Mayor Josiah Quincy leads a police raid on the gambling dens and house of ill repute on the North Slope of Beacon Hill.

Quincy orders dance hall fiddlers arrested and licenses taken away from the taverns there. The result, according to Walter Muir Whitehill, is that, “Deprived at once of music and drink, the enemy succumbed to the authority of law without resistance.” The area subsequently becomes a more respectable residential area.