The New York herald., 1921-06-25
COPS MUST DRY UP
CITY OR LOSE JOBS
Enright to Hold Each Man
on Force Responsible for
District He Covers.
no ISSUE COMPLAINTS
Police Pour Almost 1000
Gallons of Spirits Seized in
Raids Down the Sewer.
THIRSTY CROWD THERE
Employees in Factory Across
Street Expand Nostrils as
They Scent Libation.
TO ISSUE COMPLAINTS
THIRSTY CROWD THERE

In one of the most drastic Police
Department orders ever issued Com
missioner Richard e. Enright yester-
day threatened with severe punish
ment police officers with rowing COM
missions, patrolmen on post, police
sergeants and captains of precinct
stations who failed to dry up every
wet spot in those sections of the city
for which they were responsible.
Rowing officers, who are supposed
to keep the entire city under constant
surveillance will receive a complaint
If one instance of liquor violation is
dicovered in the district they have
covered. One such violation also will
result in charges of neglect of duty
being lodged against the patrolman on
post and the sergeant supervising him.
Five complaints in any precinct will
lead to the preparation of charges
against the Captain of that precinct.
The issuance of the order had been
carefully guarded, but it was learned
last night that 1t was prepared Thurs
day and sent confidentially to all
police stations. AS no member of the
department would voluntarily let him
self In for complaint" Commissioner
Enright by this order has swung the
big stick over the heads of his men
and in so doing has sent a chill through
the department. 1t appears to be the
Commissioners biggest-and perhaps
fnal--move in battening down the lid.
While this order was yet shaking the
force John A. Leach, First Deputy
Police Commissioner. was presiding with
much solemnity at the outpouring of al
most 900 gallons of varied spirits seized
by the police from offenders against pro-
hibition into an East Side sewer man.
hole. 1t took about half an hour to let
all Of 1t slip down the drains and dis
appear through conduits into the river
to form a sort of coctail with the salty
sea, to the undiscoverable delight of the
fishes.
Commissioner Leach knocked in the
heads of the casks and kegs with a
sledge hammer and let the stuff stream
out. Old codgers in Hamilton Fish Park
observed the sacrilege hopelessly,
wetting their lips with their tongues
newsstand proprietor, persuaded by
the movie men to achieve Immortality
dashed forward and thrust his straw
hat beneath a bottle just then cascad-
ing red wine. He half filled the hat
and started drinking the wine. A police
man grabbed the hat and pushed the
man away.
"Crimus sakes :" the policeman said
Don't drink that; we don't know II
amt poison" Then an Offering was COLI
lected to buy the man a new hat.
While the libation was in progress
not much work was done in a six story
clothing factory across the street. for
every window was full of the workers.
who expanded their nostrils.
There were ten barrels, two kegs.
twenty-five gallon tin cans. many cases
of bottles, seven demijohns and other
containers. all ranged against wall of
old Union Market, now a police storage
warehouse, at Sheriff and East Houston
streets.
Mr. Leach estimated the value of this
array at $4,000. Some OF the barrels
were full of wine. some Of whiskey
Commissioner Leach was assisted in
performing the last offices by James F.
Murray, property clerk william r.
Davis. Inspector General; Inspector
William Coleman. Capt Archie Mcneil
and others.
Summarizing the work OF the Extraor-
dnary Term of the Supreme Court, over
which Justice Borst is presiding in the
trial OF liquor cases, Assistant District
Attorney Unger said yesterday that
from June 7. when the court began its
work. to June "a there had been ten con-
victions. nine pleas OF guilty, six ac-
quittais, two dlsagreements and one dis
missal. The number of cases presented
to the Grand Jury this week was 1856
the rumbe= of indictments thirty-four.
The highest fine has been s400. the
usual fine $50. No one has been sent
to prison.
Mr. Unger Is delighted with Justice
Borst's announcement that he will send
second offenders to Jail. He believes
that conviction for second offence will
be easier than for a first.
Ernest Langley. supervisor OF Fed
eral prohibition agents In New York
State, said he expected to have the staff
back to it's normal membership OF 215
men within the next thirty days. He
assigned ten additional men to Brook
lyn yesterday. Many men were laid off
because OF shortage of monev. but the
reliable ones among them are now be-
ing reengaged.