The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-18
Jerome Continues His Prosecu.
tions Against Vice With
Unabated vigor.
HEALTH, FIRE AND POLICE
ALL LEND THEIR AID
Police No Longer in Collusion With
Proprietors of "Resorts"- Who
Figured in Caruso Incident Removed
New York Has Firebug Who Has
Set Over 100 Blazes.
(Newa.RuPeau.l


Associated Press to The Evening Tfmes.
New York, N. Y, Dec 1S.-The re-
form movement continues with una
bated vigor. The threat made by Dis
trict Attorney Jerome that he will
resign his Office unless he succeeds
In closing every gambling house on
Manhattan island apparently has been
taken seriously and already has borne
fruit. Proprietors of gambling places
seem to have decided that it will be
hardly worth while even to make any
semblance of fight and scores Of
them have not only closed their hous-
es, but have themselves sought more
congenial cltmes. They undoubtedly
will remain we'll outside the county
of New York at least until after the
present activity has subsided and pos
sibly until another and less trouble
some spirit occupies the Office of dis
trict attorney. The temporary alb
sence from the city of many of this
gentry was disclosed when a number
of subpoenas were issued for men
we'll known in the Tenderloin, direct
ing them to appear before the grand
jury now in session to tell what they
know of gambling conditions in the
city. Some of them came and were
subjected to a gruelling inquiry by
the district attorney and his assis-
tants in the presence of the jury. In
many cases, however, the process
servers came back with the informa-
tion that the parties named were not
to be found. The fact that many of
them had left the city for an indefinite
stay was announced by Emil Fuchs,
among the sporting fraternity. Fuchs
said the gamblers had decided that i.
is not worth while to "try to buck
the game" in the present condition of
affairs. They had decided to close up
their houses, he said, rather than run
the risk of having them closed by the
district attorney, and to leave the city
themselves rather than take the
chance of being forced to go before
the grand jury and tell their own
story and possibly also be obliged to
peach on their friends
Able and valuable assistance is be-
ing given the district attorney by the
police department. To those unfami-
liar with conditions in New York this
may not seem strange enough to war
rant comment. But it is. Seldom in
the past have these two branches of
government acted in harmony on any
question, no matter how trivial or how
important. If it CHANGED to be dis
trict attorney job" then the force of
the district attorneys Office might do
it as best they could without the as
sistance, and in some cases with not
a little interference from the police
department. And in the same way
the police were left to themselves and
their own resources in many cases
where the assistance of the district at
torneys men might have been ex-
termely valuable to them. Not only
has the police commissioner turned
over to District Attorney Jerome all
the evidence against gambling places
which had been placed in his hands by
Rev. DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst and the
society for the suppression of vice,
but he also has furnished Mr.. Jerome
with a complete list of all suspected
places which had been compiled by
the police department. He also has
caused to be withdrawn and assigned
to other duty the uniformed men who
for many months have been stationed
at the entrances of all suspected
gambling houses. AS result of this
move, the district attorney will be
enabled to send his raiders directly
against the suspected places, to gain
entrance as possible patrons or to bat