New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
HOTELS TO FIGHT POLICE.
,.drest of Clerks on Disorderly House
Charge Denounced.

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held to-day to prepare for action against the Ponce
,,a~.,,ent because of the arrests, Saturday
night of clerks of the Cambridge Court the Hotter
Gerard the Hotel Dunlop and the Hamilton on
charges that they keeping disorderiN houses
e,ohar, T,,n1o,, and T. J. Morris, of the Gerard,
,rara IN consultation yesterday with Jesse Stearns
their lawyer, and announced that they Woui" p,ils
action against the police the city because OF me
outrage
CAPTAIN Gallagher Of the West 4.th-st. station
who ordered the detectives to obtain the evidence
on which warrants issued. is apparently not
worried at all. He made Investigations OF these
hotels and others he says because OF Complaints
corning from neighbors and in some cases rom
persons living at the hotels He discovered iu'n
looseness in doing business he declares, ana
thinks methods will improve He intends to clean
nm his precinct. he says and will more have
disorderly hotels than other resorts
The four clerks-CharIes Buckley. of No Us Wes'
xsth-st of the Cambridge Court: Manchester ut
man. OF the Hotel Gerard; Harry J. Wills. OF NO
2s2 west 4sd-st. of the Hotel Dunlop, and Henry
8 Bicknell OF No. IS West 57th-st.. Of the HamI-
ton Hotel-were arraigned before Magistrate Baker
In the West Side court yesterday The charges
were set forth afidavits by Detectives Mc1Falil
and Marx who swore that in each case one had
,,a IN the hotel without baggage. registered, oc-
~,,,,sed n room with a woman for an hour or TWO
and then had left the hotel a short time later
the other would apply at the same hotel with me
.srna woman would register as man and wife ard
vro,ld ne assigned 10 a room by the same ciefk
7he cases Of the Gerard the Hamilton and the
r,-Io-, went over until this afternoon. The clerk
OF the Cambridge Court was discharged because
a. management showed that while McGrath reg
;s+a-ad there before midnight, Marx did not come
,,ntil after midnight, and different clerk was on
duty. .,...,
The hotel expressed the greatest Indignation
Yesterday. They protested that they were run
ming respectable hotels. living there themselves
rath their wives and families, and having many
Roland
NcCurdy OF the Cambridge Court. declared that
In his opinion the arrests were a strike He
xaid:
The police got in wrong here and they know ToTe
20 ge' ,baT, yoJ,ld get This case cut off and come
around raising trouble our license Inc! sac
Themselves there never had been a co+Rpla nm
most care about whom We have here Those de,
tectives came here they were not olsorug i on,
appeared decent We could not refuse 20 ,el oI
have rooms They had no 6ag a31g 3 so We dare
not ask a man to show the marriage certihcate-
Mr.. Dunlop said that he did not intend to let
the affair drop. He added:
It is an outrage. My hotel is decent I live here
With my T. family ami + ana so Ps house You'd have
my wife and them here? Not nlucll- lltS', ,a,,
Is n our business to stare at every woman VINO
comes to the hotel with man representing hersel ser
the wedding ring? If that did happen here as me
aeteGt9e fbe ctv and can't be prevented Mr. Nor
ris of the Gerard. and I have been in consultation
with our lawyer to-day 10 see what we can 90 ABOUT
II We shan't let It go without fight certainly.
Mr. Morris and Mr.. Dunlop both said that they
had often been asked TO advertise in police clrcu-
lars or programmes for police games or similar
affairs. They intimated that refusals might nave
had something TO do with the raids. Captain Gal
lagher said:
I'd like to have them tell me If they have been
approached by any policemen for such purpose
made these arrests on warrants issued by naSls-
trate, who must have thought the evidence war
ranted strong action. Complaints have come 10 me
about the manner in which many of the so-cal!ed
good apartment hotels were doing business IN TINS
precinct. In some cases. neighbors IN the houses
In the of these hotels told me- that rear win
dows in the hotels were not shaded, and exposed
disgraceful conditions. Other similar information
came from people in the hotels. sent out my men,
and they got evidence which brought warrants
from a magistrate.
I'm going to keep this precinct clean The hotel
men say I ought to raid recognized disordeTiy
houses before annoying respectable hotels There
hardly a day don't make raids on disorderly
houses, though it's much harder TO get evidence
there than It in the cases of these hotels
We're used to all this talk about graft on the
part Of police, and it's not going 10 bother Us
or keen from duty here take full re
Sponsibilty for this action Il was not suggested
hv the Commissioner the Inspector All l say
is that I intend have clean precinct II its