The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-10-13
GOT THE WRONG WINK
FROM MAYOR KLINE
Tenderlon District in Gotham Thought He Was in
Favor of Gambling When Lid Came Off of All
Night Restaurants-Boy Detective.
BY Carlton Ten Eyck.
written for the United Press.)

i BY Carlton Ten Eyck.
' written for the United Press.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-"You can new
/ er tell from where you sit" That ex-
presses the feeling, just now, of New
all the newspapers carried stories that
the new Mayor Ardolphe Kline pro-
posed to take the lid off," Police Com
: missioner Rninelander Waldo person
town and pulled" bunch of gamb-
ling joints. Not only that, but he went
to the police station supposed to gov
ern the welfare of Chinatown and
tain, sergeant, and several detec-
tives. OF course Mayor Kline never
said he was going to tolerate gamb-
ling or any kind of lawlessness and the
gamblers had no right to think that
he would, but the new mayor did say
that he would grant all-night liquor
licenses to some of the restaurants and
not enforce the l a. m. closing that
was the hobby of the late Mayor Gay
nor The Tenderloin jumped at con-
clusions They were mistaken when
they thought that Mayor Kline accom-
panied his statement with wink,
Gamblers Double Jolt
| Commissioner Waldo's activity came
as a double jolt to the gamblers and
perhaps some of the police who are
supposed to be in the system" for
| the first Chinatown raid came after
report that District Attorney Charles
| S. Whitman had consented to help
Mayor Kline run the police depart
ment 1t was said that at the mayors
request Whitman agreed to keep an
eye on the police Waldo, it was said,
was not to be removed but he would
be a mere figure-head, the mayor and
the district attorney bossing hll de-
partment To demonstrate that he is
still alive, Waldo at once sweeped |
down on Chinatown and jagged sew |
tl WdSOll lOduo vi Tartan pisiy ih6
Celestials. He did not make a spec
tacular raid like those that William
Travers Jerome was so fond of when
he was district attorney-such as
breaking into upper Tenderloin gam
bling resorts with an axe-but Waldo
was there in person and was the first
man to enter the raided places. The
next night he conducted some more
raids, until both the gamblers and
Waldo's subordinates never know |
where the commissioner will turn up
next.
Real Boy Detective.
The east side, always producing I.
some eighth wonder" now has a real
boy detective Max Goldstein is his
name, and he actually ran down and
the arrest of two bomb throw
ers who had caused the detectives of !
the Fifth avenue station no end of
vexation. The police sleutns were dis ;
-uIb bed not SO much by the property +,
damage wrought by the bomb men, r
cut by the threat of Commissioner
Waldo that he would reduce them to !,
he uniform rank if they did not catch !,
he miscreants. Max came to the res
ue and since then he has been the q
zero of the police and the idol of his ;,
leighbors. Max is n real detective. q
lie does not look like one. He wears =
ong trousers and that is as near as a.
e comes to the traditional humon !,
bloodhound, in appearance. He is 19 +,
ears old, but looks only Is. Max is
My five feet five inches in height and o.
therefore, can never aspire to become :,
real policeman, but he exactly fits
ne idea of detective that Mayor Gay te
or wrote about in ane of his many O.,
,tters. The late Mayor Gaynor said -
lat strapping six-footers were poor -,
electives because they could be re-
ogniZed anywhere. Cant we get
,me little men, even hunchbacks on
lie force and make detectives of
lem?" he wanted to know. But the
x-foot regulation still holds and Max :.
IN never achieve the force -
Trailed his Quarry. an
Max's achievement all came about to
rough his curiosity. He stood on 70
east side corner one night, and CO
w two men talking earnestly to- ov
ther Max showed that he was a di
al Sherlock Holmes, for he noticed
at one of the men wore false
oatee." Soon they tipped coin.
rolled down the steps of basement ne
lie man without the "goatee" went T ,
wn after it and lighted match. 1t ~
oked just like he was looking for a on
st dime, but when, q few minutes my
er tremendous explosion wrecked M
e building and brought scared Ital- -
Is from all the surrounding tene- =
,nts, Max knew that the man with
: match lighted bomb. The boy
tective set out hot foot and overlook
, two men he had seen. Both were
AN shaver, but in the. light from
re window Max saw that one of the
n had gum on his chin. -