New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-04
MANY SALOONS OPEN.
"LIBER4L LAW" IN FORCE.
Police Pay No attention to Throngs
Before Bars.

The first Sunday under the Tammany ad-
hlnlstration was wet, in the language of the po-
ice. Whether or not orders had gone out from Po-
ice Headquarters from the Wigwam in Four
feminist to make the saloons places of refuge
and relief for anybody who might be in danger of
perlshing from the cold could not be ascerrained,
but 1t was apparent throughout the day and even
Ing that most Of the saloons were open and doing
rushing business. 1t apparent. too that the
ponce were making attempt in some parts OF
the city to enforce the law against selling liquor
Sunday
IN General Greenes administration the police COM
PEELED most Of the saloOnkeepers to obey that pro-
vision of the law which requires them to have the
interiors of the saloons open to inspection from the
sidewalk at prohibited hours. a policeman who
passed saloon night could look in and see what
was going on, and, of course, anybody else could
look in If he wanted to look. Last evening along
the Bowery. Third-ave and Sixth-ave., and in some
other thoroughfares where the saloons are numer-
ous anybody could see from the sidewalk men lined
up IN front of the bars and the bartenders pusy
mixing and serving drinks. Strangely enough. lew
policemen were observed hanging around the corner
saloons.
Perhaps the sight OF so much drinking on Sunday
was too much for the police. or perhaps tho cold
weather kept many patrolmen off the streets AL
though there seemed to be countless opportunities
for excise arrests. hardly any were made In the
territory OF the Tombs police court, apparently no
excise arrests had been made to the time OF
closing court. for excise cases were presented
there. The dearth of cases at the JEFFERSON
Market court led Magistrate zeller to remark:
The city must have become suddenly virtuous,
There were excise cases brought before me to-
day. 1t must be that everybody IS getting good. or
perhaps the cold weather keeps the policemen in
doors"
solitary prisoner. charged with violating the ex-
else law, was before Magistrate Pool In the West
Side Court He a bartender. who had been so
reckless as to sell" something TO policeman. but
he was discharged because the policeman said he
wasn't whether II whiskey orange
bitters Magistrate Pool said that while the
else cases had diminished to almost none at all the
cases of intoxica,4on coming before him had in
creased amazingly They averaged about twenty
FIVE a day since New Years. he said and he could
not account for such increase. considering that
so many usually swore of drinking at the be-
ginning OF each year.
Police Commissioner McAdoo kept himself snugly
away from newspaper men in his home. at No. 20
West Fifty seventh-st., and his opinion regarding
the opening OF the saloons Sunday not OBJ
talnable Reporters and many Tammany politicians
were turned away by the young man who worked
the telephone the ground floor OF the apartment
house. Fe would announce the name OF a caller
through the telephone, and then would give the
reply that Commissioner McAdoo was engaged and
could see one before to-day. A special inquiry
brought a reply that Mr. McAdoo would not tell
whom he is to appoint his second deputy. for
Brooklyn. before 10 a m to-day.
OF a dozen more saloons observed IN the
Eighteenth Precinct in which Is the homo Of
Charles E. Murphy. the Tanmany leader. and
whose police force is commanded by Captain Ed
ward Gallagher, every one seemed TO be thoroughly
wide open. whether provided with hotel licenses
not
The follostng arrests for violation Of the excise
law were made yesterday and last evening:
cak-st. Il Mac1ougal-st.. l. M1lberry-st. :: FL
dridge-st 5: Delancey-st., :: Ftfth-st 4; Mercer
81, Z; East Twenty-second-st., !: West Thirtieth-
ST.. Z: West Thirty-seyenth-st. .: East Thirty
nth-s., !; West Forty-seventh-st-. 2; East Fifty
hrst-st, 2; West sirty-eghth-st.. /; East Fifty
seVenth-st- l. fremont, !; other precincts and
borouEhs. none, Total, rs On the Sunday previous
there were thirty-hve.