New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
ELECTION NIGHT DROUTH.
Excise Commissioner Promises
Comparatively Dry City.
MOIST SPOTS WILL EXIST
Many Places Make Plans for
Supplying Demand After
] O'Clock.

II will be dry night in New York on
Tuesday, according to the statement issued
from the office of Excise Commissioner
Clement. in Albany. yesterday. which was
the last day on which Mayor Gaynor's spe-
| elaf all night permits could be put through
the necessary routine at the capital in time
10 allow the hotels and thirst parlors 10
ulspense good cheer in Manhattan on the
mght OF Election Day.
| Dry IN spots, but moist enough in others,
"ouIu oe a more definite way of expressing
It. because some places around the city had
oeeh proVned for in advance with all-night
permits which will carry them all through
| the week. In the big hotels, like the Astor
and the WaldOrf-Astoria and dozen
others and in the largest of the lobster
palaces along Broadway. the dry order
goes into effect sharply at o'clock. one
hour after the midnight of Election Day,
ior these places, without exception. have
no special all-night licenses
Some of the Broadway resorts. baked in
! their efforts TO secure the coveted permit
from Mayor Gaynor, were making arrange
| ments Yesterday to quench the early morn
ing thirst Of their patrons without breaking
the law. and the ways thereof are legion
| IN the Cafe Martin the MANAGEMENT has
provided hundreds of papier mache tubs, in
| which bottled goods bought and paid for
| before l O'Clock may be conveniently stored
/ beside the customers table, so that each
man may run his own private little thirst
| parlor after the curfew hour
! The familiar sandwich will make a
midweek appearance in many places. and
| IN others the managers were busy yester-
day preparing little cards to go on each
plate. reading:
| Pay your checks tefore l O'Clock, and, if
you're thirsty. lay in stock"
! Another little motto turned out by the
printer yesterday. designed for use in one
or the lobster palaces which has no special
al-night permit for election night. reads:
Stock up your fizz before the clock strikes
one,
For after that we cannot take Your mon"
Meanwhile there are some half dozen
/ places. no hotels among them. but all of
| them all night restaurants which will be
| able TO go right along with their business
after 1 o'clock the same as before that
| hour. These are the places to which Mayor
| Gaynor granted all night special permits
| after his wholesale revocation of those per-
| mtts previously granted to almost every ap-
: plicant- Among them is one restaurant
/ Nt-4cA4 NAiC -hdSOI uliH6elI, IN MS pre-eleC-
| ton speeches. characterized as "a dis
! reputable place"
| Excise bonding agents who handle reg
ular and special license business for all the
citys large hotels have besieged the
/ Mayors office within the last week In a
vain effort TO obtain permits for these
| hotels on election night They were uni
| formlv refused. and some of them have
| complained that they have since been
! followed by Shadows who have, in some
| cases. made inquiries of their friends and
! business associates concerning their finan-
cial and general standing
| One agent, who brought to the Mayor $
! office the applications for fourteen of the
| largest hotels in New York. was informed
| that no business could be done through
| him, and that he might inform the pro-
| prietors to come down and sea 10 the spe-
| ciaI license business themselves. The pro-
| prietors or managers who did Sc were as
| uniformly turned down as their agent had
! been. in spite of their complaint that
several well known Tenderloin resorts were
| already provided for on election night be
cause OF the Mayors previous action in
| granting their applications
/ Some of the hotel men were said TO be
/ considering yesterday the scheme of in
| stituting a special messenger carrying ser
| vice between some of these favored res
| taurants and their own places for the bene-
! fit of their patrons who might not want to
| move after l o'clock. and would probably
be unable TO find new tables any way in the
restaurants so favored.
Before Mayor GaynOrs administration
/ these all night permits, which bring a reve-
nue. to the state of $40 night. were issued
only after they had been approved by both
/ the Police Commissioner and the Mayor.
| After his wholesale revocation of most of
| the all night licenses the papers had to De
| approved only by the Mayor himself
The permits granted by the Mayor are
good within the life of the regular state
license. or until specifically revoked by the
| Mayor Many of the restaurant hotel and
saloon men still have credit balance with
the Excise Department al Albany on ad-
vance payments, which they had forwarded
there before Mayor Gaynor revoked their
/ licenses.
| This money, the Excise Department has
| advised them. cannot be rebated TO them
/ until the Legislature meets and makes pro-
vision for such act, because under the
present law there is no method of rebating
! considered.