New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-20
Gamblers and Other Purveyors
Of Vice Rely on ''0utWard
DeCenCy" Order Sent
Out from City Hall.
RICH WOMEN IN FEAR
Woman Who Kept Gambling
House for Them Threatens to
Reveal Names of Socially
Prominent Among Her
Patrons to Committee.

DoIetul predictions by those of the
over and under world that the killing
Of Herman Rosenthal and the exposure
Of police partnership with vice and
crime would result in Broadway being
turned into a Cowpath have not been
realized. Neither are they likely to be.
The West Side from the 4Os up to
Harlem is wider open than ever.
Even the outward decency' plan by
which Mayor Gaynor attempted to cur
tain off gambling and other forms of
vice, has gone by the board
Observations by reporters for The
Tribune along Broadway and the upper
West Side reveal that Broadway
never was less a cowpath. Gambling
and disorderly houses running full
blast are not numerous on cowpaths.
Neither are palaces of chance con-
Quoted exclusively for women of wealth
and more or less soci.,lly prominent
connected with bucolic byways. Police
tribute on vice is not levied amid such
truly rural surroundings.
Mrs Mary Goode. whose exposures
of the police overlordship Of vice
focused the attention Of District At
torncy Whitman on several high Off
ciaiS Of the force and their police and
civilian tribute gathererS. Illuminated
one angle Of the situation when she
said that since the revelations of the
Becker case the police had become
more rapacious than ever in their eX-
actions on vice. That the outward
dcconcy" order of Mayor Gaynor has
aided them greatly in levying tribute is
the opinion Of gamblers and others, as
voiced to reporters for The Tribune.
Where Women Gamble.
Another fact that shows Broadway
to ho many times removed from re-
eDmblancc 10 a COWpath is the revel1-
ton of gambling places for women all
over the upper West Side. Following
'he aid on the apartment of Mrs. Belle
Gubner. in West 92d street. informa-
tion that scores of such establishments
arc scattered all over that part of the
city has come TO light The majority
Of Them are Iatronized by women oi
wealth and social station, while others
are frequented by both men and women
who have money TO risk in games Of
chance.
Like Mrs Goode, Mrs. Gubner has
turned on the police. She openly
charged that the police know Of the
existence of these places and levy the
usual tribute upon them for the bene-
nt of the system" Her declaration
that she will reveal all she knows OF
The police partnership with this form
of vice 10 the Curran committee Of the
Board of Aldermen has caused PEI
turba ton not only among the police
men involved but among the women
freauenters of these gambling houses
dc luxe She has declared that her
story will bring many women who arc
prominent socially and many business
and professional men into the stror <
light Of an unwelcome publicity.
Mrs. Gubner said she would go be-
fore the aldermanic committee to-day
and tell of one gambling house in West
6lth street which is frequented by
men and women of high standing IN
business and social circles. which IS
equipped ON Il lavish scale and the play
is for high stakes. The existence OF
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