The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-19
POOL ROOMS CLOSED
BY CLOVRY'S ORDER
Western Union Shuts Off Race
Service Throughout the
Country.

action of yesterday in disseminating to
all subscribers in this city a report of
the. racing at various tracks in this
country, Col. Robert C. Clowry TODAY
notified the general superintendent of
the company at New York, Chicago.
Atlanta and San Francisco that the COL
lection and distribution by the West
ern Union Telegraph company of horse
race reports would be discontinued
forthwith.
The effect Of this order is far reach
Ing and will result in the discontinue
ance of what has been called the racing
of the Western Union COM
pany. This department has collected
and distributed racing news from all
the various tracks in the country to
subscribers. Hereafter the company
will transmit only such messages con-
corning races as are regularly filed
with it for transmission.
For the present Western Union off,
ces. as has been the habit in the past,
will be maintained at race tracks for
transmission Of press dispatches and
private messages, but these offices NAV
be discontinued later
The executive . committee of the
Western Union had a brief meeting TO-
day, at which We're present Chauncey
M. Depew, Morris K Jessup. Russell
Sage, Samuel Sloan anh Jacob n.
Schiff. President Clowry reported his
action, and the executive committee
approved it.
Telephone Company Quits.
The New York Telephone COMPANY
which also is accused of aiding and
abettlng the service to pool rooms,
advised Police Commissioner McAdoo
today that it would at once remove the
telephone wires from the East Forty
second street house, which was raidea
yesterday, and which is said to have
been the headquarters, or central" of
chain of poolroomS. Further, the
company promised to see that both
wires and instruments are taken out Of
the subsidiary places-poolrooms which
received accounts of the racing from
this central"
With the exception Of the arraign-
ment of eleven prisoners caught in a
raid on an alleged poolroom yesterday,
the investigation of the Western Union
Telegraph company's alleged connec-
ton with poolroorns in this city was
practically at a standstill today. Dis
trict Attorney Jerome, when asked
what was to. be the next move in the
investigation, declined to make any ex-
tended statement, answering the uues-
"
1t was learned that no summonses
or subpoenas for Western Union direct
ors. had yet been issued.
District Attorney Jerome, when in
formed of the action of President
CloWry, Issued a statement in which he
declared that he was satisfied that so
far as the directors of the Western
Union Telegraph company are con-
cerned, this action is fair and honor
9lDlR and a ptp flo6 fn Itch
what the authorities OF, this city would
have been probably unable to accom-
plish without their action.
Moral Question Involved.
my own interest in the matter" he
said, has been more because of the
large moral question involved than be-
cause of any narrow technical crimi-
nality. If a great corporation is will
ing to sacrifice large profits which it
perhaps could continue to make with
out being amenable to law, because to
make such profits would be an immoral
thing, we have had an illustration of
corporate morality entirely unexpect-
ed and the influence for good of which
may be incalculable.P
When the prisoners taken in yes
terday'S raid were arraigned Deputy
Police Commissioner Lindsey ap-
peared as prosecutors and asked for an
adjournment OF one week, but counsel
for the prisoners objected. Finally
John Barton, one Of the defendants,
after a long argument, offered himself
to the court to be held in default of
$500 bail, so as to enable his lawyer
to secure a writ Of habeas corpus He
was accepted and the other defendants
were paroled in the custody of their
counsel until May 20 for a further ex-
animation. 5se
Reports Shut Off.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 49,
In accordance with instructions re-
ceived from Col. Robert C. Clowry. the !
collection and distribution of race track |
reports was promptly discontinued to-
day at the following points on the |
company's Pacific division: Sausalito
Sacramento, Los Angeles, Seattle, Ia |
coma and Spokane.
These are the only places in the di
vision which have been receiving ra-
cling news over the Western Union
wires.
Tight in Kentucky.
CINCINNTAI Ohio, May 1S.-The
pool rooms at Covington, KY, were
without service today as the result of
President Clowry's notice The Cow
ington rooms were in the Nashville d.
vision of the Western Union Telegraph
company.
NAV THTTPEC HMRPI