Show CANDY BILLS PUCE PLACE MUST HOST SOON I CLOSE ITS DOORS Despite Pathetic Appeal the Council Declares Dive Must Quit Candy Bill DiU McKenzie's notorious o n at 33 Commercial street i is After September 30 it will sill pass into history along with the tho series of shooting and cutting scrapes crapes which I have occurred tb there rc recently I Last night the city council revoked rc the license of the saloon although Me- Me c. c Kenzie himself made mado a pathetic and strong appeal Chief of Police Police- Tom Toni Pitt asked the council to revoke rc the thc license and gave his reasons Tho The chief said that tho the saloon saloon saloon sa sa- sa- sa loon had become 1 distinguished st as a dive divo of tho the lowest kind an and that the people who visited it were uncontrollable A series of shooting scrapes and cuttin cutting f affrays in which several persons have o been cen injured and in wInch which ono one negro was killed a week a ago o led to tho the condemnation condemnation con con- of the place Tho The chief said that most of the trouble trouble trou trout ble was due duo to crap shooting in in the tho basement nt of the building The Tho base base- ment is small and contains two card caru ta tables les and a crap table It was over these games ames that trouble started ending ending end end- ing jag in razor and and general 1 fights McKenzie had promised the chief said not to permit any gambling in in his bis place but he ho had bad broken his promise McKenzie Accuses Chief McKenzie made some some som rather startling accusations against the chief before tho the council saying ing that the thc real cause of of I the trouble in tho the saloon was the tho failure failure fail fail- i ure on the part of the thc chief to act He made mado a strai straightforward talk sain saying in part Craps is a part of the colored mans man's religion and if you yon ou give iyo him five five fio mm- mm minutes minutes' min mites utes' leeway he will be DC shooting them The whole trouble in m my saloon has been the failure of Chief l itt to do his duty dut- When I went to the tho chiefs chief's office at the police station to talk to him I Iwas Iwas Iwas was treated like a dog I went into his presence and he be said I suppose you ou want rant to sa say sa- something something some some- thin thing about them over o there a again a n. n This I resented saying ing that I was a aman aman aman I man and as such was entitled at least I to humane treatment from the head of ofa a police department t. t Some of the low class dass of white people I told him bim call cal my ray people but a person with any refinement refinement refinement re re- re- re calls cas them colored people or nc negroes If it were man nian to than man chief I would resent your insult upon me hero here in your our office but seeing that you have havo authority I have to take an any kind of slander from you Blames the Police The police have e permitted these loWne low ne negroes rocs to remain in the city cit and I cannot cannot can can- not riot keep them from coming into my sa sa- sa- sa loon Eight out of every ery ten of them themon or op Commercial street are dope fiends' fiends of some sonic kind and carry revolvers and knives or razors They are as apt to shoot the tho chief or a councilman as the they arc one of their own race Chief Pitt has known that these men are arc dope fiends carry guns and other weapons live from the income of fallen faUn women frequent nt houses of prostitution and never work This m makes kes it po possible sible for them to be bc arrested on vagrancy charges Yet they are aU allowed allen owed to run at lar large e If that gan gang of degenerated dope fiends' fiends and parasites is not driven from Commercial street there wi will be a race riot there some someday someday someday day in which several se persons will be killed I I cannot see ee where it is my fault that one man shoots and kills another nother in in my saloon but I can see where Chief I Pitt is at fault in permitting these persons persons per per- sons to remain in the eit city per per-I McKenzie is in the tho last stages of consumption consumption con according to fo physicians who are arc attending him He got up out of a asick asick I sick bed to attend the council counell meeting and to make an appeal for his last I means of livelihood h He says sars ho he is broke roke and unable to work I |