New-York tribune., 1902-07-12
WAS EFFECTIVE.
CITIZENS UNION COMPLIMENTS PAR
FRIDGE ON RESULTS-FLoOD. MAR
TENS AND THOMAS CRITICISED.

Commissioner Partridge yesterday received
communication from the Citizens Union con-
taing brief summary of conditions in each OF
the precincts in which transfers have been made
recently. These comments on the situation are
pointed. In cases where the moral condition is
bad numbers and names mentioned, and the
Commissioner is placed in possession of data
that will enable him to act at once. These re-
ports are taken from the statement sent to the
City Club.
This letter announces improvement of a strik-
ing character in the Oak-st. precinct where
Captain Miles O'ReiIly is stationed. Captain
Hugh Fitzpatricks record in the East Twenty
second-st. precinct in cleaning up district that
has been in disreputable condition is the sub
ject of warm praise.
Three captains are singled out as responsible
for bad state OF affairs In their precincts and
specific instances called 10 the attention of
the Commissioner. The transfer of Captain
Flood to the district in which Captain Martens
ruled. and the reverse transfer in Martens's
case have according to the report. left bad con-
ditions unimproved In both districts.
Captain Thomas in the Twenty-seventh Pre-
cinct. is severely criticised for permitting
gradual deterioration in that precinct The
appearance of disorderly characters on the side
walks and lack of vigilance on the part of the
patrolmen are cited as illustrating the present
regime.
The report compliments Commissioner Par
fridge for the general Improvement which has
followed the transfers of June in the other
districts affected by that act. This report will
be embodied in the exhaustive account of exist
ing conditions to be made public presently by
the City Club.
How openly and nagrantly vile the conditions
in the Twenty -second-st. precinct were. state
ant rH; rxrhia had r6a
Tribune recently. may be gathered from the fol-
lowing extract from the report:
In the Eighteenth Precinct Cast Twenty
second-st. station) Captain Hugh Fitzpatrick
has accomplished much. Poolrooms were con-
Quoted without moeStation until June 9, and
the streets were the haunts OF hundreds OF
prostitutes. Ratnes law hotels violated the
statutes, and no apparent attempts were made
by Acting Captain Cray, during his regime,
to compel salOonkeepers to comply with the
provisions of the liquor law. Captain Fitz-
patrick has closed seven poolrooms in the dis
trict bounded by Fourteenth and Seventeenth
SITS. and Fourth and Third aves He has driven
the prostitutes from Irving Place and Gramercy
Park. a locality which witnessed for many
months shameless nightly scenes, in which off,
GERS of the Eighteenth Precinct participated
II was a regular occurrence to find street walk
ers hobnobbing with patrolmen on post. Cap
tain Fitzpatrick has arrested twenty-eight
women in this section in single night, who
have been fined by Magistrate Cornell in the
Yorkville court. He has compelled saloonkeep-
ers to comply with the Raines law. One no
torious place, above Fourteenth-st., which con-
Quoted a room with thin partition in front
behind which these females were accustomed to
assemble until the walters could supply the
men, has been compelled by Captain Fitzpat
rick to knock down the partition and conduct
the establishment in keeping with the law
The acting captain OF the precinct prior 70 the
transfer the brother-in-law OF c. F. Muir
ply. the Tammany leader, and the conditions
which were allowed to exist there may possibly
be attributed to this deleterious influence Cap
tain Fitzpatrick has closed poolrooms, driven
dissolute women from the streets. and cleaned
the district in an effective manner.