New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-02
SCREW THE LID DOWN.
THE MAYOR SO ORDERS.
Talks Sharply to McAdOO, Mc4Ooy,
Smith and Captains.

Nravor Mcclellan summoned Police Commits
sioner McAdoo. Deputy Commissioner McAVoy
and Inspector Ebert O. Smith to the City Hal
yesterday morning and talked with them long
and earnestly q bout the necessity Of suppresSlhS
gambling poolselling and vice in the Harlem
district. to which Inspector Smith was trans
far-es several days ago. He was still talking
70 them half an hour after noon. when Captain
NcNarv. OF the police station in East One-hun-
Observation-Disclosures and Captain Nc
C7Ivnn. Of the station in West One-hundred-and-
tvyentv-fifth-st. entered the City Hall in evident
haste and were shown into the Mayors office
The conference lasted about an hour, and while
it was In progress some Tammany politicians
az the City Hall showed signs OF much uneasi-
ness.
The Mayor is putting down the lid IN Har-
lem" said one.
The police officials got lecture from the
Mayor yesterday that they are not likely 10
forget in a hurry. They looked extremely
serious when they emerged from the Mayor
Office Inspector Smith ard the two captains
left the Office first Commissioner McAdoo re-
mained a few minutes with the Mayor after the
others had gone He said the Mayor himself
would have TO tell what the conference was
about.
The Mayor can put both Cor. missioner Nc
Adoo and Deputy Commissioner McAvoy out or
office at moments notice. II he thinks they
are falling in their duty. and some well Informed
persons said at the City Han yesterday after
noon that NIcAvoy was sure TO so soon II the
conditions in Harlem were net improved. Inc
Mayor when the reporters saw him AFTER the
conference. was not willing 20 say much about
H. He smiled and nodded by way or answer
when he was asked II the question OF keeping
the lid" down in Harlem had been dlscusstd'
ana when he was asked II he intended 10 nave
e kept down more firmly, he G:lhy W.
through the motion or turning a scIeMd4A'Ol'
but kept his lips closed. -
Speaking generally. but making no direct coih-
nlent on any present open town agitau9n Mayor
Mcclellan said he thought evil was Wen sup
pressed in New-York. ana no harm Mould 70
done in seeing that Il wiss kept surprised
NO harm VIII come from screwing the ia
down a little more" the Mayor said.
In Harlem contradiction replies are mace 70
the question Is the lid of In Harlem? The
police say no while disinterested observers
declare that the stencil" is waited from the
opened doors OF many poolrooms Captain Nc
Nallv Of the East Oue-hundred- and twenty
sfxth-st police station and Captain McGlynn'
Of the West -huudred-an -twenty-hft hist
station. were seen last night after they had re-
turned from the conference with Mayor McClel-
IAN Both refused TO talk. Let them invesu-
gate for themselves" was all Captain McGlynn
would say. Captain McNaly maintained a
Sphvnx-Ike silence. He looked worried and
depressed
A well defined rumor went the rounds last
night that certain association. devoted 10 tbs
suppression OF crime would. within Che next
ten DAYS raid twelve poolroom7 IN Harlem
along Third-ave.. from Oue-hundred -and-slN-
feminist 10 hundred aud-thirtieth-s