New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-01
REVOLT OF POLICE SPREADS.
PA 7ROLAfEN or THE MACDOUGAL-S7 PRECINCT ALSO RE-
PORT MANY EXCISE VIOLATIONS
ANOTHER PRECINCT IN LIN
THE EXAMPLE SET BY FOODYS MEN
FOLLOWED IN THE TENTH
PRECINCT.

PRECINCT.
The police revolt has spread to the Macoousa'-
ST. station The patrolmen of that precinct were
I'D in arms yesterday taking determined stand
against violations Of the Excise law on their
posts AS a result batch Of policemen went
to Jefferson Market Court and applied for sum-
monses for number OF saloonkeepers, whom
they charged with not exposing the bars in their
saloons Sunday.
The policemen of both patoons decided sun
day to take no chances, and when the usual
orders pertaining TO the Excise law were reao
when the platoons were turned out they decided
that they should be obeyed. Although there
was only one arrest in the precinct Sunday,
every saloon where the bar not exposed was
reported when the men came back to the sta
ton house.
Captain Cooney is sick, and Sergeant Charles
Kelly is in command Of the precinct tempo
rarily. The men post last night and early
this morning declared that they were taking the
same stand as the Of the West Thirty
seventh-st station. They are not exactly an
tagonistic toward their superior officers but they
are taking defiant attitude in reporting excise
violations
The men followed the plan of the policemen of
Foody's command. but instead of conferring IN
the station word was passed through the pre-
thing would have to be done else they would
find themselves confronted with a serious pre-
dicament
When the men reported the violations Acting
Captain Kelly directed them to go TO JEFFERSON
Market court yesterday and secure summonses
for the saloonkeepers. Peter Fox, saioon-
keeper at No 431 Canal-st., was reported by
four different policemen as not having his bar
exposed. A number Of other saloonkeepers In
the precinct were reported by several policemen
When Acting Captain Kelly was asked about
the stand the policemen were taking. he SAID
that they were obeying instructions which were
read from the desk.
Some OF the patrolmen when seen said that
they were at the way things were running.
Every man in the precinct. they said had been
communicated with and told that something
should be done. The men had beer unanimous
that decisive action should be taken, and as a
result they had reported every saloon that did
not have the bar exposed.
THE sERGEANTS WERE SURPRISED.
The desk sergeants were of course surprised
at the number Of reports but they made no
comment knowing that the were doing
their duty.
There a last night that the police
of the Eldrtdge-st. station had decided to start
an active campaign against excise violators and
were rebelling against their captain. This how
ever. denied
When the platoon turned out in the West
Thirty-seventh-st. police station at midnight
extraordinary precautions taken to pre-
vent the reporters present from learning any
additional police secrets. The doors were care
fully locked. What the instructions to the men
were could not be learned for certainty. but
from a source apparently trustworthy it was as
certained that the usual order to watch for Ex-
else law violations was read. This time, how
ever 1t was far from perfunctory, and both the
reading sergeant and listening men the
uui vive for every syllable, 1t said. AS
the men filed out to go post 1t was easily
noticeable that something was doing in the
precinct, to their OWE expression. Saloon
proprietors and the managers of the Raines law
and other hotels where the Excise law has long
been the butt Of ridicule also seemed to take a
different view of that law. and the precinct
was orderly upstate village. Up to
80 o'clock this morning arrests had been
made for excise violations, and to get drink
long as Acting Captain Ryans Sunday list of
arrests.
NO ARRESTS IN TENDERLOIN.
No arrest for violation of the Excise law was
reported from the West Thirtieth-st. station up
to 1870 a. m. Captain Sheehan instructed the
! men who went out patrol at midnight that
they were expected to enforce the law and to
watch out for violations. The captain said that
in precinct the did not have to sign