New-York tribune., 1906-10-24
POLICE SHIFT COMING
MANY EXPECT TRANSFEp
bingham to Make More Before
Election-May AUoid TroubIs

Wnat promises to be the largest rensra,
transfer OF police officials from inspectors sov
10 patroimen. is threatened by Police Corarnis-
sioher Bingham TO occur before Election Dav
Sueh transfer would have two results :, q.
said' The first would be that political influence
would be greatly decreased as men who mia.
WORK Tor or against candidate In a certain st.
trlct would be eliminated The second a.
the commissioner may avert trouble fror, 80.
Investigations Of police affairs. which :, .,
serted. Governor Higgins and William, pans.,-,
hearst have been carrying on separatsIv :.
understood that detectives not connac,.s -
the Police Department have been r,skt..- I
cursions about the city with only one ob,so. =
view. to find every case Of police ipacttv,,,, -.
10 bring them all against the Comrnissior.- -,
the department -Au
New YORK City, men about town saw IA r,o-.
tightly closed than in years. In the TenasrIo,,
'nere Is scarcely place open Gambling houses
pooirooms' disorderly houses and other ulao-.
nave Deen closed. and all are apparently ou, AZ
BUSINESS Inc same IS said to be true all ovsr
the city. and in some instances managers a,
'heatres who give Sunday night concerts hav.
been arrested.
All Oh this sudden wave OF morality In the Po-
ice Department Is said to be due to the discov
-" ~@-NN "AAGSAS WleelS are working
which, IL evidence was obtained, might urovs
disastrous for those IN command
commissioner Bingham before the days OF r.~-
istratton transferred some three thousand ma,
and said he found the shifts beneficial Yaz.sr-
DAY ne said he had the matter OF still greatsr
transfer under serious consideration. Beror.
Election Day, he said. he would make whols-
sale transfers OF inspectors, captains sergean+s
roundsnen and patroImen
Inefe are a number Of inspectors and ca,
Iains, ne said. who are not doing good work
ana am not at all satisfied with them m,
transfers in their cases will probably be rnada.
permanent. Others WILL OF course BE- onIv tsD,
porary. for purely police reasons have The
names or the men whom ! will transfer per-
inanently. OF course. some OF the politicians
VIII not like these transfers, and I will hs
damned by them IL make them. and PIl Also.
De damned If l don't make them. But uoIiti-
clans have nothing to do with ma The onIv
thing is to go ahead and ignore them and that.
what intend doing"
captain Schlottman. the present captain IN
the Tenderloin station. started there as a make-
shirt, filling In when Captain O'Brien becana
sick. He has remained. and IN the last week tha
Id has been down tight. Captain SchIottrnan
some time ago said he did not care for the pr.-
cinct and would be glad to leave Il bur as
long as he was there he would do his best TO
keep IL Clean AT present 1t is said. it Is prac-
tically clean.
At the headquarters Of the Independence
League no one could be found yesterday who
knew anything about any detectives In III. am,
ploy OF Mr.. Hearst making an Investigation OF
conditions IN this city. Some OF the politician,
there doubted the story. but It Is said In usually
well informed quarters to be correct