The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-09
SPOTTED WHEN THEY SPAT
~ OPFRi HOTSF LOBBY. THE
n INLAY AND THE STREET.
,-rests An over Town by Wntchful
squad of Health Board Cops Means
uu>lncss," says Dr. Darlington
tov,rr John Dciahuni, One OF Victims.

so5a against street spitters, and many
MON were a rrc-' cd last night in this borough.
r,enty-dyc sanitary Squad policemen we're
,,,,,ei loose last night and told TO go after
the -pticr-
# ga. Health Commissioner Darlington
,lo -.ekcd them on, and he says he is go
inc .o keep after offenders until they wake
,rtntbr. Ilci hat he means business. He
meant SO much business last night that
.,,.e,rc.,- we're made in the lobby Of the
Metropolitan Opera House.
Heretofore the splitter has been pursued
t. ,h,. ears, both elevated and surface. and
fse have been arrested on the street. Per-
.,- vino lave been caught on the street
io,c,prcre J ave first been warned and
-res.ol nrly when they failed 10 obey the
warning
10 warnings we're given to those ar
rested a-' night. and Or. Darlington says
none viii be given in the future. From
,tat5,nc 81 a friend in Brooklyn last night
NJ Darlington made this statement:
The public has been warned time and
s,aip that expect0ration on the streets.
IN cars and fcrryboats and In all public
rsc- must stop. Notices to this effect.
whit renalty attached. are in all street
u
helass The average man who Is in the
Lahit Of expectoratng every few minutes
se4n,- % IA ke these notices AZ joke When
he is arrested he always pleads that lie
didn't know he was violating the law. That
should not lie taken as an excuse here
after
nj the Health Department. and two days
L., ,arlT OF
the Sanitary Squad TO go after the splitter
They took no concerted action until last
night because OF other work they had 10
do When it becomes known that twenty
five policemen are apt to he turned loose
in the streets every night | think the
evil will ahate TO n great extent.
The complaints recently made say that
splitting is done more in the subway stations
and elevated platforms than elsewhere
MANY complaints have come in about the
spitters around the lobbies OF theatres.
particularly between the acts
Or Darlington sad he couldn't remember
any specifc complaint that had been sent
70 the Health Department, but from another
source il was learned that the largo majority
Of complaining letter writers were women.
The kicks for the most part had 10 do with
the Broadway spitters and those IN the
theatre lobby. One woman wrote.
ITS a shame and an outrage the way
my new white gown has been ruined by
tobacco stains, and | have only worn IL
once"
Among TIE spitters gathered in last night
was John Delahunty, the lawyer, who is
Richard CanfSds personal counsel. Mr..
Delahunty lives at III West Twelfth street.
lie paid 81 for ticket for the opera last
night and went to the Metropolitan With
silk hat and dress clothes he stood putting
a cigar in the lobby, waiting for the per-
Torrance to begin.
Policeman Henry Ruppert's gaze lighted
on the lawyer, and he says he saw him spit.
Mr.. Deahunty says it was a piece Of his
cigar that landed on the marble floor.
In the Tenderloln station the lawyer told
who he was and repeated that he did not
spit on the floor
i charge him with splitting, said the cop,
and that was the charge.
Mr. Deahunty wasn't locked up. Jacob
Meyers, a theatrical agent. OF l0l West
Fifty-second street was just being bailed
out for the same offence by James Fits-
gerald a saloonkeeper. Fitzgerald went
fa for The lawyer at the solicitation OF a
busy man who happened TO be in the police
station and who liked the cut of Mr.. Della
hunty's clothes
There was another arrest in the corridor
Of the opera house. This prisoner said
he was VI J.. Dennis OF Bound Brook. y j.
He was standing in the lobby waiting for
the performance to begin, and with him was
man friend When Dennis was arrested
he protested and said he was from out OF
town and could not be- ~ pected TO be familiar
With this city's blankety- blank sanitary
Avs His friend, who was not arrested.
was just as vehement. Both went 10 the
Ienderloin station. There Dennss friend
spied crowd Of reporters and policemen
standing in 9 corner using the floor for a
cusTIdor
Why don't you arrest those fellows?"
said he. but no one gave him an answer.
Dennis was locked up and his friend
vent hustng for a bondsrnan. He hadn't
iolmd one up to 10 O'Clock.
Tho other prisoners locked up in the
lenderloin station were Max Glattstein Of
lSe Avenue A, who was caught in the subway
station at Fourth avenue and Fourteenth
street; John II. Mason OF n East iold street
'fT''N ~ VIC htlctb III lIOhb VI WcbCI y
Mndc Hail. and John Moses Of 81 West
Ih-rty-frst street. who was arrested in
i'ont OF Dalys. For the release o, each
prisoner 500 bail was demanded
george Peters a butler. Of 80 East Fifty
u.'ra street was arrested on tho platform
oi the Third avenue elevated at Forty
second street. William Hess. a brakeman
On me New York Central living in Utica
~ l., was taken in at the elevated station
ihiIont OF the Grand Central station. Charles
nnober Of p Manhattan street and william
Dunus of % West Sixty-thlrd street wero
arrested at the same place. All OF these
we're locked up in the Fast Fifty-frst street
police station.
Fefcy Williams Of 800 Fleet street, Brook
yh' was arrested on the downtown plat
Iorm Of tho Ninth avenue elevated at Fifty
ninth street
william Davis, negro, OF 1852 West
i*enty-seventh street, was caught vio-
's'hg the ordinance on a southbound Sixth
avenue train after II left the Thirty-hrst
suFt station. When Policeman Clancy
.Ula him he was under arrest Davis asked
-Whurer,'
COP.
Whar is An gwine tab spit1 On your
queued the negro.