Evening star., 1901-11-16

Is so splendid in this case that there win
probably be no difficulty in getting the
right kind of soldier to take the place.
Mr.. Jerome's efforts to frame UP proper
methods for the protection of young women
and girls will be closely watched by all
these who gave him their votes entirely
because of his earnest promises in this mat
ter. Mr.. Jerome has already -evolved in
his mind many measures for the regulation
of the social evil, some of which appear
practicable and others not SO practicable.
This young man with the bright, alert mind
has gone a long way, however, in express
ing his sensible belief that that evil, in a
city of the proportions of New York, can
not possibly be suppressed, and any actual
steps that are taken by the new administra-
ton toward cooping vice within the small
est compass and looping off it's radius will
undoubtedly be for the general good of the
community
Fighting the Gamblers.
Conservative as he is in his view of the
necessity for certain evils that have exist
ed since the dawn of history, Mr.. Jerome
believes that there are some institutions of
modern development in a great city that
can, with organized and sincere effort be
actually and wholly wiped out. He believes
that the gambling ulcer, which has been
preying upon the male population of New
York with never the application of legal
antiseptic during the rule of Tammany,
away. That is to be the most gigantic of
the young district attorneys tasks. The
task will perhaps have diminished consid-
erably in size by the time Mr.. Jerome as
sumes his Office, for there Is no doubt that
hundreds of the gamblers have interpreted
the handwriting on the wall already, and
will have faded away with the implements
of their craft before the beginning of the
new year. Those who defiantly remain and
undertake to set up their tools viii
probably have occasion to feel sorry that
they did so before they get through wirh
Mr.. Jerome, or rather. before he gets
nounced, quietly and without the slight.S.
SAVIOR of bluster, that nothing short CT
state prison will satisfy him as punishment
for the gamblers who essay to stick under
the new regime.
Even the mighty Garfield, the pet Of Tam
many because he has been for years rich
and uncomplaining source of Tammany
revenue-Canfeld, whose gambling palace
has the interior of the abode of an oriental
potentate-Canfield who easily beat out the
machinery of the New York state govern
ment at Saratoga last summer and went
right on with his business In spite of eTely-
thing-even Garfield has got to go. So res
onant and unmstakable has the warning
been that Garfield, braZen as he 8, will
perhaps heed it and fold up his tents before
the dawning of the new day in New York.
To Close the Pool Rooms.
Mr.. Jerome believes in the practicability
Ol WlpluS Oul tHc pun -oO'iS IA
New York 1t may be that he is trif1e op-
timistic here. There were pool rooms III
operation hereunder close cover, of course
when Mr.. Roosevelt was in charge of
New York's police affairs, and If they could
do business while Mr.. Roosevelt was the
municipal overseer it seems difficult - con
ceive that they can be entirely squelched oy
Mr.. Jerome, energetic and able as that
young man is Mr. Jerome has the ad"an-
tage of having made, for number Of
years. a thorough study of gambling in and
around New York, and the conditions gov
erning gambling, whereas Mr.. Rooseyelts
knowledge of the subject was more OF a
general character.
The district attorney-elect must assuredly
have something up his sleeve to so calmly
and confidently express his determination,
he does, to put up the shutters on every
pool room in Greater New York inside of
sixty days after his assumption of office,
and to keep them there There will have
to be some tall swinging of axes before
this promise of Mr.. Jerome's is redeemed,
for the pool room people are as brazen as
bears and as adroit as cats, and some OF
them are bound to attempt to match their
cunning against the determination of the
new rule. But Mr.. Jerome is as adept with
the ak as he is with the pen or the spoken
word, as he conclusively proved when he
was making kindling wood of the more au-
dacious pool rooms a few months ago, and
1t is quite among the possibilities that he
will personally direct the assaults upon
or defy the purpose of the new admins
tration.
War on the Policy Shops.
A far more difficult task even than the
suppression of the pool rooms will confront
Mr.. Jerome and his loyal cohorts when the
job of utterly putting stop to the policy
writing business in New York is under
taken. The district attorney-to-be says
that he has "a scheme for uprooting the
policy shops. 1t will have to be mighty
thorough scheme to be effective The poll
icy people of New York are sneaky lot.
Their chief Is a millionaire who has gained
his millions through the small-change con-
tributions of poverty ty-stricken folks of the
town who have the gambling bug in one Of
its meauest. and most detestable forms.
There are more than 800 policy shops in
New York under the direct control of this
one individual.
The Washingtonian need not suppose as
he might naturally be inclined to suppose
from reading the frequent accounts of
policy cases in the District Police Court re-
ports, that policy playing is a game dis
tinctly peculiar to the Afro-American.
Nine-tenths of the policy players over here
are white men and women most of them
servants, who send in their hard-earned
money year in and year out on the frivo-
lous numbers, and who are all the deeper
mired in their pitiful gambling vice when
they occasionally select a combination of
figures that wins for them little handful
of silver change Hundreds of miserable
little tobacco shops all over New York
are merely conducted as nicotine empo-
RUINS for the purpose of screening the
real business of policy writing. 1t is said
that Mr. Jerome has an up-to-date list of
most of these miserable plants, and that
his swoop upon the policy shops is to be
coincidental with his descent upon the pool
rooms.
And these are only a few of the major
evils that the fusionists have solemnIy
promised to remedy. There are a thou
sand and one minor ones. If the new off,
cials even prick the surface of Tammany-
perpetuated evil in New York they will
more than earn their salaries and the good
opinion of the citizens. c.. L. C.
Long Runs by Railway Conductors.
From the Des Moines Leader.
AS the speed of trains is accelerated be-
tween distant points the runs made by
train and Pullman car conductors are
heightened out. The conductors on Rock
Island No. q, better known as the fast
mail, run from Chicago to this city. 1853
miles. Returning the next morning they
lay over and half days In Chicago
be fore coming out again Out on the Union