The New York herald., 1922-12-30
POLICE Will REIGN
AS new YEAR COMES
Secret Conference Threat
ems to Make New York
Resorts Dry.
TO WATCH HIP FLASKS
Hotels and Cafes Report
Capacity Crowds for
Festive Night.
So TO S15 ARE THE PRICES
BootIeggers Quote High Sums
for Rare vintages and
Good Whisky.
SO TO SIS ARE THE PRICES

! Police officials hel,, conference at
| Headquarters yesterday and made ar
rangcments for the celebration of New
Years Eve-according TO their own
ideas.
- Commissioner Enright did not make
statement as to what went on in
side the conference ROOM where he
was coseted with William J. Lahey,
Chief Inspector. and all the district
inspectors and deputy inspectors, but
| it was learned that all the talk was
on the subject of liquor and how TO
keep holiday revelers from getting
hold of it.
| When the inspectors left Headquar-
ters they took with them three page
list Of instructions for precinct COM
manders and other subordinates. At
ter the conference it was evident that
the police, expect to make the strong
est drive vet against the drinking OF
liquor in hotels, restaurants and cab
arets along Broadway. Detectives and
policemen, some of them disguised in
evening clothes. will be assigned to
duty at all such places in tho white
light district. Their instructions will
be to be on the alert for hip TASKS and
the little black bags which have been
used in former dry years in trans
ferring cellar stocks to the restaurants
for New Years Eve parties
Extra Men on Duty.
All inspectors whose districts touch the
night life district will be provided with
additional operatives tonight, to-mor-
row night and Monday night. Inspector
Thomas v Underhill. who commands
the district lying just south of Forty
second street, will have forty additional
men, recruited from stations farther
downtown. They will be on duty in res
taurants and on the streets between
F'orty-second and Fourteenth streets and
along Seventh avenue and Broadway.
Some will be on the lookout for booze.
others for pickpockete.
Inspector James 5. Boland. who has
charge of the Times Square district.
would not reveal his plans last night.
| He will hold conference with the pre-
| cinct captains to-day. The fact that he
| has called upon the police reserves TO
| patrol the streets and handle the crowds
| was taken as an indication that he in
tends to use all regular policemen. as
we'll as the detectives of his staff, in
| keeping an eye on the resorts and their
patrons.
| The we'll known dryness of New York
! will again be exemplified in New Years
Eve celebrations at the big hotels and
restaurants. Reports from practically
| every favored and popular resort show
that the celebrating crowds will be as
large. If not larger. than ever before.
and that table reservations have been
snapped up with oldtime eagerness.
OF course the hotels and the restau-
rants have nothing whatever 10 do with
providing or serving liquor. Everything
of this nature which may add to the
gayety of the New Years Eve parties
must come in on the hip or in a hand
bag and be handled entirely privately
by the owner or his friends; but there
will be plenty of it just the same, pre-
cisely as last New Years Eve. Boot
leggers report that the demand for spe-
cial wines and whiskys. including cham
pagne. has been very heavy in the last
few days Threatened activities on the
part Of the dry forces have apparently
not frightened any of the prospective
merrymakers