Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-06-14
CROOKED "COPS.' y
They Allow Vice 10 Flour
ISh in New York.
GET MILLIONS OF DOLL AIRS.
Saloon Keepers, Immoral Women and
Gamblers Have 10 Shell Out.

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE interest In
the sittings Of the police investigating
committee IL increasing every day, and
the sensational evidence adduoed IL Great
ing much excitement An afternoon
paper, which has heretofore been re-
gardsd ~ favorable TO Tammany. prints
an article under the head OF Police
Revenue"
It il sought TO be shown in this article
the amount Of illegitimate revenue said
to have been received by the police Of
New York annually, and this showing is
based upon tue testimony thus far taken
before the Lexow investigation COM
mittee.
The paper starts out with a statement
of the number of men employed In the
police force, which is 5000 The fact Is
cited that the amount appropriated by
the board Of estimate In the budget OF
1894 10 IS, l59. l4I This amount II en-
tered up as the legitimate sum received
by the police force for its maintenance.
The paper introduces It's showing az fol-
lows:
"The testimony brought out by the
Lexow investigating COMMITTEES shows
that the police, in addition TO their SAL
aries from the city, have had an addi-
tionAl income contributed by the keepers
of disorderly houses, saloons, gambling
houses, merchants and pushcart ped
dlers. This extra income is called paying
for protection for those who pay. BY the
pu bile it 10 sometimes called blackmaiL
The police probably call it psrQuisites."
Heavy Tithsa
The fact Is cited that there are 1000 sa-
looms In the city Of New York, and the
paper reckons that the police charges for
protection for side doors, open Oh Sunday.
is Sl0 week for each saloon. Allowing
that one-half OF the saloons paid these
charges, the total for one year is es-
timatsd at O., $4,000 The paper quo -
ia a conversation held with AN Official of
the police department. who estimates the
mum Der of degraded women in the city TO
be A5.000.
Upon the basis of the last census an
estimate of five persons to q house 10
made, and upon this basis IL is stated
that the 5000 immoral women In New
York are quartered in 1900 disorderly
houses. According to the alleged police
schedule of prices for opening disorderly
houses, the income to the police from
this one source is estimated by the paper
TO be 81, $4,000.
After the opening of these immoral
houses. according TO the evidence before
the Lexow committee, the keepers OF the
houses are required to pay from $50 to 800
a month, and tire paper making these es-
Inmates reckons that from this source
the police receive annually incomes OF
o., 10000. About t45O,0Ooa year 10 enti-
mated the amount of the alleged extra
charges for znscial faVnrs and nroLsction
8amblers Contributions.
The estimated income from gam bling
houses and policy shops is sl65, 900 u year.
There are reckoned TO the other special
rates levied upon merchants for the privi-
lege Of putting boxes on their sidewalks,
merchants who want TO keep open on
Sunday and push cart peddlers who want
to syade the city ordinance that prohibits
them from standing more than five min
utss In one place
The paper which is qnoted states that
200 new policemen are placed on the force
each year, and estimates upon the basis
OF the alleged rate OF $500 to get on the
force, that the income from this source In
90 600 . year.
The grand totsl made upon the basis
Of the testimony presented before the
Lsxor committee, including the legiti-
mate Approyfi tions made by the state to
maintain the police, and the other items
above referred 20, aggregate els. 1854, 147.