The evening world., 1903-01-08
Tenderloin Police Car Tries to
Drive Away Women and Grip
pies Who Do Honest Work on
Broadway.
CARD MEN UNnISTURBED.
Newspaper Sellers Cling to the IL.
lenses Which the CITY Has To-
sued and viii Fight In Courts for
Right to Make a Living.

The great Car Of tie Tcnderloin has
iesued q new ukase. It's not against
the gamblers. or the disorderly house
keepers. or the gang Of sfort-card
men and crooks who make Broadway
a parade Of thieves" inc block the
street while they ogle women in front
Of some of the uptown sporting re-
sorts. It's against the poor newsdeal-
ers. tae cripples and old women. who
try 20 make nm honest living by sell
ing papers to tho thronss that hurry
along Broadway, morning and evening
going to and coming from work.
They must get off the street. says
O'Reilly. He's going to clean up the
precinct, he is, and IL he doesn't clean
II up he's going to discourage as much
al he can people reading the newspapers
about his failure.
Warned Them to Quit.
Last night he sent one Of his sleuths
around to all the newsdealers and
warned Thorn chat IL they didn't get off
the street he would raid them. The
dealers were astonished. Never was
there "a Captain in the Tenderloin be-
fore who objected to their earning a
living. No protest was ever lodged by
any one against hem. The people that
use the street are glad enough to have
their papers ready for them when they
come rushing out OF their houses on
the way to the street cars or the IL"
stations.
But O'Reilly. with his new broom and
q new COMMISSIONS at No. 800 Null
berry street. told them that no Wouldn't
starl for them and tina they would
have to move. A committee was imme-
diately named. Its mebers went to see
the Gar at the station-house. They
told him that they had licenses, for
which they had paid their good money
TO the city. but this didn't move him.
He pointed out the fact hat the IL
. cense SAID thoy could nave their stands
inside the stoop line and not outside.
The dealers said that II they were in"
side the stoop nj they didn't need any
license except the permission Of the
man who owned the adjacent property.
To Flight I'm Courts.
They held that the fact that the CITY
issued a license at all under the circum-
stances was "a tactt permission for
them to have their stands on the side
walk. so long as no one objected. They
pointed out that they were no more In
the way han the ornamental lamp
posts, but the captain was firm and In
sisted that they must get OFF the streets.
The committee went away and reported.
The dealere then decided that they
would not remove their stands. but
would fight the captain in the courts.
They were on duty this morning as
usual, and the police did not disturb
them.
Capt. o'Reil.y was asked by an Even
ing World reporter to explain his ex-
t%rAordlnary war on newsstands.
"A man named A. b. Smith" said the
captain, complained that q number Of
newsstands were violating the law by
occupying the curb line. There was
nothing left for me to DO but see that
the law was carried out. / believe In
the theory Of live and let live and would
never have interfered With these stands
satisfy the man who made the COM
plant, az he was backed up by the
Brooks Defends O'Reiny.
inspector Brooks said that Capt.
paint and had only obeyed the law,
The raided newsstands are situated as
follows: Northwest corner az Fortieth
street and broadway. northwest corner
southwest corner Of Thirty fourth street
ana Broadway. northeast corner OF
T~hirty-fourth street n broadway. and
street and Seventh avenue.
IL was said at Police Headquarters
that when the within OF A.. n. Smith had
been satished things would 20 back to
the old way.