The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-30
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
poRGES ONLY ONE or INSPECTOR
SCHMITTBERGERS VICTIMS.
Max ia, Measured All the East Side Hotels.
counted Bedrooms and FIRE Escapes
says the Alderman Keeps . Saloon.
Not q HOtel-Two Dozen Others.

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says the Alderman Keeps . saloon
Not . Hotel-Two Dozen Others
The closing OF Alderman Max Porges's
sbotel,' at Rivington and Forsyth streets,
by Inspector Max Schmittberger at mid
night on Saturday, night along with lot OF
other similar places on the Bowery anc
elsewhere in his district set lot Of saloon.
keepers to wondering yesterday II there ID
any one who can give the Inspector any
points on the Raines law. It ID common
report on the East Side that Inspector
Schmittberger takes the Raines law to bed
with him. or. II he doesn't, spends hall
the night reading It when he isn't out giving
illustrated lectures on It.
No such enforcement Of that law, and
especially Of It's hotel provisions. has the
East Side ever seen. About every saloon.
keeper In the district who has thought
heretofore that his place came under the
category Of hotels and that he could sell
liquor after midnight on Saturday Is in
momentary expectation nowadays Of seeing
the burly Max walk into the dining room
and say:
Well, that window In the corner room on
'uO VOP uOOi has BOt only bcNcu bQuhIC IctI
Of surface where II ought to have eight
and your partitions are only two and half
inches thick. Your place Is no more a
hotel than my woodshed. Close up
That's what Inspector Schmittberger
has been doing all through his district the
last two Saturday nights and when a pro-
test has been made he has hauled out q
list OF measurements taken by himself
that has left the saloonkeepers in q daze.
A few haven't been satisfied with this and
have threatened injunction proceedings:
60 ahead says the Inspector to such q
saloonkeeper, but let me read you this
OF decisions handed down by Judges all
over the State and embracing about every
point the saloonkeeper hopes to seek shelter
under. Then the place has been closed
Twelve places on the Bowery which have
run as hotels unmolested ever since the
law was passed and through different ad-
ministrations have been closed by the
Inspector and they have included such
wen-known ones as Dennis Sullivan's at
2sl and the Oxford at I'll.
day night. As Inspector Schmittberger
admitted yesterday Alderman Porges's
rooms are all right and 30 is the thickness
OF his partitions and lot OF other things
regime, but the Alderman has relied on q
rolling partition to make dining room
of the barroom. That's done in scores
of places all about town, but Schmittberger
says 1t won't be done in his district because
the law says the dining room shall not be
part OF the barroom and it's still the same
room when you FOIL out a partition or drop
a curtain to cover up your bar. Alderman
Porges threatened on Saturday night to
get an injunction restraining the Inspector
ton. The Inspector said yesterday he
hoped the Alderman would try 1t.
Inspector Schmittberger's method Of
going after alleged hotels il one that hasn't
been followed very generally in the Police
hss olossd up sas ssSs h ns
II follows a study of the law that he has
made himself which included everything
on il down to the location of punctuation
marks. About every commentary that
has eyev been written on It he's got up in
MS Office, too.
As soon as he got his assignment to the
FIRST district. which includes more hotels Of .
aouptfui character than any other district
. blank book and started out with a rounds
man. Up to date they have visited about
sixty hotels In each the Inspector
measured the door space Of the rooms.
t'tions and the dimensions of the dining
room and inspected the number Of fire
escapes, the range and the cooking uten- |
sis: The roundsman put down everything !
IN the book; The result has been that after |
places. which have never been molested |
Is hotels before. there appears on the In |
spector's books an entry such as this one |
'violatiOn~No fir. appliances, no kitchen
Utensils, no cards showing exits In case Of |
nre, one room having iron bars In front
Of window. only five rooms furnished
After this has been done printed notices
have been sent TO the captain In whose pre-
,inct such place Is, telling him to classify
.onh place In the future as a saloon pure
Az soon as the Inspector got his List made
up and had had copies made Tor each captain
be started out not to see that barrooms
.ere closed, shades pulled up and the more
toad Of this. on his Saturday night tours
10 has walked into the back room Of the |
Ipur1ous hotels on his list and put every
me on the street without calling for drinks
y making srrests Oh patrons of places
ave thought the Inspector was crazy and
% DID the proprietors ct FIRST When they
cad the description Of their places on his |
vt they decided that be was alto geter too
OF the places 20 far measured about
venty five have bean changed from
hotels to saloons on the police
lassined list. Inspector schmittberger
dmself visited twenty on Saturday night
nd saw that they closed up at the sa-
ng hour. After midnight yesterday morn
ng you could get drink In Just about
alt az many hotels as two weeks ago.
But this warfare on hotels isn't all that
be- district u excited about. Two DAYS
- the Little Jumbo, one Of the oldest
nd most disreputable dives on the Bowery,
las vacated. the tenant being dispossessed
he Inspector had sent one Of his printed ,
Offices TO the owner Of the building that .
i've vas running on his premises, that
nder section so Of the Penal Code he was
putty VI nisdemsanor for failure 10 p,S .
ne tenant out and that he had five days /
nder the law 20 act. Handbooks have been
INNING M lo 81 saioons all over the dis
net the Inspector says. It's hard 20 get Z
ldenoe IN handbook Gases In conse-
uenoe about nifty saloonkeepers have lately q
OF his notice from Sfsimltthereer:
You are hereby notified that have been
'iorined thai You permit gambling upon
our hcensad premises NJ obtain any A
yidsnoe aTests will follow and appllnaiion :
.ill u. made under ths Law foS the Teyooa- :
on at ycur liosnss'
insleoio' SohmiiiLsTgsr ssys that the
shdiiook gisn IL found outside thsss plaass
os hoe anywhere, Leoalss no saloon
eeirI sah's IT, lake chance az his losing
Gambling unarI ysuous guisss soes ON "a
flAoss shafe u IL dilloul % sa a yidsnns n
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