New-York tribune., 1921-01-14
Two Cafes DEFY
Edict Closing
Others at | A. vi.
Music. Becomes a Bit Louder
and Revels More Joyous,
1t Seems to Appear, at
Healy's and Reisenweber's
Police Fail to Explain
Restaurants That Refuse to
Submit to Orders En-
JOY Tremendous Business

All the Broadway cabarets except
Healy's and eisenweber's were closed
by the police at o'clock .his morning
as they had been yesterday morning
AS before, the order was openly ignored
at Reisenweber's and treated in more
evasve fashion at Healy's.
At Reisenweber's there was no break
in the music, the dancing or the serv-
ice when the fateful hour of came,
bringing four detectives of Chief In
spector Lahey's staff. If anything,
there was new Tilt to the music, a
new gayety in the dancing and new
zest to the food when the solemn
faced detectives began strolling about
the crystal room.
Captain James McAuley, of the West
Forty seventh Street police station, who
sat in Reiscnweber's, obviously i'll st
ease, until 4 o'clock yesterday morning
waiting for compliance with his order
to close up at o'clock sharp, was
not among the sentries on duty there
this morning.
McAuley Has Day on
1t was said at the police station that
Captain McAulev was taking day off
Until few months ago. Captain Nc
Auley had a quiet berth in Brooklyn,
and since his arrival in the Tenderlon
has been so busy exploring the streets
that it is said his visit to Reisen-
on which he had entered a Broadway
restaurant.
His substitutes had little to say after
issuing their orders. The gst Of their
remarks WIS that they would stick
around and wait for Paddy Sheridan
LIE utenant Sheridan is head OF the
strong arm" squad. They were still
waiting for him at o'clock.
AT Hcaly's the doors were closed at
l o'c ock in accordance with the En-
right edict. The action imprisoned sew
eral hundred diners, who took their in
generation in the spirit in which it
vas offered, and were far from being
cast down. Thereafter the doors were
cpencd only to admit patron whose
face was familiar or to discharge one
OF the satisfied prisoners.
Police Fail to Explain
Both Healy's and Reisenweber's did a
business and were sought bv
hundreds of persons who might other
wise have found late tables at Joels,
AVA AAAi' ., Lue Ald1S ROyAl, tne2 EOIleS
BergSre, the Montmartre, or one Of the
other places whose proprietors took the
police seriously.
Chief Inspector Lahey and Comris
sIoner Enright had nothing to say as
% their motive in closing all Of the
Broadway cabarets whose proprietors
would submit. Inspector Boettler of the
Tenderloin district merely remarked,
when the question was put to him, that
. few years ago, in q similar case. he had
'ound ma, statement to the effect that
It looked like snow queted, If it did not
satisfy, inqurers. He did not say def
nltely this time, however, that it looked
ike snow.
Despite the protest Of patrons and
Z few proprietors, the lid was clamped
down tight an hour after midnight
Yesterday, and in all places where there /,
q dancing the strains Of music died
out. Patrolmen and plainclothes men |
we're posted at the entrances to all the |
eading midnight restaurants to warn !
away prospective patrons.
When the order originally was pro-
nulgated Tuesday cafe proprietors
we're notified to close at o'clock yes
;erday morning. Late Wednesday,
'ight, however, the police sent out the