New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
DRY? NOT UNUSUALLY 50.
RIGORS OF EXCISE ENFORCEMENT NOT
APPLIED.
LOW RULES, AND THE RAINEs LAW GOES.
THE ORDER TO THE POLICE AND
THIRST FOUND PLENTY
TO QUENCH 1T

! LIE OtNDER 10 THE POLICE. AND
THIRST FOUND PLENTY
TO QUENCH IT.
Low rules. and the Raines law still goes"
were the instructions issued to the Police De-
partment yesterday If any thirsty New-Yorker
failed TO get drink he lad himself and not the
new administration TO blame for it. To be sure
there were some things that close observer
might interpret as significant of change in
administration. Down on the Bowery there was
a Frightening up of signs, and here and there
freshly painted board indicated the Hotel
Entrance" The curtains in the windows were
also discreetly lowered
But these signs were few and not of any
/ material consequence From the Battery to the
Harlem River both the bibulous citizen and the
oblging purveyor anxiously awaited some evil
dence of new order which should bring about
the slow tight town" prophesied by the Tam
manyltes. But no such order came.
The only ripple Of disturbance throughout the
day occurred in Acting Captain Churchlrs pre-
cinct, the Fifteenth, when. shortly before a. m
William Bengal. a saloonkeeper at No 46
Third-ave., was arrested by Policeman Tebhow,
who alleged that twenty five men were drinking
beer in the place at the time. Bengal was dis
charged by Magistrate Pool in the Yorkville
Court yesterday morning
A Tribune reporter who visited Captain
Churchills station yesterday afternoon found
the sergeants cooling their thirst with ice
cream.
"All there is going now" explained one OF
them
That this was official rather than authentic
information the reporter proved by visiting a
saloon next door, where some fifty men were
enjoying their Sunday beer unmolested.
1T amt us, it's the low ones they're loekin
fNr V1o
place is under the Timothy D. Sullivan Asso-
citation. But amt heard o. nothin' doin'. any
how" he added. Il guess the Democrats in
the fusion party wouldn't stand for that"
At Police Headquarters. in Mulberry
there was not the slightest sign of unusual ac-
tivity. Neither Commissioner Partridge nor
Deputy Commissioner Thurston appeared dur
ing the day Captain Wiegand who was in
charge, declared that far as he knew there
was nothing new being done in the Sunday
closing matter
There is still Raines law, you know" he
told the reporter by way of explanation
In the lower East Side precincts the various
captains read the usual order relative to the
Excise law to the outgoing platoons. but no one
at Headquarters knew of any special vigilance
being enjoined upon the patrolmen.
Up I'm the Tenderloin the same state of af-
fairs prevailed In one of the Sixth-ave saloons
The Tribune reporter heard spirited argument
as 10 who was Police Commissioner.
'Devery must have made good and been rein
stated, declared one of the patrons OF the place
over his high ball" This afn.l reformers
Sunday"
Deputy Commissioner Thurston was seen at
his home. No. - West Eighty -seventh-st.. last
night
No. there have been absolutely special in
strucuons issued" he declared. The most san
guine reformer can't expect an instant change
What they want is TO have things a little better
now, and then a little better later on. and l
think they viii get them"
Various policemen on their posts assured The
Tribune reporter there "nothin' doin'," and
several took occasion to express their appreCia-
uon of the new commissioners offer yesterday
to transfer men 10 stations nearer home.
The new commissioner has already endeared
himself to the men on the force by this order
said old sergeant yesterday.
Many persons looking yesterday for some
radical changes in the way in which the law was
enforced in Brooklyn. They We're disappointed
usual and there was no particular attempt on
the part Of the police to close them, apparently.
When Police Commissioner Partridge was asked
If he had not issued special orders for the en-
forcement of the Excise law he said:
We have issued no special orders regarding
the excise The Excise law exists, and 1t is
presumed the police will enforce IL. We don't
issue special orders. and don't intend to. except
in emergency cases. No orders are issued about
robberies or pckpockets."
The fact that the saloons open as usual
having been called TO his attention Commits
siOner Partridge said:
II suppose so. and you'll find other violations
of the law If you look for them. | going TO
wait and learn before l do anything. If you
had large family of unruy children you could
not tell to-day what you would do TO them the
next week. The law will he enforced properly
and that is all care to say"