The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-27
HQRRVRS Of TAMMANY RULE.
CIrI1rNS rHSN RECALLS THE
Il RED LiUMT SHANE.

OII1FNS NON uES.SAhS -"
Il RED LiGMT SHANE.
The SHARING OF Prostitutes Earnings by
pSIice and the Politicians vine were
N6Ssters or tho Police The League with
SIkSablcrs--Shall We Have II All Again
The;Police Department, as II was under
Tanmsssny and as II II fHHKeE The subject
of a campaign document which the Cni-
zens' Erion will servi' out dhs week The
one ting above all others demanded OF
the fusion administ ration was the redemp-
ton G the Police Department. according
to the ttizesrt; Union view, and the Union
says that this demand has been met with
astonishing success. "The people now
respect. the police force aud the men respect
themselves says the document
The man aee,nent Of the Police Department
was tfiS browning insolence Of the Van Wyck
administration. This was the administration
which Had naated into power on campaign
fund Hrgely replenished by the corrupt ele-
Timothy y, Sullivan and Percival Saxlss
d ons TT II was Richard Croker who had
I sh tsp Town sSoSd he vide
:, Sss HI ~h2 rs :ssS =. &.ye an ys1
bsf eoh ns Maas -hS Sd' 0e
and tkst William g. Devery should be in
stalled TO direct Tammany's nsfar'ouS ou''-
Devefy was prince Of srafters. Once
dismissed from the department for corrup-
ton, the courts had reinstated him on
l FOE to . :d nss sa'n
This Sas Tammany:s selection as head Of
The Under Pin 1 Ifs ;. ss To ass smo
any IN was regularly peddIed, Blaekmail
R S" xss v, s.s ss
S mtion ' sss polioe foSse ter Il. vie snd;
Cr 81. ssSe shs
cSb, MaSSr a xsR Myok 6Gaper1
is ths: best Chief Of, Po4es New York ever
nag 4 Il. p.vsst9 and: ,Dfveryrm tina. the
public voice commanded Mayor 10y, no 10
new ADMINISTRATION Deyery.s ofhoial head.
together with that Of the TammSany o Com
7s MuTG siyid d9,!eS Was spG made ae' co@mis
sioner, and the difficult task Of actual reform
- year he was in commend ans. cq Il. Part,
made nes ss Ss, q: . the F PsSpiis
DEMANDED. no. en- ,IaH~A, LitJs, Neh ri"hSiS
V. Greene becams Commissioner.
The document tells how the -wardmen.
who collected for the police capt aims, were
rooted out and how James McAulife wss
found, apparently ,murGered' few days
after he test flied against Devery's agent.
Wardtaan Gennon. Then il says:
w sH: P1cSsb safs%s . xA' [osse $R
the 81 tenn was destroyed: No captain ar All car p
promiAa protection. because ne IS Likely TO De
transferred at any minute.
The document says that the inspector
,arst chosen by Commissioner Greene to be
the heed Of the DetsCtive Bureau (Brooks),
could not or would not get the evidence
which the COMMISSIONER direct ed that he
get against gambling houses Then it
explaGs:
The fusion forces we're particularly in
sistent that gapbiing houses should be sup
pressed. not SO much with the idea OF really
stopping gambling. but to break up a6so,
gamblrs and the police. That such a re-
lationship existed was unauestionabe Soon
after pevery had assumed command, O. p ths
Farrell, poolroom pagnate, head and front
Law q :ths Chief Of Police himself i was
sought most strenno,isly to sever, When he
9Ss
employed detectives from out Of town and
obtained the evidence, himself. The Com
missioner having done this. and having shown
promptly removed this, inspector and APP
pointed another in his place.
Two inspectors and six captains wero
dismissed under fusion, and four inspectors
and twenty-five captains were retired
document says
Tammany had here found fullest realza-
tion Of its Ideals. A writer in THE, EVENING
Sun. Jan. 4. 1901, described the neighborhood
in the streets. and unsexed men prowl Ike
vultures through the darkness on business
not only. permitted but encouraged by the
with che knowledge Of prostitution and the
training Of little girls is training in the arts
Of phtFns; where American girls. brought
are imported from small towns upstate.
MASSACHUSETTS,. Connecticut and New Jersey.
and KEPT ba5ns sops ssy
lost all semblance OF womanhood; where
small boys are taught to solicit for the women
OF disorderly houses; where there is an or
Ranzed society for young men whose sole
business in life Is to corrupt young girls and
turn them oyer to bawdy houses: where men
ars ouenly insulted: where Children that have
hospitals and dispensaries; where it is the
der e rape robbery bier and the thlei 90 unpun-
ished--In short, where the premium Of the
most awful forms OF vice Is the profit OF the
politicians"
What "reraains. OF tie Devery regime s
thus described:
At the present time only seven inspectors
of the Twelve under Devery remain in the
department: not single Inspector or captain
In Manhattan now holds thp command to
which Devery asesi gned him. In the first
seven months of 1898. 1890. 1900 and 1901 not
sin gle inspector captain. sergeant or rounds
man was dsp,iseed., IN the year 1902. one
patroln,sH were dismissed; twenty-eight in
1909, nine IN 1900. seventeen In 1901. thirty
Ave in 1902, in the first seven months Of
1903 there were dismissed two inspectors.
four capteins. two SAT geants two rounds
men and forty -seveu patromen.
The police pronot iors mace under fusion
would haSe Dettesi Sl,OdO,O00 under Devery
and graft The document says:
The new regime has removed the term
Red Light district" from the municipal
y I,oca ~ here. 100. asks Jacob A.
cadets that betrayed the daughters of the
poor for q price, In Jail. Their organiza-
ton ID gone. District Attorney Jerome has
proved q relsntless foe A fine of ,si.0"
knowingly permits tho dehlement OF his
tenement, and the landlord knows that RE-
form will collect the fine
RUSH GETS 4 RECOUNT.
Ballots Rejected in the 71th to BE Scru.