Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-05
ROUND ABOUT NEW York.
RippIes on the Current of Life in the
Metropolis.

RippIes on the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.
The gloom in Tammany Hall is thick
enough to cut with cheese knife Not a
scrap appears on the pie counters. The
braves of other days wear lean and
hungry look, which accurately reflects their
condition. Woe succeeds the Joyous de-
fance Of month ago, and naughty airs
have been transformed into funeral mel
ancholy. The tiger has been chained and
the platter thrown into the bay. Charley
Murphy sulks in his Long Island castle.
dethroned boss. What makes the agony
hard TO bear IL that it is handed to the
braves by brother member. Mayor Nc
Clellan, formerly esteemed the brightest
jewel on the pie counter McC1ellan's ap-
pointments are the hardest blow ever dealt
by friendly hand to the organization. But
the rest OF the town rejoices and rudely
mocks the wrath of Tammany
Things do not wear a bright aspect for
the mayor. Though installed for a four
year term, there appears some trouble in
store for him, which may shorten his ca
reer as mayor. The Hearst crowd. allied
with republicans, have organized the city
council and have instituted contest for
the seat of borough president which will
enable them to pry up the lid of ballot
boxes In Manhattan. and in doing so look
into the vote cast for mayor. with the
Tammany members of the council indiffer-
ent TO the mayors fate, it is easy to foresee
what course the investigation will take
Mcclellan is between two rebelious polit-
ical camps one eager for his scalp, the
other secretly reaching for It,
The new chief of police, General Theo-
dore A. Bingham, talked in "a breezy fash
ion to his subordinate chiefs. I'm here
to do a certain work." he told them. and
by Jove, I'm going to do it IL il can be
done. And you've got TO treat me on the
square, as l intend to treat you. 1 want
to start out fairly, without any watching
or spying. Therell be no spying. If you
are manly men, why, treat me right and
I'll treat you right"
These offhand remarks he emphasized by
genteel ordinations by the nine gods
of war" he declared, "if you do not act
on the level, of goes your star"
There is a decisive and a soldlerly d.
RICHNESS about General Bingham which has
often been mistaken for abruptness or
brusqueness, but that mistake was usually
made by some one who had given cause
for the exhibition OF the military side of
iiiS tidiiliil6. II is or MIN that on
one occasion, when there was a social
| function of Importance at the White House
and large number OF guests were pres
| ent. one of the guests we'll known sem
ator began the narration of a story in
| tone which attracted attention throughout
! the room. Colonel Bingham saw that the
! president was annoyed. Without waiting
| for anything further he stepped up to the
| senator and said:
The president desires to have quiet"
The senator was extremely wroth but it
| made no difference to Colonel Bingham
He had merely noted and stopped a rude
| interruption of what was going on.
| TAI and strongly built, a limp which a
| serious accident caused some time ago does
| not detract from the generals soldierly
| carriage. He has gray eyes wears a mus
| tache, which is blonde, like his hair. has
! fun regular features and would be de-
scribed as fine-looking man. He appears
| ten years younger than the a years he ad-
mits, and has son q years of age.
| The cynical and picturesque Big Bill
! Devery, former chief of police, could not
resist taking a hand in the game" as 1t
| aHects the cops. They tell me-" he said
In an interview, that this man General
I Dihbhdii, lIpui bOHeCllGnt, VINO Is going
to run the New York police department,
had his leg cut of couple of years ago
by a derrick falln' on it. I'll bet he re-
garded that there accident as a great mis-
fortune at the time but he will find before
he is in his new job very long that a
! derrick amt peanut shell to what falls
! on the police commissioner Of New York
| every day.
| Mr. Devery naturally doubts the ability
/ of man without police experience to run
| the police force of New York City He Is
| outspoken In his opinion that the head of
| the department should be policeman who
! has risen from the grade of patrolman
| In this connection he was told that General
| Bingham and organized the park and White
House grounds police force at Washington
That may help him some" agreed Mr..
/ Devery, but a Washington COP whose
duties are confined mostly to pickin' up
newspapers and banana peels off the grass,
! is a whole lot different from a New York
cop. The New York cop is in a class by
himself No other policeman is like him
His work is different from the work of
any other class of men in the world. be-
cause this city is different from any other
! city in the world.
II don't want to be givln' General Bing-
ham any advice unless he asks for it. II
he chirps to me I'll go down there and
put him wise to some OF the corners and
curves OF his job. He may make good.
and l wish him al the luck in the world
But IL l was maxim a book I'd give you
odds that they'll be bouncin' roasts off Of
him before he's in Office six months II
he does all the newspapers and citizens ex-
pect him to do with the police force he's
more than human. II he tries to do too
much at the start he will queer himself.
and when a man queers himself at the head
of the police force once his middle name is
Q-u-e-e-r-e-d unless they put an egg in his
shoe and tell him TO beat it,"