The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-22

conduct In New York, on the contrary,
there is still left for public cons Jump
ton some fairly good whiskey, accord
ing to connoisseurs which may be
taken internally without resort to dis
orderly conduct.
Adding up the two items "intoxica-
ton" and ''intoxication and disorderly
conduct in the New York column
gives a total of 1892 arrests, as COM
pared with 42,46S in Boston for the
same period. This demonstrates, as far
as mere figures can show, that the
people of the Hub are four times as
bibulous as New Workers.
All crimes, drunkenness included,
have been increasing to such an extent
in the last few years in Boston that
the administrative police officials there
have ben engaged of late in an effort
t. push the obloquy off on the visitors
to that frosty "typically American"
city The result of their industry in
this direction is shown in the present
Boston police report, where somewhat
more than SO per cent of the total ar
rests for all offenseS is charged off to
mon residents'-to sundry divers
John Smiths, who, when picked up Of
or near the sacred Common, murmur
that they come from somewhere else
and were so much affected by the sight
of the Hub they were Whirled off the
the water wagon.
The New York police do not keep
data as to the proportions of non-res-
idents who fall into their clutches. But
as New York is the show town of the
continent it attracts as everybody
knows. d larger proportion of visitors
than Boston or any other American
city. 1t is estimated there are always
100 0G0 visitors in New York so the
proportion of non residents among Of
tenders would naturally be much great
err here than in Boston 1t is a we'll
known fact that the enormous wealth
congregated in this city draws a con-
slant stream of criminals here from all
parts of this country and Europe.
New York Beaten to a FRAGILE.
When it comes to robbing people the
Boston folks have New Workers beaten
to a FRAGILE" There are nearly three
times as many assaults in Boston in
volving robbery
In the more serious crime of burg
larry, too, the Bostonians are preem-
inent. There would have been more
than 5000 burglaries in New York in
the last II months, instead of 5000,
had the Boston record been kept up in
this city.
Plain, ordinary thieving, under the
polite head of larceny" is nearly
twice as frequent in Boston, accord
ing to the comparative police figures.
The police of the Hub do not reveal,
in their report, how many of the at
tempts at larceny there were success
full They cover the acts and the at
tempts thereat under the one head. The
New York police figures show 14,134
larcenies and 337 attempts-indicating
that very few victims escaped the
clutches of their pursuers.
In the matter of forgery, one of the
more serious crimes, there were twice
as many offenders, in proportion, in
Boston.
The desperate situation among the
poor in New York is evidenced by
comparison of vagrancy arrests in the
two cities-much more than twice as
many arrests here in proportion to the
population.
But the Bostonians show up fine
when it comes to retaining their saliva
putting their rubbish carefully in
proper receptacles, sweeping their side
walks and otherwise observing the
various corporation ordinances. The
figures reveal Boston as being more
than twice as nice as New York II this
respect.
For some reason not disclosed in the
police reports, there are nearly six
times more crazy people in Boston than
there are in New York, considering
the population of the two municipali-
ties.
The automobile craze, despite the
great outcry in New York over the
recklessness here, seems, from the fig
ures, to have twice as tight hold on
Boston. That may account it is said.
for the disproportionate number of
crazy folks in the Massachusetts, me-
tropolis
Police Efficiency Compared.
Returning now to the question of
the comparative efficiency of the po-
lice of Boston and New York, the fol-
lowing figures are somewhat Indicative
the officials say:
Property recovered $1.SSS.000 s2117,590
Fines imposed .... s269,1S4 s159.9S3
Years in Jail imposed 1897 1904
In Boston, the central office men