The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
POLICE ESCORT AND
jim SMITH CLASH
Result: Tenderloin Raider
Fails to Crowd War News
OFF Front Page.
SOME SINNERS TREMBLE
HizzOnner's Brave BluecOats
Join Prosecutors Parade,
but Make No Arrests.

With the delectable Mr.. Gaffney and
attendant publicity safely bedded down
and denned in for the winter at Danne-
mora prison. there was no way left for
the prosecuting officials Of the county
Saturday night and yesterday morning
to feed the news columns and 80 crowd
the war of the front pages except to
dust Off the old raiding clothes Of other
recent days and hit the trail for Broad
way
SO Assistant District Attorney Jim
Smith late on Saturday night cranked
up the county Hivver and started out to
fiiv.
Originally the parade. or Raider
Smith, formed with the right resting on
the newspaper men. But as the night
progressed the procession grew and grew
until finally 1t took Jim Smith and escort
almost a quarter Of an hour to pass
through a given side door.
The pee-rade of raiders could not be
said to have reached its dizziest until
police escort had been formed. Neither
Jim Smith nor the District Attorney had
put in request. formal or informal. for
Just the same. In fact. earlier on Sat-
urday, Just before the last drop of ink
had oozed out of the reinforced concrete
fountain pen of Hizzonner the Mayor.
the city's first citizen had taken his
trusty pen in hand to write letter to
District Attorney Swami In order TO call
Mr.. Swann's attention TO the fact that
on October 4 he had written a letter to
Mr.. Swami.
Echoes OF Hizzonner's Protect.
In his letter of October 4. so Hizzonner
said in his letter of last Saturday, he
had clearly stated that by the Red Hand
OF Hugh O'Neill, or words to that ef-
feet. he was sick, sore and tired of this
idea OF bluecoated coppers accompanying
Assistant District Attorney James f.
Smith and Fred Within, secretary of the
Committee of Fourteen, number OF his
own staff and newspaper reporters on
raiding expeditions in the Tenderloin
and elsewhere.
"Such cheap. despicable notoriety
should not be countenanced,'' Hizzonner.
in his letter to the District Attorney on
Saturday, said he had said in his letter
OF October to the District Attorney.
Wherefore Jim Smith picked up some
letter or other around the District At
torney's office late on Saturday. touched
a.
lighted a fresh cigar with the letter and
started out to fiiv. Hardly had the
county fivver begun to wheeze and
cough and cuss and rattle and knock up
Lafayette street through the gathering
midnight when Police Inspector DOM
mick Henry put his hand to his ear and
cried 10 the boys in the back room: Up
and at 'em lads. Meet me at the old
mill in Sixth avenue, near Forty-fourth
t.ht
on this night
Little did our hero, Jim Smith. know
that the police escort was forming TO
head the line of march, AT the moment
the pee-rade consisted OF division OF
honor, composed of Mr. Smith. followed
by a division made up altogether of Ike
Van Lear and Emil Killing. attaches of
the Smith Office. Bringing up the rear of
the pee-rade was a final division consist
ing OF high stepping newspaper men.
Den of Iniquity Invaded.
Jim Smiths pee-rade stopped first at
cafe in West Forty-fourth street just
after midnight. Lights were shining
within. Jim Smith. hating sin as he
does, paused only to wipe his eyes and
then marched at the head of his pee-rade
right into the den of iniquity.
"Whatll you have. yents?" said a
"Your license, II you don't watch out
cried Grand Marshal Smith. while the
rest of the pee-rade marked time be-
hind the leader while awaiting the order
20 march on again.
Gosh" sighed the barkeep, you're
welcome to 1t, old sport. But what's the
idea of wanting it: Where do you get
that nutty stufr?"
Jim Smith explained. II was after
hn aAtl
pointed out to the barkeep. who was
also the proprietor of the brightly lighted
and active inn, could keep open at the
hour the inn was open. 1t simply
couldn't be done.
Good evening, Mr. District Attorney.
interrupted a gentlemanly voice. What
tho h-what violations do you find
here?'
None other than Dominick Henry. po
lice inspector. was speaking at Jim the
Raiders elbow. Into the ginmill stimuli
taneously marched a wholly new ant
unexpected division of tho pee-rade
composed solidly of plain clothes men
members OF the inspectors staff ant
anybody else not playing checkers Oh
pinochle around at the station house.
Thenceforth the pee-rade was some
times a pee-rade. but mostly an argu
ment. And it trailed all over the neigh
DOfnOOu, OuCe jim ln6 Hdu con
WINGED Inspector Henry that a man oper
al that hour could not be open at tina
hour. Inspector Henry had one of hi
coppers take down the name of the Of
tending barkeep and the pee-rade ono,
more took UP the line OF march ant
talked Itself northward.
Barkeep Too Imaginative.
over near Sixth avenue and Yves
FOrty-eighth street, Raider Smith. will
he police escort conducting its own pee
rade within arguing distance simultan
eously. came upon another open plac
that couldn't stay open at the hour /
was staying open. The barkeep hero
however, was even more imaginative thai
The Forty-fourth street barkeep. He ha'
the right, declared the Sixth avenu
barkeep, to stay open until . o'clock yes
terday morning.
He didn't. So again the pee-rad
moved on.
The fiat footballs of the copper escor
iu time began to get on Raider Jlr
smiths nerves Finally as Grand Mar
shall Smith began TO head his own pee
rade down Sixth avenue he paused a
sea level and made Il speech right 1
Inspector Dominick Henry's face
MY friends" began Mr.. Smith, ad
dressing his volunteer police escor'
what are YOU fatheads-I mean to sa
what are you gentlemen doing here
on are not working with me-"
Heaven forbid" began n foremos
cop, but a glance from Dominck silence
him