The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-17
New York oceHer.
Tammany flights Freedman-

Tammany Fights Freedman
NEW YORK, Feb. 15-Andrew Freed
man is the objective point of a sharn at
tack of what may be cared the anti
croker forces in Tammany hall. It has
leaKed out that at a meeting of the sub
committee on rules, held recently in .ne
| democratic club, James J. Martin. leader
OF the Twenty-seventh assembly district.
demanded that Mr.. Freedman be dropped
from the finance committee Of Tammany
hail.
Mr.. Martin gave as his reason foh~his
| demand that with Mr.. Freedman on the
committee and taking such an active part
| IN the affairs of both Tammany nall and
the Democratic club color would be given
| 70 the persistent rumors that Richard
Cfokers retirement from the leadership
OF Iammany hall is not in good faith.
Lewis Nixon, the leader Of Tammany
hall, refused to accede to the PROPOSE
ton, and the matter was dropped for
the time being.
Dislike New Dog watch
One of the serious complaints made
against the two-platoon sys.em is aimed
| at the dog watch, and the order of Com
missioner Partridge to hold men on re-
serve in the station during this watch.
This was not done under the old two
platoon system.
1t was this way under the schedules: "a
policeman goes on duty at 6 O'Clock in
the evening, and remains on patrol in
the streets until midnight Then he goes
on reserve in the station subject to call
for fires and other emergencies. The
sleep Of the men is constantly disturbed,
and they are aroused at $50 o'clock in
the morning to answer the roll call at
$40.
After policeman had rendered this
twelve hours he
der the old two-platoon system, to go
home for twelve hours Under Col
Partridge's order. he is now compelled
to remain on reserve duty IN the sta
ton house. Then he can go home This
time is taken out of his time off.
Parkhurst on Raines Law
In speaking at the banquet OF the
alumni of Amherst college lasL week. the
Rev. DR.. Charles Fl. Parkhurst, of New
York, deprecated Mayor Lows attitude
in not trying to enforce the law requiring
the closing of the saloons on Sunday, and
said he was strongly opposed to this
stand. In denouncing the Raines law, he
said: "1f Mr.. Raines had deliberately sat
down to devise a scheme of unexpressable
and unmeasureable diabolism for the
city, he could not have succeeded better"
Society Buys Chinese Curios-
1t was at the auction sale of Chinese
pottery and porcelain in the American
art galleries that one saw, last week, the
fashionable society that art interests
Thomas E. Kirby, the auctioneer, had
a wealthy and generous audience.
green crackle gourd vase of the
eighteenth century brought $780, an ice
crystal carving of fruit and vine of the
same epoch sold for s145.
Two jadeite vases of the pale green
hard stone, named moss in melted
snow, brought each $3.50; another, en-
graved with a dragon in relief, brought
SITS. An amphora, back as a ravens
wing, with similar engraving brought
$175; still another sold for $780,
The highest price was paid for an i'm
perial yellow vase with metallic lustre,
$500. blue and white hawthorne tempe
jar brought $780, and $3.50 was paid for
mandarin, soft-paste, crackle vase.
New York Delegation Met Mrs. De-
pew
Mrs. Depew. wife of Senator Depew,
was presented to the New York congress
sional delegation last week at the New
Wizards, Washington. The presentation
was made before dinner in Senator
DepeWo honor. Mr.. Henderson, speaker
of the house, made the individual intro
ductions. Mrs. Depew, after meeting the