The age-herald., 1900-11-17
BISHOP POTTER SPEAKS OUT IN
 NAME If THE PURE AND VRTUOUS
lnaugurates Crusade Against Vice in New --MakeS Sensational
 Charges Against the Police.

New York, November 16.-Bishop Henry C. Potter, bishop of the Episcopalian dio- cese of New York, today sent a letter to Mayor Van Wyck in reference to vice in this city and especially on the East sde This letter Is the one promised some weeks ago when the bishop publicly announced that one Of his rectors had been grossly insulted by the commanding officials of a certain police station and that he proposed to take up the matter in a manner which the heads of the police force should feel
 At the present writing there are three movements directed against vice as 1t Is displayed on the great East side. There is quietly conducted investigation by District Attorney Gardner against Anthony Comstock's Society for the suppression of crime, Tammany's appointment of a com mittee to investigate political conditions and Bishop Potter's crusade.
 Bishop Potter, in his letter to Mayor Van Wyck, calls attention to the work that Is being done at the pro-cathedral, 130 Stan ton street, in endeaVoring to improve the condition oi the poor of the East side tene- ment district, in which it is located, and continues:
 Tn view of these facts it would seem that 1t has valid claim on the sympathy,
 
 officers representing our city government and the guardianship of decency and good morals. l urge here no other claim for it, and l beg to say that 1 am not now ad- dressing you because there has been in that which 1 desire to bring to your notice, a vulgar and brutal absence of these in connection with one who happens to have been my own representative. The personal element so far as he is or 1 am concerned, is of the very smallest consequence. But f1n hi that when a minister of religion and a resident in a particular neighborhood, whose calling and character, experience and truthfulness alike widely and abundantly recognized goes to the head quarters of the police in his district and appeals to them for the protection of the young, the innocent the defenceless against the leprous harpies who are hired as run ners and tutors for the lowest and most infamous dens of vice, he is met not only with contempt and derision, but with the coarsest contumely and obloquy."
 Cites the Incident.
 Bishop Potter then tells how, when two clergymen called at the police stations of the precinct to complain of the notorious condition of affairs one of them was told by the police captain that he lied; and then when, disheartened by such an experience, the clergyman carried his complaint to higher authority in the police department, he was met with insoent derision.
 The bishop says:
 q am not, l beg to say, unmindfu of the fact that the existence of vice in his dover interest is assigned; to provide for the assignment of such dover interest; to bar same as to alienee of wife or one claiming under such alienee, unless pre- ceedings for such dover interest are com- lrraf h of the wife; to provide for an interest for the husband in the personal estate of a deceased wife and to bar the dover inter- est of the husband in the real estate of the wife and his interest in her personal estate on account of divorce. Judiciary.
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