New-York tribune., 1903-01-04
Drops ON HAYM4RKET.
O'Reizy Closes 1t 4fer Corey De-
fesOrde7'-Saloons Shut Up.

After giving orders to his men to see that
saloons and other Tenderloin resorts were closed
nronptIy at midnight Captain Miles O'Reilly'
the new commander of the Tenderloin precinct,
last night personally saw that they were opeyeo'
and himself took hand in the closing game.
Corey refused to close the Haymarket when
midnight came, and Captain O'Rellly, WHO vas
in full uniform, with sergeants. rounosmeh'
and seventy-fve reserves at the Beth 1sraei iali'
in Madison Square Garden, when he heard OF IT,
got every one of the men in marching ORDER
paraded over Twenty-sxth-st TO the haSlia'-
ket and shut the place UP, after driving every
one of four hundred men and women into the
etreet There was intense excitement in the
Mace and around it, but though Corey and
LAWYER protested, all had to go. and Corey smut
up shop.
At midnight the saloonkeepers chose to close
up. without risking arrest. 1t is an old axiom
in the Tenderloin
shut UP the first Sunday you have ne"
captain
This is pretty well adhered to, and was more
closely done last night than usually. IL was
said that a drink could be had in only few
saloons The Raines Law hotels closed up thelr
bars too
TT was II 80 O'Clock when the men on posts
in the TenderIoin finished warning the saloon
keepers music hall managers. Ralnes La"
hotels and concert halls to close up. Policeman
Smith warned Corey, but Corey told him pri-
vate ball was taking place, and said that ne
could not interfere with them.
Corey was in the doorway with the ticket
seller when the captain and his force appeared.
Private ball, Captain O'Reilly, he SAID.
rs that so?" asked OReilly. WELL that
don't go here No dancing on Sunday in my
district
There were four hundred men and women in
side The women were for the most part IN
evening dress There was CONSERVATION when
CAPTAIN O'ReiIly and seventy-1ve men IN uni
form appeared in the ballroom. Immediately the
cry went around that it was time to go. Ihe
men and women took their coats and wraps ana
got out as quickly as they could
The policemen went to the furthest corners OF
the hall and into the alcoves, side rooms, stains
and other parts and drove all the women ana
men ont An attorney who said he acted for
Corey protested The band went with the rest
The Cairo and the Bohemia in twenty,
ninth-st and Tobey's, in Thirty-1rst-st, closed
ND promptly. kid" Mccoy, at Fortieth-st and
Broadway; Roster & Bial, at Twenty-fourtn-
St and Sixth-ave. and Paddy, the Pigs, at
Thirty-sixth-st and Broadway, and Tom
O'Rourke's at Forty-frst-st. and Broadway,
closed their bars at midnight.
All the Raines Law hotels closed their oars,
but showed new and fresh sandwiches on their
tables where people were drinking. the music
halls all closed.
It was dry Sunday
The platoon that left the upper East Side sta
tions at midnight received the strictest instruc-
tions that saloons must be closed after l.
O'Clock. and the bar exposed to view from the
street. w..
onseouently from Forty -second-St to N1netV-
sixth st Third-ave. after IL o'clock was filed
with half drunken men who had been ushereu
out of the saloons that did not pretend to be
hotels. ,..
CAPTAIN Lantry, in charge Of the East Fifty
frst-st station sent out special excise detall
about 10 o'clock, who Informed the saloon Keep
ers that they would be arrested II they dld not
comply to the fullest extent with the letter OF
the law expose their bar to a view from the
street and keep the side doors as well as the
front doors locked. -
In Harlem most of the saloons closed at mid
night, but kept their side doors on cnalns anu
admitted their patrons.
Whatever closing was done was occaSloneo
by the tip sent around early In the evening py
the Liquor Dealers Association, that the asso-
citation in of an arrest would not proVloe
counsel or bail for members, as it has done
heretofore. The reason given by the association
was that the attitude of the new Commissioner
was unknown and underlined, ana the asSocla-
ton would take no chances.
All of the Raines Law Hotels were doing
business in the rear rooms, as were all other
hotels None of the Harlem captains placed
any stress on the closing of saloons last night
in their usual Saturday midnight talk with the
outgoing platoon.
At 1880 O'Clock all of the saloons in the
Ninth. or Charles station precinct, appeared
to be closed up tight, something exceptional LOT
that district The precinct is under command or
Acting Captain Farrell, and he was on hand
when midnight approached
The Bronx saloons closed on warning from the
police promptly at midnight. The orders from
the captains to the midnight platoon were 10 en-
force the law strictly.
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