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Show UNPRECEDENTED CONDITION. Holy Day an Excuse for Closing Tenderloin Ten-derloin Joints. NEW YORK, April 22. Tho sensational sensa-tional affray in a resort known as Toby's place'about a week ago in which one man was killed and two others severely se-verely stabbed, today resulted in an almost unprecedented condition In the Terderloln. During- the hours between 1 and 5 o'clock this morning the period prescribed pre-scribed In the excise law, not a light was burning in any of the hundreds of places peculiar to that district. Saloons and Raines' law hotels, rathskellers and other similar resorts which. for years had not closed their side doors day or night had suspended operations completely. In every front window was a sign conspicuously displayed announcing that place had been closed on account of Good Friday. Developments of the past week, however, indicate thai tho holy day was taken as an excuse rather than as a reason by the proprietors of these resorts. |