New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-25
VICE GOES UNCHECKED.
TIE SALOONS VIDE OPEN.
DiaorderIy Womcn fnfcst Streets
Near Union SqgGre.

On TIE surface police conditions in the Tender
10Th district good as a Any previous time
ExoIse e-rests are being lraae, disorderly houses
raided ard their propr:etors driven ont Of bust
nsse and the pain clothes 3ler make many ar
rest1 OF Tic disorderlv element I'm the street
This allows that :he police are active Bu; the
staten blotters show that lie same dtsorcer!y
houses are raided over and over again and that
the same women in the streets are arrested by
the same detectives.
Al certain times Broadway e free Of disordery
women. Credit for this condition is due not to
Captain Cottrelrs plain clothes men. but TO the
severity Of certain police magistrates when sit
Ding in the Jefferson Market Police Court. When
these magistrates are sitting the disorderly eie-
ment floats TO other sections Of the city AS
soon lenient magistrate. one who only
fines the women and does not send them 70
the Workhouse. is at Jefferson Market, the dis
orderly element is hack in it's old Tenderloin
haunts- At these times Broadway. from Twen-
ty-eighth TO Forty-second-st, is infested with it.
The worst district in the precinct, and
to which the police have paid little attention Is
around Union Square Park. on Saturday night.
when Captain CottrelIs attention was drawn to
tho number OF disorder.y women in this dis
t-ict. he expressed some surprise. He said that
he had encountered few women In the lower
and Of his precinct. Had the captain visited
Union Square Park and walked down Broadway.
particularly along the block between Four
teenth and Fifteenth SITS. while an easy"
magistrate sitting in Jefferson Market
he would not have been surprised at being
told that that block in its number of painted
women. discounted the infamous ''Soubrette
Row"
In this section Of the city the women patrol
the street without interference from the man on
post Occasionally IS arrested by plain
clothes man. On Saturday night. between II 40
O'Clock and midnight, sixteen different women
were seen in Broadway. between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth SITS. who all known habitues Of
the Tenderloin. They accosted nearly every man
that passed. and in three Instances seized him h.
the srm TO detain him. Conditions in the park
itself are as bad. A respectable woman cannot
walk through the park without constantly see
ing these women from the Tenderloin and the
Fourteenth-st. dives accosting men.
The connection between the vice syndicate
which controls the French disorderly houses,
practically all now in the Tenderloin. and the
police have been exposed in The Tribune. The
talk Of the street is that the protection of
house costs the proprietor $50 month. which
seems 10 be the recognized rate throughout
Manhattan.
Poolrooms are not numerous in the Tenderloin
~ most OF the uOielS, particularly tnose Ire
quented by sporting men in upper Broadway
there is no trouble in placing a bet. There is
doubt that the long established poolroons are
paying tribute 10 the police.
Captain Cottreu and his men are not placing
any over strict Interpretation on the excise
regulations. Last night practically every saloon
IN the Tenderloin, except in the business dis
trfct. was open. In most cases it was only
necessary 10 open the side door and walk in
AT others was more or less carefully scruti-
nized before he was allowed to enter. The
saloonkeepers would not say much concerning
the price they paid for this indulgence or talk
much about police graft. barring their protests
brass buttons and night sticks entitle them to
any number of free drinks. From various
sources ii learned that the usual tribute
of $40 to keep open Sunday was paid by most
Of the ssloonkeepers.
Who gets the money I'm the end no one pro-
fesses to know. but that it ultimately reaches
the right man is shown by the continued i'm
munity Of the saloons that open after hours
The present time Is always a lean season for
the police Many sporting men are out of town
the disorderly element has fioced 10 the beaches
or other resorts. and racing near the city always
closes many poolrooms
There are only g few-a very fey,-ss n,rlIpp,
houses now running, ard high play is rare a.
sny OF them Those that are open also swell
he tribute 20 the police, bat a precinct COM
rnsnder IA not powerful enough 70 protect places
o. this character.