Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
FOR WANT OF drink.
Camel Found Dead by New
York Policeman.
THIRSTY MEN SYMPATHIZED
City Dryer Than It Has Been
Known in Years-Law
Strictly Enforced.

NEW YORK. April 25-A camel died
on the Sheepshead Bay road IN Coney
Island just as yesterday was tolled into
being. Policeman James Brennan, who
found 1t, believes it died of thirst and
many hapless New Workers feared they
would follow in the footsteps Of the hap
less beast, for the day was dryer than
any Sunday the city has seen in long,
| long time.
| Two hundred men. drilled for their
work by Inspector Schmittberger. were
| on plain-clothes duty in Manhattan and
| the Bronx. and in Brooklyn and Queens
precincts exchanged men for the day. AS
| result of this and Of precautionary
| steps taken by the liquor men Them
selves, the law was observed in spirit and
in letter to an unwonted degree
Up to midnight sixty complaints had
been filed in Manhattan. In Richmond
| thirty-two complaints were filed with
| the district attorney. In the other bor
oughs no affidavits had been reported at
| that time
Broadway in Daze.
! the day. 1t recovered to a considerable
| moor it stood and marveled at things it
saw. At 35th street it observed lace cur
| tains pinned up to show a bar covered
with newspapers. At 23d street it saw
| a door that sported a switch-Iock with
dangling chain. At 42d street it saw
room after room peopled only with wait
ers who looked hungry enough to eat
the sandwiches that were not on exhibit
lion yesterday, but have never been
missing before.
Whatever went on inside refreshment
! places in the Tenderloin. there was never
before such display of bolts and bars
as that which greeted passersby yester-
| day. Men with legitimate designs upon
| the larders of the places uptown were
viewed with suspicion; everybody seemed
| to have eyes only for "Schmittberger's
specials" The camel song Of other days
soon found itself transposed into meas
ures of envy for that Coney Island camel.
In Brooklyn Deputy Police Commission
| er Reynolds made a sixty-mile tour dur
| ing the day to see conditions for him
self When he returned home he said
he believed the law had been observed
mere strictly than ever before. In all his
travels, he said, he had found but three
grounds for complaints. These would be
for obstruction, he added.
Police Raid a Saloon.
Early yesterday morning Patrolmen
Trojan and Reynolds of the West 37th
street station raded the saloon at No. :;S1
Sth avenue and arrested the manager
Christian Cortes, for violation of the eX-
else law. They arrested him with six
women and three men on charges OF dis
orderly conduct. A lively fight was in
progress in the rear room of the saloon
when the policemen entered.
ON the upper East Side, especially along
I'd and Cd avenues liquor was to be had.
but only in rear rooms. Two affidavits
were filed by different plain clothes men
at the East 9th street station against
one sa loon, and one was filed against a
second saloon at the East 51st street sta
ton. One was also filed at the East SSth
street station.
On the upper West Side there was lit
tie evidence found Of business being done.
The plain clothes men had some suspi-
cions, but no affidavits to make.
Can Trade Discontinued
ON the lower East Side friends of the
proprietor" were served In a number OF
places by barkeepers in their ordinary
dress. In some places bars We're set UP
III back rooms, but no cans were filled
which was the case all over the borough
Two affidavits were made at the Eldridge
street station, two at Delaney street
two at Union Market and two at 9th
street.
In the Bronx there was an oasis here
and there, but Inspector Flood had no
affidavits to show for the days work
last night In Harlem, north of 10th
street and east of Lenox avenue, an
Accommodation trade was done in
number of places, but the saloon men
all complained of it as a losing venture
The old West Goth street station had
the banner blotter of the day. with forty
affidavits entered on 1t. Two were filed
at Charles street.
The day in Harlem was enlivened by
a raid on a base ball game 14sth
street between 7th and Sth avenues. Two
thousand five hundred persons bought
tickets and were on the field when de-
tectves arrested the officials In charge
of the game. The arrests were made on
warrants issued by Magistrate House of
the Harlem police court. charging in
fraction of the Sunday law The men
were arraigned at the West 152d street
police station. and were released later
for hearing this morning.
Results in Disorder.
In the meantime the crowd had been
told there would be no game, but moth
ing was said about refunding the mem
bershIp lees" After a few minutes the
crowd began to tear up cushions and
break benches and call was sent for
the reserves. They cleared the grounds
and then had to disperse the crowd that
carried its protests to the clubhouse.
One excise arrest was made at Coney
STAND, Joseph Rose being taken into
custody at the College Inn. Schweickert's
Walk the Bowery, on warrant issued
April 20 by Magistrate Iigginbotham.
The hotels followed their custom yes
terday. but the smaller places were so
dry they were dusty. The proprietors
seemed not TO care greatly. for a stiff
northeast breeze made the island colder
than the city, and less than 5000 per-
sons were there.
Capt. Michael Calvin moved against
the gamblers yesterday for the first
time in four or five years. He sent out
twenty plain clothes men early In the
afternoon, and they arrested Abraham