| Show SALOONS STILL OPEN Sunday Drink Traffic Carried on Without Fear POLICE APPEAR HELPLESS SaloonKeepers Boast That They Can Sell Liquor on Sunday as Well as Any Other Day Sentinels Posted to Give WarningPolico Admit Thoy See Indications of Violation of the Law but Find I Impossible to Get Sufficient Evidence for Conviction Con-viction vctou That a lively Sunday liquor traffic Is being carried on Is asserted by the perennially per-ennially thirsty boasted of by some or the saloon keepers and admitted by the police who also admit that while they see Indications of the violations of the law they are unable to get sufficient suffici-ent evidence to warrant making arrests ar-rests At some to the saloons entrances doors A Is gained through the front s sentinel Is posted there one who can be depended upon not to let any policemen police-men In and thus the thirsty wayfarer gets his thirst slaked while the saloonkeeper saloon-keeper gets the shekels I would be foolish for us to clog ip said n State street saloon man yesterday There Is too much money I In Itand pracllcajly no danger I dont mind telling you that the police are not breaking their necks to capture us when we sell liquor on Sunday To ell the truth the officers are well aware I oC the fact that we keep open and that we intend to keep open for we have made that boast so openly that they cannot help having heard It FIVE NEW SPOTTERS r have been warned continued the saloonkeeper that five spotters have been secured by the police department While I dont believe it yet the aIn > a-In which I found it out Is worth telling about A policeman that I know pretty well came to me early In the morning and told inc he wanted to give me a quiet little Up to be careful Then he vent on to tell about the spotters I I promised him Id be careful and asked him to step Into the barroom and have a little drink He refused the invlta wasnt bit ton though saying he a hlrsty and then I asked him If he would have a cigar To this he an weied that ho wouldnt mind If he did and as I turned Into the barroom to get the cigar ho called attention to the approach of two other policemen suggesting sug-gesting that they both smoked So I brought out three cigars and passed them around I Is a fact that as they walked off I let several men Into the saloon while the policemen werent two dozen feet away |
