The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1904, Page 3

) VICIOUS RESORTS IN THE MODEL PRECINCT ineteen Gambling-Houses and One| Hundred Other Evil Places Flourish Openly and Without Any Fear of Law in the New Tenderloin. No Effort Apparently Made to Close Them, and Plain Clothes Men Give Addresses to Strangers — Precinct Commanded by Capt. Hussey, Pride of McAdoo. KIND OF POLICE OFFICER M’ADOO CALLS “MODEL.” Criticisms of police work will not interest me. IT be- lieve Capt. Husscy, of the Twenty-second Precinct, is a model police officer, —Uitimatum by Police Commissioner McAdoo, es Proof offered by The Evening World that the lid is off in the New Tenderloin, which is included in the Twenty-second Precinct, is met by Commissioner McAdoo with the statement that Capt, Hussey, the pre- cinct commander, is a “model officer,” | It is well for the respectable people in the precinct that this is so, With | a common, ordinary policeman in charge of the precinct imagination stum- bles at the awful conditions that might obtain. But Capt. Hussey, being a “model officer,” has accomplished things since he took command in Aug- ust, Here is what has come to pass in that period; | Creeping and badger julnte, known in the precinct under his predec abound, street solleiting, which w ¢, Ie Open and Ragrant, almost eliminated curbed in Cant. a's rem One gambling house has been closed. Tus represents the avnlevoments in the Twenty-second Precinct of a “model officer. The Twenty-second Precinct extends from Forty-secona street to Fifty-ninth street and from Sixth avenue to the North River. Taaing the reforms of the “model officer” In order, !t is necessary to refer at (he beginning to what he has done in a positive way, He has closed a gambling-house, This place was conducted by one “Sonny” Smith. It was {n Forty- third strect, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, and did not compare in elaborate furnichings or strength of play with @ dozen or more other places in the precinct. Dut (t was run openly—very openly, PLACE. HAD NOISY PATRONS. It was nized by nulsy persons—young rounders wel) moistened ctors and the like, Thore was a great deal of publicity nita end the men bebind him did not own the house in which the gaines were con jueted, There may have been other reasons, but in Tenderlo: ting circles the reasons quoted are advanced for the Sonny” Sniith's. There was no rald. He just closed. huts down a paying business without visible force! on the part 2» there must be something doing. ‘As (o tho other achievements of Capt. Hussey it has been discovered that his preci.ct, in the eastern portion, has become a stamping ground for women. When Capt, Hayes had the precinct, and before Capt. Hussey ed with his eight plain-clothes men from the West Thirty-seventh very little of that sort of vice between Forty- kati ny with wine, t ayout it. "So spc ng up of When a gembler » po clo: street slation, there wa second and Fifty-mnth streets and Eighth and Sixth avenues. As it is to-day tae Women tvead one upon another's heels so thickly do they traverse, 80 to peak, When Capt. Hayes was in charge cf the precinct he drove out the ero2por joints and the Lacger places, He had almost succeeded in clearing the disirict of them. Right now—and Capt. Hussey, the “model officer,” has been In charge less then three months—the padger workers call it home, and there are four huvses in Forty-sixth street almost exclusively devoted to the work of the thieves known as creepers, HUSSEY INVESTIGATED DRUGGED LIQUORS, Since Capt. Hussey das been in the precinct he has worked a great re- form. He has succeeded in setting on foot, at Coroner Scholer’s {nstigation, an investigation {nto the sort of whiskey that {s sold in Tenth avenue, He has found that in at jeast one saloon in his precinct the chief component of the firewater dispensed over the bar was wood alcohol, He has done this in a section of the precinct that is beyond reproach in so far as vice is con- cerned, West of Eighth avenue Capt. Hussey has a population that is law-abid- ing and sober as compared with any part of the city, ‘The people ovor near the river in the Twenty-second Precinct u.e hardworking and honest. Yet it was here that Capt, Hussey got busy, while over Broadway and Sixth ave- nue way the gambling houses and places of Ill-repute were allowed to flour- ish and multiply, with the exception, as has been atated, of the gambling house of “Sonay" Smith. Of course Capt, Hussey has enemies. Even “model officers” have ene- mics—and eveiies talk. It is the talk of the enemies of Capt. Hussey and of Daniel #. McMahon, che Tammany leader, that it was the Influence of Mc- Mahon in Tammauy [ali that got Hussey into the precinct. Mr. McMahon had a hard figat on his hands in the primaries. He and Senator Plunkitt, part of whose nalilwick {!es !n the Twenty-second Precinct, have fights on for election times, Close obeervera of conditions in the precinct say that Mr. McMahon's end of the precinct was well served from a police standpoint during tie primaries and (he registration pertod, and jhat wh Capt. Husang makes his few trips frou: the station-house he goes through the western and respectable rataer than through the eastern and disreputable sections of the Twenty-second Frecinct. ers, however, weve gone. Many Piain-Clothes Men. Mneh Money Pasved, An Evening World reporter who went through Capt. Hussey’s precinet both Saturday night and last night found a score or more plain-clothes men waich- ing the gambling-bouses, The reporter Much money passed Into the hands of gambling-house proprietors Saturday night, It was a good harvest. Colleg boys who had visited the city to at- found nineteen of these resorts “dolng|tend the Yale-Columbia game were business.” Only one, a resort on FortY-| much in «vidence uplown. The gam- third street, between Seventh and. pling district was baunted by them, eighth avenues, was dark, These plain-clothes men were having Qn easy time. They stood on the pave- ment before the houses and reeurded with much apparent Interest the pat- fons as they passed In and ont. Some-| times it was “Hello, Tom!” to a visitor ‘whom they knew, but more often they) tood like wooden statues—“doing their duty." fome of them were notleed to check off on a alip of paper each visi- tor, but this was not the rule. the party said he knew @ house where They were making food a bluff, Now they could get in. He led the party to and then they were seen to leave tieir) @ hotel on Broadway not far distant post and visit a neighboring saloon, | from Forty-second street, and presently but they never remained away more | emerged with @ smooth-faced man with than a few minutes. The vigit was kept} quiet manner. He took them into up until between 1 ond 2 ip the morn-| Forty-fifth street, and they were} ing, when it was noticed they diaep-| promptly admitted to a gambling-houne! peared as if by magic, The gamblors| on the north side not many docrs west mere Will wt their game, The waich- from Wixth avenue Several of theve They had won a few hundreds and wanted to buck the tiger. The reporter saw a party of college men wh had tried in vain to enter several gambling: houses on Forty-fourth street. They were turned down by the doorkeepers, “Why, —— them, If they don’t want our money let's go ‘round to Dolly Rear- don's,” one stripling was heard to ex- claim, There was 4 consultation, and one of THE WORLD “MODEL CAPTAIN” HAS STEPPED OFF THE LID IN THE AND PHOSESHEO9SEH11-9G84 BHEHOO > &9> sreser a THE WomtN ARE RELEASED Fram ON THE WOMEN 08909606 PROF ESSI0O1 ON DSMEN ve net “THE STATION HOUSE WITHIN) AW HOUR NEW TENDERLOIN PPPDPO GOODE OHE DEE OEE EDED GERD E EES e ee eee 6¢ \ POOL ROOM in So sreect NEAR BROADWAY, NIGHTHAWK CABHEN HAVE LISTS OF THESE HOUSES, AND HE GETS. HALE OF Whar THE CUSTOMER SPENDS, Go Boud OODE-8-04-9-0-6-03:8-4- 6 boys were not more than seventeen years of age. All were more or less flushed with liquor, Visitors Must Be Known, On Forty-third str between Sixth avenue and Broadway, the reporter found three gambling-houses receiving thelr patrons, The windows were cioss- ly curtained and the outer doors closed, but a ring at the bell brought @ re tponse, The visitur was admitted if he was known or presented the proper ore- dentfals. In fifteen minutes the reporter saw six men enter one houle on the north side of the street. One man he saw emerges with red face and bleared eyes. | This man stumbled down the long flight of brown- staire and walked un- steadily toward Broadway, At a point near the sniddle of the block he stopped, turned abovt and retraced his steps. | Arriving at the house from which he had just come he stopped and seemed about to re-enter. Again he changed Dlg mind and, turning left, passed up Sixth avenue, On Forty-fourth street, where there are seven gaming houses doing business, the reporter found similar conditions, There were two precinct detectives on the block between Brondway and Sixth avenue, Thelr presence, however, did not deter the patrons of the houses from thelr purpose, A half dozen cabs etcod on this block, their sleeping drivers dozing in thelr seats, Six of these houses are east of Broadway, and one is just west of Seventh avenue, This is Lou Betts's. All were open. Woman Seeking “Charlie.” On Forty-fifth street were found three houses, They were between the same avenues, On the steps of the house nearer Broadway were standing a man and a woman, The woman was with companion about whet not Charlie was in the house, She sure he was there, and the man equally sure he was not The weanan finally began to cry, The simht of her tears affected the man, and he sald he wou! and see if Charile were Inside, He entered the house, only to reappear a few minutes later. He whispered something to the woman and she walked slowly awey. A plain- clothes policeman was within a dozen feet of the sceng and saw and heard everything, ‘The woman was looking for her husband, On Forty-elmhth street, near Seventh avenue, was found another gambling- house. On Fifty-third street. between the same aveques, was another, and on Fifty-elehth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, were two others, Both Are on the south slide, not far from the middle of the block. Daly's house on Fifty-ninth street, near Seventh avenue, was open and full of players, On the old seale of -ollce protection the graft from gamblin-houses to Hussey's precinct would amount to about $2,500 a week. This includes all pool-rooms as well aa regular gambling viaces, Smith's Place Desert Irving Smith's house on West Forty- third street was dark and deserted, All rings at the clectrie button were una- vailing. A week ago this house waa open to its patrons, Since The Evening World's expose of last Thursday it has closed down. But while the gamblers keep their doors locked to keep out objectionable | visitors, the saloonkeeper in this A I TG IR = ee TIN MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1904 VICE Is | AVENUE, PETER Downey AND SSONNY” smiths Pace. esort “model captain's’ precinct uses neither locks nor chains, The excise law Is a dead letter there. | Between 11 o'clock last night and 2 this morning, an Evening World | reporter entered twelve saloons and Raines law hotels along Seventh and Eighth avenues, between Forty-second Fifty-ninth streets, In not a single was he asked @ question nor was he | offered a @andwich when he called for his drink, The doors were not locked, }and in many Instances he found from | aix to a dosen men drinkkng at the bar, which was hidden by « black curtain, enth and separate fh iit! leading Righth avenues, t buildings where wide- na preva Upon steps Into a hallway were § } three women and fye men. All were Intoxkated. Their language was vile, and, although 1: was Sunday morning, their voices could be heard fo block, and man was in ‘Three mere b gnt ys cam: of the next build Jown th the Yale-Co! chrysanthemums on were doubt attended ¢ ne undia | At one saloon, corner Fifty-second | game |stret and Eighth avenue, he and his perelwate: cane companion seated themaelves at a| . | table in the room at the rear of the) “MY watch is gone, ¢ sald | saloon proper. The bartender put his | °#¢ | head in at the door and said Never mind, mine w at the be- | “Come in at the bar if you want a | sinning ot t ' rhed 1 dr nk.” jarger of the ¢ The drink was then served. But bw Here and there through the pre- | 9% 3 ‘ cinet were smtloons that wore closed, Dut these were exceptions to the gen- | *# eral rule, cover his pr Whatever else Capt, Hussey was do- has pin ees ing toward seeing that the laws were pvdot add t for a pol being enforced in his district last) night, he was not worrying about (he hued They finally decited to take in chop suey joint. | exelse, aie McAdoo's “model captain’ | Social Hvil Flourishes, Sen Bent fence With the idea of ascertaining the €%-lolothes men. Eight were beoug tent of the social evil in the West Fort¥+| by Capt, Hussey from tho Won seventh street precinct, over whici Capt, Hussey, Commissioner McAdoo's “model officer’ presides, an Evening World reporter paid a visit to the dis- trict on Saturday night and last night The results of these visits were as- tournding. Disorderly houses are run- ning wide open, women soliciting from so th atreet station. Three of these men, whose n are known to The Eventing World, drinking with flashily en in the rear room furnished dive in ot a newly | Broadway, the hallways, and in the streets were 5 Within two blocks of found countless women of the streets, | cai! Wvgnine many enjoying privileges far more ex- he tal SOR tensive than were evor extended during g pian w r from a police the reign of “Big Bill" Devery. |man. She sald that ent oF The reporter also learned from unde curred tnomedia or flat was niable authority that “creeper Joints” | pajded and ¢ F and “biack-and-tan dives" were thriv- ing. The Police Commissioner himself lives in Capt. Hussey’s district, His home !s at No, 20 West Fifty-seventh street | This block ts probably the best patrolled in the entire city From Fifty-ninth street to Forty-sec- ond street, upon both Seventh avenue and Broadway, were old and young women alike members of the unfor |tunate class. Their pinched, suffering faces peered questioningly from ever shadow. Thirty-nine éf these poor creatures were met In a stroll down the west side of Broad gt | Her Dues Pi “How about the ‘pigeons?’ waa tly reply made to one poor woman. The tt cops are sometimes known as “pigeons, . NR Gh | : never ¢ Was the re me to court” . he ‘special He cenne bureau has a representative in the Distriet-Attorney's office, But I want to say that none of Capt, Hussey's meo had anything to do with my eas Here elenh and mor houses, v laces have equared” wit there y EENE S LECTURES, Free for the People at Imperial Lyceum, Cor. 3d Ave. She Said. “My dacs are pald ap,” was the tek reply. Queried farther, she told of hav« | ing pald 85, wee instalment, to |m police offlcer for immanity f | arrest. | “Bat I won't squeal,” she con- |timueds “If 1 did they would send | me op to the island. | in Porty-sixth wer Bev between DEATH RATE NOW AT LOWEST MARK Dr. Thtmas F. Dartington, Health Commissioner, announced at the Board of Health to-day that the death rate for the week ending last Saturday was the lowest aver recorded in the history and 55th St. Everybody Should Attend These Free Lectures, {of Greater New York. It was 44. The | numbes of deaths was 67% and the basis of estimated population 3,670,012, Dr. Darlington sald to-day that In ro sponse to petitions by the patients of Dr, J. the hospitals on North Brother Island | yf he will make an effort to have a chapel for thelr use built there, Nothing of the sort exists at present and the pa tlents have long wanted a chapel. The Board of Health has no money for the parpose now, but Dr. Darlington [ore Rich will endeavor to procure an appropria- | "Parlor Myr AG t ith ave Hustrate system by ith hie y 1 4 vi tion for the purpose from the Board of |S.tures of Europe. Bavot and Japa bd Betimate and Apportionment, \Y'No ebarke (or admission and aoats, bth | eran pot admitted. were four ne thored | « ME Al gisth street a] k ni i Clstrt upants of the gmall fats doty inter- mee, And doors are encom- asseu with ch whieh hold until e Visitor's f. ned. 1s, © ls sear Sixth Unable to Get In, A bla red automobile drew up before a place of the latter character in Forty+ enth avenue shortly Four men left sidew day sto one of * called out the per- dE try itt ’ 4 down the block parlor house, ades were drawn was more e window s Underwear Department. Special Sale Tuesday, Nov. 1st, Night Gowns, Drawers and Chemises, g8c., $1.25, $1.95. Odd Skirts, trimmed with lace or $1.95, $2.45 to $3.95. Silk Petticoat Department. Odd Silk Petticoats in a large variety of styles, in Black and Colored Taffeta, HAVE GAMGLING HOUSES IN WEST 43” smety, 437sr The four men rang the bell, and, quickly admitted. are located @ number of Illegal terrific, last | brevalled ow ftieth street, tty-seec nue, and hansoms | second street, A fight between two women on the! 1,068 MEN AND BOYS, competent to labor in all branches of the commercial world or the do- mestic realm, this morning were en- gaged for service. The call Directory with Sunday's World—150 medium accommodated, N FULL ERUPTIO PEALE IPD ED SEDO ED EEE ODI ED>ODEDRE PETER MEKENNA HOUSE OWNED BY DAVY JOHNSON i. Rr, YHONEST Join” OWNS THIS ONE. KELLY WOH *Lou” BE TY Ags sree AS MANAGER.” LACE, JOHN BAL RUNS BIG Games, NeXT. poor YO KELLYS. 24857 EDDIE” TAYLOR'S GAME im 44% STREET rei i. 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