New-York tribune., 1922-06-09
Cabarets Sell
Booze? Perish
The Hated Lie!
Broadway Lobster Belt of the
Roaring Fortics Wants TO
Know Why Hotel Men
Dragged President In
Day on the Job-What ?
Besides. Didn't the Police
Pull a Batch of Diners
From Tables Yesterday?

II New lcrk notel men Know ~ a"F
means which has no. set been 'T'ed
20 MAKE the Broadwar cabareis stop
selling liquor the enforcement s.sat
would ike 20 hear % %. This. ir r.-
feet. was the opinion expressed st DE-
rector Days hcsdqsarrers yes''gd-r in
reply 70 the manifesto ssnt - P-csi-
dent Harding By tho Hotel A'soc... on
Of New York
The hotel men cfarge TIA; "-aTr'-.
ard hTazen violation ~ the liquor
laws" by restaurants and clhor..- is
hurting the legitimate business Of the
hotel dining rooms The inference is
that as between food plus Nglor. rlts
csbare, show. and jug. plain food
With mut'c IN hotel dining room. the
tendency is 20 choose the cabaret.
Director Day refused % talk FOR pub
.ication He said he was considering
the situation His fellow WORKERS b.
the business % making the No.stead
act stick suggested thai u 'rele was
any such violation it Yves ro- tho fault
Of the enforcement squad Iarg Bread
way oahaTets. 70 was pointed ouf. had
been raided repeatedly. and .t was
promised that they would be ra.ded
again as fast as there was Evidence 90
Justify RAID Several csaca against
prominent cabarets. the enforcement
agents complain. have bern delayed by
various legal interference. and IN
other examples the fines imposed have
been lighter than the dry agents would
IKE 20 have them. All that IS outside
the territory Of the enforcement or
gsr.zation. which. its members insist.
"a doing the best 70 car with the means
st its disposal.
Right on the heel. r. the hotel mems
plant came d double raid by the police
early yesterday morning On the Fifty
Fifty Club at l2l West Ffty-fourih
street, and on cabaret and restaurant
a. 20l West FoIty-ninth street. The
raids we're made By Detectives O'Cor-
nor and Confrey. Of Inspector James
S. Bolan's staff. who. showing search
warrants. hustled the indignant diners
out % the rsided premises and told
them TO 20 home. Thomas Lester and
james Lienhard were arrested and
charged with "iolations of me Mullin-
Cage law. The detectives reported that
they found quantity OF i.auor IN both
places
Agents Einstein ard Smith. ~ the
prohibition forces seized wines and
liquors valued at 100000 IN q raid
last night On a garage az 7l8 East
ls0th Street
when the raiders entered Joseph
Bernstein. alleged 20 be one of the
owners. slid down q rope from a loft
and escaped Max Weiss. another al-
legged owner. was summoned 20 appear
TO-DAY before q United states commits
tioner
Included in the seizure were 500
eases Of whisky. domestic end foreign:
100 cases Of champagne and twelve
barrels o. whisky Two automobile
trucks loaded with liquors were also
seized The seizures were made un-
der q warrant issued by Commissioner
Hitchcock.
The Society of Restaurateurs issued
p protest against the hotel mems action
yesterday afternoon The appeal 10
the President IS characterized by this
document as seemingly actuated by
"either childishness or hystoria.'
The statement protests against any
sweeping condemnation % restaurants
as whole. but declined 20 accept re-
s7onsinility for "all night clubs and
csbarets. which are more thcater than
restaurant" II continue. while we
fymp8thize with The hotel men for the
great injury done 90 their business by
The Nolstead act. and admit that part
Of their charges against certain restau.
rants are wholly justified We think -
was a grave mistake 10 send broadcast
such sweeping condemnation, that will
do more harm than good In the long
run.
I'VE presume fhe hotel men know
whereof they speak when they make
such charges. II they had singled out
the offending types Of restaurant the
stigma would not have % be borne b.
the innocent with the guilty.
An unfortunate mistake has been
made by Jumping the various types so
single group and tarring them all
i with tho same stick