New-York tribune., 1911-03-24
TAXPAYERS FOR C0RR|CAN
West Siders Who Resented Crop
seY's Treatment Indorse Him.
SEEK REAL PROTECTION
Say Many Policemen Ere Waste.
by Details to Watch Places
for Weeks After Raids

Resolutions indoreng the statements of
Magistrate Corrissn and condemning ,he
present handling Of the police departm mt
uere unanimously adopted b. the West
side TAXPAYERS Association at meeting
last night AZ No 2s7 West 3ith street
called 70 hear the report Of its commit
tee which paid such an unprof,abla visit
10 Police Commissioner Cropsev last Sat
Urdsv. the meeting practically resolved IL
self into an enthusiastic Endorsement ~
Magistrate Corrgans stand ami an
equally enthusiastic denunciation Of Com
missioner Cropsev and Mayor Gaynor IN
their handling Of the police force
We're paving tho freight and We want
protection" was the w9v Frank Demuth
put il. and the slogan was roundly sp-
plauded.
Louis SchraaS VAS chairman ~ the com
mittae appointed 20 confer with NJ crop
SOY last SATURDAY and after telling :he
association 'ha' IT'S committee had been
badly treated hy Cropsey on the matter
o. hrea king the appointment ne frst made
With IT for last Thursday he briefly ie-
scribed the Saturday visit. when John Will
lam Jones. the secretary OF the association
and member of the committee, Was asked
to leave the room by tho Commissioner.
.Our mistake wac that No didn't AL leave
the room then" said Mr.. Schraeg, but We
we're greatly surprised at such treatment
ard overlooked the insult Two ot our
- Cmmittee were men who had been held
IN and rohhed. hut the Commissioner
didn't want 10 hear from them.
pr George Wenner tho president ~ nc
association. who was also on the commit
TOO. declared that the only hing for the
,axpavers "a do vas 20 keep mp tho agita-
tion.
"Ve must keep up this agitation until
We smoke these officials out-unul "" MAKE
them give us relief or get on, of oi1ice'
said pr Nenner.
Tben ha read a bricC message from Will
lam : Devery, called by Mayor Van Wyck
the best chief Of police New York ever
had q" a member OF the association The
former chief regretted that he couldn't toe
nresent. and explained that nc had l" at
,ond a meeting called for much the same
purpose AZ Rocka~ay
Frank pemuth started The real fireworks
of the meeting. however, When ne ASKED
vbothef the police had made any arrests
iu the numerous robbery and nold-ui' cases
L
on the West side.
Were paying big money for this fancy
narade." declared Nj. Demuth, and, II
must say IT. Tor this Office boy at the head
of the Police Department. and ] consider
him nothing more than the Office boy for
the Mavlr. The Mayor is running the Po-
lice Depart'acut in this city, and when
complaints are made all he can say IS that
they are dong nicely.
How nicely they're keeping Their clubs
in their bell. nc should say, when they
should b. betting these robbers with them.
Irs time the Mayor woke mp. II lie u ever
goin. to waKe mp. We want some one az
TN. head of the department whom the po-
li,emen will respect. man like McAFoy
or McCullash.
'What respect have We got for man
Ike Cropsey, who'd receiv" a committee
from an organization of taxpayers chewing
an annie. and then tell them he could 30
nothing for them? Must we hire our own
private detectives for protection
vice is haunting Itself III our streets and
robberies are becoming more numerous
every day. and admire the nerve OF the
MAGISTRATE who told the truth. no matter
II IL does hurt some one.
Nh. Demuth proposed the resolutions IN.
dursing Magistrate corrigsn, which were
unanimously adopted. and then moved that
copies of them be sent 10 Magistrate Cor
rigan and n Msvor Gaynor
Louis sehraag. who besides BEING prop.