New-York tribune., 1899-07-14
TAMMANY PHILANTHROPY.
FOSTERING GAMES OF CHANCE FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THE YOUTH OF THE CITY.
WHILE CHIEF DEvERY is BLIND TO THE EN-
IsrENCE OF GAMBLING HOUSES. HIS po-
IIcEMEN GO ABOUT CLUBBING
INOFFENsIyE CITIZENS.


Now that Tammany Hall Is running the police
force every poor messenger boy who wants 10
invest the 1O-cent tip some kind person has
given him in a lottery ticket and so win thou-
sands for himself has the opportunity or DONG
no. Tammeny also would not prohibit s'rus-
rlinr Young clerk from investing his few dollars
IN a ticket on a race. Tammany would not
stand IN the way OF the newsboy who wants 10
take his 35 cents and win few dollars. so that
he could take his poor aged mother out or the
city for the summer. Tammany Is essenuaiN
a nhilanthropic organization. 1t believes IN
helping and fostering all these laudable desires
Therefore. lawmakers who cannot understand
the wishes and wants OF the public are allowed
20 make laws but Tammany kindly forgets TO
enforce them.
This philanthropic desire on the part OF Tam
many IL well known to those benevolent persons
who delight 70 act as the medium by which the
newsboy, the flower girl the clerk or the paroer
can invest his money in lottery tickets race
track wagers and so on. and get suddenly rich'
and consequently rooms have been opened
where they can be accommodated. These TAM
many soup kitchens are scattered every
where Hundreds and hundreds OF pooirooHs
are in full blast. In a score OF barber snoPs
and even on the street in the Tenderloin, tickets
In the Honduras lottery can be purchased.
MORE NUMEROUS THAN EVER.
The gambling houses where every kind OF
game Of chance Is represented are more numer-
GUS than ever. Tammany Hall does not intend
ever to have 1t said that It stopped or prevented
a worthy young man from making his fortune
At the wheel or over the pasteboard cards
Chief Devery says that the poolrooms and
II out Of kindness OF heart like the fond uncle
who wouldn't tell when he saw his nephew
steal the jam. OF course. there are people VINO
think this NAV be a mistaken theory on the
part OF Tammany and misplaced charity-nut
Tammany doesn't think so. and these eleemosy-
nary institutions. fostered and cared for by
Tammanv. are fourishing. and have expanded
bevond any previous record in the city.
tn. roughness and brutality OF the policemen
have heen apoken OF much OF late. and many
stories have been told OF their vicious brutallty.
The following case Is striking example:
Policeman James Regan. OF the Madison-st sta
ton. was arrested by Deputy-Sherin wagering
and locked up In Ludlow Street jail. on an or
Ger signed by Justice Stover. in the Supreme
Court in an action to recover $4,000 for as
sault and battery Instituted against him by
Max Rosenberg a tailor Of No GA Rutgers-st'
Rail wa. fixed at $3.50 which Regan could not
give The allegations made by Rosenberg IN
his complaint and affidavit present horrioe
tale OF brutality on the part Of the policeman
C1uBBED BY THE POLICEMAN.
Rosenberg alleges that, on the evening OF
June 1 last. about $50 O'Clock. he was sitting
on bench outside Rutgers Park when hegah'
wbo was under the influence Of liquor. came
DIV n X,
and then turned his attention to Rosenberg
whom he struck several times on the head ana
hack with his club Rosenberg says he became
dazed from the blows. and that he was unaoie
to move away. Regan then grabbed him by the
throat called him names OF hlthy CHARACTER
and abused him. He next dragged him through
Monroe-st toward the Madison-st station with
large crowd following him and denouncng
rim, for his brutality. The people In the crowd
begged him several times not to hurt the piai"-
tiff -, .ha
, Peean's answer to the remonstrances or lhe
crowd was Rosenberg AYERS: TN shoot any
body who dares to come near me he then
pulled his revolver, which caused the crown W
stond hack II being small man anu he :"
yery h,e one" Rosenbeyg declares. Il was un-
able to do anything TO prevent the murueious ti
assaults ne was making upon me. Wnen i M 'n9
crowd drew back. he replaced MS pls,oi all, an
held me nv the throat with one hand and STRUCK
me violently with his other fist on both Jaws
breaking them both He continued 10 urae me
along until we got TO the station mouse, WheI
he made charges against me. but the sereean'
81 the desk when he saw the intoxicated con-
dition in which Regan was, immeuia'FN uiS-
charged me. ,., .hora
7 was confined to bed for five days. and my head
was enclosed in plaster of paris. nave since
been attended by DR.. Isaac Sossnltz anu III; III;
Steinberg, OF the Mount Sinai Hospltal; anu VII.
haye IN submit to an operation on Friday, as
one side Of nv law has festered. and II may be
necessary 10 remove part Of the bone !.
Rosenberg says that he at first intendeu 70
,r.t,,uto criminal proceedings against Regah
and have him arrested but that overtures were
made to him on Regans part to accept none
tary compensation for the injuries ne hau re-
ceived. AS he was poor man ne asreSu sd ~ ~
take $500 and meeting was arranged az
which a roll of bills as he thought was haiueu
over to him.
CHARGED WITH BLACKMAIL
On examining the roll. he found that the only
bill In II was the outside one. which was a 81
bill. and which inclosed a roll Of green paper
While examining his money, and before ne mao
time to demonstrate, he was arrested on 'he
charge of blackmailing Regan. and vas taken
before MAGISTRATE Flammer. in Essex Marke,
Police Court. where he was arraisneu & p oa' bad
heard his story, at once discharged hlm' ana ue.
nounced his arrest as an outrage. fosehpere a.
once consulted Morris Gottleb. the lawyer, % %WhS
prepared the complaint ana amuaNiI U" VIM"
Regan was arrested. ,,
The conduct Of Regan Will also be prough'
before the Police Commissioners. with view &c
his dismissal, and he will probably be cr'mnaHy
prosecuted ,...oo-
The Police Commissioners yesterday afternoon
began an investigation into the recent )alIpreak-
ing in the East One-hundred and-twenty- SIX IN
and West orty-seventh-st. stations. The IN
yestigations are not trials. although charges are
nending against Doorman Sharpe. OF the west
Forty -seventh-st. station. and Acting Doorman
~ ha One hundred
sixth-st. station.
A colored man named Harris, who had shot an
other colored man. escaped from the East one
hundred and twenty -sixth-st STATION tnrough i
hoie In his cell and another In the outer wall OF
the prison, which had been made by contractor
who was snoring up the building. Twin brother.
named Tocci who had stabbed boy. escapeo
trom the West Forty -seventh-st station by lift
L. .heir cell doors the doors. Il Is said beine