New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-12

paid-a patrolman in Paris will find himself
with about Sc week as his maximum stipend
| they recruited from entirely different
class OF from those OF which the New-York
| police is composed, and consequently do not
possess the moral stamina, the self-respect and
| the prestige which distinguish the bluecoats of
! Gotham.
A striking illustration Of these particular
| qualities of the New-York police was afforded TO
| foreigners like myself the occasion of the
Dewey parade last autumn when had the
| opportunity of witnessing the extraordinary
tact, the skill and the good tempered patience
with which the police both handled and con-
| trolled the phenomenally large crowd that
| thronged the streets. 1t is doubtful whether in
any capital of the world the line OF march of
| land parade such that organized in honor of
| Admiral Dewey could have been kept otherwise
| than by double line Of troops standing Shout
| der to shoulder Yet the crowd that filled the
streets in countless thousands kept in line
and in perfect order by occasional policemen
stationed at long intervals. who throughout the
| whole day maintained a never failing good tenn
| per- The very fact that the great parade should
| have gone off without any kind Of contretemps
speaks volumes for the efficiency and. above all,
for the tact of the police and of it's chiefs
! No stronger testimony in favor Of the superb
ority of the New-York police to that of every
European capital can be given than the fact
that a man, providing he is sober, can walk
in perfect security from the Battery to Harlem
at all hours of the night up the least frequented
and least inhabited thoroughfares, without dan
ger of being in any way moested During the
last few years L have repeatedly made the
pertinent myself. l have strolled up the Bowery
and the side avenues from downtown after mid
night and never has the slightest disagreeable
rencontre occurred 10 disturb the monotony of
my nocturnal promenade. Not only have l never
become involved in any trouble myself but
have not even had the satisfaction of witnessing
a fight; and when l look back to disputes and
full f1edged trays of kind and another in
which l have participated in London, Paris
Vienna, Madrid, Berlin, and In far off
Toxic. it appears to me that New-York is the
most quiet and law abiding city that 1 have ever
inhabited. If anything were needed to confirm
this view, it would be the Importance which the
daily press in New-York accords to robberies
with violence and to nocturnal aggressions.
These are so frequent In the big cities of the
Old World that they attract little attention in
the local newspapers. and if mentioned at all
are recorded in small type in obscure corners of
the sheet. In New-York, however, these crimes
are of relatively occurrence that when
they do take place the newspapers devote en-
tire columns on the front page. with startling
headlines, to the incident. conveying to the
binary and untravelled inhabitants the impress
sion that New-Yorlz is most lawless and in
secure city.
! WOMEN NEED NO ESCORTS IN NETWORK
We are told-or. rather, people in Europe are
| nformed-that vice and depravity flourish open
! ly and unrestraned in New-York. Yet a young
| girl travel from one end of Manhattan to
| the other without being exposed to any sort OF
! insult her eyes likely to be Of
p6ad NV Of INN rietI-
| Neither Fifth-ave. nor Broadway, nor Madison
| ave, nor, indeed. any of the frequented thor
! oughfares, be said TO be rendered impossible
! to respectable women by the presence Of their
| fallen sisters hunting for their prey, is the
! case in many of the finest streets of London
Paris. Vienna Berlin etc. A is even able
| to walk home from the theatre at night with
| his wife, his daughters. his sisters without
| the slightest danger of their delicacy being
! shocked by anything that they may hear or see
in the streets. But suggest to a Londoner, to a
| Partisan, to a Berlner the idea of returning
| on foot with the women of his family from the
! theatre at the conclusion of the performance
| and he will shudder at the notion. 1t would be
| out of the question.
Solicitation on public thoroughfares is pro-
! hibited by law quite strictly in the various
| capitals of Europe as it is in NewYork; whereas
| here it is remarkably rare for a man TO be ac-
| costed in the streets. in London, in Paris in
Berlin, in Vienna as we'll as in the other lead
ing cities of the Old World, the public thorough
! fares become absolutely abomnable toward
| dusk and throughout the night. Let any Ameri-
| can tourist who has taken in London and Paris
| during his trip abroad recall to mind the scam
| daous scenes which to be witnessed in
| Regent-st., Pccady st. James's and Sloane
| SITS, in the British metropolis. from o'clock
| every evening till or on the following morn
| ing. Men cannot walk two steps without being
| accosted. and the police look quietly on, making
| no attempt whatsoever to interfere. AS the
| darkness increases and the might grows apace
| the unfortunates who infest the streets become
! more and more desperate, until / o'clock In the
| morning, when pandemonium regns and the air
| resounds with shrieks, oaths howls and all sorts
| OF roting and drunken brawls. In Paris on the
| Boulevardes Montmartre and Des Italiens along
the Rue de Rivo and in the Champs Elysees,
| similar scenes may be witnessed after nightfall
| while the Bots de Boulogne, the Central Park Of
| Paris, becomes positively dangerous toward
! dusk Inasnuch the offence known as solicit
| tation Is, as have stated. most strngently for
hidden by law the attitude of the urban police
! in Europe in abstaining from interference and
! in permitting the unfortunate women to ply
! their infamous trade undisturbed surely points
| fusion between vice and authority than exists in
/ New-York.
A PRINCESS INSULTED.
To such extent is this the case that in most
| of the Continental capitals Of Europe II is dan
| gerous for a well dressed woman or young girl
| to venture out of doors even early In the after
noon, without being escorted 1t was but the
other day that the KaiseT's elder sister, Priu.