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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
BURGLARY AT LEISURE.

It would almost appear from the way this
crime was committed that New-YOrk City had
no police at all. While the family Of Jose
Aynar was away from No. 90 East j4th-st for
the summer some unbidden visitors made their
way in by forcing open a basement door. They
liked the looks of the interior so we'll that they
decided stay a while They slept on the floor
Of the dining room by night making their beds
out of luxurious piles of furs and pillows, and
they improved their time during the day by
pIundering the house and packing away their
booty in bags. They ripped paintings out Of
frames among them a Vibert and portrait Of
Mrs Aymar's great-unCle- They broke down
locked doors with CrOwbars. laying hands on
>jewelry. rare china and cut glass. Their leisure
hours they enjoyed in feasting the contents
Of the larder and drinking cohwebby vintages
from the ancestral wine closet. The house bore
witness of many orgy. Made playful by
various stinuIants the jewellers evidently rOmp-
ed from room to room smashing the woodwork
and walls with hatchets and Crowbars Every
door in the house had pile of chips in front
OF it
Because of the quantity of loot taken away the
burglars must have used van. At any rate they
escaped notice until one evening the caretaker
Of No a. East 5ith-st. saw three men come out
carrying bags over their shoulders She told
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
MUSIC, DRAMA
AND FASHION.

what she had seen to night Waterman hired
by the Property Owners Association OF the
block, and the Waterman told patroiman- The
two men found every movable article OF value
gone except what was contained in two bags In
the basement which the thieves doubtless IN
tended IA king away on their next trip.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17

information the society had collected to aid in
the proper punishment of these officers.
In answer the Mayor said that he had turned
over the letter to William McAdoo. the Police
Commissioner, for the Commissioner to take
what action he fit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
LAZINEss ON PATROL.

Yet what the criminals rejoice ar most is not
20 much the curtaiment Of the police force as
It's Iaziness and fneficiency.
only. a comparatively few patrolTnen do their
duty Such is the charge brought against the
Police Department by the Society for the Pre-
vention OF Crime. of which the Rev. DR. Charles
H Parkhurst is president and Frank Moss is
counsel An investigation Of various precincts
in Manhattan by detectives Of the society not
long ago disclosed the fact that at night about
thirds OF the force loaf hiding themselves
from public view in various ways Some were
found IN the back rooms OF saloons. others Cos
siping in the shadow Of stoops or bringing
drinks from nearby groceries 10 women friends
who waited their coming in easements
IN 4 letter 70 the Mayor long ago DR.. Park
hurst cited some striking instances Of the way
the police shirk their duty. DIT. Parkhurst ap
pealed 10 Mr. Mcclellan TO take some action 10
discipline the force pointing out that the man
responsible for such disgracefuI conditions was
William McAdoo, the present Police Commits
sioner and that If the Commissioner was unable
TO protect the lives and property Of the public.
he should be removed and another man put in
his place DR.. Parkhurst said. furthermore, that
the detectives of the society had the numbers
Of policemen who spent their time drinking and
iaunging about. ard n offered 10 supply all the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
POSTS BADLY COVERED.

Il is only necessary to know how some
districts have been. patroned while the burglars
were breaking into houses and highwaymen
holding W victims in the street 10 understand
why such cases of crime have been SO successful
For example. in the 25th Precinct. which extends
east from Central Park 10 the East River. and is
bounded on the south by 5eth-st and the
north by 79th-st.. there ara forty one regular
posts 10 be covered Yet on the night Of Sep
ternbe- g. only thfrty-one men patrolIed it
Every man had TO look after half Of another beat
in ORDER 70 cover all the ground.
In the Tenderloin or the 18th Precinct which
is the especial rendezvous of lswless characters.
even Iooser watch was kept There are forty
six regular posts in this district and Yet on the
same night before mentioned only thirty men
were sent out 70 guard the public against harm.
Is il ny wonder. therefore. that citizens may be
attacked in this precinct, as in one instance. of
which fuller particulars are given below where
two men were chased up the stairs Of an ele
waited station and We're nearly murdered on the
train platform before the blasts OF q trains
whistle routed out the reserves?
In the oath Precinct, in which the burglars
have worked faster and more thoroughly than
anywhere else in town. where in several in
stances they used wagons 70 haul off their loot
the number Of policemen has been cut down
one-fourfh There are thirty-seven posts in this
precinct yet on the night of September 81 only
-v-e-tv-eight men We're out patrolling-
Other residential districts, both in Manhat-
ian and IN Brooklyn. have been protected in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17

IN 52d-st. In the 10Th Precinct only four officers
were found patrOiling of the twenty-five men
turned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
Beats Patrolled with Scandalous Careessness by
Those Who Remain Duty n Hot Weather.

block and returned, went into the hall door of
a saloon on the northeast corner of 95th-st
and 3d-ave.. remaining there about five min
utes
This officer afterward walked up and down
3d-ave. until the detectives left him at l. 80.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
POLICE DEAF AND BLIND.

EULlCE DEAF AND BLIND
Another instance of both deafness and blind.
ness on the part Of the police is illustrated by
the robbery Of the home of D. Seymour Willard
at No. BOA West s1st-st- As this house is situ-
ated only a few feet from Broadway police
man would have passed If twice each time he
covered his beat once going up and once coming
back With patrolman doing his duty il seems
fnConCefvable that burglars could do what they
did in that house and still escape detection
First. they smashed In q heavy glass skylisht
with an axe and then battered down a door be-
meath, a performance which must have taken
some time. for its panels were fully an inch
thick and made of three layers OF hardwood
After thus gaining entrance they lighted candles
and prowled from one room TO another for sew
eral hours. as was shown by the numerous
tracks of candle grease to be seen the next
morning. a private Waterman had seen lights
on the top floors and noticed persons moving
about but as he was not employed TO Watch the
building ne went along he did not investigate
Yet the police knew nothing of what had hap
pened until they We're told. The burglars es-
capped.
other crimes Of various kinds in the last few
DAYS also show the iuefFiciency Of the police
Some nights ago a bomb was thrown at the
house of Michael Palladina o rich Italian con-
tractor. at No. Al East 116th-st. The bomb
shattered Tho front door smashed in the win
dows and made such a deafening report that It
brought all the people Of the neighborhood TO
the scene Yet no policeman appeared for soma
tlfle. ana the poHlo JHroWeF escape
here are a rev more examples a Wen oreSsess
man was Iouilu IliiS ouIi9eo anu 1sIs,5
rom an dSS3ul o! le' = III ~" 49, I5 a
WtaIlul a sydtg uetiV ~ Li5 d - . as
$500, '1eLs'5 ~ MS ,e. 80 ~ MS p 49,.
d uIatil,l'' so'iE , ,,l Il --. 81
$50 ~ -. -.I.rft,,- lei = -
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a. - b[.si eIsrl- JJ-as sbo+ l7rrr1 At his
- ~ ~ w. -
All ttaea crfr7ae have occurred vrf+hir q favv
7aI.s NJ aacb otbar and within the last month
srd +ba rsrr,a--at tors have N conc 17r7r5etac+ad
CITIZENS IN TERROR.
In some OF tAe 'uliyins "lslrictS OF the CRY
where the beats are covered by mounted police
~ on and ev+.0d sometimes three ~ forr miles
:.+- -, 1.. 20 e,-~s,,1 81 L.v,, thz4
Nl'iN1'-9 my
they DO not dare venture OUT aI hishI III one
even the policemen afraid of their lives
While Ae74s+ Efar4L-a of tho ,,r7iforv7sd force
49, ;. -
ana MS WE loF eAaluPiT' were HI 'ne WIS
about Highland Park. near the East NeW-1ork
reservoir they were set on by a gang which
- it- 1,,o 1-511e5 +r,.rr had not r5a11ta defended
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hiInSeH Win ms pistol NJ vas -
shoot down two of MS ass1ilants, both or them
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
NOT POLICEMEN ENOUGH.

Whenever the police Of this city show unusual
inability TO cope with crime they always say
that there are not policemen enough. The very
moment Mr. McAdoo set foot again in his Office
after six weeks rest he announced that he
ought to have 1000 more men, He said that
he would appoint 100 roundsnnen as soon as he
got the money and 400 more patrolmen, and
that in the next budget. which is soon To be sub
mtted he would ask for 1000 more policemen.
At the present time the police force consists OK
$500 men,
To back such arguments the Police Depart
Tnent has reports from all the chief cities OF the
world. showing that in comparison New-York
has really paltry force. In 1902. when these
records were made under the able direction OF
Inspector Brooks, this city had one patrOman
Lisbon had one patrolrnau to every rs inhabi-
tants; St. Petersburg. 1S5; BuenOs Ayres. Isl:
Seoul. 2O2 Budapest, 800; Alexandria, 81:
Dublin. $50; Rotterdam, }3} Berlin, $40: Ant
werp, 406, Liverpool. 449 and London, 496
American cities which have more policemen ac-
cOrding 10 their area than this city are Boston.
with 309; Philadelphia. oil. and St Louis. also
sill
Yet the vast majority of American cities havs
fewer police than New-YOTk Chicago. where
crime is harder to detect than in New-York.
more. 619. Albany. $50. Cincinnati 1S9. syria
cuse $50 and Scranton. 1.I91
II may also he said that in foreign countries
some of the cities which have the most police are
the most disorderly. st Petersburg may be taken
s an illustration, where riots and maSsacres are
OF frequent occurrence. and vet has nearly four
times the patrolmeu that New-Tork hos
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
Another Plan for Saving Peavine Hay.

Messrs. Editors: Tell the boys, and
do not tire because you have written
many a time on the same subject.
Will give my unfailing manner of
saving pea vines, and at the same
time labor-saving, which is the big
save. Labor is costly at the pres
ent day.
Put two stack poles twelve feet
high in the ground deep, three feet
apart; then put two more three feet
apart near enough for common rails
to reach. Then nail strong bars
across three feet above ground; put
fence rails or poles then every three
feet up as vines are thrown on, nail
cross bars, making the rick as long
as is wanted by adding poles and
cross bars.
/ NOV, then put the horse rake to
piling, and put up vines loose In
this manner you may put up a hun
dred four-horse loads. When not
wilted the vines lay open so air can
pass through, and when the vines are
all PUT up on top, have plenty of hay
cured to give a good topping off, well
fastened.
Now to the labor saving: Knock
down cross-bar and feed from stack.
The hay at the top is the last for
feed. In this way there is no need
of extra labor for housing: only
one moving after they are put up
this way. and that is from rick to
stock. Have seen the ducks eating
the nicely cured leaves in winter
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

Enriching the Soil and Making Forage.
Messrs. Editors: Crops with us are
good except watermelons, which are
rather poor.
Our farmers have lots of cow peas
growing; these are exceptionally
fine. Now put cotton ON this land
next year with acid phosphate and
kainit.
- Begin now to compost all stable
manure as fast as made. Plough up
a hedgerow to make the dirt easy
to get. Don't neglect to keep some
horse and COW stables we'll Uttered
with straw or other matter. Con-
tinue to straw and clean out and
compost till planting time. Use all
the compost on your corn land. At
last working SOW thick in peas. Fol
low corn and peas with wheat or cot
ton, and cotton with peanuts or some
other crop. Rotate so that you will
not plant the same crop on same
land oftener than once in three
years.
Begin next years crop now, and
have it laid off, and your plans well
defined so far as which crop shall
be planted on certain land, and know
just what you intend to do.
Begin now to start your hogs off
by giving them more feed and in
crease gradually as the season ad-
vances. Take wire netting and
fence off a section of those fine peas.
As soon as they begin to turn yellow
turn your hogs into them-only
part of the time, at first.
I have lot of peas and corn grow
ing together; sowed two bushels of
peas and one bushel of corn to the
acre. This is now from 212 to feet
high. Will some brother tell me in
what state it should be cut, and how
to cure it? / have never been sue
cessful in curing peavine hay.
J. III. PARKER.
Perquimans Co., n. O..
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

saw "sweetheart'' picking a plnmn
Barred Plymouth Rock cockereI l 50 : :
left for the field. She knows bs bs l
to cook 'em just to my liking 7 D@ NV
thinking more about that cL;oI,n an
right now than about hay or cr;"l "a
son clover, or alfalfa SOWING.
G. G. MOORE
Mecklenburg Co., N. G.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
IMPROVING COTTON SEED
Mr.. Allen, Who Made the Largest Yield
on Record in North Carolina, De-
scribes the Ideal Plan.

Messrs. Editors: [ was interested
in an article in your paper regard
ing the Importance of the selection
of seed corn. This matter has r.
ceived attention at the West, and
has notably increased the average
production.
The same can be done by improved
cotton seed. About twenty-five wears
ago, when interested in the culture
of cotton, l prepared an article for
the State papers, showing how any
farmer could increase the yield per
acre, at least ten per cent each year,
until a bale of 500 pounds would be
the average result in good seasons,
instead of two hundred pounds of
lint, as at present. The plan was 50
simple and inexpensive that it has
not been adopted to any extent:
Before sending rickers into the
field, the owner should pass through
every row, and tie a strip of white
cloth (say six inches long by half
an inch wide), on a top limb of every
stalk worth saving for seed. Send
a trusty woman ahead of the pick
ers at each picking time, with IN
structions to pick only from marked
stalks. Carefully spread the seed
cotton until end of season, and be
present when it is ginned in Decem-
Der. Pay for these pickings by the
day and not by weight.
If this plan is carried out, the
crop will improve at least ten per
cent each year, which means a net
profit of several dollars per acre.
The writer used six dollar seed
(bred up in this way) on fine land
with best cultivation, and picked
from four measured acres, four
thousand, eight hundred pounds Of
lint, which was 1920 pounds lint Per
acre. Every stalk was perfect and
of same size.
One cause of the low price Of cot
ton during the past twenty years has
been that an extra million bales have
been raised every year for tie pur,
pose of paying for bread, meat and
hay, brought from the Northwest
and which should and could have
been produced at home by the cot
ton growers. If this million bales
could have been turned into actual
hay, grain and pork, and in that way
destroyed as cotton, the damage
would have been less. But wien the
extra million bales that should not
have been produced was added 10
the needed nine million bales, the
entire ten only brought what the nln9
would have sold for, and the farmer
lost at both ends and also p3lu
freight and commission. No Wonoer
he has kept poor.
The remedy is, plant fewer acre.
in cotton, increase the yield per aci'
by using better seed, and do not pro,
duce the extra tenth bale to swap
for bread and meat.
GEORGE ALLEN.
Wake Co., n. @.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

We must distinguish between teiir, g
ity and prosperity; for pr0sPe:lL;rono :l;on
leads often to ambition and aln0I'''
to disappointment.-Landor'
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
CURING PEAVINE HAY.

Mr.. Sherwood Describes the Plan by
which he Saves 600 Bales Yearly
Interesting Experience in Soil I'm
provement.-
Messrs. Editors: see in your last
issue w. K. F. wishes advice as to
when to cut and how to cure pea
vine hay. | save several hundred
bales every year.
In the first place, be sure not to
cut the vines too early. A great
many have poor hay from no other
cause except cutting the vines while
in a growing condition, full Of sap
/ let my vines get fully matured, cut
without dew, rake same day into
windrows. If I have help plenty, ]
stack as fast as raked. For the past
two seasons / have used fence rails,
sharpen one end, stick them in the
ground deep enough to be secure,
throw the green hay around them
with forks. Be careful not to have
them too large at base, say 4 to .
feet. Keep it a straight, uniform
size, until it's as high as you can
get it conveniently. Then draw In,
as you would any stack. If the
weather is fine, it will cure well
enough to house in a short while, or
bale. I bale mine from these stacks
or shocks. l have sold over six
hundred bales done this way this
year as fine as any one ever saw. 1t
keeps the leaves on and has a green
color. Of course, if the weather is
wet, it will be black on the outside.
Pve had it to stay in the shade or
stack until the last of December, and
then be good hay.
I have another way you may like
better, at least if you do not intend
to bale. That is to put up three
poles Is or 16 feet high, s or 8 feet
apart. Spike a pole across these
with heavy spikes; let it extend by
the-end post or 312 feet. The first
pole should be 2 or 21l2 feet from the
ground. Begin hauling, throw the
hay over this first pole, letting it
rest on the ground until you get 1t
5 or 51a feet broad. Garry it up say
half way the stack poles, then spike
on another pole on top of the hay.
Throw the hay nthis one Just as
the lower one. Put on until you get
within say or 312 feet of the top;
then put on third pole. Put hay on
this one, but you will have to shape
hay on top like roof of house. In
this way it will stand as long as you
wish. I have put more than twenty
wagon loads to the stack. [ don't
mean all the green hay that could
be packed on wagon, but that a
hand can throw upon wagon with
out packing.
I never put anything under the
hay to keep it off the ground. If ]
intended to let it remain in those
large stacks I should, when the hay
settles. You have three ventilators
lengthwise through your stack. The
end of the three horizontal poles
that extend by the stack poles should
be covered with hay.
/ never lost a stack put up in this
way except a few in which the hori-
zontal pieces broke at middle pole
causing my stack to pack in the mid
die.
Now, Mr.. Editor, if you can frame
Ho4 II 1n i -
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
rnoeREss1vE FARMER AND oorroN PLANT.

After feeding my rick last winter,
/ could not find any wasted vines
horse, mule and COW would not leave
a stick.
r. r. MOORE.
Chatham Co., n. @.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
W axe Co., n. @.

Not broken wills, not cruclII1o In
wills, but consecrated wills, does ~
seek to pour his will through
Samuel Longfellow.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
MAKING HAY WHILE THE SUN
SHINES.

How to Make the Mower Work Best
About Crimson Clover, and the Cheap
est Way to Try Alfalfa.
Messrs. Editors: Kind friends in
every part of Mecklenburg think of
me every summer. For many years
1 have had invitations to the big and
little picnics, reunions, school clos
ings, etc. These friends know my
fondness for good company and good
dinner. This summer | could not
go to every one. I attended all
could reach, and had happy good
time at each.
Now it is over, [ am down to work
again, and find plenty of it on every
hand. The grass seems to need first
attention, and at it I go-the Big
Four Mccormick six-foot cut mower
is run out, oiled up, nuts frightened,
a sharp knife slipped to place, two
good, quick-stepping, strong mules
hitched, and away we go to another
picnic.
Let us notice the hitch of the
team before moving. / want my
team to have a good, strong harness
with breeching and collar straps, so
I can back or catch up with each for
ward or backward motion of the
team. Hitch close back just so sin
gle tree will not touch legs of team.
Such a hitch means comfort and
good work by team and driver.
The machine [ want to run with
out clatter. If it does not. I want
to find cause of the noise, and stop
it. The guards must be sharp at
end and not twisted to one side, so
as to glide right into the grass and
not catch a bunch to drag along.
The knife / have sharp and every
rivet drove snug to it's place.
Now we are ready and can wade
right through the thick grass even
though next to the earth may be
white clover, and it wet.
A sorry team loosely hitched, rat
ling machine, dull knives and damp
white clover-well. [ have seen that
combination, and from what I heard
I knew I was not at Sunday-school,
even if the man in charge was a dea-
con.
Ny moving to-day was on land
where crimson clover grew last win
ter. The growth is crow-foot, fox
tail, and volunteer red clover, thick
and tall 1t is fine, and with clear
days to cure in, will have a lot of
fine hay.
Our folks think corn should fol-
low crimson clover. 1t usually does,
for We have all learned that good
corn may be expected if planted in
crimson clover roots. We could not
plant this particular piece in corn
SO we have this dandy crop of hay
without any cost to grow it.
AS [ rode along cutting grass.
everything going nice and smoothly,
| could think bit about other things
besides my work. One thought was
that it is time for again sowing
crimson clover. I thought I would
like to SOW a good bit of it, and then
/ saw a few punches of alfalfa right
before the knife: that gave me a
thought. Why not put quart of al
falfa seed in each peck of crimson
clover? 1t won't cost much, and I
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
FORAGE MAKING: A SYMPOSIUM.

of land (22 acres) after a heavy pea
crop twenty-six bales of cotton. aver
aging sos pounds. Used $3.50 worth
of 10 and acid per acre Go per cent
phosphoric acid, 4 per cent potash)
and not an ounce of any other fer
tilizer.
j. @. SHERWOOD.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

Hello! that's a good sound-12
o'clock whistles. I must take out
and go to the house. I remember 7