Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-01
SAFE BREAKERS ON
WAR PATH IN
GOTHAM
Desperate Measures Being
Taken by New York Police to
Check Widespread Outbreak
of Crime in the Metropolis,
Ispecisl Correspondent. to xorninx J~ournaIl

~ WV R0lfOl
Especial correspondence to Morning JournaII
New york, Nov. Ito check one
OF the most widespread outbreaks Of
crime that ever threatened life and
property in this town desperate meas
nres are being taken today by the
police of this city. Alarmed by he
recent records Of growing burglary.
petty theft and murderous violence.
the authorities have determined to
make some stand against the proees-
sional crooks who are known TO be
invading this metropolis in unusual
numbers. Half a dozen bold gangs of
safe breakers that have already looted
the vaults of n score of offices and
Waferooms under the very nose of the
night patrolmen are today suspected
to be planning operations on an ever
more extensive scale. Sneak thieves |
are making nightly raids on homes in
all sections OF Manhattan with inn
pttnity, and even the most audacious |
highway robbery is reported. Every
evidence points to the conclusion that /!
the criminals of the country are MAX
a mark of Gotham, and only the
most immediate emergency measures
can avail to preserve even a show of
and order.
Crushing Churches.
Almost stranded in the whirl of the
shifting population about this island
scores of staunch churches are today
making a determined fight for exist
in many changing quarters of the
own. Principally in the Harlem re-
ZION where Sums are rapidly succeed
ng sections Of high residential class
he Oldest church organizations arc
eporting wholesale loss of their mem
through removal. With the in
retreat of the g%ilt-edged NOV
ng van before the congestion of rising
enements, deacons, elders and
fealthy parishioners are being torn
the former places of worship,
now stand sadly out Of place in
heir sordid surroundings. While
hurches and synagogues are sprout- I
lg up for the new inmates of these
1ddenly changed ncighborhoods. the
lcfed edifices of the passing popula- !
on are facing demolition Tor the .
alue of their sites as the congestion :
rows. Empty peWs are daily grow :
lg more common in every church !
under nominal conditions. but :
10 clergy declare this ebb and flow :
population is threatening their well 4
ire even more than Sunday golf or ,
clubs. :
Bowcry Breakdown. !
With the impending loss of millions :
dollars worth of city patronage. the 2
llllvan clan Is today driven almost :
the verge OF complete dissolution, =
to the best Bowery sages. c.
the passing of this most famous OF lN
! their political powers New Workers VI
e witnessing a spectacle that they u
'uld never before believe would come \,
pass. While big Tim sullivan ~
recovering from serious physical i
lapse at a western health resort III
ID Little Tim" is known to be in n
tie better plight down south. a hun 81
Y horde of the rank and file of the Il
illivan cohorts is preparing to for
ke its leaders ana follow after bosses OF
ore productive OF fat jobs. For IL
this compact political band has NJ
the balance OF power in Tam ~
my hall whore its leaders were able
'gcly to dictate and shape the policy 81
'iAN anu NAhA' illiilSNfdNlpll To- III
y the once powerful Bowery brigade n,
rapidly breaking up and for once re
its history upper Gotham hopes to az
We "A say in running its government. m
Loss of Laffan. of
No one can calculate the loss that vi
the world of journalism here has tn
stained through h sudden end ar
of the influence of William NJ
tfan. Following the funeral of the
HInt htflH man who panNA1 thfnng
Chilly from his den in the depths
his newspaper plant, something OF be
ce and spirit seems to have gone
m one end of Park Row to the y,
Ter. Never has New York been -
aged more surely 10y the words of
Y one man than IL was by the mys- 70
presence Of Laffan behind the
wark of his newspaper machine, Sc
every cub and every veteran on the all
II Of his paper the personality of w,
publisher was equally unknown
! yet all powerful Few of the men
worked through eve saw Laffan
fewer still ever began to he taken
his confidence. Today the neNs-
'er that represented the brain of pa
mighty little man is staggering
without him. while vacancy is felt sur
irectly i'm every editorial Dom In for
n.
Hidcous Hcap.
n a few loads of broken lath and
'tcr he street cleaning department In
lday removing from the public gaze
%sculpturcd monstrosity that was-
on Longacre Square n few =
lths K to represent FOR campaign -
poses the city assailcd. OF all the
mite farccs hat Gotham has been
peeled TO witness In recent years.
gross heaping OF stucco is gen-
~ considered to be the most trV-
Why as grotesquc a figure should
To- represent New York or
was supposed to- be casting mud
her soiled plaster dress no one
has been able To discover except
her political promoters. At
rate tho destruction OF this hid
heap is giving To New Workers
real cause for the season of
nksgiNiug.