Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-08
EX-MAYOR HEWITT
ON COTHAM'S VICE
He Would First Destroy All the
Tenement Houses,
DR.. PARKURST ON TAMMANY
should go AMER IudiViduals-bish
Potter Ready 90 Assist In Cleans
Ing Philadelphia

New York. Jan. s-EX-Mayor A. 3
Hewitt. interviewed last night upon the
subject Of vice in New York, said
"The remedy for the evils Of which
the people complain now lies entirely
IN the hands Of the people. When !
was mayor I looked thoroughly into
the conditions Of vice on the East and
West sides and / concluded that the
root OF the evils lay In the tenement
houses. l appointed a commission TO
look into the subject and its report
which seems 10 have been lost sight OF
lately. contains all the subsequent re-
ports contain"
Saying that small parks and rapid
transit railroad were parts OF a scheme
which he urged, Mr., Hewitt said
Then | recommended that the tene-
ment houses be torn down and recon
structed, and that this work be done
as necessary matter. That may be
socialistic, but | do not care so long
as il be done | should prefer, how
ever, to see It done by individuals
block by block Tear down the houses
and put up decent dwellings for the
people.
Half the rents the people are now
paying would pay for them and pro-
vide a sinking fund that would have
them free from cost in fifty years
PARKHURsT DISCUSSES TAM
MANY.
Discussing the developments and the
attitude Of Tammany in connection
with a system Of protection for gam
blers and other forms OF vice In TINS
city, DR. Parkhurst said last night:
IT these charges are true and can be
presented by the district attorney as
absolute evidence resulting In the con-
yictlon of guilty men, II Will be gfeat
thing for Justice and the city. We all
| know that these crimes of Tammany
| existed but the names Of the men IN II
were what we wanted 10 know, particu-
| larly as to how the system worked,
| and what portion Of IL reached Tam
many hall as an organization. II the
| district attorney can go before the
! grand jury substantiating these
charges with names and dates, connect
| ing the men who paid the money WIN
| the criminals who reCeiverO H. II VIII
mean Sing Sing for lot Of them,
There is nothing so important toi
| reform In New York as TO cut th'
| strings OF Tammanys treasury
The leaders never cared for any
thing but money. All their apparen
interest in organizing so-called reform
movements has been a mere pretense
With the proof there is no reason why
Mr.. Philbin should not make qulci
work OF Il. and remove the necessity
for Mr.. Cookers return 20 New York.
III we could get about 1000 Of th'
gang into Sing Sing the city woul'
have some chance for its municipal life
To convict Tammany as an institution
Is one thing: to convict It's guilt!
members as individuals is quite an
other ] have always believed IN IN
ultimate triumph Of virtue and the PEG
pie. II looks hopeful to hear tina
gamblers have quarreled with the sys
TEN Matchmaking them.
Complaint has been made OF IN
mayors inactivity, But Mr.. Nai
Wyck has been unable 20 do anything
even n he wanted 70. The Tamman!
system Is In control
From the present disclosures IT look'
as II Tammany hall might be destroyed
entirely ] hope they will be sustained
BY evidence and the blackmailers sen
TO Sing Sing
TAMAIANY COMMITTEE DENIES.
The charges thatmembers Of Tamma
ny han and New York city officials hav
been collecting blood money" from
gambling houses and other disreputabl
places OF the city Is officially denied b.
the Tammany committee OF I'VE
Lewis Nixon, who is chairman OF IN
committee has made public state
ment in which he says:
There Is an organization Of mel
known at the Combine that Is organ
ICED for systematic blackmail. and the,
cloak the workings by pretending to b
paying Tammany Hall the money the.
collect for the protection they are sup
posed to furnish I'm its name"
PHILADELPHIA To BE CLEANsED
New York. Jan. s,--If local leader
can be found to carry on the fight
| Bishop Potter viii assist In launching
an anti-vice crusade In Philadelphia
and viii speak at a mass meeting at tn
Academy Of Music IN that city to b
held tomorrow night
Il understand that Philadelphia Is II
as deplorable a condition In regard &
It's municipal government as Is the cit.
Of New York" said the bishop. IAN,
what is more. Philadelphia is a Repub
lican city. II would seem. therefore
that municipal corruption may hourisl
under the auspices Of either party. Thi
is truth which both Republicans an
Democrats are bound to admit.
"a delegation OF prominent citizen
from Philadelphia called on me som
days ago and asked me 10 speak In tina
city. They told me that the city was 4
sad need Of an awakening OF p0pula
sentiment and OF reform IN municipa
Affairs. I said that ! would gladly as
sist In any movement which had for II
end the determination Of Vice and cor
ruption, but declined 10 take an activ
part until | knew that there would b
local leaders 10 carry on the FIGHT
expect 70 hear tomorrow n satlsfactor
arrangements have been made"
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