New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-24
Commissioner Says That
1 O'clock Closing Law
Will Be Enforced.
MAXIXE AND CABARET
MUST STOP AT TWO
All Night Restaurants May Stay
Open Till 6 If Patrons
Don't Dance.

Commissioner Woods said yesterday
that the arrest and holding for trial OF
walters in five restaurants which kept
open after o'clock in the morning were
merely n reminder that the 1 O'Clock
closing law was still on the statute books
and would be enforced The Commission
er had r. conference yesterday with In
spector Dryer. whose men made the ar
rests, and II is believed that Dryer was
instructed 10 enforce the law, but not 10
inconvenience diners unnecessarily.
Until restaurant proprietors under
stand that they must serve no more pa
irons after the closing hour said Com
missioner Woods, they will be IN dan
ger OF arrest. There will be no spectac-
ular raids but the law will be enforced
with common sense"
Ever since he took office Commissioner
Woods has had strict watch kept on
the Tenderloin restaurants. Warnings
have been served upon those violating
the law. In some instances no attention
was paid to the warnings and the res
taurants remained open until 3 or I
o'clock In the morning. In such cases
Inspector Dwyer was instructed 10 obtain
evidence and apply for warrants.
When the Police Commissioner was sec
rotary TO Mayor Mitchell he looked into
the all-night restaurant subject and rec
commended that o'clock be fixed as the
closing time for reputable restaurants.
He worked in conjunction with the cur
few committee" OF which Herman Rid
der was chairman. The committee reached
the same conclusion and recommended an
amendment to the law.
Mayor Mitchell yesterday referred ques-
lions on tho subject 70 the Police Com
missioner, saying II was evidently de-
partment measure" Theodore Rousseau
the Mayors secretary. said that an arrest
would not necessarily prevent a restau-
rant from obtaining an all-night license.
Nineteen all-night licenses were granted
yesterday, after an investigation OF the
applicants Cafes having such licenses
may remain open till o'clock IN the
morning. unless they have dancing floors
or cabarets, IN which case they must
close at 2 o'clock. The following received
Gll-night licenses:
Murray's, 22S West i2d st. Churchilrs,
Broadway and 4Sth st; Claus H. Henck,
New Chambers st; Bustanoby's, l6i1
Broadway; Henry Ostendorf. PIG West st. !;
G. and G. Catering Company. 1923 Broad
way; Jacob Myers, Sixth ave. and $sth
st; Michael l.. Walsh, 1884 Broadway
Ignatz Rosenfels. lAS Broadway; Terrace
Garden. Third ave. and 5Sth st. Frank
VI. Rao, 5e4 Atlantic ave. Brooklyn; Fer
dinand Delenne, 90 Eighth ave; The
Campus, l04th st; the Stanley Company,
the Germania Catering Company, the
Kaiserhof, the Palais de Danse, the cafe
de Beaux Arts, Frank A. Archambault.
2674 Broadway, and f. II. McCabe, 1851
Broadway.
The FIVE walters arrested on Wednesday
night were held IN $50 bail yesterday for
trial in Special Sessions. They are from
the Toxic restaurant, at Broadway and
45th st; Rector's, Broadway and 18th St;
the Garden restaurant, Broadway and
5Oth st; Fausts restaurant in Columbus
Circle. and tie Pekin restaurant Broad
way and 9Th st.