The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-08
THE TOWN is BEING MADE UN.
COMFORTABLE FOR THE UN.
DESIRABLE ELEMENT.
ed Out on a Policy Of Clean
ing Up.

be put under the ban by Seattles new
police regime. The police took no
steps to make the order effective but
the small army of touts and boosters
/ that have been making the pooIrooms
their headquarters are very uneasy.
SEATTLE, Wash, April S.-Con-
sternation reigned among poolroom
| habitues when the news came that
hangers-on about these places were to
Al Espln. well-knoWn teI1derIoin
character. went to jail Wednesday af-
| ternoon and the cases against three
prominent first ward heeIerS. accused
of criminal tendencies, Went over in
police court. Two of these men have
been prominent in first ward politics
and the third is small criminal who
has operated without hindrance for
months.
|
started out on policy of cleaning up
the town. How far this policy is to go
is matter that neither the head of the
department nor other city officials rea-
lie, for such a movement, once start
ed, broadens as it develops. But Chief
of Police Delaney intends to make the
cleanup as through and as effective as
possible.
Chief of Police Sullivan paved the
way for the cleanup by stopping gam
bling. Despite the state statute that
made gambling felony. games We're
running open here up to a short time
prior to Mayor Boilinger-s Inaugural
ton. Suddenly the order went out that
gambling was to stop, and it ceased.
This action was taken by Sullivan
and Mayor Humes without an intima-
ton from Judge Ballinger. though it
was in direct line with the work he had
mapped out for his police department
| " iICll ilC tooh up tilC iiit'Soi - oiiiNN' -
was also in line with the cleanup that
Sullivan himself, as a member of the
force under Delaney, would be called
upon to do.
There have been claims since the
order against gambling went out that
the games were running again. There
may be a little quiet poker playing.
and police officials admit that there
may always be little Of this, but there
| is no public gambling, and gambling
para phernalia is a dangerous thing to
have on the premises. The town is alb
solutely closed to gambling, and who
ever risks money on the turn Of a card
will have to do so either in a private
game or behind locked doors in sched-
| uled quarters.
| The first step taken by Chief Delaney
notice upon the members of the pO-
| lice department that they would be ex-
pected thenceforth to enforce the law.
| Delaney knew, even though it was in
a general way. that members of the po-
| lice force had been close to the ere.
ments that made Seattle a wide -open
| town and those that either protected or
| encouraged crooks. The stOOl-pigeon
practice, too, was carried to an ex-
| travagant extreme.
| Both Delaney and Mayor Ballinger
| told the members of the police force
| that the officers We're to obey the law
| themselves and see that others did the
fsame. Last Sunday he had Bishop o.
Dea and E. c. Hughes tell the force
the same thing, the speakers also en-
courag ing the force and speaking high
| ly Of the mems abilities.
| Delaney early promulgated an order
| that Migrants and crooks were to be
run out of town. Notice was served by
the police force upon hangers on them
selves and the proprietors of the Ten
| derloin saloons that these men fire.
| quent. An immediate exodus of va
| grants and crooks began, but the men
did not move fast enough and several
of them were arrested. Others went
into the sweat box and after an I'M
comfortable time at. the police head
quarters they decided to quit Seattle.
| And the saloon boxes must go. The
| mayor has said SO, and the chief of
police has reaffirmied the decision.
Both officials mean that the saloon men
| shall tear out their partitions, and not
much time will be allowed them to do
so. Not only does the mayor and the
| police chief believe the boxes have a
bad effect in encouraging the presence
of women in saloons, but they insist
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