Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-12-22
Immense Affair Being Planned for Der
elects viii Merely Shed Light
From Many Colored Bulbs.
EARLY CLOSING LAW is
NOW BEING ENFORCED
Police Inspector Dwyer Is On Job and
All Resorts Which Kept Going
Hours Mourn
BY CARLTON TEN EYcK.
(Written for the United Press. }

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of workmen today were busy in Madi-
son Square that haven of the homeless
and helpless, setting up the biggest
Christmas tree that could be found in
the Maine woods. The tree is the gift
Of the Idealists and a band of charit-
able people Of wealth who choose to
hide their Identities, if not their light
under q bushel. 1t is a tree for all the
people and when its myriad and multi
colored electric lights are turned on
Wednesday at night-fall it will be-
come the beacon Of "peace and good
will to men" beacon for those dere-
licts of the Square and the districts be.
low it, the East Side and the Bowery
who win know no other Christmas en-
blem.
The true will hold no other presents
The Idealists are Spugs. 1t will shed
merely lights and color but that is
novel enough for the sad ones who
come from all the out.ofthe-way cor.
neds Of the city to look at it. Their
lives are colorless and know little light
The tree will be lighted from sunset to
midnight every night during Christmas
week.
The Idealists inaugurated the Madi.
son Square Christmas tree last year
and it proved such success that they
decided to make it an annual feature
Men, women and children came nightly
by the thousands to look at the bril-.
liantly Illuminated sign Of Christmas
and some sat for hours on the park
benches, gazing at the lights. The tree
seemed to have fascination for some
Many of the same people came every
night. Ohservant watchers noticed
that some looked wistfully and appre-
ciatively, while others looked bit
scornful when they first came, but all
went away looking more hopeful than
when they came, That was what made
the unknown charitable ones deter
mino on the tree as a yearly thing, the
hopefulness that it seemed to bring.
Dwyer Back on Job.
broadway fareB are on the anxious
sea. again, Police Inspector Dwyer is
back on the job and enforcing the a,
m, closing law to the letter and to the
minute. The late Mayor Gaynor was
n firm believer in early closing Of
cafes and restaurants, and was sup
posed to be the father of it, When he
died, IL was whispered about ground.
lessly that Mayor Kline would ease up
n bit and allow the lid to tilt About
that time Inspector Dwyer, the nemesis
of late-or early, it depending on one 3
point Of view-hours on the Great
White way, went on vacation,
IL was just coincdent, Of course,
for Dwyer's vacation TO come at the
time Of the change Of the Mayors, and
no official order ever was given to
loosen up on Longacre Square and con-
tguous territory But when the police
cat is away Tenderloin mice win play,
aud the word went around that II was
safe to keep tho merry.merry going q
! little after the legal closing hour
lengthoning the the trespass gradually
so as not to attract any hue and cry
Soon the much abused lid looked like q
Swiss cheese, Then Dwycr came back
His coming WIS not announced In the
police bulletin or the newspapers, but
everybody know II an hour after he
struck the White Light district AZ
| a. m. no marched his men into five
resorts whose managers and patrons
supposed that everything was lovely
again, aud ordered them to close, He
enforced his order by showing the men
and women out OF the places. That was
tho beginning and now Broadway is
dark an hour after midnight,
The stiffness, thick enough to cut
with n knife is IA much in evidence "a
In the late lamcntcd Mayor Gayuor''
time. During the lull several Of the
places In tho Fortics that went out OF
business were open again. The Toxic
put in u tango floor aud threw it'
doors wide opcp The closed Grccr
Turtle put In a cabaret and blososmet
out as the Latin Quarter, Such place.
are the hardest hit by the early clOe
ing because they cannot exist on The
patronage they receive during th'
scant hour and a half between the clos,
Of the theatres and the curfew
Democratic Fear Az.
Many good Democrats Of Now Yorl