The sun., 1900-11-26
CROKER SILENT ON DEvERY.
The Chamber Of Commerce Meeting to Speak
Out Loud

The Police Board will hold a meeting to-day
and former District Attorney ". NJ Olcot.
VII be presnt TO confer with the members on
the charges Of ineficiency and unbecomins
conduct, on which Inspector Cross and Capt.
Herlihy are to be tried. All OF the Commits
sioners save Mr. Hess will be present. and even
Mr. Hess. who Is officially declared To he III.
may be there. Edward NJ Shepard will not
be at the conference. although it was announced
yesterday that Mr. Shepard viii positively be
associated with Mr. Olcott in the trial Of the
cases Mr Oicott il to draw up the charges.
subpoena witnesses and do all Of the other Ia
borious work which must be done at once
Tie board may do something sensational
outside Of the conference with Mr.. Ocott. for
IL l. an open secret that President York has
not changed his mind about the desirabi!ity
Of securing the retirement Of Chief Devery.
Mr. York Is determined TO get Devery out, and
all he lacks l. the vote Of Commissioners Sexton
and the approval OF the Mayor. both Of which
depend on what Mr.. Croker says when he de-
cdes to say anything. The Presidents chances
OF getting any Tammany support are growing
smaller. for he Is making no secret OF the fact
that he is unfrendly TO Tamnany and some
Of its leaders
An effort to find out whether anything had
been heard from Mr.. Croker yesterday. Resulted
II
leaders, that nothing had come yet. Charity
Commissioner John ". Keller summed up the
Tammany view Of the situation when he said.
IF there IL a fight In the Police Board IL is
purely a local fight. and something In which
MIR Croker would not interfere. You can say
that nothing has been Heard from MIR. Croker
on the mat ter since he left New Ork and that
no one expects 10 near anything from MN on
1he Ialnmany Committee ofxuri1ers didn't
do anything yesterday, but - end 20 which
IL has been working, which has been somewhat
Of IA mystery 10 people since II organized, was
made clear yesterday by TWO members of the
committee. VINO spoke with the authority Of
the Others Here i, what they said
We have examined witnesses from the East
Side and We have found out beyond the shadow
of u doubt that vice exists IN the tenement
houses. What We are gong to tiy ara do Is
to undo the work that br, ParkhGrst did he
scattered vice all over the city, our work Will
be 10 localize II once more. We % not mean
TO try and wipe IL out. We don't think We can
do that. Europe has studied the thing for
years and all its Efforts TO wiIe ont the evl
failed. We do not think that We can accom-
plish In a few weeks what all EuroIe tired 10
do for centuries and could not do We Will try
70 locallze vice in New York once more and II
well"
Of the Chamber of Commerce call for an anti
vice conference Tomorrow afternoon. hao thls
To say about the meeting Yesterday;
This is 10 be IA conference of Trominent
citizens Of New York. not oNicially connected
with the Chamber Of Commerce. by that !
mean that IL is not To be strCtlv a Chamber OF
Commerce meeting. but meeting 81 citizens
in the rooms of the Chamber tn decide what ls
the best thing to do and to unity organizations
of every kind and Of every class which are op-
posed to the association or alliance 81 some
members Of the Police Department with the
gamblers the ow diyos and the houses 81 Pre- sti-
tuition MY lrrsoral opinion Is that IN the end
weA should try To- ascertain TO whom Capt
Schmttberrar referred. 4 he was correctly
rcJ ofted. whom he sad recently in court that
he received contributors from ~" places TO
which ] have referred. and passed them on
up' We should attack in my judgment the
powers that Rro behind THIS Gnhnhest alliance
of the members # the Polio" Department and
the re-orts oi vice and crime IN New York.
John Ila:-.n lhCadcs -Hld Tie callers
of the meeting for Tuesday have 70 definite
plau IN view The call Is Informal and yr,w
from the desires of certain Ci'i2.rS who thought
something should l." done to iuuruv. the sCt ial
conditions of New Nok From this meeting
viii grow some permanent orc1nIatlOn which
will have for lie purpose unity oi all tho anti
Tnmfnany elements. TIC Tanmany COM
mttce, aTrortcd tv Mr. trohor is IN better
,n'i. .fIon than any one TO clean out The town
nnd 10 put IN end 20 vice hoCGuso II can cOnpel
'he Police pcr1rtmcft 80 DO all that II desires
" is not merely a matter of vice on the fnst
side II is n m?tt'r uf vice oil over the city.
We are not ruirc To- y" fooled hr people who