New-York tribune., 1901-02-03
POLICY SHOPS THEIR AIM.
COMMITTEE OF FIFTEEN DETERMINED
TO ROOT THEM OFT
PoIIcEMAN HUBBARp's ALLEGED "EMRAR-
RAISING" POsITION-HE ARRESTED \
FRIEND OF A COMMISSIONER

- FOLIO EMAN HI EBBARD'S Al-l-f-Hf-b A-Nt'FNiN
RAISING" PosITIoN-HE ARRESTED
FRIEND OF A COMMISSIONER
TIL. Committee Of Fifteen has been receiving
much information about the prevalence Of policy
nlaysne in the city and Robert Grier Monroe
fhe cornFl1ittee's counsel has been busy study
ing tho information 70 see II II can be made
useful IN proceedings 10 he begun against the
nolicv men The information sent 10 the COM
nittee discloses the fact that most Of the policy
shops in the city near police stations, engine
houses and public schools. II is declared that
the policemen and hremen among the most
inveterate policy players and that thousands OF
school children are induced 10 lose their pennies
in playing the game. To accommodate the
school children many Of the policy shops are
in candy stores The frenen. it is said, make
a practice of playing the numbers that are runG
off on the fire alarm gong
II has been learned that many policemen spend
much Of their time in policy shops when they
should he patroIling their posts. OF course. such
policemen viii do what they TO protect the
policy writer's In several cases in which policy
writers have been prosecuted by the East Side
Reform Association policemen have appeared
openly as witnesses against the associations de-
tectives. The Committee OF Fifteen probably.
viii take an active interest in the passage Of
the anti-poicy bin that has been introduced
in the Legislature by State Senator Elsberg and
6ssemhlyman Weekes. at the request OF Cap
tain F. Norton Goddard.
II said yesterday by a member Of the
Committee OF Fifteen that the committee will
not encourage the formation OF a women's aux
iliary committee 10 investigate vice. The COM
mittee formed 10y Mrs Grannis and other women
has been informed politely it is said. that the
Committee Of Fifteen does nc. desire the CO.
operation Of WOmens clubs an the crusade.
Joseph F. Kennedy. the proprietor of res
turant in Columbus-ave. near Eighty-third-st.,
who is a close political friend OF Police Com
missioner Sexton was a prisoner at the West
Side court yesterday for a short time, charged
with disorderly conduct in using abusive Ian
euage to Policeman Hubbard. of the West Sixty
eighth-st. station He was taken 10 the station
taned there nearly two hours until Commits
sioner Sexton went with a bondsman 10 bail
him out. and the transfer Of Hubbard 20 the
goat district" is being predicted by many OF
the policemen OF the precinct.
Before Magistrate Olmsted yesterday Hub
bard said that he abused by Kennedy in
language too vile % hc repeated because the po-
loeman had order I swill wagon in front of
the restaurant 20 bc driven out Of the way Of
some carriages. Register Fromme appeared as
counsel for Kennedy and frequently interrupted
the policeman. When the Magistrate had de-
eideo 10 discharge Kennedy Mr. Fromme turned
20 Hubbard and said in a significant way:
You're the kind Of policeman that disgrac
the force"
y object. object" answered Hubbard. and
Magistrate Olmsted was quick 10 say Yes
there must he none of that here. This is not the
place for IT,"
- Ne IN" remarked Magistrate Olmsted as the
crowd stepped from the bridge