New-York tribune., 1900-12-06
OPPOSE FTFTEEN'S DELAY.
OPINION THAT DESPITE Mr.. CARRIERS
ABSENCE THE COMMITTEE SHOULD
GET To WORK.

Anotber sav has passed without the COMMITTEES
CT Fifteen being called together 10 formulate It's
plan Of campaign against police protected wee
and the feeling grows that no mere time ought 70
be lost in waiting for the return Of James c
Carter from Boston, where the sickness OF
relative is OBTAINING him Indefinitely. There Is
movement on feet 70 have Charles Stewart SMITH
can the committee together. and if that is done IL
is considered likely by many that the committees $
hrst action viii be its power OF enlaTglng its
own membership by enrolling Mr.. smith on the
list and at once electing him permanent chairman
At Mr. Carriers once yesterday II was announced
that they had no idea when he would be able 10
return His absence alone. however would not
prevent him from calling the committee together
and IL IS reported that his real reason Tor not oohs
So Is because the members wish to DO in advance
certain preliminary work One Of these preliIal-
nariss Is obtaining the consent Of the best avail
able man TO act permanent chairman and It IS
said that Mr.. Carter is desirous that MI Snlth
should accept this place. When Alexander E Orr
was asked yesterday what ne thought Of this he
said:
Mr.. Smith IS the first addition that should be
made &c the enlarged COMMITTEES II haG haa any any
ing for the appointment OF the Committee OF M Eli
tSs1 oSsirInan of fSs ctizenss meeting Should
be the chairman Of the Committee OF Fifteen that
Mr. Smith would make an ideal chairman.
Il is also reported that James 3 Reynolds will be
added 10 the committee. He had q long conference
with the Rev Mr. Paddock yesterday on the sub
ject. Professor Felix Adler. another member OF
the committee when asked about the probable
course OF the committee said yesterday.
AS chairman OF the Committee on Public Morality
I have no evidence TO make public now and because
7 am also q member OF the Committee or Ffteen
Will refrain from expressing any views as 10 tne
best methods OF procedure. 1t is, Of course, best
that every member Of the Committee Of Fifteen
be guided by the results Of the whole bodys de-
hberations
4 prominent member Of the committee. who. for
reasons readily understood, did not wish his name
used, said yesterday that he could not see the
necessity of awaiting the return OF Mr.. Carter be-
fore calling the body together. We have much
the harder will be our work when we begin
a body like this should strike quickly. think II
would be perfectly proper, in the absence OF A1r
Carter, for Mr. Smith 10 call conference OF the
members. Besides. ought 70 consider the moral
effect the community" The same member OF
the committee also said that he would be heartily
in favor Of enlsrging the committee and Of giving
Mr. Smith and James 3. Reynolds, or the Uni
Versity Settlement, places on that body.
Of disorderly resorts in Captain Titus's precinct
continues. IL was visible also in Mott. Pei and
Doyers SITS. yesterday. where a lot OF Chinese
professional gamblers formally abandoned their old
haunts and went elsewhere Some left town.
Others scattered in precincts where they would be
less visible 70 the general public
captain TITUS personally appeared before Mags-
trate Cornell in the Essex Market Court yesterday
70 prosecute Isaac Feinbecg. Feinberg was ar
rested by Detectives Wakefield and Burke for
soliciting men from window at No. 15s Suffok-st.,
an alleged dsorderly resort. Feinberg was COM
Etted 70 the City Prison for six months under the
Nagrancy law.