Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-12-17
FIRST EDITION.
NEW YORK.


lHr pAY RipuE rrAaepY--NovEr ORDNANCE TEST
-EsFoRCING rnE LAWS SLIPPERY VAULT |
LIGHTS Abolished - the POWERS THAT BE |
ABOVE THE LAw--JuDD X WESTON ON THE
TRAMP, &c.
Special Correspondence Of he Commercial
New YoRK, Dec. Is, 1874.
| The general opinion Ia that Bay Ridge is the
best place to sleep, now, within fifteen miles
radius of the City Hall. All the men and boys
there have their irons bright and powder dry,
and burn to simulate the pluck that has made
| their spot one that ruiians name with bated
breath and shigering slrng. Bay Ridge pro-
perty III risng-and beautiful property it is too,
with the least touch of ague. But the shakes it
has given to the burglar fraternity make the
Bay Ridge ague seem quite like friend. Ser
onsly the administration of criminal Justice
hereabouts has hardly given the criminal classes
cause for half as much concern IN hall dozen
years, IN this oil brave and catching example.
| As to police and courts these devils neither be-
iieve nor tremble. There arc powers in their
favor that they have more confidence in. Law,
as dictated to the court by great bullying Grim
nal lawyers, is nothing but an ingenious system
of safe guards for guilt; but Graham and Clinton
count for nothing, where the armed cltizen
stands like lion at his own door.
With the romance comes winter. Indian SUM
nier died yesterday-or stifenedup sufficiently
to give promise Ot uelllbe. lnb llBlil anu lo-
day have been boisterously and bitterly cold.
Nothing wonderful, to be sure but 1t III news
here, and thought perhaps it might be to you
Bay Ridge il near enough Fort Hamilton to
remind one of the brilliant success IN artillery
assured by the result of the test-hring with the
wrought iron rited core in the great smooth bore
ball caAt-iron Rodman guns. There are said to be
1000 of them on hand, which can be rltied by
the new method for fifteen million dollars less
, than il would cost to make the rifled guns At
the same tme they are safer, for in case OF
bursting, it will be muflled by tue thick cast en-
yelope which will drop off in large fragments
before the more elastic core can have room 10 ny
III pieces.
All about down town these days, You soc men
= on their knees on the smooth vault covers in the
sidewalks with hand drills, boring, boring, bor-
1 ing little holes without NUMBER IN The IRON, pc
tween the bulls eyes. That II the way the law
works on good citizens, who can be compelled to
u resnect if, without rick to official popularity
8 Into all these little holes are screwed square
head livets OF bosses to protect the loot Oh the
| pulcstran from slipping. Their number must
approximate the millions all at the mandate oi
f the Board of Public Works, after year or twu
II of newspaper agitation
j., But the whole class of low liquor and amuse-
- | ment yenders and other puryeyors to wee, wht
n,imber nyrads of voters in this city, ARE marked
,, At enemies OF society rot more by the pefmclout
If character of their calling and by Their banded anC
: systematic resistance to the enforcement OF goot
h morals Than by the unanmity with which the.
10 combine 10 ostracise every public servant wh'
~ brings the law to bear with decision aud 1rmnes
- upon them. Hence our judiciary is but too gla'
10 10 make peace with them for a full year OF th'
ic most nagrant law breaking, on condition tina
they submit to pay their paltry license fees an'
4, take the licenses which it ia acknowledged the
. ought not to have under any clfcumstances-
" after haviug with great delay, toll and expense
H. at last got the grip OF The law on gnen 80 ugh
Ie that they can no longer defy it. The licensing
m OF these numerous purveyors to vice and crime
70 who no rightly deserve and need punishment IL
O. stead is a burning shame, aud it results holel
from tile fact that they are q class who VIII nc
"a endure honest enforcement Gf law upon then
but will punish it with their votes Ii men {
io the law supporting class were to be guilty {
the completely with crime, to say nothing OF VIZ
an latlone of the license law, which most oil tnef
men now relieving their license are guilty
o' every day of their lives, not an individual wou
10y escape the penitentlafy.
nd Look at the character of this great powe
os above the law in New York, illustrated In on
VI of its branches. Tho Liquor Dealers PrOtectiy
Union mot the n. Y. Liquor Dealers Assoc
tom of which A. Hertzberg is President, col
taius hear about 1000 Members. or thus Coz
Germ the IFiae ami Liquor Circuldr-no purlta
a eal authority certainly-says that the Preside
, and all the other officers AZ well as large part
members are keepers of the vilest resorts 4
oh theves'l loafera and prostitutes and have herel
on fore been refused hcenses on this ground, WIN
'or some of them have becn crimnally indlcte
-, and two thirds of them have been selling hqn
"' without license for long period. The poll
me return of Hertzbergs rumhoie describes
lil- AZ a Glow bucket-shop resort of loafers al
nrostitutes" and che record OF one day inspt
al ton showed that liquor was served to twen
nv children who brought tincups, pitchers ana sa
~ dine boxes for it, to 50 women among Whom
ar black and white prostitute came arm IN arm a
~ ~ vere served six times aud 121 men. This il
~, ~ specimen OF one organization which has def
$50 the law for year. which has at last been hoof
ITO on final trial and which the Board of Excise
,;la now rewarding with licenses which were once a
''s | fn ba fbv laNy1 refused them,
,,ne fast as the fees can be taken a
r"r. the papers made ont-say at the n
T. r., of four or five hundred week And the
tso precious 'authorities claim tue credit OF gre
,,cc victory for the law well of great liberal
~ and enity in its enforcement The chief re
,ns son for the scouudreis selling without license
,tra this time was not 30 much the amount OF
-" fee as the fact that they had been, or knew q
ought TO be and feared they would be, refu'
license altogether.)
, by The wisdom of making the officers of law
Dy sponslble practically to the criminal classes M
'eau than almost any other, by system of unlvel
suffrage and elective judiciary, needs not IN
anu further exempltication.
Last Sunday, the worst and vest OF the
'oNi 3 Gus places of amusement the Old Bow
ias Thoatre-was the only one left unclosed by
wen p0lice this managers particular injunction
ing not vet been dissolved But the Sun
our nil Int orgies of the beer gardens and cellars
sur sur the obstreperous concerts OF all sorts OF mu
-oig' except sacred. were kept up with redoubled
tyty Paul Falk struck out new idea c.
mencing the theatrical part of his perrorma
nt 70 O'clock according to law" and mskil
.rt- night of it. 1t is hardly probable however,
,han- This will pay. Not long ago, the police Y
pIap Iapt lighting to enforce the Sunday law against
a,si nJ liquor traffic Now, that neems to be forgot
orad ~,, by gone, and they are too glad to be abb
i, Keen the traffic curtaied of this new theat
Il ; pe nppenIage Note the march of events.
liz III Judd broke down utterly in his attempt
,7s s'iitss complete Weston's uuaecomplished feat,
~ oP wasn't even able to break the Sabbath when
~ 9, 81 onportunty came in the last day of his W
~ To-. S' Weston is now trying again more conf
.'oo9 co,', than ever of success.
ass at lil9 ,iio na usa and otfer il for sale
w. supposed to he a foregone conclusion that $
art takes il for his plebeian branch store, bu
la has il not willing to pay enough voluntarily, 0
Mas take the % lots. so they put on the scIe.
Mas this way. w
udley' MIXED schools ia New Orleans.
DIR. Al New Orleans, yesterday, the pupils o.
I.na.. Il ,nrt m q