The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-23

has been put on his case by the dis
trict attorneys Office equal to that
usually devoted to the most important
murder cases.
District Attorney Jerome will himself
prosecute Adams and the policy ring,
and will bend all his efforts to make
out such a case that, if a verdict of
guilty is found, the court will be COM
PEELED to impose not a fine-as is usal
in such cases-but term of imprison-
ment. The policy ring is the most in
ffuential of all the gambling rings po-
litically, because it is an enormously
profitable form of swindling, and the
most strenuous efforts will be put forth
to save Adams and his followers.
Those who are on the inside, however,
say that the ring will be appalled,
when the strength of the evidence
which the district attorneys office has
collected is made known. f. Norton
Goddard the young millionaire poll
tician, who knows more about policy
in New York than anyone outside the
ring, and who has done more effectual
fighting against it than anybody, has
been quietly helping Mr. Jerome to get
evidence. The policy people are afraid
of Goddard Che is about the only man
they are afraid of and the atmosphere
is rather blue nowadays in the home
of the gig"
When the Powers that Rule decided
recently that it was up to them to do
something to suppress the policy
game, they made one of those plumbers
which rouse the ungodly to glee. They
brought charges against Capt. Halpin
of the Church street station, because,
apparently the policy-slip printing is
done in his precinct. Halpin is a COM
paratively new captain. AS sergeant
he established a reputation for being
''white"-that is to say, respectable and
honest. AS a captain he has confined
in that reputation. But honest as a
police captain may be, there are GER
tain things that he may not do on pain
of being banished to Carnarsie, and one
! of them is to fly violently in the face
/ of the policy ring. There was
once a sergeant-this by way of
illustration-who was all ready to bes
! come a captain. All the require
/ ments had been complied with. He
arrested a member of the policy ring
I for running too openly. That arrest
| cost him a seven years wait before
/ he got his captaincy. In the face of
] that sort of thing is it to be wondered
at that Halpin did not raid the print
/ ing shop, especially when the chances
were ten to one against his being able
to get satisfactory evidence for jury?
! But that made no difference to the
extraordinary Partridge administra-
! ton. 1t had to have a victim and it
Enthusiastically picked out a white"
captain. Reform administrations al
ways do. That is one reason why they
don't last. But in this case the blunder
was too obvious. The charges were
dismissed because of the "impossibility
of getting satisfactory evidence against
| Capt Halpin." A cheerful performance
all around for the friends of reform to
| contemplate.
What will be the next move in apart
| ment houses, one wonders. The An
| sonia, with its thirty-room, $50, 600
| apartments, it's hot air and cold air
| pipes, its special elevators for auto
mobiles so that the happy mobilist can
step from his own tenth floor apart
ment directly into his machine and be
transported in glory to the street. and
/ its other unimaginable conveniences,
seemed to have just about reached the
| limit. But now ] note newer wrin-
| kle in apartment houses. One of them
over near the river front advertises
besides its automobile storerooms and
! elevators, a private yacht landing
! Although the advertisement fails to
| state the fact specifically, 1 infer that
| there must be a waterlock whereby
| the craft can be navigated into the
| basement and the wearied yachtsman
| pe transferred from his own quarter