Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-13
POOL ROOM
WANT THE COMPANY TO CUT OUT
THE SERVICE.
Quotation From Interview Of Western
Union Director-Hearing Of Case
Before Magistrate Continued.

| Having failed to arouse some Of the Of
fcials of Prince George county to a realfza-
| ton Of what the citizens wanted done in
| the matter of Kidding the county of the
pool room at Kenilworth, the citizens are
| trying to induce the board of directors of
| the Western Union Telegraph Company to
| cut off the telegraph service there Regis
! tered letters were mailed today by Mr..
Allen w. Mallory. president of the Kenl-
worth Citizens Association. to the directors
| of the Western Union Telegraph Company,
| in which 1t is stated:
There Is a pool room located at Kenil-
worth. Md. a few feet outside of the Dis
| trict of Columbia. 1t is being conducted
| under the name of the Maryland Telegraph
Company The manager of this company.
| as well as the owner of the property in
which the room is located, have been ar
rested several times and held to await the
| action of the grand jury. The Washington
newspapers have covered the entire matter
| iully in their news columns and have treat
| ed the matter edtorially. The citizens of
| The community are making and will con-
t1nue to make every effort to close the re-
| sort.
| "At a meeting of the Kenilworth Citizens
association held June 5, 1905. it was
| charged that the Western Union Telegraph
/ Company was furnishing the race track in
assertions were made in support of the
above statement
The wires entering the pool room have
Deen traced to poles in the District of Co
iu1npla bearing the initials of your COM
pany- AT the Gravesend race track an
| operator in the press stand was seen noting
the positions of the various horses with the
| ala OF Held glasses during the running of
the races and at the same time putting the
information Oh the wire He was doing
| this without assistance and at no time was
tic 1nI y I
| egrams 1t is known that your company
alone has wires entering the race track
Cincinnati and st. Louis, Also.
I'm addition to the Gravesend races. those
| now being run at Cincinnati and ST Louis
are reported in the above mentioned pool
! room. proving that only company with
large system of wires could furnish the SER
vice. Some weeks have passed since let
ters and kilograms have been sent to your
| president and Philadelphia superintendent,
| Mr. Altberger, in regard to this matter No
answers have been received or communca-
| tons returned.
I'VE protest against the further continu-
alton of this service by your company and
| ask you to use your influence to terminate
| the same.
We inclose copy of IN interview with
| one of your directors which appea red in the
| New York Tribune May Il, 1904. This rings
| true and leads us to believe that the man
who thought and talked in this manner in
| 1904 is of the same opinion this year and
| will aid us to the extent we have asked"
Text of the Interview.
The interview mentioned reads: There
will be several designations from the West
ern Union board soon if some action is not
taken to rid the company of the disgrace
of aiding and abetting crime. Anybody,
| also, who looks at the list of Western Union
directors can see that there many men
! on the board who are too public spirited
and too high minded as citizens to give
countenance to the business of encoura ging
gambling in pool rooms
Now that the character of the pool-room
service has been disclosed some of us
| feel that must have house cleaning
| or resign. The easiest way would be to
resign now, but we feel that we ought TO
| make an honest effort to clean house. We
are opposed by some of the directors who
feel that they are cuStodianS of the financial
| interests and that their first duty is 10
| guard those interests. / look at the situa-
ton much as a man might regard the
lease of a house he owned If he were
asked to let the house for immoral pur-
poses he would refuse promptly. If, now
ever, he let the house in good faith for
supposed proper uses. and later found out
that the house was being used for immoral
purposes. his duty to GUST the tenant would
be just as plain as would have been his
refusal to let the house for immoral pur-
The directors to whom the letters were
mailed Thos. r. Eckert, John T. Fer
| ry. Russell Sage, George ]. Gould How
ard Gould f. Gould. Frank J. Gould
Samuel Sloan. Robert c. Clowry, Louis
Fitzgerald, j. P. Morgan, William D.
Bishop, Charles Lanier. Chauncey NJ De-
pew, Henry NJ. Flageler John Jacob
Astor. c. Sidney Shepherd, j. 3. Van
Every, Jacob H. Schiff, James Stillman,
Thomas +. Clark William L. Brice James
H. Hyde, Morris X. Jesup, f. H. Harri-
man, Charles Lockhart, Samuel Spencer
and John ]. Mitchell.
Hearing Continued.
The case of Arthur WALL president of
the Maryland Telegraph Company, and
Percy T. Humphrey. owner of the prop
erty at Kenilworth, was to have been
heard before Magistrate Carr at Hyatts-
Vile this morning, but Mr.. Mallery. the
prosecuting witness, asked that the hear
ing be continued until tomorrow, and his
request was granted
1t is stated that petition is being cir
culated among property owners in the
county asking Judge Merrick not to re-
convene the April term of the court and
incur additional expense to the county.
The petition has been signed by num-
Der of residents of Hyattsville and will
be presented after the presentation of the
petition of the citizens that has been cir
culated by the members Of the citizens
associations
C.,sk e. T.