New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

health pretty good though his memory is niue i'm
paired.
Allen O. Myers "a Democratic candidate for the Legs-
lature of Ohio remarked here last week. his friends
report; ave shall elect Hoadly guess. 1t Is ques-
ton Of funds this year and buying up. and we can buy
up I reckon, as well as the Republicans"
Mr. West who gave 100000 for art gallery ct Gin
cinnati was here last week. lie is seyentytwo years
old but does MT look sixty. He said: Il was pach-
elor and the only one of my family to accumulate
money. thought owed 1t to the people who had
helped me prosper and whose abors had improved my
real estate to make honest dividend to thcm aud
am glad did It," He is now building at Minneapolis
one OF the largest hotels in the United States.
Ihear that Notwithstanding tho August boom the Sara
oga hotels running short Poor Coney Island has to
reasonable prices, and instead OF adverts
ing price and taking another must advertise the very
lowest price and keep 1t there. Prices are Intimately
connected with morals.
The whistle nuisance is prolific OF paralysis ST.
vtuss dance insanity and OF being run over bya
horse Fret the police were allowed to have alarm
Whistles Then the postmen got them. Next the street
car drivers given them. After that mkmen,
costermonger pemen, bakers and hot-corn people got
them. Next the small boy felt moved TO have whistle
Since that time life has hardly been worth living
The nights they filled with whistIins
And the that nfest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
That scrccch and slink away.
During tho week made the acquaintance OF superin-
tenaent walling He has thirty-sx years on the
New-York police force and entered It in the year 1S47
He a fine looking man. with most honest pair OF blue
eyes large and courageous and his beard. which was
once q rich auburn, Is turning white. said TO him;
Are you n native OF New York City T. "No. but OF
Monmouth County, New-Jersey. I was policeman of
T tho fODE
Wood when he lost control OF the police force. You re-
member that the Legislature created Police Commits
which Wood resisted and there was bloody battle
between the new and the old police. Simeon Draper
asked me II could serve warrant on Fernando wood
and arrest him. said would do 1t. How many men
do you want to assist you = None knew Mr.. WOOD
though had refused stay in his police force beeV-
Ing It to be Illegal went into tho City Hall and sent
my name in. He admitted Inc and asked what wanted
with him. I told him had warrant for him and
served IL. Hs said he would not submit to an arrest
Said IL Il shalt arrest You just the same. said no:
WELL you may consider that have resisted Not
TIL you do resist said taking hold of him. With that
he called ont loudly To of his officers to put out
They came in and ran right out lie had TO give in
later however,"
Mr. walllng is not the population of New York more
civilized lawabding. and less rowdy than In old
times Z" "oh, yes The change is extraordinary.
things rs have under the Old conditions the people
would stand It. There used TO be under The TRfB-
UYE Office OF OF the cheaper class and
have there nine more policemen who belonged
in distant wards aud should have been at that time
their posts drinking cofee and chatting together ieay-
ing their work without any substitute. Then the Alder
men appointed the police" What was the toughest
division OF the city in those days r. "The Third Ward.
over about Washington Market rho butchers in those
times we're the pugllisc class. present and close
by at the time that Tom Hyer beat Yankee Sulli-
van. Sullivan kept saloon aud Hyer poun ed him.
Sullivan then got his gang together 10 murder Hyer. and
he retreated into Park Row. As late 1882 some of
the streets extended but briefly So beyond
Madison Square; where the Fifth Avenue Hotel stands
used shanty. and then tho hippodrome. In
my early days everything that was active took place
downtown and the City fiall Park was the centre
Said I: Don't you think that these suggng matches
widen the area OF rufiansm T. Yes But don't you
know that we stopped OF those things and Judge
dismissed the case, saying that no offence had been
committed To have your police efficient the courts
must make right rulings"
without the intolerance often found among rival chiefs
of police superintendent Walling spoke In praise OF
Allan Pinkerton's detection OF the Moe Magures In
pennsylvania. Said he: I" I think that about
clean d piece OF work as has been done" may men,
ton, however from another source, that Mr. walIing
though offered an important place In great private
detective firm shrank at the first experiment from the
morals which prevailed there man was suspected OF
having injured great corporation. and trap was laid
for him. Tho trap was too much ike temptation ~
the man to commit the first crime rather than repeat an
old one which he might not have committed. 4" can
have nothing TO do with that kind OF work." said Mr.
Waling and resumed his business tere I asked him
about Webster who executed by the Rebel Govern
ment at Richmond rs q spy ana who died galaDtly
Sand he: Webster New-YOrk policeman who went
into the service of the Government and they used him MS
n spy He would not have been detected but for OF
those dark unhoy pieces of work In which the Coned
erue Government was adept man had been tried
and sentenced rs spy In Richmond, and to- him was In
troduced In the guisc OF Catholic priest-tne man being
n Cathoc-a person to confess him. This false priest
drew out as tho mans supposed dying statement be-
tween aud his God the fact that he was really spy,
and so was Webster On that Webster arrested and
hanged"
The theory OF cutting individual explorer out OF
his reputation by getting Governments TO find and saw
OF the North Pole at private projectors expense is
coming to grief Now the Dutch lose their ship.
Everybody that have seen not otherwise interested
thinks brand-new Republican state ticket Is wanted
so as TO change the arr as 1t were.
The sympathies OF all Christian people Or
rected British Government, which has succeeded
In getting McDermott
The news from Saratoga is lively AT the instance OF
millionaire u man eats another's OF on the
track But there arc still diamonds at Jake Reichers to
console the bereayed ones
An extension is being put the Fifth Avenue Hotel
The Hotel Barrett is nearly ready Mr. James ID. Fish,
the chief bDndhoder Ia the Casino Is building fine bach
elor quarters opposite where he to live himself
The mammoth Hat blocks rho Seventh and the
Eighth entrances TO the Park almost ready
The block site Abbeys late Park Theatre is the
best-looking edince that side Of Broadway above
Union Square except sloanes store.