The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-12
JUST TWO Ours
IN FIFTY YEARS
New York Policemen and Fire
men Have Made a Good
Record.
TRAFFIC IN STALE EGGS
FARM is VALUED AT st25 PER
SQUARE FOOT.
TRAFFIC IN STALE EGGS

SQUARE FOOT.
New York, Aug. 11.-Degraded in re-
gulation military style, his straps and
shield torn from his uniform, a mem
Der of New York's police force was dis
missed this week in disgrace on a
charge of cowardice in the face of duty.
Hooted by his former comrades. he left
] the station house after the first occur
renee of the kind i'm three decades.
which will go down in the citys history
/ as most remarkable event For what
ever may be said of the members of
| the finest in regard - graft. pull and
other undesirable elements of NUM-
| cipal service, the fact remains that the
record of the force for bravery and her
Oism is long and honorable one. of
which the city police is Justly proud
Not i'm this generation has New York
| known a dismissal for cowardice. it
heing more than thirty years since such
a charge has been made against a po-
| liceman. Since the establishment of the
old metropolitan police force more than
half century ago this blacklist of all
charges has been made but twice.
There have been crooks in the depart
ment, dishonest men and men neglect
y.
two exceptions in fifty years, they have
possessed the saving grace of bravery
From the day in June. 1857, when Po-
liceman Eugene Anderson was killed in
attempting to make an arrest, the list
of these city protectors who have met
their death in the discharge of duty
and in the face of recognized danger
has grown week by week. until it now
contains hundreds of names If to this
,.,T1 l..
department, the number runs into the
thousands. The average New York
City cop only grins when the force is
accused of graft, but he is jealous of its
reputation for bravery, as was in
stanced by the boots which marked
the official exit of the officer Just dis
missed. Not for nothing in this respect
at least has the force been called ''the
finest"
People in New York who prefer bad
eggs will have some trouble in procur-
ing them after this. The city having
taken up with more or less successful
results bad street car service, bad in
surance, bad officials, and, in fact, any
thing that enough people complained
Of, will now turn its attention to the
product of the gentle hen. That any
one should really prefer antique or
spot eggs seems incredible but it is
nevertheless true that there are a good
many thousands of citizens in the
greater city who buy them and who
are under no illusion as to the question
of their freshness. This is in no sense
due to a veneration for age such as is
found among the Chinese, but partly to
the fact that ancient eggs are cheap
er. and partly because they are more
highly favored. So large has the bus
mess grown of dealing in eggs which
are not strictly fresh that the health
department estimates that more than
1000 dozen bad eggs are daily disposed
of here for human consumption. The
business has its own terms, there being
distinct difference between eggs
which are classed as rotten and those
which are merely spot" eggs. Neither,
of course, are good, but in the latter
class are to be found all those eggs
which have not reached the limit of
badness. This class includes eggs
which. having been several days in in !
cubators without giving a positive test
for Matching, are shipped TO New York |
to be eaten. Many of these spot eggs
are sold for manufacturing purposes. |
going into CONNECTIONS. cake and the |
like. In fact, these tainted articles of
consumption have achieved such sta |
BILE place i'm New YOrk's commerce that !
a judge recently accepted $500 dozen |
of them as surety for the appearance of |
a defendant. The health department, |
however, is now putting extra inspect |
ors on the job of driving them out of
the market, and as it takes no Sherlock !
Holmes - detect them, it Is believed
that tainted" eggs as an article of
food are doomed in New York.
Justice dispensed at all hours of the
day and night is the sign which Faith |
er Knickerbocker can now hang out
for the first time in his history, and it
is believed for the first time in the his
tory of the country. The inauguration
of a night police court this week means
that crooks can De hailed before the bar
of justice at any hour of the twenty
four, instead of having to wait over
night for the regular day sessions, as
formerly. The fact that the city has
found It necessary to keep court for |
twenty-foUr hours a day for the sem
fencing of criminals should not be |
taken to indicate, however, that it has
so many of these undesirable citizens /
as to be unable to handle them by day. |
While it is true that there is no failure /
in the crook crop, the bill to establish |
night police courts here is the first step |
to do away with the graft of profess |
sionaI bail givers, who have formerly |
made an easy, il diShOnOrable, living |
by holding up those persons, particu- |
larly women who were arrested so late |
in the day as TO make ii necessary to |
postpone their trial until the following |
day. Under these conditions the ar |
rested one must either spend the night |
in Jail or give bail, the latter of which /
few of them were able to do. In con-
there has sprung up class
of professional bail givers, who fur
nish the nominal amount asked-and II /
is not often over S10-and then proceed |
to soak the unfortunate victim for an |
equal sum as a fee. With the estaD- /
fishing of the new court, however, ar
rests made at night will be handled /
promptly, and it is believed the pro-
fessional bail giver, a blot on the
courts of justice of New York, will be |
driven out of business. The fact that
during the first seven nights of this
month the average number of arrests
has been 473, shows the amount of
work which the new court will have
to handle.
While the state Republican clubs
have been reaching condition of ex-
element over the abandoned farms of