Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-25
ROUND ABOUT NEW york.
RippIes on the Current Of Life In the
Metropolis.

RippIes on the Current Of Life In the
Metropolis.
From the Bowery to Yonkers, from VIII
Hamburg to the boundary line Of Hobo
ken. In subway and skyscraper canyons,
the muggy air Of Manhattan Is streaked
with a wrath Of 'the finest" Where two
or more cops congregate there Indignation
roasts and sizzles Police Commissioner
Bingham has them on the jump and no
'copper-on-the-beat" knows when or where
the next bomb will explode. Indignation
and anxiety permeates the system" All
this springs from the new law investing
the commissioner with extraordinary
power in handling the force. His first
use Of that power was to reduce eight Of
the inspectors who are accused OF con-
trolling the department through sort Of
conspiracy known as The System" to
the rank OF captain, and to send them to
widely scattered station houses. The men
who have taken the places OF the deposed
Inspectors are captains designated by the
commissioner as acting inspectors, and as
signed to the various districts. There Is
nothing to prevent the commissioner from
sending these new appolntees back to the
command Of a precinct at a moments no.
uce. Twnnty-seven detective sergeants
have been reduced in rank and sent to do
patrol duty in uniform at various station
houses. That is only a beginning. 1t is
expected that in a week OF two about 200
OF the 24S detective sergeants will be re-
turned to uniform, while their places will
be taken by patrolmen assigned to the
work. head for the bureau has not yet
been selected, but a plan Of organization
Is announced like that Of the Scotland
Yard office in London. Men who have spe-
cial knowledge of any branch of crime and
the men who follow It. will be assigned to
squad under an acting captain devoted
to that line Of detective work. by his
latest move" says the Brooklyn Eagle,
General Bingham puts himself in control
OF both sides of the police situation. II
he is able to organize a thoroughly EN-
cient detective bureau his prestige will be
Increased and his power to keep the in
spectors whom he suspects out in pre-
cincts where the pasturage is lean will
increase also. II his detective bureau is
q failure he will put a powerful weapon
into the hands Of those former autocrats
with which to force his own resignation.
The forces which they represent were once
able to secure the transfer Of an ener-
getic police commissioner to Washington"
All records Of immigration at the port Of
New York are about to be broken bv the
arrival Of an immense fleet bringing 10000
aliens from European ports, chiefly Italy
and Germany. The vessels are all due
within the next few weeks. Immigration
Commissioner Robert Watchorn said: THE
thrush promises to be the greatest that we
have ever had here. We have been rushed
to death almost in the last few weeks, but
the coming days are likely to tax our
registry clerks and other officials to the
last point. The invasion of the remarkable
army Of immigrants is due to the persis-
tent demand for labor. Work is plentiful
all over the United States. and It Is gem
orally known all over Europe that wages
are good here and that nobody need 20
idle II he wants to work" The agents OF
the Irish and German labor societies at the
Battery reported an inability to procure
domestic servants to meet the demand
Owing to the scarcity Of money in the
city treasury Comptroller Metz has in
formed Andrew Carnegie that the city
could not accept any new free libraries for
the next two years. At the same time
Comptroller Metz told the Board of Esti-
mate that $4,000 was needed to acquire
property for Carnegie library sites.
The Board of Estimate has awarded
the contract for the interior finish of the
new public library to the John Pierce COM
pany, which bid $3.50, 900. The John Pierce
company's bid was the lowest of several
sent to the comptroller for the finishing
work on the library. and the mayor an
under that contract would bring the total
cost Of the library up to 100000. A rep
resentative of the Central Federated
union protested against the award on the
ground that the Pierce company had no
plant in this city. He was told to make
HIS protest to the contractors.
Carriers OF concealed weapons got the
worst shock OF all last Saturday. when
Judge Rosalsky sent one Of the stiletto and
revolver band to state prison for one year
and four months. This is the heaviest SEN
tence vet imposed in the course Of the
crusade TO rid the city OF foreigners who
go about wearing concealed weapons.
Thirty-three additional indictments were
handed down by the grand jury on Sat
urday against Italians who had been ar
rested for carrying stilettos, slungshots
and brass knuckles Eight men were SEN
fenced in the court of special sessions
charged with carrying revolvers. A re-
markable labor union order was issued by
Tito PacellL president of the Rockmen and
ExcavRtors' union of the Federation OF
Labor. 1t directed the searching OF all
members attending the local branches of
the union in New York. Yonkers and
Mount Vernon before they enter the hall
and that any weapon found on the mem
bers shall be confiscated and turned over
10 the police. Mr.. Pacelli was one OF the
delegates TO the peace congress just ended.
New Yorb's Suburban Homes company
organized to improve the dwellings OF the
poor, finds itself making money in spite Of
low rents. It has so far built four large
groups OF model tenements for white oc-
cupants and another for negroes typ
ical three-room apartment in one OF the
company's blocks is occupied by scrub
woman. For it she pays a rental of s19 a
month II is reached by a well-lighted,
steam-heated hall and a stairway built of
freproof material Her three little rooms
comprise a sitting room, kitchen and bed
room. The sunlight falls upon plain, neat
furniture. Rentals vary from SO a month
for two rooms to $3.50 a month for four
rooms and bath. Despite these prices the
stockholders are getting 4 per cent diyi-