East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-05
NEW YORK LETTER

New York. October 5.--Consterna-
ton has seized the keepers Of dives
and houses of i'll repute in the tender
loin. A new czar of the tenderloin
has taken the reins of government i'm
that famous district and his name is
Dooley.
Mr.. Dooley, like his famous name
sake of the Bowery muse seems to be
a man of action. He invited num-
ber of the worst offenders to his Of
flee the other day and, in perfectly
pleasant, but positive manner inform
ed them that they would have to quit
business within AS hours, or stand the
consequences. The meeting was quite
friendly and the guests left smiling
and joking. They had heard such
commands many times before and
treated them always in the same man
ner as joke. 1t was really too fun
ny to tell them, who were such
staunch friends and supporters of
Tammany hall and paid their dues
to the police with such regularity,
that they would have to move or quit
business.
The as hours passed and the dive
owners, regardless of the warning
they had received, continued business
at the old stand, when the great sur
prise came. one of the places was
raided and the owner arrested; an
other quickly followed and the news
of the raids spread through the ten
derloin with lightning rapidly. Did
Dooley, after all, mean what he said?
1t semed very much like ii.
The other dive-owners and land
ladies were seized with CONSERVATION
and sent out hurry-calls for moving
vans to vacate their premises before
the minions of the law arrived. The
effect of these raids was highly bene-
ficial and when Sunday came it proved
the dryest the tenderloin had known
for many years. The next question is,
how long this laudable energy Of Cap
tain Dooley is going to last, or how
long IT will be before some leading
chief of Tammany Hall forces the po-
lice to desist from their efforts to re-
form the vividly-hued district.
End OF Bishop Poucr's Saloon.
The Subway Tavern, at Blocker and
Mulberry streets. is no more. 1t was
closed for good after having been in
existence about one year. 1t was
opened with prayer and Bishop Pot
ter, raised no end of comment and a
whirl of sensation by his active part
in the establishment and opening of
the tavern. He was perfectly serious
in his ideas and really hoped that the
opening of the tavern would be the
entering wedge of a reform movement
which would eventually sweep away
the foul and dens of iniquity and bad
liquor with which New York is infest-
ed
The public, however, did not take
kindly to the venture. The consumers
of hard drinks did not like the water
wagon" attachment of the tavern.
while the anti-liquor people disdained
to patronize a place which had a bar
over which liquor was sold. Thus it
came to pass that the tavern was
empty most of the time and the own
ers lost money.
4 month or so ago an effort was
made to rescue the tavern from bank
ruptcy by turning it into "A regular
liquor saloon. but even that expert
ment failed. w. H. Skidmore. the new
owner of the tavern lost faith in the
enterprise and finally closed the taV-
ern which. at one time caused 20
much stir among church people and
the public of New York in general.
More Dock Room Badly Needed
one of the many serious questions
/ nit nf
and one upon the proper solution of
which depends, to some extent, the
| future of the city as commercial
port is the dock question.
The enormous shore line of the is
lands upon which Greater New York
is built offers seemingly unlimited
deck facilities and it seems reasopa-
BILE to assume that not for many de-
cades to come will there be any lack
of dock facilities to satisfy the de-
n9nds of steadily increasing com
merce. Yet, many of the trans-At-
lantic steamship companies, whose
steamers sail from New York and
dock here, are seriously considering
the plan of changing their terminals
from New York to some other city,
where they can obtain dock facilities
in accordance with the increasing size
of the steamers used in the trans-At-
lantic traffic
The United States government has
refused the request to extend the
depth of the steamer docks, because
it was feared the lengthening of the
piers would interfere with river navi-
CATION. To accommodate the enor-
nous steamers there is, under the cir
cumstances but one way, by purchas-
ing additional land and extend the
slips on the shore side. Several of the
steamer companies tried to obtain
such land but the prices demanded
were absolutely prohibitive.
The Allan Line of steamers, plying
between New York and Glasgow has
practically decided to change its
American terminal from New York
to Boston. The principal reason given
is that the company controlling the
line has been unable to renew its lease
of the docks at the foot of West 21st
street at a reasonable figure and has
also found it impossible to lease any
dock property from the city at any
but prohibitive figures. 1t is cutie
probable that other steamer cort-
panies will follow the example of the
Allan Line.
Hats or No Hats, the Problem.
DIR. Edward L. Stoddard, rector of
St Johns Episcopal church, has stir
red up a tempest in the teapot by his
recent decree against the custom of
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