEIVES A VISIT.
District Attorney jerome With Officers
Mo Arrests Made, but Much
Pharapherna11a Seized.

NEW YORK December 2.-District At
torney Jerome's sensational raids on alleged
gambling resorts begun about midnight last
night. were continued until 4:3O o'clock this
morning, and numerous small places We're
1aided The attacks on the latter, however,
were almost overlooked in the public inter-
est which conferred in the assaults on the
mansions occupied by Richard A. Garfield
and William Burbrdge, which were entered
by means of ladders, axes and siedges. The
police allege that Frank Farrell is interest
ed in Burbridge's place. Great quantities
Of costly evidence" were carried away
from those places by the police. but arrests
were few. Up to last night a general i'm
preston prevailed that Garfield g, which is
in the heart of the fashionable uptown dis
trict, only a few doors from 9Th avenue,
and near two celebrated restaurants, was Il
Gibraltar which could not be taken. and
a similar belief prevailed In regard to
Burbridge's place, which was especially
protected by steel doors This place is in a
cross street uptown, only a half block
from 9Th avenue, and a few steps from
celebrated hotel.
Interest in Raid on Canfeld'A
So great was public interest aroused by
the news of the raid on Canfields that peo-
pie ffocked to the nelghborhood until the in
tersection of 9TH avenue and 44th street,
the corner nearest Canfield's, was blocked
with carriages and people.
After Bu1bridges, the raiders visited
Ludlam's place, otherwise known as the
Savoy Club They got one man there.
colored subordinate employed about the
place. Jerome. Captain Piper, Inspector
Brooks, several assistants to the district
attorney and numerous detectives were
busy In Ludlam's place until after o'clock
this morning. They blew open a safe In
their hunt for evidence
Earlier in the night the district attor-
ney made many raids in the downtown 1tal-
ian quarter of alleged disorderly houses.
These were "preliminaries.' as 1t were, to
the two big events, Canfield's and Bur
bridges.
District Attorney. Jerome declined abso-
lutely to make any sort of statement after
his nights work.
Captain Lantry of the East 51st street
station, In whose precinct the Garfield
place has been for years. declared to the
reporters and Others assembled that he
had never expected to live to see such an
event as the raiding Of Canfield's.
Raids Were Expected.
The raids We're expected In every place
visited. In Canfelds the owner declared
nothing had been doing for weeks. 1t
was much the same in Burbridge's and
Ludlam's, although Joseph Jacobs, the citi-
zens' union detective. last night declared
he had played in every place But that the
raids were to be made seemed to have
reached the men interested, for every place
was prepared as IL in advance. At Bur-
bridges they even left the great steel door
ajar, and 1t was not until the policemen
had mounted ladders and done some smash
Ding that this fact became known to them.
Then they went into the house in the
usual way.
npH al vI-a. tS1 nnrf
last night to that effect was erroneous.
He was held at his house for Identification
by detective who claimed to have gam
bled In the house, but the detective said
Garfield was not the man who had dealt
faro for him. Later, the detective said E.
w. Bucklin was the man, and Buckln
was arrested. He is reputed to be Can
fields manager. :.l