New Britain herald., 1923-08-01
AIcorn's Men in New Britain Work With Local Police This Morning.
Several Places Are Ordered To Dismantle--Some May Be Closed Permanently.

States Attorney Hugh M. Alcnrns
 drive to rid Hartford county of eN re-
 maining saloons has at last reached New Britain. Following a conference yesterday and again this morningwith Chief William c. Hart County De- tective Edward J. Hickey and MT.
 Ripley from Alcorn's office and De- tective Sergeant William P. McCue Of the local police department left head quarters to serve notice on about 20 alleged saloon and and sorcalled res-
 taurant owners that their places of
 business must be dismantled imrne- | diately. The order does not mean. however, that the places of business will be closed. At all places where the notices are being served, the owners have been convicted in the police court of Holat- ing the liquor law. The order as being issued requires that all screens be re- moved so that clear vieweof the en- tire interior of the place may be ob- tained from the street. The bars are to be torn out and anything that looks llhc d. part Ol lils Olu L1ltlS ddlOOu l0 to be removed. This order even re- quires that signs containing the names of any liquor or cafe are to be re- moved. Chief Hart stated this afternoon that there are about 10 or 12 of tho l cid time saloons which will be af- fected by this order while the remain ing number are the new so-called ''restaurants" where /t has been learned that liquor WIS sold These places of business will not close, however, upon receiving notice to dismantle, the police say, If the
 owners or proprietors are later caught violating the law the. paddock law will become effective at once,
 It Is supposed that the order to dis
 mantle comes as an aftermath of a visit by the officials, of the Civic league of this city to Mr. Alcorn's of flee at which time they requested that some action be taken to have signs removed on many buildings in this city and that there be more stricter enforcement of the prohibition laws in New Britain.
 At the time Attorney Alcorn an- nounced his clean up drive for Hart ford county he particularly mentioned that he was going to clean up New Britain "once and for all"
 AS has been previously stated. the officials of the Civic league called at the attorneys office and later at the United States district attorneys office. Previous to this time they had called upon Prosecutor Joseph c. Woods of the New Britain police court, whom they asked to discuss the matter of liquor law enforcement and sign re- movals with the United States district attorney. Prosecutor Woods several days later spoke with Assistant Dis- trlct Attorney John Danaher, whom was later assigned by Attorney Alcorn to work on the clean up squad. It is believed that Mir. Woods call at Mr. Danaher's office had some bearing on prompting the clean up in this city.
 Chief Hart expressed surprise at the time the clean up was announced by MT. Alcorn. as he said at that time that New Britain in so far as the liquor situation was concerned was as clean if not cleaner than any city in the state. Today on the celebration of his first anniversary as chief of po- lice he stated that the liauor sitIa- tlon was pretty we'll cleaned up in New Britain.
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