New-York tribune., 1906-07-09
TENDERLOIN NOT DRY.
ONLY TEN ARRESTS MADE.
O'Brien's Predictions Not Fulfilled
Sandzcicb Not -AIzcays Used.

Notwithstanding the statement made on Sat-
urday by Captain Stephen O'Brien. the new
commander of the Tenderloin that yesterday
would be a dry Sunday in that district, there
was no perceptible change in the excise situation
from that Of the previous Sundays under Cap
tain Hodgins. There were only ten arrests for
violations OF the Excise law in the Tenderloin
precinct, which extends from 14th street to 42d
street, and from Fourth avenue TO Seventh
avenue. When the many saloons within these
boundaries, and the number that did business
yesterday are considered. the number Of ar
rests was small. The sandwich that never
wears out" bore uD well under the unusual duty
imposed on it.
Six Of the arrests were made by Captain
O'Brien's men early yesterday morning,
after midnight, and in nearly every instance
were at Raines law hotels. Even those places
where ordinarily one may obtain drink If he
will accept a sandwich with it are not permitted
70 sell liquor between the hours of o'clock and
a. m.
The total number of arrests made yester-
day in New York City for alleged violations
OF the excise law was forty-one, the same as
a week ago yesterday. The arrests by precincts
were as follows: Macdougal street. 2; Mulberry
street, /; 9TH street. 2; Mercer street. 2; West
Goth street. l; East 22d street /; West Both
street, 10; West 37th street. 3; East 51st street,
l; West 6sth street, l; East SSth street /; East
1O4th street, l. West 125th street, f. East 126th
street, 2; Alexander avenue, l; Morrisania, l;
fremont, 2; Brooklyn. 2; Queens p Richmond, /.
AS told in yesterdays Tribune, one of the first
arrests was made at the Hotel Metropole, where
Patrolman Lennon soon after midnight ar
rested Michael Donoghue Daniel O'Reilly, for
mer assistant district attorney, was retained by
Mr. Considine proprietor of the Metropole to
r,Hn,or fNv
his employe. Lennon was formerly one of In
spector schmittbergers detectives. When he ar
raigned his prisoner before Magistrate Moss. in
the Jefferson Market police court, Mr.. O'RelIly
said
This man is sore. your honor, because he was
put in harness. He made the arrest for spite"
After some argument Donoghue was dis
charged The other cases were all adjourned for
a later hearing
Captain O'Brien sent out five plain clothes
men yesterday to enforce his dry up" order.
These men must have been better known to the
saloonkeeper than the Tribune reporter. who in
vestgated the excise situation in the district, or
they must have taken a different route, for while
the arrests were few, the reporter found several
places where the police might have done good
work
Some of the Raines law places were so busy
that the sandwich was forgotten. Other places,
too. which not protected by the sandwich
clause in the excise law did the usual Sunday
business. Now and then the lookout would
refuse admission 10 a man Of whom he was sus-
picious. In some places only the regular Glen
tele was admitted. but generally previous in
PRODUCTION not essential to him who sought
TO quench his thirst develop his appetite. On
the whole it was not a dry Sunday in the Ten
derloin.
About Z o'clock last evening seven additional
patrolmen in citizens clothes were sent out from
the 18th Precinct station. Captain O'Brien also
canVaSSed the district. II is about that hour
that the traffic in liquor becomes heavier and
last night was no exception.