Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-03-23
SAMPLE BRlCKOF BROLTCHISM
Police Club Discriminatss in Picking Its
Saloon Victims
TWELVE PLACES SHUT-ALL OTHERS RUN
Police Force Projected Into Politics
TO Line Up Liquor Men for
Broatch Brand of Cam
didates.

Like the states OF Kansas and Iowa.
Omaha was in dry spots Sunday, the spots
being those saloons which we're placed un-
der the ban of the fire and police commits
sioners. following the threat of John n.
westberg in the Sixth ward Friday night,
when he foretold the closing Of number
Of the saloons selling the product Of the
Metz Brewing company.
The twelve saloons placed under the
strict enforcement of the Slocum law
were located in all parts Of the city, from
Shelley TO Twenty fourth and Burdettc
streets and from Sixth and Pierce to
Twenty and Leavenworth streets,
so that each section of the city was given
a demonstration of the power of the police
club in the hands Of the Broatch machine.
The order Of the police board was strictly
enforced by policemen, who had received
specific instructions and who during the
earlier hours of the day made special effort
to watch the designated houses.
The saloon Of John Dahmke at 512 South
Sixteenth street was locked tight and tho
screens removed. nearby saloon, how
back door open and was doing its usual
Sunday business.
Petersen's saloon at 2705 Leavenworth
street was closed with the windows bare.
Another saloon, near Twenty seventh and
Leavenworth, was doing a can-rushing busi-
ness through the back door.
Koenigsbrugges saloon at Twenty fourth
and Leavenworth had all screens down and
the door locked, but relief business was
carried on at the saloon on the northwest
corner OF the same streets.
John Hroch's saloon in Metz hall on
South Thirteenth street was closed and
clear for public inspection, so far as the
bar was concerned. A competitors saloon
a few doors north on the opposite side o
the street, for a while operated through
the front door until the policeman sta
toned in front of Hroch's place told then
to welcome their patrons at the rear en-
| trance.
C. G. Loftman's doors, at Fourteenth and
| Howard street, were locked, but a string
Of people passing through the rear dool
Of his neighbor's "old corner" testified t.
the continuous operations Of that house.
A. M Back, at Sixth and Pierce streets
was locked and exposed, but a saloon
few doors north was undisturbed in it'
| business.
One corner only of Twenty fourth an
| Cunning streets offered refreshments to thu
| thirsty, for Jacobson's place was locked
NHllt tue NlllOW OplluBS ItbOll Oh wv
corner OF the same streets was receiving
callers through the rear door.
Peter Knudson, at Twenty fourth ant
Caldwell streets, was locked and exposed
while the life saving station. few door
farther north was in full Sunday opera
| tions.
| George NJ. Stafford was closed at Thir
teenth and Douglas streets, a new padlocl
| having been secured for the purpose, bu
| nothing interfered with securing refresh
| ments at the hotel bar on the opposite cor
ner and a half dozen other saloons within
a stones throw.
Linds saloon, at Twenty fourth and Bur
| dette streets, was closed and the window
clear. At Twenty fourth and Lake streets
! there was no change in the former Sunda,
J business arrangements.
Sloup G. Kruml were locked tight q
| Fourteenth and William streets, but on
block east the bar was dispensing drink
as usual,
August Krakowske, at 25O6 Walnut street
was closed, but a saloon within a blocl
was in full swing of Sunday bushes
through the back door.
! While the twelve saloons were out o
business other thirst-relieving resorts wer
running open as usual, and the proscribe
saloonists had the experience OF seein
| their customers led into the doors OF com
petitors under the discriminating instruc
tions of the Broatch Beard OF Fire and Pc
lice Commissioners.