The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
RAID JARS KING CARNIVAL.
MERRYMAKERS, DRINKING, ARE
PENNED IN ASBURY CAFE.
Coated COnstables. Battling the Demon
1 Rum, Hold Men and Women In Coleman
Catacombs-Charge OF Mock knights
Frees Some wanted Is witnesses.

Catacombs-Charge OF Mock knights
II Frees some wanted as witnesses
! AsBURY PARK, Aug. 91.-At the height
Of carnival week here, after midnight this
morning, merry King Carnival fell into
the embrace Of exiled Demon Rum and l5O
Of the Carnival Kings gayest and most
devoted subjects were ignominiously SUBJ
jected to the custody Of goateed Jersey
constablee. 1t was no fault Of Asbury
Park The Mayor and police officials
we're far away but the whole resort looks
upon it as the gravest indignity to which
It has been subjected.
Queen Titania and Prince Charming
had led the mask night parade up and
down the avenues along tho ocean. had
later reviewed the revellersfrom the throne
and had given the signal for the dance to
begin In the big Casino by the sea.
The crowd Of 1000 masked celebrants;
embracing in its numbers prominent men
and women from Locharbour, Allenhurst,
Deal, Elberon and Long Branch. as we'll as
Asbury Park, had entered the Casino,
many Of them, but hundreds Of others
sought the cafes Of ocean side hotels for
refreshments.
Nearly all were dressed in masquerade
costume and every cafe held scores OK
courtiers, pages. princesses, cowboys fairy
queens and harlequins. At o'clock 1t
did not need the rapid fire popping Of corks
to demonstrate that gayety was supreme.
!. Over In Red Bank, q dozen miles away,
officers OF the law. unknown to any Of the
authorities Of Asbury Park, we're arraying
themselves to quiet the sounds Of revelry
by night. Assistant Prosecutor A. j. c.
Stokes ledvthem and with the assistance Of
Count Detective j. B. Rue, pressed into
serviF half dozen county constables.
Ed ~ man was supplied with a night
stick'and revolver. and thus armed they
took midnight ride to the scene Of the
festivities. They reached the beach front
at Asbury unobserved. and Prosecutor
Stokes posted them by the window OF the
Coleman House while he and Detective
Rue quietly walked down through the hotel
TO the cafe entrance.
Presently two stalwart figures, each with
drawn revolvers. encountered the vision
OF the astonished jewellers.
"Iregret to inform you, ladies and gentle-
men, that you are all under arrest said
Stokes.
Fine sport pIped up a page In white
knickerbockers and cerise doublet. "Come
and split pint, papa
Young lady" retorted Stokes severely,
q am no masquerader and this is no masque-
rade. l notify You all that I shall hold
you as witnesses of an excise violation.
Do not try to escape; every exit is guarded"
There we're masked women in the cafa,
to whom the prospect Of arrest was in
tolerable Two or three Of them tainted.
Others hid their faces in their arms as II
the dominoes they wore were not sufficient
disguise. All rose hurriedly and many
rushed to the windows. When they pulled
back the shades they found at each window
a goatee, nightstick and a revolver.
One woman, holder than the rest, did not
reooil from the apparition, but leaped
athletically through the window. The
lower sash was UP, but the upper was broken
as she struggled with the guard outside
Eventually by strength or persuasion this
young woman broke away. Rumor had
It that Virginia Harmed, the actress, was
the only one OF all the captives to force the
issue with the Jersey constables.
Recovering from the first shock Of sur
prise, the women inplored the men to de-
liver them from their plight and the men
took counsel. Persuasion was Of no avail.
Prosecutor Stokes was obdurate But
among the men were q dozen national
guardsmen and eight or ten appareled as
cavaliers with swords by their sides. These
held hurried conference and decided to
make bluff at the guard. The cavaliers
started with drawn swords, with one in the
costume of Henry Of Navarro at their head
and the guardsmen in support. Prose-
cutor Stokes showed the white feather
before the white plume Of Navarro. Not
waiting to learn whether the charge was
in earnest or part of the carnival. he
rushed upstairs so fast that, as negro hall
boy put it. "he turned handspring with
out knowing it,
Stokes, it was soon learned. was bound
for the telephone to call on the AsbuEy
Park police Tor help. Detective Rue called
the courtier bluff, but in Stokes's absence
the 5. Of ena hs
were put to a chatting that caused many
q flush to reveal itself underneath the |
whiskers.. Many Of them. 1t is said, quietly
permitted women to steal past them, and
day that he got two women through the |
lines py handing one Of the guards two
dollar bill, the guard being assured that |
1t was a twenty.
With the arrival OF the Asbury Park |
police the opera bouffe character Of the raid |
ceased. They brought with them Magis-
trate Borden and Chief Police Justice |
Hulick. These officials refused to detain
the women and persuaded Prosecutor
pLokes to consent to their release. They
had been detained an hour. Finally, also
half dozen of the men gave aff1davits
10 the effect that they had bought and paid
for liquor and all the prisoners were re-
leased on their own recogniZances. Their
names were taken, but it is believed that
nearly all are fictitious. The authorities
refuse to give out the list.
Frank r. Conover, proprietor Of the Cole
man House, was placed under arrest. Ten
Of his walters and bar tenders were also
Conover was almost Immediately
released on 900 bail. He then furnished
bonds for his employees in the sum OF $500
each. Hundreds Of other carnival guests
were drawn to the hotel as the news of the
raid spread. Many had relatives and
friends imprisoned in the Catacombs. and
these waited until, in the damp gray, dawn
the men we're released. The proprietor,
meanwhile, entertained them as we'll as
possible and did everything to allay their
fears. One woman was 80 grateful over
his attention that she ran to him when It
was all over and gave him a rousing kiss.
She was applauded as vocferously as she
aver was on the stage and she has been long