Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-09-08
Police of Gotham Annually Ar
rest at Least One Person for
Every Twenty in the City,
Some Police Figures.
.CITY OF TENTS IN THE
BIG METROPOLIS
Mayor Dunno Versus Mayor
Mcclellan = New York'S
Opinion of Bryan = The
Mosquito in Commerce,

Correspondence Morning Journal.
New York, Sept. 7.-According to
current official report, nearly 100000
persons were taken into the custody
of the police in New York last year.
or one arrest for about every twenty
persons in the metropolis This was
22, 500 more arrests than during the
previous year. This big figure may
mean that the metropolis is very
wicked or simply that Police Commits
sioner Bingham is holding down his
job with both hands. 1t cost the city
nearly $11 100000 to maintain Its
police department. The number OF
males arrested in proportion to fe-
males was about four to one. The
percentage of natives of the United
States was only 81 Russians, includ
ing Jews) gave the police the most
trouble and 81 ,065 of them were land
ed in quod. The Irish were next with
14,27S. OF the arrests, 44,0S5 were
for intoXication. The great number
of arrests for petty offensess is inter-
esting in the light of a recent police
incident Three poor Greek peddlers
had been arrested in Bronx park
charged with the awful crime of sell
! ing peanuts on Sunday. The magls-
trate in discharging them, told the
hewildered Greeks that If they would
only open pool room, or rob a bank,
or make away with millions in insur
ance funds, the police ould never mo-
lest them,
| New York's remarkable summer
| tent colonies are now breaking uu.
! During the season just drawing to
close some 5000 inhabitants of the
metropolis have lived under canvas.
Many campers have lived in the little
coloney under the Palisades on the
| Hudson, or on the beach ut Staten
Island, and about four hundred tents
have clustered about the mouth OF the
| Shrewsbury river, opposite Sandy
Hook, but the largest camping colony.
a veritabe city Of tents, has been
maintained at Rockaway Beach. with
in the city limits. Here more than a
thousand tents have been maintained
/ during the summer, and the little
community has established a new
phase of metropolitan life. The cam
pers have reduced housekeeping cares
to the most primitive simplicity. on
getting up in the morning the inhab-
itapts are within few steps of tho
ocean for morning plunge in the
surf They spend most of the day in
their bathing clothes, leading sort
OF semi-amphibious existence, and
men, women and children are as
brown as Indians long before the sea-
son ends.
The visit of Mayor Edward F.
Dunno, of Chicago, who came to New
York last week to study the charter
of the city for pointers for new
charter he Is deslrous of securing for
Chicago, is interesting in that the
| maVOr of tho WiOdt Citu raftoratoH
his devotion to the idea of municipal
ownership. New York has not been
impressed with the fact that the pub
lie utilities In Chicago have greatly
benefited by a municipal ownership
administration in that city. Mayor
Dunne's remark attracted all the more
attention in that Mayor Mcclellan was
soon to return to the city after maxi
ing a careful study Of municipal own
ership operation in some Of the prin-
cipal cities of Europe. Mayor Nc
Clellan does not agree with Mayor
Dunno on the municipal ownership
question and states from his personal
observation that municipality owned
public utilities in the cities abroad do
not give service comparable to private
ownership.
Now that Mr. Bryan has come and
: vanished into the west. New York has
had the opportunity TO think over the
impression he made on that warm ev-
! ening when letters of fire under tho
! big gilded Diana on the dome of the
Madison Square Garden blazoned forth
the mystic words;
} Bryan--M'Ile Champagne.
This insignium simply signihed that
while Mile Champagne was the hts
trionic attraction on the roof garden
: Mr.. Bryan was holding forth In the
great hall below. II is a fact that the
; crowds that thronged to the Garden
to hear Mr. Bryan on this OCCASION
were not nearly so great as when. ten
years ago, heralded as the Boy Ora
tor of the Platte" he made his initial
appearance I'm New York. Then tha
throng overfiowed far out into Madi-
son Square, while last week there was
: room for 5000 more persons In tho
! Garden Itself. on the former occasion,
however, Mr.. Bryan was a curiosity
and New York nocked to see him Just
as IL flocked to see Dowle or Prince
: Henry. A Boy Orator OF the Platte
was n new show. But as a statesma z.
I who has Just toured the world. MI
, Bryan furnished no curiosity, fo~
scores of New Workers return from
such trips every week Mr.. Bryan's re
ception In the metropolis was scarcely
a New York reception. II was engf-
] neered largely by men from other ci.-
les and strangers In town were In the
majority at the Garden The nlg
. meeting caused no dimihution I'm tho
z theatre audiences or the Coney Island
: throngs of that evening.
Z But New York. aside from all poli;-
= ical considerations has really warm
- place In its heart for MIR. Bryan per-
e sonally. The town admires his hon
= esty and perslstency And II Is ve-y
D unusual for New York. with what has
4 been called Its paroehlal snobblshncss,
g 10 give any serious consideration TO a
j. parsonage who halls from as far away
from the Hudson as the. Great Nebras.