New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-08
SUPPORT FOR REVOLTERS'
MAGISTRATES HOLD NEARLY ALL THE
SALOONKEEPERS ARRAIGNED.
GERMAN-AMERICANS APPROVE MAYOR
LOWS EFFORT TO BREAK UP
THE SYSTEM

Police Commissioner Partridge yesterday gave
on intir7ation that he not greatly pleased
with the strenuous efforts of the patrolmen to
keep all the saloons in the city closed on sun
day He had no criticism to make. he said out
he wanted the police to enforce other laws as
severely as the excise law. Speaking of the
arrests of some butchers for keeping their shops
open on Sunday. he remarked:
IN say this that 7 think a policeman who
arrests 2 butcher or baker for a technical viola
ton such as selling food, is not as good an Off
Ger as the policeman who arrests keeper of an
opium joint. dive. den of vice or gambling
house.
Colonel Partridge said he had conferred with
Mayor Low. and he did not think the Mayor was
in favor of winking at any violations of the
law.
Then the Mayor has been cooperating with
you?' was asked.
No" the Commissioner replied I've been CO
operating with him. The Mayor is the boss
District Attorney Jerome said that he was just
as firm as ever in his conviction that saloons
ought to be allowed to keep open part of the
day on Sunday. But there is the law, he said.
land it is the duty of the police to enforce It
II is part of my duty to see that the police Go
enforce the law I have no choice but to do
my duty l see that yesterday was called
allowed the Raines law hotels to do a land office
business There can be no dry Sunday when
the Raines law hotels are allowed to have the
hest part of the liquor trade on one day of the
week The Raines law is a fool law In some
respects and it is miserable farce as applied 20
Sunday selling It should be amended so as to
make Rafnes law hotels impossible and permit
Sunday selling at reputable saloons
GERMAN SUPPORT LAW
of the present excise agitation is an honest
attempt TO root out the pernicious system Oh
blackmail I'm the police force" said Herman fld-
der of the stats Zeitung," the city admins
tration will have the loyal support of German
American citizens. 1 feel certain that haEoi
Low believes in a liberal Interpretation OF the
excise law. If the COMMUNICATIONS of this
CITY thought for moment that the present agi-
tation was in reality catering to the so-called
TEMPERANCE people. they would be strenuousiy
onnosed TO It. and their opposition would in time
he sure 10 take a significant form politically
II is generally felt among them. however that
Mr Low has no intention of making TINS coii
water town, but that he and his administration
are anxious TO eradicate the system when Is
such menace the police force or the city
In short they have the greatest confidence IN
the MAYORS intentions and are willing to await
results"
Nearly
caught violating the law on Sunday were held
for trial in the police courts yesterday The
magistrates. as a rule took the ground that the
saloonkeepers had received fair warning and dld
not deserve mercy il they persisted in keeping
their places open for business in defiance or the
law and the police. Some OF them expressed tne
wish that the keepers of Raines law hoteiS
could be compelled TO keep their places Closed :.
"I have some respect for a saloonkeeper,
said Magistrate Pool in the Yorkville court. out
none for Raines law hotel keeper. ana 9ot
wonder that the saloonkeeper complains OF u, tte
inequality when he sees the hoteikeeper Vlolae-
ing the law under the pretence or Keeping
hotel 49,,
The MAGISTRATE had one opportunity TO hold
for trial the keeper of a Raines law hotel. who
was accused of selling beer TIC customer - on
sunday without the customary sandwich. Inc
prisoner said that while the customer had not
ordered a sandwich one had been placed WITHIN
his reach.
SANDWICH MUST BE ORDERED.
You can't stuff man with a sandwich II he
doesn't order it," said the magistrate Five
hundred dollars bail for trial.
One saloonleeper insisted that he was serving
ink TO a man who wanted to draw up coi
tract when ne was arrested.
The ink came out or the lcepoN' s"Au 'iie
complaining policeman 1880,
Five hundred dollars bail for trial
II, the West Side court Magistrate Meade
issued six slnlrnonses yesterday TO policemen OF
the Twentieth Precinct who reported that Ihey
day although they had seen customers admitted
70 the saloons. They had not been able to see
the bars from the sidewalk because the shades
were drawn. -
Magistrate Mott, in the Harlem court. was
d!snosed TO hold every liquor dealer who was ar
roipnad before him. One keeper OF Raines
law hotcl said his arrest sFA| Illegal because he
had served a sandwich win the beer he sold 10
the policeman. A.,
We'll, a sandwich Is NOT fneai' sdIu 'he
ma eistrate. , .,;o ..
The highest courts have ruled OTHERWISE
said lawyer hired by the prisoner.
II don't believe that sandwich is a meal
reiterated Magistrate Mott. Il shall hold the
prisoner 49,, n
A bartender for John Resenweber. the Re-
publican district leader. and proprietor of the
Circle Hotel at Eighth and Fifty elshth-
81 was arrested early yesterday morning for
serving liquor with food to guest in the
restaurant The policeman making the arrest
said that the serving Of liquors with food, al,
lowed in a hotel on Sunday, was not allowed
between the hours Of l and > a. m Mr.. Reisen-
weber was in court with counsel prepared 10
make a test case, to settle the question raised
Inv the policeman. The magistrate said the hest
way 70 have Il settled was 70 hold the prisoner.
and he held the bartender in $1,000 bail fer ex-
animation on Thursday morning
rr,-nc DOnT ETER TWO h0NTHS