New-York tribune., 1902-04-28
A"LIBERAL ENFORCEMENT
POLICE RESPECT MAYORS WISH ON
EAST SIDE.
11rppEvs ANyIor-s ABOUT WHAT WILL
HAPPEN AFTER THE HOLIDAYS
FEW ARRESTS

HEBREWS ANXIOUS ABOUT WHAT WILL
HAPPEN AFTER THE HOLIDAYS
FEW ARRESTS.
The seventeenth Sunday in excise under 'iie
Low administration was wet A genial coih-
Portable sense of settling back into old famliiar
WAYS from which they had been rudely inter-
rupted characterized the attitude OF the inhao-
itants OF the Bowery and the Tenderloin yester-
day They accepted the lenency OF the ponce
as polite and courteous compensation for the
previous brusqueness. The outcry against re-
form administra ton was also greatly moderated
in view of the existing situation.
There were some who fumed and fretted over
the condition, declaring that things had come 10
a fine pass when the Mayor had personally III
terfered to protect 1awbreakers and to encourage
Sunday business. But this wing did not repre-
sent the people who were concerned either IN the
LIQUOR business in the enforcement OF the
law. The attitude of the police was character
lied tersey by a sergeant who delivered an
address on conditions las they is.
1T amt UP to US more he declared Ine
Mayor has said let it be open. The pushcarss
is doin' business rhe grocery stores are wide
open and the butchers shops is dom all the
business the Beef Trust will let them. for the
Mayor has just put up keep off the grass sign
an It goes
Still there were few who took different
attitude toward the position OF Mayor Low, and
did not hesitate to assert it. Among these was
Magistrate Pool When Morris Dinsky, or NO.
rs West Seventy-nnth-st.. was arraigned De-
fore him for selling meat and delivering 1T on
Sunday, the magistrate inquired the reason VI
his breaking the law.
Your honor" replied the indignant Hebrew
Didn't the police captain in my district say I
could? And didn't Mayor Low write letter
to the Commissioner to allow us to sell?
'I don't care what the Mayor said" replied
the Magistrate sharply. The Mayor can't over
ride the law The law is inexorable-I have no
choice but to enforce 1t. l don't believe in any
such stuff as this. What right has the Police
Commissioner to send out such an order? L find
you guilty of this crime and will suspend SEN
tence. You have violated Section 29i or the
Penal Code and guilty
Moses Cohen arrested for a similar OF
fence and brought before Magistrate Deuel. In
the Jefferson Market Court. Cohen made the
same explanation to Deuel. that Dinsky had
made TO Pool This did not strike the Magis-
trate as very cogent and he explained to the
prisoner the law on Sunday opening Cohen
was then dismissed.
In general however. the Mayors Injunction
was observed by the police. The East Side busi-
ness people were open and their trade seemed
IN he thriving. When the pushcarts hal feft
Eestcr-st the evidences Of their activity were
plainly obvious TO the nose as well as the eye
F.ah is one of the commodities dealt In largely
il this sectlc: and the CUTTERS were choked with
~. rof,Iss of the markes The stencil was some
ttlng ictoiarahie The strtsts were Uttered Win
pGpers. rotten apr:es and oranges 10 oep'h oi
mere thai. n foot IL places.
Beniarc.ir Myers. the leader OF the Greater
New-Yorl1 Democracy in de Ate was jubilant
over the recent stand Of the administration
on the Sunday question.
Gee but I did have hard time OF 1t rev
weeks ago" said he to Tribune reporter yes
terday. Why. the people went so Tar as 10
blame me- and I haven't even been able TO ger
a lob out of the administration. Why. the way
they cursed it was something fearful! 1t S al
right to-day, though There amt soul SAYING
a word Oh, it's lovely tell you! But you
ought to have been here a few Sundays ago
The people were simply crazy. hope this VIII
continue. now. 49,,
The problem that is worrying the more intel
ligent Of the East Side people is what Is going
to happen when the holidays are past
It's pretty nice problem" said prominent
East slider. These people on the East Sldc
we're frightened out of their lives a little while
ago by the attitude of the police IN enforcing
the closing laws with the utmost severity: Now
the same people that the in Captain
Walsh's precinct arrested and had fined a few
Sundays ago discover that the Mayor has given
them permission to keep open. Naturally. they
know very little about the law and suppose that
he can change IL. Now. next week there VIII be
why the law should not be enforced.
and the police will swoop down on the un-
suspecting Hebrew and take him to court
There the magistrate will have no choice but to
fine. II would be a pretty situation, not at all
unsatisfactory the Tammany men on the
force to see the Mayor taking issue with the
police because they enforced the law. 1 shall
wait with interest to see how these people are
protected"
A wet Sunday, but with everything conducted
In an orderly and decent manner, describes yes
terday under the fusion government. The
weight of the work was done by the Raines law
hotels, usual Some saloons did a quiet back
door business, but the selling over the bar in
the saloons not very common. In the ma
jority Of cases the bar exposed, it has
been on the last three Sundays. In the back
room, however the crowd of patrons could be
clearly seen. and there little attempt to con-
ceal the fact that liquor being sold There
UeTe present neither the stringent precautions
Of the few previous Sundays. nor the wide open
ness Of the earlier days of the Low government
In a word, it was a liberal enforcement, with
perhaps q shade emphasis the liberal
than the enforcement.
The record Of the excise arrests made through
out the city yesterday given out Police
Headquarters last night follows:
Church-st. station, l; Charles. 2 Eldridge, |;
Fifth, 4; Mercer, 2; East Twenty second. l :
West Thrtieth. /: East Fifty first /: East One
hundred and fourth, /; fremont, l. Brooklyn, :
Richmond and Queens, none. The total number
of arrests was sixteen against twenty six
last Sunday.
JEROME WON'T ANSWER CIRCUIT
rotstrtct Attorney Ierome will not opouo, c,p