The sun., 1903-03-20
MAYOR Anglers LIQUOR EN
WON'T MEET THEN UNTIL THEY
-P6OVE THEY'RE NOT BRIBERS.


DO You Raise - .ooe. 900 Csrrup.
ten Fund Every Year? TNe Mayer
Asks-CIear mat Up and Tu TEN rsu
what Think About higher LAcsnse
they Send INN Back Latter reliing
Him He's Neither Fair Nor Ceu.ssesos
Mayor Low refused yesterday to see .
committee representing 5000 liquor dealers.
who wanted TO know whether or not the
Mayor is opposed to the bill to raise the
liquor tax from $500 to d 100 q year maxi
mum. The Mayor not only rcfnssd 10
see them, but informed them that he had
already notified them by letter that be
would not receive them until they should
convince him that they were innocent of
raising each year q 5000. 900 blackmail
fund. This is the letter:
0soros y. Gmindsr. Esq. Chdiymo~. <osf Thtvd
orerue, New york:
DEAR SIR: have your note Of yesterday.
asking for an appointment 20 confer With
me tomorrow forenoon at II O'Clock. 10 RI
erence to the Excise bill now pending at
Albany.
I cannot see you at the hour named. for
have then an advertised bearing on Q IesiA-
lAtive bill. Before ] tx another hour for
such en- appointment, however. I am Obliged
to ask your attention 10 an aspect Of ths
question which seems to me Of srest i'm
portance.
There have been persistent rumors. for .
very long time, that the local Liquor Dealsrt'
Association. through its subordinate groups
or sections-sSid to be sixty-fve In number
has been In the habit OF assessing the pro-
az lAx
per Sunday. thus creating . fund, from
the upward Of 1000 saloons in the city OF
New York. which amounts to more than
o. ooo. 900 per annum
without asserting the correctnes Of such
rumors. ] still think that II Is incumbent
upon you. - the representative OF this inter
est. and as a preliminary to any discussion
OF this subject on my part. to submit to me
proof that these rumors as TO the collection
Of such assessments are without foundation:
or. II they are true. to state specifically for
what purpose this great sum Ia used. Await
ing your reply. am gentlemen. yours very
truly. SETH Low. Mayor
NEW YORK. March ~.
The first the liquor men heard Of
this letter was when Billy Moran. the
Mayors assistant secretary. waved IL A.
them In the vestibule Of the Mayors ofioe
az he shooed them away. They hoped
around the corridor In a rage and some
Of them weren't too particular about not
kicking over union pots full Of union paint
Billy Moran did his best to pacify them
and finally got nd Of them when one OF
their own number suggested that they
all 20 TO District Attorney Jerome and
have the Mayor indicted for slander,
When they reached the City Hal, steps
the saloon men, In q group, had their plot
ure taken In . hghting-mad state. The
picture will be distributed In all saloons
| with q COPY OF Mayor Lows "S3 .u1,U00 FUND
letter. in the next campaign IL the Mayor
happens to be . candidate for anything.
An hour Ater whom the delegates left Dis-
trict Attorney Jeromes ONCE the same
photographer took another group photo
graph and the two groups made one OF
those before and after contrasts.
The committee that didn't get In 10 80
the Mayor was appointed on Tuesday by
the Wine, Liquor and Beer Dealers Central
Association at the meeting In Fraunces
! Tavern. George Gminder was chairman
and Frits Hndinger. the president OF the
central association, was second man on
the yommittee. There were about twenty
FIVE others.
Gmnder wrote to the Mayor on wednes-
day saying that the committee would call on
him on Thursday morning At II o'clock 10 ask
him for his views on the liquor tax. Then
Chairman Gminder hurried on to Alban~
TO fight the bill at q committee hearing
and he didn't get back until yesterday
morning. 40 he didn't receive the repl"
which the Mayor had sent TO his saloon
In The Bronx by special messenger ON
Wednesday night.
Gminder didn't 20 TO his saloon 81 all,
bu, hurried down 10 the rendezvous NJ
Fritz IAndinger's place In Nassau stree,
Prom there the liquor dealers marched in
Q body 20 the City Hall and headed s'rsigh,
for the Mayors ONCE.
Moran intercepted them a, the ,hr-sh.
old. waving the letter The committee
would have brushed by the .eore,sry bu,
he barred tho cay and exclaimed
.Gs-ntl.msn. tbe Mayor will not 80 YOU
Have you not rec~ivcd his le'teri'
They .aid ,h-y hadn, ana they demanded
10 knos Why thsy couldn', s.s th.,r Mayor
Moran handed them . copy ~ the ls'ts'
and 8miadsf r-sd IL aloud IN the oorr,dof
20 his ss,onlsia.d associates
Had thai lssi psrt oVes again. demanded
ono ~ the COMMITTEES, aud GmiDdsf read
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