New-York tribune., 1910-09-01
NEW LAWS ARE IN EFFECT
Five Legislative Acts Go on
Statute Books To-day.
FINISH OF ORAL BETTING
Inferior Courts, Private Banks,
Automobiles and Employers
Liability the Others.

While newspaper men are not usual!
prominent before the police courts, 1T Is
fact that they were among the first to ap
ply for the Identification cards issued D!
the Police Department. under the new IN
ferior criminal courts law. to save oneno
ers against city ordinances from arrest
The new law goes into effect to-day, bu
the identification cards have not beer
issued yet, as the magistrates have no
supplied the police with the summonse:
which are TO be served on offenders wheI
they are found violating the ordinances
The inferior courts law is only one of five
new pieces of state legislation which &c
into effect to-day. The others are the ac'
for licensing private banks, the employers
liability and workmen's compensation act
the Callan automobile law and the law put
ting an end to oral betting.
The new arrangements in the police
courts will 60 into effect to-day. and Mag
istrate Cornell will preside over the do
mestic relations court at the 1orkVlls
court building. Every police court VIII
present a changed appearance Inc orlose
has gone to the scrap heap. and IN the
future Ntigants IN the police courts VIII
apnear before the magistrate with or with
out counsel just as they do in other courts
and not in a crowd on the bridge. where 1t
is difficult to distinguish who Is the ac-
cused. who the accuser and who the
hangers-on.
Another change in the police courts "iliei
will be apparent In a few days Will De the
presence Of civilian court attendants III
stead of the police. For the present no"
ever, some of the policemen will remain al
the courts until q sufficient numoer OIL ap-
plicants have passed the civil service eA-
animation to obtain places as attendants'
The Court of Special Sessions Is IN
peculiar situation. No attendants nave Se'
been appointed, and IT Is queSioh "ho
Will bring prisoners before the court anu
take them back to tine Tombs when thes
are condemned to so there. The arrange
nnent with Police Commissioners BAKER 10
continue some of his men on duty at the
police courts does not apply 10 opeoia
Sessions It Is expected. however tna' 'iie
Commissioner of Corrections. MT " hl'hey
will allow the keepers OF the 1oihos I.
hiring the prisoners before the courts aho
that the process servers VIII be ehisteo u
maintain order in the court
Courts for Mon and Women.
The separate night courts for men aho
,ro-,an will 90 into operation to-night
,,og,strate Barlow will preside at the
-or,en.s night court in Jefferson Market
while MAGISTRATE Appleton will be the mrs
70 cit In the mems night court, at YORK
Vile.
Lieutenant William H Ward. the heao
of the new Identification bureau estao
ushed under the inferior criminal cour's
.o+ has heen very busy with three
,,,or snd q stenographer preparing 1denti-
6cat,on cards in the last few days Ihe
new bureau has experienced cohsiuei aoie
trouble In getting people to send IN 'heif
applications In due form
Some have been sent back two or three
.;,,as and many send in large photo
,--e,,bs while others send in photograph
n,stoa on a nostal card, which is too stl1
,o- sticking on the Identification card
Onlv residents of New York state can
yat such cards and 1t is not necessary
the, the persons vouching for the appli-
cant should have employed him April
cants who have been convicted OF shgh'
tnfrecttons of ordinances seem to think
thew do not constitute a crime, "hlle
others who have been arrested and con-
victed seem to think they have never been
arrested at all.
The employers liability and Workmen
compensation act has caused rush to the
dispensers Of employers liability insur
ance One company has found 1t neces
gary TO establish course of lectures fol
its agents on this law. and the attorney;
place vastly different Interpretation or
the law from that which it apparently was
the intention of the legislators TO pass
The drafting of the law makes 1t apph
cable to portions. at least, OF every indus
try in the state. although it was INTENDED
to apply only to dangerous occupations
and to those which did not compete witt
other states, such as building. tunnelling
railways and electric installations.
The reading of the act is such, however
that any industry carried on in a build
ing which contains an elevator or am cleo
trio light plant is subject to the provision
of the law.