The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-30
POLICE CANNOT
BREAK UP ANATOMY
New YOrk's Finest Have Had
a Crimp Put Upon the
Locust.
HERETOFORE OFFICERS USED
STICK ON SLIGHT PRETEXT
Now, When They Club a Man,
Cause Must Be Shown or
Lose Job.
BY RALPH JOHNSON.
cnSnd NNirn 10 The Trlhnne.

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-Mayor Gay,
nor has evidently. made up his mind
that life in New York for the common
people shall be better worth the living
One of the ways he intends to bring
this about is to curb the night stick or
the too energetic cop. 1t has long been
The privilege of the New York po-
liceman to bat the unimportant. citizen
over the head whenever, in his Judg.
ment. the said citizen needed 1t, but
now the "force' is to be deprived of
this particular diversion, Already sew
eral TOO ready policemen have become
private citizens, and there are others
slated for the loss of shield and but
tons, and the mandate has gone forth
that in the future the policeman who
uses his night stick over the head of
even the humblest citizen must be able
10 show good cause or lose his job This
is welcome news, not only to the
New Yorker, but to the stranger within
our gates. The clubbing policeman
does not always stop TO ask where a
man comes from before beginning the
work of breaking up his anatomy, and
more than one visitor to New York has
felt the weight of the locust.
College Athletes in Office.
Did it ever occur TO you that there
are good many former college aths
letes holding public life these days,
and that they are making good, tooY
The fine work done since Christmas In
cleaning New York streets of some
thing like n two-toot snowfall by Big
Bill Edwards, street cleaning commits
sioner, is case in point, In his day
Edwards was the star of the Princeton
football squad Mr.. Pinchot IS successor
as chief forester, Henry S. Graves,
PLAYED on the Yale eleven, while every
follower of the sport knows Lee Nc
Clung. now treasurer of the United
States.
Another football man, George Wood,
ruff, was last year made United
States Judge by President Taft Wood
Pennsylvania team, and was the author
of the "guards- back formation, which
won so many games for the Red and
Blue, and, incidentally. swelled the
hospital list of opposing players. Wood.
ruff, by the way. has given up his
iudgeship because the salary was
scarcely enough to live on. His resig.
nation provoked the president who had
much difficulty in securing Woodruff S
confirmation by the senate,
James Freeman Curtiss the new as
sistant secretary of the treasury, is a
Harvard man, and at one time was the
intercollegiate golf champion. His see
retarv. Fred Currier. was Harvard
baseball star. Robert Bacon, the new
ambassador TO France. was notable
oarsmau al Harvard.
Everett Lake, one of the best half.
backs that ever wore the crimson of
Harvard, is now lieutenant governor of
Connecticut. He is expected to be the
nominee for governor this fall. Big
ltcfelhngcr. the best guard of any Yale
team, may bc nominated for mayor Of
Minneapolis hy the Republicans this
wear. Roosevelt wanted TO appoint
Hcflclhuger ms civil service commits.
s'onor, but the former football player
declined.
Maurice q. Ely, former Yale foot
ball captain, rs anxious to show the
people OF Brooklyn what he can do as
a, public, servant, and is trying TO wrest
The leadership of the First Assembly
district from Michael J. Dody. This
list might be swelled almost indefinite
".
Protecting Salmon Fisheries.
Among the visitors from the coast in
New York was Charles S. Carr of Tilla.
nook, Oregon. "The people of Ore
gon are aroused to the necessity of
taking some action for the preserva-
tion of the salmon fsheries.'' he said.
because of the reckless and wasteful
fishing methods have injured the Co.
lumbia river fisheries and the matter
Will be taken up by the legislature
without question. The people by a
referendum vote in 1908 gave A ma
iority of $4,000 for law that was
enacted by the legislature to prohibit
salmon fishing beyond the head of the
matter got into the courts under an in.