Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-04-19
MIGHTY WAR IS
On AGAINST
BLACK HAND
NEW YORK POLICE IN
DESPERATE CAMPAIGN
Law Requiring Registration Of
All Weapons Sold One of the
Means Proposed to Get Re-
suits,


,snseisl correspondence to Morning %Journall
New York. April 15.-Frcsh from
,be mineral of their martSred com
rade Pctrosino. the police have be
onn in this city today a mighty strug.
ole IA check the rising wave of mur
lcrols crime which is threatening the
nolee ana safety not only OF this me
tropolis but Of the entire state ant
sonntr, as we'll. While squads o.
sIeuths are being SEN out to sounc
me secret workings of the Black Han,
ma other sinister powers of the un
derworld. the heads of the department
are bending every energy to keel
within their grasp the means of muir
der which now lie far toe easily a
hand Tor amy desperate. With tn,
tools Of the murdercl's trade Offered
for sale everywhere without question
or record. no communitlyS can eve
hone to trace or check the operation.
of the powers that prey on human lifS
Inc police declare. AS a first step to.
ward laying hands on the bidder
manslaycrs the heads Of the force arr
today urging the legislature 10 maze
law Of the Robinson DIN providing FOR
a registration and report on the sale
Of each deadly Weapon With such a
clue to the revolver dropped from tho
cowardly hand that did P%etrosino t.
death at Palermo. New York would
today be i'm a fair way To lay mold of
It's mcnacing murderors.
%PinChing the Poor.
out of the pennies of the poor sew
oral thousands of dollars are each DAY
going to pay tribute to the kings OF
the wheat pit in Chicago, it is calcu-
lated today by the five hundred small
bakers who are handing flour like
gold in their little shops about the
tenement districts. Gotham's daily bite
of bread calls for a million and Il
quarter lOayes Of a fun sixteen ounces
Now that the gamble in wheat has
forced the bakers to Tighten each LOAF.
The mother Of the tenements is forced
10 buy more 81 starve. seldom has the
pinch Of poverty raised a cry from the
congcstcd quarters of this town more
ntteous to an who must hear 1t. New
Workers may harden their hearts to
the victims of the more gilt-cdgc3
forms of graft. but no one is willing
to watch the helpless poor ground 70
the verge Of famine for the blood
money of greedy gamblers.
shameful Spoils.
That good red sporting blood flows
aplcnty even in the veins of the pent-
up New Yorker is shown by the out
cry which is being raised throughout
the city today over the proposal u
l%eealize spring market butchery Of tn
ducks that are flocking to the shores
of Long Island under the protection
of a close season in January and Feb
ruary. Every man or boy here who
ever shouldcred a gun is protesting
against turning over the game of this
beautiful bit Of shore just beyond the
city limits to the hired men who would
make il a shamhles to feed the Broad
way roundcr, in season and out. In
Just the months when maturity should
De their shield the breeding female
fowl are sought by the rcstau
man. who alone praises the Lup-
ton bin for tearing open this little
of close season. For the sake
of craftsmanship ana sentiment as
wcll. the National Assaociation OF
Audubon societies have today taken up
fight to protect New York's
recreation ground from being spoiled
ana its people from being shamed.
Tammany Triumph.
Now that the 'joy-riding' bosses up
It Albany have run their steam roller
Machine ovcr the Hughes direct prim-
lry hin, Tammany leaders are openly
casting today that this metropolis is
rs good as Won for them to loot for
mother four years. with the prim-
my polls In their pockets as of old
be henchmcn Of Murphy are already
citing about the selection of a slate
DO which only the names of their
Features arc to appear II Gotham
ieii "a prey to the Tammany tiger
Tier the coming election. the people
blame their plight straight back
o this gagging Of Hughes efforts for
irett primaries, il / $ conceded 10y
OPTICAL observers here. That the
'sses 81 the wigWam are not going :
'"AA away WIN AHi7 NlliA Ali-
.om their confederatcs at Albany is I
loNn Toy tho awakening sentiment for
r'a' primary voice for the people {
men ls every where following the ,
ihaalizing work Of the machine leg I
''lofs IN throttling the governors a
'naafy measure in the same session s
which they did to death a bin to a
sniat' tho corporations it is he I
''ea the bosses have wrought the @
ginning of their end hereabouts. i.
Womcn's Ways. 7
a.. Gotham is watching with interest d
''H the trial of the women's cars =
y which mere man is excluded inl s.
' hudson traction tubes. While thc q
"'us club women. who prevailed e
,'h inc authorities 70 devote sepa- :,
coaches To- their sex. are pro-
Hs D. experiment a success
males ~ cynical bent are report ii
'nat tho weaker sisters scorn the :
trailer and rush to the mixed =
many IN the forward cars. What :
'N' majority may prefer. how :
q Eoodlv number 0f women still
-ai. themselves on each trTp OF
novel trains