The evening world., 1913-02-26


Wall street man who CANDLES at nigh
10 sharpen his wits for tomorrow l
guilty Of nothing. Only the pro?rieto
II guilty. Now II we make a law send
Ing up the patrons AZ well as the pro
, prietors there viii be an end 4
gambling.
Nov we come 20 the social Evil
These women are what the men mad.
them. Perhaps we might pass q laN
that would make q man found In .
house Of ill-repWe equally guilty with
the women. But the law does not con
slider the man In the matter You
might make a zone for these places
but you would have to catch all these
women and put them In the zone. Their
you would have to keep them inside this
zone
The whole thing 10 fsncifui. for the
men would not be seen going into the
zone. and n the men did not 70. the
women would not 90. The natural ten
dency Of such women 10 to flock to-
gether and In this way they can be
isolated TO some extent
once these women were driven from
their haunts. They scattered all over
| the town 70 corrupt good women.
SUGGESTION to PERMIT SUN.
DAY LIQUOR SELLING.
ut has been suggested that we allow
Sunday liquor selling. On the CONT
men. they drink on Sunday. In Eng
land. Scotland and ireland they have a
rule which keeps the drinking places
/ =. II. H.. .k.. hn
English Government hates spies aid
does not use them against these plac J..
II put the force on spy duty against
the saloons. In thirty days tho whole
graft game would come back. But we
have eliminated that graft. I fear that
prostitution graft 10 being stlll paid.
Il understand you want to know what
has been done toward uplifting the
force. I put an end to clubbing and bru.
tally by the men. Then l stopped the
number Of arrests. The number was
double the number In London for n
year. People were being locked up over
night for most rIf,ing offensss Thh
created the professioni bondsmn. but
there IL not one left now. Insted Of
being locked you are summoned now.
The nrst year we reduced the number
1900.
IAN the Magistrates work with us
now except three. two In Manhattan
and one In Brooklyn. They refuse to
Issue summonses and spend the time n
damning us.
STOPPED THE sMAsHlNo INTO
HOUSES WITHOUT WARRANTS.
The next thing I took up was the
smashing into houses without warrants.
II led to the making Of millions In graft.
That was the way they collected the
graft when II failed to be paid. When q
door was smashed In II was . notice to
all the other gamblers to pay up.
I'VE did away with what we cali the
special police The abuse We got for
this would MI volumes. There were 1900
Of these men who obeyed private indi-
viduals. II was no uncommon thing for
citizens to Be thrown out by thugs
known as special policemen. ! was or
dered OF the block by one OF them dur
Ing the bakers strike.
II did away with tn, promotion graft
IN the force by making the apo t.
come regularly and numerically from
tho OWL service list. No politician.
district leader. priest or anybody else
can get promotions or appointments on
the force now. Hot long ago you oeuld
bay . oaptainoy for ol7.ooo. inst was
. aosersons fest, sus no policeman pays
~ cents now"
The Mayor declared that he had also
sroken up the pawnbroker graft The
old system made the man whose watch
was stolen pay the pawnbroker for Il
when 1t was traced. The Mayor added
that the detectives usually got a part
Of this money. He said that this had
been done away with.
INSPECTORS NEEDED, EVEN
WITH TEN NEW DEPUTlEe~
| Senator Wagner asked the Mayor II
he would do away with the inspectors
" he got the ten new deputies. "
II do not 10 as far o. that" replied
the Mayor. The inspector IL now only
a detail anyhow. Some might be needed
In handling the men OF the department -
The Mayor. under questioning. said
that he did not recommend the sep.
arats vice force. and that his ides
only was to ind means OF relievin
the force as \ whole from the charg,
Of corruption and wholesale abuse
Senator Herrick questioned the Mayor
along the line OF this possible plan OF
handling vice and brought out from
him the opinion that the ten-ysar tern
for Police Commissioner was not I,
his liking and he did not think Il woul,
work at all.
Under old police commission
things were WORSE he said. Con
ditions were never DO good as now"
or his ten deputies plan the Mayo
suggested that they should be remov
able at the pleasure OF the Commits
sioner.
Chairman Wagner thanked the Ma
yor and adjourned the committee 70
luncheon.
At the afternoon session Allan Robin
son. chairman Of the Citizens Con,,i.I
tee. gave the Information his commit
tee had gathered concerning police cor
ditions following the Rosenthai murds
His report appears In another column.
Il. A .Outerbridge. one Of the Citizen
Committee. was called to explain
further detail the operations OF n
Social Welfare Board. Charles b. How