The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-20
POLICE TO INVESTIGATE.
BOARD SHOCKED by REPORTS OF
EAST SIDE cos DIIIOSS.

York Says the Truth Must Come Out aud n
Committee Invites Anybudy WIN u
Grievance to Come aud Tell About 1t
Gambling House Inquiry ON the side.
The Police Board resolved yesterday a. In
ves,iRate the East Side. The reports that he
residents over there have grown tired ot hcir =
held up to the world as affected with moral
leprosy. thrust upon them in spite 81 their
determined struggles to rid th-m- clvns Of the
plague. have reached Mulberry street. The
commissioners held meeting. They were
shocked. SIR. Hess could not hcli"v" Il. Mr.
YORK declared that the truth must come ou'.
Mr.. Abol offered resolutions to set the police
machinery In motion 10 bring ii out. Mr. sexton
alone said nothing He looked on cynca'ly aud
voted aye on the resou' ions with polite inlif-
ference. SO there Is to be an investigation.
The Committee on Rules and pisci
plinc Is to conduct a. TIN commit
tee Is com posed OF York Sexton and
Hess. Mr.. Hess was surprised to be told
10y an outsider that he was m embcr Of the
committee. Ho never knew Il til then, he said.
Mr.. Hrss'S hnnorS have sn' lightly uron him.
lie has been member Of the committee
by Commissionrr Abel. who. moved : Tho
COMPLAINTS OF citizens" Offered a resolution
p!ine to inquire into the alleged unlawful con-
ditlOns said 10 exist on the Fast Side. Ia-pHC-
tLyey in The Fihand Eldri!ss itr@,C, rrSe,'ets.
The latter name tn" comm ssloner dli not
S!y" It. The board voted w!h cAempiry s..
adopted w!thout dissenting voice.
Moved further by hnTtir comment; Mr..
n ssd 'a0as spssa nySs s niSH mto the
matter OF the gamhltng place said % he at q
Upon The raid and its result iSG hay been 1 hri
up to ridicu!e. lthas been broadly limited that
the PLACE was full Of gamb Ing tools. VII Oh.
ton was adopted, and the Committee on Ru.rs
ana Discipline + 70 ilnl ont -" truth anolt
this also, President YORK buck CA hi mr.
IN: comm, t'ec. he sa 4.
n interviews with rcprc.c, 'ai.Nr r"rs"rS of
the condition cXisting on the fast : to- The
heard heard p,onoseas, to Gna on! wha, th%," con;
Discirl'n" VIII make thorough nv"-t!l alton.
/ am the chairman o. the committee. anu 1
IA to The conditions on the Ea,t Side who viii
monitors will be as thankful a. T. il the con- on.
and they are due % any PUBLIC ,L"E,ilrure, we
wSnt t9 Yo n1i out an W. VII I'm # OUT
not say. Fits wa ting for The men Who have %:e
the Fast Side 10 come and unbosom themselves
In Mulberry street, II Will ptohah.y have TO
and faith in Military Street Thy are T'S s mrh5
at tho City Hall. and II is the general opin on
that they will not he switched OF 10y any pole"
inquiry set on foot Mt this late day For that
matter they do not pretend to have anything
20 tell the police which the police have not
known. better than they do. since long before
Icxow days
I[noth,nf is heard from Tho new Eas, side
transfers in the two precincts. CRpts Dla-
mond and Herlihy nre there now. respectively
In Fifth and EldridGe streets. They both
class as Republicans. Tho political cassinca-
tlon OF police captains Ia peculiar. and some
ont OF It, "
The Investigation ought TO begin to-day. II
happens that the movement II might serve TO
head OF is $50 likely 10 reach an advanced
stage to-day. The two movements seem.
however, most likely to continue TO run on