Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-17
VICE IN NEW YORK.
Bishop Potter sends scathing Let.
ter to Van Myck. =

New York, NOV. lI.-blslOp 2eHTy y.
Potter OF the Episcopal church sent
letter to Mayor Van Wyck, which
caused that complacent official to
squirm uneasily in his chair. After
bad half-hou with his conscience ne
called in the district attorney and or
dered him to cooperate heartily with
Bishop Potter and other 8reformers IN the
work Of suppressing vice in this city
In his letter to the mayor Bishop Pot-
ter calls attention to the work being
done by the various settlements IN the
poor districts He says the work -
hard enough without the added burden
of open and insolent opposition on the
,,.part Of the police capt aims In the dis
ltrict. When two clergymen called at
1.-The police station to complain Of the ter
Tribe condition Of affairs one OF them
was told that he He'd: the other was met
with insolent derision and warned not to
| get himself in disfavor by seeing too
lSmuch and talking aboutit.
| Especially on the east side Of the city
1 is the reign and spread Of vice most ap-
palling Stationed at the very doors of
/ the schools and churches are notorious
dives under various guises, wherein chtl-
ldren are lured by leprous harpies, hired
as runners and touts for the lowest and
most Infamous dens in the city.
Bishop Potter calls attention to the
4 fact that the police know OF these devil
lish tactics, but instead of attempting TO
/ check them they encourage the work
4 and stand ready to beat OF any one who
ltattempts to rescue the innocent and de-
4 Ifenseless.
4 After calling attention to the fact that
in these poor quarters of the city there
4 exist women and girls who have every
s. instinct of virtue and purity. Bishop
81 Potter says:
4 Before God. and in the face Of the
tcitlzens of New York, protest, as my
lpeople have charged me to do, agains
the habitual insult, persistent menace
J, the unutterably defling contacts tt
(which day by day, because Of the bas
q completely Of the police OF New Yorl
with the lowest forms Of vice and crime
these innocents are subject.
And in the name of these little ones
! lsthesa weak and defenseless ones, Chris
tian and Hebrew alike. of many race
and tongues. but of homes in whicl
. God Is feared and His law reverence.
!. and virtue and decency honored and ex
; emplitied, call upon you, sir, to cav
: these people. who are in very rea. wa.
: committed to your charge, from alivin
hell, defiling. deadly. damning, to whic
1.-The criminal supineness of the consti
SItuted autorities. set forth the defense o
a decency and good order. threatens I
( doom them"
e Mayor Van Wyck at once replied Il
Z the bishop by letter, in which he said h
s had passed the bishops communicate
L to the district attorney. and then says
o Il wish here to assure you that wi
exert every power which the Law ha
Il given to right the wrongs and do ava
3 with the conditions of which you con-
i plain. and to secure hearty and eff
r cient cooperation by the police depart
Z ment with all who are working to d
/ away with public violations OF law an
. decency. stand ready at all times ,
s assist and cooperate with you in tn
J, matter =
: Mayor Van Wyck's letter to the al,
trict attorney requests him to cooper
= ate with Bishop Potter and the polio
: department In the movement. In q lett,
to the board Of police commissioners ii
= mayor incloses copy OF the bishop
s letter and directs the commissioners
= at once conduct a searching inyestig,
s tion into the conduct Of the two poll,
officials who the bishop says insulte
the clergymen.
e Burlington.
= Mrs. c. n. Wilson. librarian at Il
Burlington free public library, h,
i. made her report 70. October. The r
8 port shows a decrease in the number
j. books given out from the same mon
: a year ago. This falling OF was pril
cipally in history and Biography, vo,
8 ages and travels. and the hpoks class,
as miscellaneous. There was an i
9 crease In books of fiction and Juyeni
i books and In the pssio dicals.
g g lseeve y sssessA Hays.
Y Afoptrs1l. Nov. l7.--1he Witness q
J. noNnce D II a3sosge p. Reeve, form
g trll n o u. i. har been appoint
= sg ~ Grand Trunk rAilSE EAy;