New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-07
JACKS LOSES ITS
ALL-NICHT LICENSE
Mitchell Acts After Hearing
Story of Fight There in
Early Hours.


years than some people can figure has
| catered to the al-night ade OF the
white light district, was closed AT
| o'clock this morning. Ii had often
/ been said that when the place was
| opened. some twenty-five years ago,
the key was thrown away. But Mayor
/ Mitchell revoked the all-night license OF
John Dunstan, the proprietor yester-
day. after Arthur Woods, his secretary.
had investigated report that two
Young patrons had been brutally
handled in fight there in the early
hours Of Thursday morning.
Jack Dunstan took it hardly when
Lieutenant Kennel, Of the Mayors
office. notified him that at o'clock he
was to stop selling both food and liquor.
AT Il: % TWO policemen in uniform got
lust inside the doors when they were
pulled back by Detective Jones, Of In
spector Dryers staff, and stationed
outside. At o'clock Inspector Dwyer
entered and Jimmy Keller the house
man. told the patrons they must quit.
There were only thirty-fve in the
restaurant at the time. and fifteen Of
them we're women. They all bowed
politely to the edict. \ crowd collect
cd outside watching the autos and taXis
arrive with men i'm evening dress and
women in tango frocks. and seeing them
shooed away by the police, as they eX-
claimed i'm wonder, What, Jack 5
closed. Oh. N.Y.
Speaking OF the action taken by him.
Mayor Mitchell said:
Il want IT clearly understood thdt l
will not tolerate any public place where
scenes such as have been detailed to
me are allowed 10 take place. For that
reason ] have revoked Jacks license.
The Mayor said he would probably
be able 10 announce his policy in re
gard 10 an-night licenses either to-
morrow or Monday.
The story was that the diners had
got into an altercati ton with a waiter.
who was accused of withholding
change: that another diner interfered'
and finally the young men were thrown
into the street by the walters.
When report was taken TO MI
Woods he sent for the policeman on
the beat. The officer said he found
two men in front of the Sixth avenue
entrance to Jacks about j o'clock In
the morning all battered up. They
said they had been assaulted by seven
or eight walters. The fight they said,
had started in the restaurant when one
of the walters bad called them foul
names.
The policeman said the right eye OF
each was closed and they had variety
of abrasions on their faces. They re-
fused TO give their names, and said
thev could not identify the walters who
had struck them.
NJ. Woods said he had been unable
70 learn who the young men were, but
he hoped to get into touch with them
within a day or so. The story OF the
policeman. Woods said, was confirmed
bv two eyewitnesses who had come
forward.
For some years Jacks was one OF the
few places in the vicinity Of the theat-
rical district that had an all-night IL
cense Much Of the early morning life
Of the district was TO be found there
after o'clock in the morning. Often
well known men patronized it as the
only Mace where a meal could be OBJ
tanned after that hour
John Dunstan, jr., who is the actlNe
manager of the restaurant Tor His
father. said yesterday he was not pres
emf when the trouble occurred. He had
heen told. however, that two young men
had got into an alteration and II pe-
caue necessary 10 put them out OF the
,I,ce He said the orders to the wait
ore we're never to strike man in put
ting him out. but 10 shove him through
the door So far as he could learn that
-,,o had not been broken. He had
heard there had been some fighting IN
the street but for that the management
~ the restaurant was not responsible.
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