The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-25
EXCISE ARRESTS KINDS.
POLICE ENFORCE THE Law, EACH
AFTER HIS OWN LIGHT.
In Some Parts Of Town tho Sandwich Had
TO He Ordered. but Nowhere Did IL
Have to he Eaten-Not l-Cent Meal
In Stght-Smal.FOoted Sletths Out.

Have TO lie EAten-NOt 1.Cent Meal
In Sight-Small.Footed Sleuths Out.
Greene Law was problematical success
in New York yesterday. General Law
was pretty generally recognized as the
godfather Of Raines Law. but that piebald
merry fellow, Police Law, with his chame-
leon coat, outran the family in all parts Of
the town, and made name for himself
as whimsical rascal with decent tendencies
but with no strong adherence to impartial
administration.
The liquor sellers were put upon their
guard for the first time In Gen. Greene's
administration. and their feelings at the
end Of the day were moro Of a mixture than
most OF their customers had carried away.
The only particular In which Gen. Greenes
home made law was an absolute failure,
finding no support whatever. was in the
matter Of the one-oent sandwich. Not
even the most benevolent OF hotekeepers
had the moral courage or cowardice to put
out sandwich and charge a cent for it,
despite the announcement that Gen. Greene
would recognize 1t as a real, genuine meal.
1Will you tell me- said one Of the best
known thirst quenchers in the Tenderloin,
what sort OF a damphool man would be
to set out to serve one-cent sandwiches on
a Sunday without having gone to his bank
the day before and changed all his twentiee
into pots full Of pennies?
AS understood 1t, that proposition was
devised for the special benefit Of Coney
Island. Why, say, one-cent sandwich
in Coney Island on good warm Sunday
would start more riots than the police of
the whole burg could handle. One day of
it, and there wouldn't be so many plain
clothes men available for duty in the
Tenderloin."
The speakers reference to the number OF
plain-clothes men on duty in the Tender
loin was no idle one. That precinct, for
some reason that no one v entured to eI-
plain. was the busiest one in the city in the
matter OF excise arrests. It was very
quiet all the morning. CNo one in the
Tenderloin is expected to get up in the
mornin1) But at a little before 2 clock
the activity began.
James Ward. put down as manager OF a
saloon at 5S3 Seventh avenue. was brought
into the Tenderloin station by Detectives
Lyons and Armstrong. who said that they
found eight men sitting at table in room
in the rear OF the saloon and being served
with liquors.
At half-past o'clock Detectives Eaton
and Butts came in with William Thomas,
waiter in the Raines law hotel OF Patrick
Martin al 2S9 Sew enth avenue. They
charged him with serving them with beer
without meal and at five cents per beer.
Two other excise prisoners were brought
in. and then Detective Shibles appeared
With James lyory i1 bartender in James
has been heard from before in the Ten
tlerloin station. Shibles reported that his
place yesterday was open as on a week
day, with men lined up at the bar, seven
Of them, four OF whom were drinking when
the detective entered
This statement had just been made when
Wall, a one-armed man with gray whiskers,
came into the station house to give bail for
his bartender. Capt. O'Connor was behind
the desk and had hard work TO keep linn
.els there when he realized that he had been
4 won t accept your bail for the prisoner.'
said the captain to Wall. 4 won't allow
you an inch-you and your handbook that
youTs ARES, 1 Yo sanday
Do you think I'm tool?'
Wall denied thinking anything OF the
kind, but profuse perspiration had covered
Of the station. His bartender was locked
up. Capt. O'Connor was 80 appalled, at
the boldness Of Wallis violation Of the law |
that he declared he believed he would
60 out and get couple Of offenders him
self, rather than that such things should be.
The police seemed to feel yesterday that
in the matter Of arrsting for the service OF
without cost in this borough |
they had best be cautious. and the result |
was that the centre of the town set out
without charge with drinks,
while the east and west sections had to
suffer arrest if they did the same thing.
The Elizabeth street police arrested a
waiter at Halls Hotel for serving sand
witch which was not called for with beer to
two plain clothes men They evened things
up in the Elizabeth street precinct, how
ever, by arresting two men for violating
the Sunday law by working at house build
ing. And just across the street from Halls
Hotel boot shop did business unmolested.
The Fast Thirty-ffth street station police
hotel at 459 Fourth avenue, for serving
six beers to three patrolmen for 80 cents,
without the ordering or serving OF sand
witches. and in Third avenue just east
Of this place drunken men came out
of the eide door Of liquor store almost in
front Of two policemen without getting any
attention
For another example Of the erlptivs
enforcement OF the law which characterized
the day, the East Twenty-second street
police arrested a bartender in East Twenty
first street, while hotels giving away sand
witches were unmolested.
At one Tenderloin hotel the price Of sand
wiches advanced 50 per cent. yesterday,
to the price on the check, but no
man 30 bold as to pick up the check for the
lunch appeared and the poiice were not
called In to arrest these persons, who thus
escaped their apparent debts.
A noticeable feature Of the enforcement
measures in the Tenderloin. besides the
unusual number OF men in plain clothes.
was the use by the sleuths OF small shoes.
No more is It possible in this precinct to
look at a cops feet and detect his calling.
A few patent leather shoes there were,
but for the most part the plain-olothes
men wore shoes which ehectually disguised
their craftsmanship. Large feet We're not
iammed into small shoes, but men with
moderate feet had apparently been Sc
lected for this duty, and those men had
contrived to incase their extremities in
shoes OF a pattern which did not expose
hem as pavement Founders.
There were 1902 excise arrests made in this
borough and Brooklyn yesterday. OF these
no were made in Manhattan Last week
here we're 80 arrests in the whole city.