The sun., 1894-10-31

| Legislature amended the anti. Pool law many of
| the pool sellers went out Of business, and many
and ,.bo Nsre oen,iemsnS Al cant state
| who went ont Of business but ! consider them
| Chairman ieSow After reading the testmo-
| ny given here in relation to the present exist
| enceof number Of bucket shops ~ the neigh;
! Al don't know what the Superintendent has
Mr Tcxow dmpatiently)-well. Commission.
| er. suppose n riot was in existence to your
| knowledge. and the Superintendent did moth.
| ing. would you four Commissioners sit still and
| say. ! don't know what the superintendent Is
| dOingT" A. No, that would be evidence on
| which we could act and get superintendent
| Mr.. Goff then Introduced one OF his little liv-
| ing pictures These were in the shape Of two
| policy tokets. which lie Informed the witness
had been bought on Monday in Capt. Wester-
yets precinct and shown TO ,2inmissioner Mar ar
turned them to Mr.. tiOff with the remark: 81
am glad to have seen them; ] never saw one be-
Mr. Con- Then this committee has learned
Witness Oh. yes. it has taught me some-
thing.
THE NON-ENIsTENT POLICE SIGNAL SYSTEM.
The next diversion Mr.. Con introduced was an
inquiry as 70 why New York had only an anti
planned that SlUn.OOO for q new system had
been appropriated in 1881, hut It, never never used be,
himself showing the necessity OF better sys-
ten, but had not recommended any. one in par
siOner- report three sentences which were den-
tcal with three sentences in the advertising
matter sent to the witness by the Municipal
Signal Company of Boston. in which ,as Mr.
Con testified, Edward =. Stokes was Interested
senator OCUnnOr Nnterrupting after this pro-
ceeding had gone Oh for half All hour. for Mr..
IoR read these sentences over and Overl=The
withent rredit An eminent Gentleman recently
soyuotcd from The Fire WOrshppers.'
IoSW enough for for lis his wrpinT to- become @ Common mon
property and there Is more prOpriety In quoting
from him without credit than Tor a Police Com;
missioner quoting from the advertisement OF
something some one wants to sell him.
senator O'Connor, Well, at most. you seem
only to be proving that among their other Of
fences the Commissioners are charged with lit
Mr. Con iftheir piracy was confined olitera-
turc, this Senate committee would not be sitting
here now.
THAT NOTIFICATION TO LIQUOR DEALERS.
MIR. Gotr next took mp the famous shake-up in
the department In 1898, In which every Captain
but one was sent to new precinct. The witness,
in commenting upon this IN an interview pub.
since that shake-up the liquor dealers had been
notified through their associations to pay no
the witness at great length as TO his knowledge
Of how the Liquor Dealers Association re-
e" rive anyWhere. @ Then he o wanted ted to o know @
IL IL was not the result of u meeting
ssa nnmber of ouer dsalers at Sd The f osp
House. at which II was agreed that II the liquor
dealers would I make . an agreed approximation to
discontinue their assessments.
WILL SoT BRING ms BANK BOOKS.
The witness said that he knew nothing about
this.
At 4:30 he was excused. but as he was leaving
the stand Mr. Goff said to him.
- You know that your subpoena requires you
to bring here your private and public bank
book. VIII you bring themf"
No. sir," answered the witness quietly.
Mr.. GOff with equal poifenessJ-You cknowl- |
edge the regularity Of your subpoena, which was |
duces tecumf Al have not seen a subpoena, |
but acknowledge IT'S service, and that 1t was n |
subpoena duces tcCunl.