New-York tribune., 1908-01-27
HARD TO GET DRINKS.
IN ILDERMAN ARRESTED.
SaIoonEeepers Hear Bingham and
Jerome 4re Matching.

Acting on advice received late Saturday night
that men from Headquarters and the District
Attorneys Office were looking for Vioiators OF
the excise law the saloonkeepers in the greater
CITY we're unusually careful 10 whom they
served drink yesterday The cause OF TINS
general dry Sunday, according TO Wen
founded rumor was that District Attorney Je-
rome had asked Commissioner Bingham TO issue
g special order to his inspectors and captains
"a 500 that the excise law was carried out 10 the
letter.
Il "a. n-otablv the first time in the history
- she saloons I'm the old 9Th Ward not holding a
ro.e, license that they were shut up tight a
minute after II o'clock on Saturday night ana
81; dsv Yesterday. There were many Complaints
5rar1 the saioonkeepers along Park Row "heh
they got the word
Wen. iF that isn't The limit" said one dis
,,enser of LIQUID refreshments in PARK no"
saloon. Because the District Attorney ana
the Commissioner are al odds about the running
Of this town We have 70 suffer
7, ,ar,,, 70 2 question. the saloopSeeper
wouldn't say that the law was being contlnuaHS
,-iols,ed But this order of things has been
-. - for ,,oars he said. AT any rate. this
controversy between the Commissioner ano MI
Jerome viii only last for a short period anu
then ever,1hing viii be all right again
While many OF the police captains denied that
,bero MAS 2 snecial ORDER issued from Folce
EJeadouartefs regarding the closing OF saiooil''
MANY Of the saloonkeepers said their places were
visited by high up" police officials and the pro
pr5etors Informed that they had 10 close up
tight.
In the Tenderlon il was said thal h"'ii-
her Of rlainclothes men had been brought over
4r,.,, Fsrooklyn % see that the sunday law was
strictly observed. .
ayyai<a
v.rooti,,r and most Of these were in the strong
ras,,o~rs,ic districts one explanation OF TINS
Was that ever since Deputy Police Commissioner
Baker was appointed 10 the force there mas pee"
friction. because it was said that senator MI
s,arren had dictated the appointment ana as d
,,esult Nr Baker was doing all he could 10 sho"
that Mr.. ucCarren had absolutely nothing 10 90
with his appointment. The arrests IN BROOKLYN
Yesterday were made by men who had oeeh
transferred there from the Bronx ponce STA
tons ,
After hsiIinE cut E prisoner at the Nhuf'H
street station last night Alderman Nlillalii
I,-osober of the 1st District found himself
,,-ss,ne- On The charge Of violating the liquor
~ Ian, Detectives Iawlor and Sullivan, OF the
,-i,,,rcb street station arrested Andrew Collins,
: bartender al No 1e6 West street, on an eX-
else violation and Alderman Drescher balied MN
cut About half an hour later the alderman was
arrested on the charge made by two detectives
that they had purchased two glasses OF beer ana
two glasses Of whislley in Dreschers saloon al
No IL West street The alderman was quickly
hailed ont q friend coming TO the rescue.
The arrests made yesterday by the police Tor
violations Of the excise law numbered. in Man
haitian and The Bronx, rs; in Brooklyn 81; IN
Queens. 3 and in Richmond, !, Total 145. Last
Sundays total was 80
Aparr from the activity Of the precinct police
the men from the siaffs Of the various inspectors
sn Manhattan and The Bronx made arrests IN
the LIST Inspection District five arrests were
made hy the district men: in the I'd Inspection
District five arrests were made; in the 9TH In
spections District TWO arrests were made.
In The Bronx drink could be had anywhere.
provided one had the money. That was all that
Was asked
District Attorney JeTome's secretary. Mr
Langdon. visited several saloons in The Bronx
last night At 13Stn street and Third avenue he
visited four saloons.
An air OF mystery surrounded the actions OF
Inspector Russel. Who, accompanied by his two
detectives Reynolds and Sullivan. visited the
station houses On the lower West Side, from
I4th street 10 the Battery, and gave ii was Tu-
rnoreG written instructions 10 the police cap
iains in the various houses as TO the modus
seperandi in getting excise evidence, and in SONS
places. it said. Inspector Russell talked Il
the policemen and plain clothes men.