New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
" DRY" TIP TO SALOONS
HOBOKEN Has BUST D4T
City IN Arid Desert -Hnng Throats
PGrched for FIRST Time.

II wasn't an absolutely Cry SUNDAY tn tn : city
yesterday. but there considerably less moisture
IN the air than would he expected with the streets
sloppy with the seasons first snowfall Some parts
OF the city dryer thEu they have been in
more than year. but there wasn't a place where
= rsincost umbrella needed
Police Headquarters it is said. had much IN do
with regulating the weather Yesterday. However
that may be. the sa1oonkeepers along Park Row
and the Bowerr learned somewhere Saturday
night that Sunday 10 be dry. with inCreas-
ing codness, ana. cure enough the forecast was
right Some. of course. didn't heed the weather
mans warning. and they were nipped By the cold
wave
This forecast did rot prevail for Manhattan alone.
but Included Brooklyn. Queens and even far away
Staten Island. where there more saloons than
there are policemen. Right here in Manhattan. how
ever, the "dr3ness- was most apparent. and things
really began to show signs of shrivelng UP before
the day over.
There are some places where Iiuror Is sold In
back rooms on Sunday and those with thirsts TO
quenoh may enter after the chain has been slipped
There are \ few With rear rooms. and there are
also some which do business under a hotel license.
Those in the first two classes suffered most
In tho greater city there were 124 excise arrests
s'xty-Hine of them being made in Manhattan and
The Bronx and forty-six In Brooklyn.
On Sunday there are some saloons in which 4
black curtain hides multitude OF sins The cur
tain swung aside yesterday. There are other
saloons The propriators Of whi-h dispense their
wares Sunday through political pull The
pull out Of order YESTERDAY The warning
Of the saloonkeepers' Weather Bureau had 2
sweeping effect
BROOKLYN went thirsty and Harlem end The
Bronx also thought the warning was worth heed
ing. Over on the West Side there were some
places which sold liquor to regular customers. but
the fosming kettle OF beer wrapped in
overcoat when vent'tred out in the street In the
never closed district of Park Row and the Bow
arid rrez-ziTeJ
Chinatown there dark and devious wsys Of
cooling the psrched throat. but -hese ways we're
exceptionally dark and exceptionally devious yes
terday. Back door lookouts posted At the
secret entrances to those places and they we're
always OF the v8tcd.
Hoboken, across the river. not affected and
many thirsty enjoyed a schooner with
pleasant sail home, Others went over in the sub
way and organized pinochle clubs on the way to
the New Jersey oasis
As the police inspectors and captains read the
warning IL ran 1T is up 70 you to enforce the
excise law" and it wasn't done by proxy. either.
Each and every one, tits said, made saloon to
saloon canvass
Harlem. which. the saIoonkeepers say IS the
cleanest district in the city, tried hard TO i've up
TO its record yesterday. trip around this sec
ton of the city seemed to indicate the surface
that it suffering from the effects Of an ahso-
Lutte zero blast but the crust was pierced the
flowing bowl and the fossil sandwich could he
found IN some back rooms.
This is the limit said bartender Every
once in a while somebody gets busy trying to en-
force this law, but most Of the saloonkeepers have
got away with 1t. and guess they will continue
10 do 90 He had his weather eve out however
The ssloonkeepers in the Tenderloin and the up
rer Wes: Side districts thoroughly understood the
importance of the tip. nut uevert he}ess three Of
them were caught. A bartender in the - oon AT
No So Seventh avenue was arrested BY Fairoi-
man Dixon Of the West SOth street station. after
he had sold him Z glass of beer. the policeman
saws Dixon also arrested bartender at No S8e
Sixth avenue. Patrolrnan clair, Of the same sta
ton. arrested bartender at No 7S5 Sixth avenue
on charge Of selling four glasses of beer 70 men
v7o were in the place.
This wave of refornn-to use another mans
struck Williamsburg with near cvrlouic force
Eight Borough inspector Schnnttbersere = plain
clothes -l7el invaded that section Of the city and
arrested twelve saloonkeepers[ The precinct IN
which the arrests made Is n charge ~ zap
tain Robert p-7rr7et DooIey former Gar of the
Tenderioin Political influence had 10 bearing on
the arrests as men Of al rites were taken After
ooontime II impossible to get r drink n
Williamsburg unless you knew the guard on duty
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