Evening star., 1901-02-19
Arrangements for Redistricting New
York About Completed.
COLER'S MAYORALTY PROSPECTS
Thieves and Crooks Profit by Sup
preston Of News.
WATCHING FOR FIRE BUGS


tlicunS OIL New Ork city under tne TERMS
of the Burleigh law. The formal approval
of the state Legislature is required, but 1t is
thought that the necessary legislation can
be obtained from Albany this week. The
city of New York will in the future be rep
resented by nineteen congressman instead
of sixteen, the present number. There has
been much cutting and slashing and splic-
ing, tho ugh when the geography of Greater
New York is considered it is doubtful
whether any plan could have been de-
signed that would not have brought about
charges of "gerrymandering."
Many of the present congressional dis
tricts are wiped out. The district now rep
resented by Jefferson NJ Levy is made
heavily republican. 1t runs from Washing
ton Square to I'D street through the center
of the city. The fourteenth district jumps
from the east side of the city to Long Island
city. Staten Island is now tackled on to the
first and fifth assembly districts. Under
the new scheme it is Joined to the second,
fourth and twelfth assembly districts The
reapportionment gives three additional con-
gressmen to that part of the state south of
Putnam county and west of the Hudson
river. WestcheSter county is made an en-
tire district. At present 1t is Joined to the
borough of the Bronx.
COler's MayOrnlty Prospects.
Stranger things have happened than the
ncmination of Bird 8. Coler, the city con
t1oller, for mayor of Greater New York, on
q Tammany ticket. This would mean the
practical elimination of Croker from the
campaign next year. In spite of the denial
of the story cabled from London to the eff
feet that Mr.. Croker's health has been
seriously impaired and that he will prob
ably not return to take an active part in
another political campaign, great many
Tammany politicians believe that ONE man
like Lewis Nixon will be in charge of the
campaign next year, and that Controller
Coler will be the candidate for mayor. Reg
lister Fromme denies that he introduced
Mr.. Coler the next candidate for mayor
oc Greater New York But the mere sug.
gestion that his name was cheered Instead
of being hissed at Il dinner attended by
thousands Of Tammany men, indicates hat
a change has come over the spirit of their
dreams in regard to Coler. Coler will be-
cut by certain business interests in the
event of his nomination for mayor for the
reason that he has always been an ardent
Bryanite, having been one of the largest
contributors to the campaign fund of the
democrats in 1896, and having been active
on the stump in the campaign of 1900
However, his friends urge this as proof of
his regularity. They also claim that his
arti-Ramapo record would mean thousands
of votes to the party, and that his views in
favor of franchise ownership would cause
the campaign to turn questions other
than vice"
Thieves and Crooks Active.
Emboldened by the policy of the police of
keeping secret burglaries in which no ar
rests are made, thieves and crooks of all
varieties are operating in the city with IL
freedom never before attempted. To hide
their shortcomings from the public the po-
lice. when a burglary is first reported at
headquarters or a police station, impress
upon the victim the alleged necessity of
Keeping the facts of the robbery quiet. The
victim is cautioned not to talk, and in par
tcular not to communicate with the news
papers. Serving double purpose, this sys-
TEN is to the advantage of the police and
to the disadvantage of the people 1t keeps
from public knowledge the fact that pro-
fessional thieves in great numbers are in
Testing the city and allows the police au-
thorities to juggie their records in such a
way that the number of robberies commit
ted in month or i'll a year never is known
by outsiders The inefficiency of the police
in the prevention Of robberies and the de-
lection of the perpetrators is more marked
today than at any time in recent years,
although there Is one of the cleverest and
best men in the department at the head of
the detective bureau. The reason of this
is. ten-fold the usual number of criminals
are now operating in town. They pay little
or no attention to the rank and file of the
force, who for u year or more have been
practically in 4 state of complete demor-
aliZation.
Hotels Guarded Against Flrebugs.
Every big hotel in New York is now
guarded day and night by a detail of detec-
tives from police headquarters. The regular
detectives employed by the hotels have also
been put on extra duty and all possible eff
forts will be made to prevent the operation
of the gang Of thieves believed to be on
the road from Chicago, where several fires
have been started in hotels so that rob-
her mi pbt ha te6 fha
element According to advices received by
Captain Titus from the Chicago police de-
partment. the thieves have headed for New
York. Similar news has come from the
headquarters Of the National Hotel Mems
Association In Chicago. THE first we
heard of the coming horde of crooks was
through the Hotel Mems Protective Asso-
ciaton," says Proprietor George Moore Of
the Gilsey House. "They notified us that
these crooks have plan to swOop down on
the big New York hotels In force. All the
big hotels have taken on extra house detec-
uves, and the police are supplementing the
force with as many men they can
spare At the Hotel Savoy five robberIes
have occurred in the last few days. and
there is every reason to believe that they
We're committed by the advance guard of
the Chicago crowd.
Decadence Of Prize Fighting.
1t is the general opinion Of local followers
Of fighting that the game has received it's
DioW SlIiCe inc repeal Oh the Horton
law in the Intervention of the authorities
in Ohio TO stop the Jeffries- Rubin fight.
Said one of the talent today:
with Cincinnati and all the other cities
In Ohio closed to the fighters, only three
states still remain open to them. They are
Minnesota, California and Nevada There
may be few others. but they are not
worth considering. The big fight in San
Francisco will be too far Off to be popular
Minneapolis is nearly as bad. Carson City
is the most likely place to bring off the
event. Dan Stuart is already there pre-
pared to accommodate the fight in his own
arena. He probably expected the result in
Ohio and got things ready in Carson City
sc that he could accommodate this fight
The real setback to fighting is In the moral
effect of having a majority of Ohio's citi-
Zens arise in their might and successfully
overthrow all the well-laid plans for the
big fig ht. The strength of these plans Law
In the fact that the Saengerfest Associa-
tion CT Cincinnati was to derive benefit
from the fight. The opera boufre features
of the trial before Judge Hollister are held
II have had an injurious effect, rather than
the contrary. The spectacle of Madden.
Brady and others swearing that prize fight
Ing is boxing. and this boxing a fit spec
tacle f)r women, was too ridiculous to ac-
ccmpliIh any good. The only gains for the
cause (H Drize fighting that ha yo o,,,,,.a1