The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-19
.POOLROOM TELEPHONE
 SERVICE IS GUT OFF.
NEW YORK COMPANY TO TAKE
 TYRES OUT.

Western Union Also Issues New Order Extending Discontinuance of Racing
 News Service Over Entire Country
 "Tickerv Company Says 1t Has Its Own Correspondent Filling Messages
 at the Tracks.
 New York, May 1S.-There were sey- eral developments in the poolroom scandal to-day, the most important of which was the decision of the New York Telephone company to take it's wires and instruments out of the pool rooms of the Mahoney syndicate, and to cooperate further with the police commissioner in every way possible.
 The Western Union Telegraph cora- pany's executive committee met and an order was subsequently issued to dis. continue the racing news service, not only in New York, but throughout the entire country. A ticker company said it had it's own correspondent at the race track to-day filing ordinary tele- graphic messages of the information it needed for it's ticker service.
 The district attorneys programme was somewhat disconcerted by the raid yesterday. No Western Union direc- tors were seGt for to be examined judi cially to-day, and possibly no further |step will be taken until the evidence of the prisoners taken in yesterdays raid has been obtained. This is expected to be of great value.
 It was learned to-day that the Vest |ern Union company was in similar trouble about poolrooms with the police and other authorities in Chicago a few years ago.
 The New York Telephone company advised Police Commissioner McAdoo this morning that it would at once re- move the telephone wires from the East Forty-second street house which was raided yesterday by Inspector Mo Laughlin, and which is said to have been the headquarters or central of the Mahoney chain of poolrooms. Fur ther, the company promised to see that both wires and instruments are taken out of the subsidiary places poolroons (which received accounts of the racing from this central"
 There were fifteen telephone instru- Iments in the place raided yesterday, and the police by some means traced four of the wires to branch rooms, but just how many of these branches we're supplied by this central the police do not know. Commissioners McAdoo said to-day that he felt satisfied that the telephone company would keep it's word.
 In response to questions MT. McAdoo said that the New York Telephone corn- pany had sent a representative to him Iwhen the poolroom scandal originated with the City club charges, and had as4 sured him that thty were willing to CO., operate with him in any way in sup-a pressing the poolroom evil. The com missioner would not say in what man ner he had received notice of the irl- Itentions of the company with regard to the Mahoney poolrooms, but he let it be understood that his relations with the company were exceedingly friend- fly.
 Are not number of the Western Union directors also in the directory of lthe New York Telephone company the commissioner was asked.
 There are four or five, | believe, but am told that they hold only a small minority in the stock.
 The directors of the New York Tele- phone company are:
 ou1a Tc Tat.~
 Union N. Bethell, Thomas F. Clarke. sRobert c. Clowry, Joseph F Davis. Frederick P Fish, *George ]. Gould, Edward J. Hall, James Merrihew, Charles Steele, *John B. Van Every and William H. Woloverton.
 *Also directors of the Western Union Telegraph company
 Another Order by Clowry.
 Robert c. Clowry, president and geal- Ieral manager of the Western Union Tel egraph company, to-day sent messages to the general superintendents of the Western Union Telegraph company at New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta, Ga, informing them that the company had decided to discontinue the collection and distribution of race
 horse reports. The messages sent were identical and read as follows: Tt has been decided to discontinue forthwith the collection and distribu- tion by this company of race-horse re- ports. You will please act accordingly. Acknowledge receipt.
 l Robert c. Clowry, President and General Manager