New-York tribune., 1922-12-08
q,.h In Where Prohibi.
ion Agents Fail to Tread
Ti,h VT Orders to Arrest
Al Drinkers on Sight
To Take Managers
With Hip IOiers
6a.;s,an, at Monimartre
and Patron With Flask
M Among Early Victims

NIT vas madc last nlRht
h'o''e' 80 ,ome,hing that prohi-
% sT'ns ass,...lss have long hoped for
hiii,n -. 80 r,r,r rshieyed-a dry Broad
vry t Ia. ,s,allv been
,....,,, by the enforcement agents
~. .s .,-1rs1y With seant results. Last
- -, : ,s, po'iee. and the police alone
..,.s ,se,r hand. Scores Of police
~. ,srrylng specific instructions as
!. ,s,t what TO do and just how TO DO
! r,rs sent swarming through Broad
~, white light district from the
,,,,r Thirties on past the asphait
-,l,,,ol known as Columbus Circle.
y',snily every cabaret restaurant
a s,srv non-cabaret restaurant where
!. 7, 80 thought that liquor might pc
49, vas scheduled 10 be visited bv
....,i,sn ready 20 arrest any patron
@stine the LIQUOR law and any can
~, =, manager permitting the liquor law
I, be violated. 4, ,b.
Two early arrests were MADE in the
v,,trsrtre. 203 West Fiftieth street
,'', , ,.tron. who described himself as
,sS Tort. an architect. Of ia west
~. ~. S,reet. was arrested by Patrol
~ l.'.' on;rn Of the West Forty-seventh
- e..,f ,,stIor. He had a flask IN his
49, ...;on Quinn said. The patrolman
loss'.s.s., Michael Nolan, the as
iilsnt manager
No Impromptu Affair
,,.po ,mpromptu affair, that visi-
,...s Il vas undertaken with a view
!, -, inst a bit more drastic and
a. 80 sofs systematic than other in
,,sion, Al Broadway's theater belt have
t.sr Il was distinctly an enterprise
q Inc New York Police Department,
"a police Department that was per-
Ssr' mindiul of the diseouraging re-
.ehs hat have accrued from elaborate
lTviny.up Invasion Of the past.
IA koisls we're 10 he visited, accord
s--', distractions .en TO patrolmen.
-rrnts that were TO
before by
,efns aad pohee upon srpilar mis-
sons. N. some were in1t.ded t..y
hsye 70 far kept a clean slate in the
natter Of liquor raids.
Instructions Definite
E,ek policeman pressed into service
fsr last nights work was instructed In
iis fashion: Enter the cabaret or
fssunnt to which you have been as
'ghsi hunt out the manager. make
yourieli known to him and likewise
yosr mission, keep a keen eye out for
louot law violations at tables and
upon TIE discovery Of a violation NJ
fss, patron or patrons, and also ar
itsl he manager"
Before the time for the start OF the
ihvasion-9 o'clock-the police assert
ID Il would be the most thorough and
systematic inspection Of the dining
places Of Manhattan's brilliantly light
"a acreage that has been undertaken
snee Broadway went supposedly dry
% a January morning IN the year
1870.
Last Warning Forgotten
Last August Ralph A. Day, then pro-
hibislon director, forwarded 10 hotels.
restaurants and cabarets circulars de-
tning the liquor law and suggested
That cards be placed on tables for
ciner-eards that contained a brusque
warning. Mr. Day made it clear at
'he time that Il was his intention to
prosecute flask toters and restaurant
and hotel managers permitting flask
ioiers 10 enter. lie said in connection
VIII his order that various managers
had expressed a willingness 20 CO.
operate with him in seeing that no
Liquors we're bought or consumed at
their establishments.
The warning oi Prohibition Director
Day 70 patrons and managers followed
ne a. m. closing order for cabarets.
me warning was apparently taken
seriously for few days, but recent
developments have indicated that the
lisk toters were only lying still, and
y The last two or tk months have
~ as firmly intrencha1 as ever.