New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-06
TAMMANY'S EFFECT FELT
RRooKLyN WIDE OPEN" UNDER PRES
ENT POLICE RULING.
TRANSFER OF FAITHFUL OFFICERS HAVE LEI
THE WAY CLEAR FOR LAw-BREAKERs OF
ALI, soRTs-A STATEMENT BY THE
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COM

REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COM
MITTEE
The alarming increase in vice ana oisorue''
conduct in Brooklyn during the last 'hree
months is being brought TO the attention Oh VIC
voters in various forcible ways Yesterday tiio
Republican Campaign Committee issued the io'-
lowing statement with reference to the suoJec'
Former Police Commissioner Frank Moss sia'en
nj the meeting in the Clermont Avenue hnk Oh
Friday evening that Tammany police methods are
already being pracised In BROOKLYN ne , niaue
statement which propose 10 prove py st"uiS "a
number OF facts which he did not mention IN, me
Campaign Committee has in Its posseas SqisbinS in
Brooklyn, which could be published u Hecessar :
Win tnei & es 81 hand enough evidence to prove
that Brooklyn is already VIDE open h anu ~ ther
work Of Tammanyizing the borough's Police De,
nartment Tammany's own methods or DIaCklhais
end Drecnc nV While hhero efficient
scientous police captains have either peen ~
ana mace ransfnrss 70 new precincts where their
honesty and integrity would not n'erie.9 FOR
campaign purposes and for the personal pront OF
While the entire borough is more or less honey
combed with Tammany rottenness. certain Wa!us
or precincts have apparently been seiecttu d hock
mai,ers Caring instance Is the seventeenth
Ward old Grecnpoint. which Is in the SiX,y,I ;,
time faro poker and other games OF chance T,, are
running in this ward almost every Di0cK ~ ~
InsDectOr Rhodes was the captain or TINS preeeIHc'
gambling did not exist there. but wien Jonn HeaI
don was raised from the grade OF sergeant 70 cap
tain there change. o, .. >,
efficient police captain that OF Myles O.Relly.
formerly in command of the old FIRST OF ile I I
Forty-ninth Precinct, better known as thc cly nan
the old Ninth Precinct. in Gates-ave WINE oapt.n
Dunn formerly OF the Coney Island PrechcI. Wa
transferred to the Forty ninth since tnls cna. ~
there has been remarkable transformation N tIie
management of the City Hall Precinct Gamoli 'IIs
dens have opened by and other places OF III
repute have also begun business. . 49,
Gambling is by no means concentrated IN tne
Sixty-frst Precinct. Within the shadow OK BOSS -
protected poorOoms. poker-roons. policy SHOPS anu
crap games. While some OF these may nave eA-
isted previous to the present admnstrat0n, nv
never before were run as openly as they are nov;
II is well remembered that last summer aPtt ~,
ORenly was Severely reprimanded by ponce ON,
cials from Manhattan for warning his men 10 KIP
their eyes open for such places and for threaten
ing punishment II they Were found 10 pe protecting
them This was the chief offence when causea
Capfain O'Reilly's removal Now no apparent
effort is made conceal the fact that the gamDhhs
dens arc in full pelation. ,-,.,, t. snoo,o,,v
infected is lower Hamilton-ave., In cheap lodgihs
house district This spot seems to have oeen Se
lected to cater to the trade OF sailors IRON ,ne
waterfront: gambling dives and disorderly houses
of ali binds are furnishing. and with the apparent
consent Of the police of the Hamil ton-aVe staton
East New-York also is a field for poker, short
forms of pcayune gambling; The scandiaIous o :,
regard Of law at Coney Island is well known 70
nnioved for the frs. time the liberty and license
which Tammany eagerly extends 70 an law
breakers. The excise law Is there deau Iette,.
ana disorderly houses and all forms of question-
able resorts were in constant operation curing 'ne
summer season: but bad as Coney lsano IS. J., ~ -
no worse. considering the fact that II !s great
where law and order have always prevailed untii
Tammany extended ts power over Brooklyn