New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-19

Judging from the first draft of the bill
he believed il could be made much more
drastic with profit. No law, the Com
missioner declared. could be too drastic
In regulating the sale of cocaine. He UNI
derstood that the Walker bill had been
strengthened since he had seen II, and
he was going up to Albany to-day to at
tend the hearing on it. he said.
II is possible that the percentage OF
cocaine which doctors will be allowed to
prescribe for their patients under the new
measure will be reduced from TO l per
cent. according tc c. o. Bigelow head OF
the New York State Board Of Pharmacy,
who assisted in the drafting OF the bill:
Mr. Bigelow said yesterday that he had
discussed this change with MI. Deienanty
on Saturday and that they were both In
favor OF reducing the percentage to
minimum.
Girls Never Give UP Cocaine.
Miss Maude T.. Miner. of the New York
Probation Association, said that she was
heartily in favor of any measure that
might tend to diminish the lamentable
ease with which the young girls Of the
city obtained the 6eadening drug. She
had seen girls recover from the morphine
or opium habits. but she could not re-
member a single case Of one who had
given up cocaine.
1T means ruin she said; insanity.
] think Of one little girl. not more than
seventeen, whom we found in fiat
where they dispensed it. Nothing We
could do would persuade her to testify
against the negro who kept the fiat, al
though his woman was in Jail for selling
the stun The negroes are the worst in
this terrible traffic. They get it for the
white girls
James G. Cropsey. District Attorney Of
Kings who had just mailed q letter to
Albany approving the cocaine bill, was
emphatic in his views when spoken to
last night.
Il favor the bill in all it's provisions"
he said. The effects Of the use of
cocaine are so fearful that | believe
every reasonable means should be taken
to prevent its indiscriminate or general
sale or use. In my investigation last fall
! was Informed that the busiest drug
store in Brooklyn did not use two ounces
of the durg in year. One OF the largest
pharma cies which has four or tve
branches in this borough. did not use
more than four ounces year in all the
stores combined. This is only another
way Of showing that even the busiest
drug store i'm a legitimate way does not
dispose OF more than one ounce a year
\ counterpart of the Walker anti
cocaine bill has been introduced within
the last ten days in the Legislature OF
Nebraska by Alvin Johnson, lawyer. OF
Omaha who secured copy Of the pro-
posed measure from Edward Swami,
Judge Of General Sessions. Judge Swami
said Yesterday that Mr. Johnson having
he ard OF The Tribune's campaign against
cocaine selling in this community. and
learning through press dispatches OF
Judge Swann's efforts TO secure leglsia-
ton curtailing the traffic had requested
that copies Of The Tribune containing CO.
came stories be sent 10 him.
Judge Swami thereupon sent him not
only The Tribune clippings which he had
on the subject OF cocaine. but also sent
him several OF the officially printed
copies of the Delehanty bill. which, ne
has learned, has been used without ma
terial modification as a model for legisla-
ton in Mr. Johnson's state.