New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-20
TONAkE ". i. MEN TESTIFY
JEROME TO USE NEW Law.
a0rder TO Cut ont Vires-PooErooms
Get Ne5os By Telephone.

l.4,e,- declared Ihat charges were pending
f.-,+ 4be operators OF the Western Union
trro1earapb Company who had been employed in
i.,ooI-oo7nE and that in such cases the question
-, co-,ueliing witnesses to testify was involved.
- AZ Jerome at his discretion hale pool
,ocrl operators and employees to court and COM
-, +,e-n N tell all they know. it is believed
.ha. =. will lie only question of time before
-. ,oofroorn business will be chloroformed.
rT7,sn asked By Tribune reporter last night as
=, ..a ra,pre Of his reference, Mr.. Jerome said:
..T deferred TO the Mahoney poolroon. ex-
,hange that was raided.
ASKED if the new law might not apply equally
10 the operators Of all raided poolrooms. MI
Jerome said: "I VIII not discuss that"
ORDER TO CUT POoLROoM WIRES.
II became known yesterday that an unpub-
s,shed order included in the Western Unions
sweeping fiat IS the cutting out of the poolroom
wires. Colonel Clowry's secretary declared yes
.srday that the president had issued instruc-
lions TO the company's workmen 70 remove
.rery wire over which horseracing news exclu-
sively has been furnished TO private subscribers
This may mean that the sheaTing Of wires, which
Afr McAdoo has longed TO execute. will be &C
eompished at one stroke by the company itself
President CIowry's secretary said he did not
snow whether any wires had actually been cut
thus far: that there was no need Of haste as
tbe wires were dead and no messages were going
,,,er them. .'The order has gone out 10 remove
,be,, however" he said, "and they Will go
quickly as the linemen can get around to it"
With the drastic action OF the Western Union
relegra ph Company, directing the discontinuance
of racetracll reports on every wire throughout
the United States, responsibility for the pool
room service apparently. shifted yesterday 10
If the telephone company fulfls the promise
of support and wholesouled cooperation in sup
-ressing uoolroorls which It has given 10 Police
commissioner McAdoo. il i9 considered that the
last nail but one will have been driven into the
booksellers coffin. Mr.. McAdoo and District At
torney Jerome are confident that any further
subterfuges on the part of booksellers can be
dealt with as they may arise.
PooLRooMs GET INFORMATION.
The poolrooms received much the usual ser
vice yesterday from Morris Park. How did
they get it?" was the question that was circu-
lated from mouth 10 mouth all over the city re-
ceiving answers many and various. So far as
could be learned by 4 Tribune reporter. the
poolrooms received information from the city
poolroom exchanges TO which it fed by tele-
phones at Norris Park. Aside from the absence
Of descriptions Of the race. which would have
been virtually impossible in any case. owing to
the fogbound track and the further absence of
second betting on any race later than the first
the service was much as usual
Bets were placed. first odds were posted,
scratches were reported and results were
nounced much the same as on every racing
afternoon But how? Racetrack followers re-
turned home on Wednesday night with stories
that at least a score of men were kept on the
tops of houses in sight of the track their eyes
glued TO ponderous field glasses. and that
Wednesday. from p. until long after dusk.
access 10 not a single telephone anywhere in the
neighborhood Of the track could be obtained.
every telephone being. for some occult reason,
'engaged." AS the fog made the track invisible
from the housetops yesterday. it was thought
that wire was run secretly from Of the
stables the backstretch Of the track to the
nearest telephone booth.
WESTERN UNION KEEPING FAITH
That the Western Union had kept perfect faith
in its announcement was indicated yesterday by
the fact that virtually no pooroom was able to
get news from a single Western racetrack.
Managers Of three big poolroom syndicates, who
up TO the time Of the Western Unions last order
had been flying at each others throats, held a
conference yesterday morning. and agreed 10
merge their telegraph and telephone interests.
They announced that the Norris Park and
Western services would continue usual. a
Tribune reporter who called at one Of the large
downtown poolrooms at O'Clock was told that
The poolroom would be fed as usual by a service
from the West When the reporter called an
hour later he told that there would be
Western service that afternoon. but that the
service would be completely resumed to-day. If
any poolroonls were receiving any Western ser
could OOf he n sides
came word that the last sweeping order Of the
western Union had crippled the pooroom bust
ness to an extent unparalleled throughout the
country in recent years.
It's up 10 the telephone company" was the
comment Of one Of the largest booksellers. 'It
Us the telephone people who make or break
us now"
TELEPHONE MEN CONFER.
An Informal cabinet conference between Off
GERS Of the American Telephone Company and
ue Nsw-York Telephone Company took place
Yesterday Union z Bethel. who is practically
tne executive head of all telephone companies
operating in and around this city. said after
ward that he did not at present TO add TO
Commissioner NcAdoo's preliminary statement
that the companies have promised TO cooperate
with Mr. McAdoo
There is rothing L care to say" he observed
patI after Ar. McAdoo makes the amplifed
Statement which 1 understand he promised on
"ecHesday to make soon"
Mr. McAdoo told the Tribune reporter las-
hlght that he expected 20 make the statement
'o-cay. and thai, meanwhile, the announcement
q me NewYork Telephone company's assur-
ahoa 0f cooperation still held good. Asked
";se;aer II would not be possible for the pool
'"oia IceE 10 evaoe the law and be fed by
subsidiary telegraph telephone companies