The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-16
'T00Ls0F VICE FORCE
THEY DISH UP HEAD OF BING-
HAM, POLICE CHIEF.
Tammany Leaders Are Busy Keep
ing UP the Game of Bluff; How
Death Is Being Defeated in New
York City; Chinatown Cringes;
the Bread Line Bakery Has Been
Licked UP BY Flames.

New York, July l2.-Chaotic condi
lions almost unprecedented in this city
have today set in throughout the po
lice force and the underworld which il
guards. Although the head of Bling
ham has been dished\up by the Tam
may bosses to the forces of vice ant
crime of the town, the leaders of this
victorious element are finding theil
office holding tools at present inclined
to keep up a game of public bluff al
police headquarters that still holds
their resorts under a spasmodic guard
Between this righteous bluff and the
loosing of Bingham's firm hold, tine
police are completely demoralized and
sadly at loss to know how far tC
follow up their real duty Altogether
the situation has become a serious
menace to all law and order here and
New Workers are just realizing that
they are lowering on the edge of an.
inal classes such as brought on the
shameful red light" period less than
ten years ago. Unless the rising wave
of popular protest sweeps Tammany
out of power next fall, Gotham has
already begun the worst reign of law.
lessness in its history.
Busy Defeating Death.
Death and disease have been beaten
back by small percentage from
New York's four millions of people this
year, according to reports that have
today been made to the headquarters
of the health department. In the first
six months of the vigorous war which
Gotham has had to make against the
invasion of fatal maladies, several hun
dred lives have been spared from the
several millions and thus lowered the
death rate by the greater part of a
whole per cent. Minute as this ad
vance may seem. it is being hailed by
medical authorities here as the first
hope of staying the wholesale destruc-
tion of life in this metropolis, where
the spectre of infection has always
stalked. Grip, typhoid, malaria, diph-
liberia. pneumonia and tuberculosis are
proved to have numbered few less
victims in the last half year of pre-
.ventive crusade, and everybody i;
hoping that at last ravages of disease
may be at least held from further in.
roads.
How Chinatown Cringes
Deserted and turned inside out by
the rigors of the Sigel murder hunt
Chinatown is today more desolate and
distract than it has been since it first
sprang up in the midst of the down
town districts. Scores of its terrified
and much cross-questioned inhabitants
have already begun an exodus to Other
quarters of town that threatens tc
almost depopulate the district. While
the rival Tong leaders plan a long
and murderous war over the case OF
Leon Ling's escape, hundreds of theil
followers seem to have decided tC
seek safety in flight to the suburbs OF
remote tenement districts. Many a
crew of celestials is suspected by the
police to be implicated in tragedies al
most as sad as the murder of Elsie
Sigel and life in Chinatown would to-
day prove very dangerous to hundreds
of the suddenly retiring Cinnamon.
Fire Licks UP Bakery.
For the first time in two genera
tons the famous "bread line," that
sustained the starving by the thou
sand each night, is today dead to its
forlorn crowds of refugees. Fire has
licked up in half an hour the BIG
bakery that furnished this supply and
the famished wayfarers can now only
hover, disconsolate and desperate, on
the edge of the charred ruins. The
kind of charity that devotes itself
principally to organization in this town
is giving only advice and unnutritlous
bits of red tape to the starving most
and unless some real philanthropist
steps in with real aid there will be
recorded soon many deaths from hun
ger. The old bread line has kept life
and put heart in millions of men, and
it's loss is sadly felt here.
Close of the Court.
With only half dozen special SEES
sions droning on with their labors IN
the July heat, the. judges, clerks, and
attendants of most of the courts OF
city and county have today deserted
their trial rooms for good long sum
mer vacations. With hosts of law
yers, these court crews are always
ready to shut up shop in the first
uncomfortable weather and repair to
cool shore and mountain resorts till
autumn sets in The fact that thou
sands of defendants are left to wait
their pleasure in jail or in agonlzlng
suspense has never worried these court
folk trihe, and this year they are
leaving earlier than ever.
MEETING WITH GREAT SUCCESS