New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
State Printer Will Supply
Blanks and Wait for
Payment.
NO HOSPITAL ROOM
FOR OPIATE ADDlCTS
Druggist Enters Plea of Guilty
to Charge of Selling Herein
to Investigator.

All fear Of having to postpone the en-
forcement Of the Boy.an anti-drug law,
effective July /, because Of the failure
Of the Legislature TO make appropria-
ton for the printing Of the necessary
order blanks. was removed yesterday
when it was learned that the state
printer is proceeding with the manu-
facture OF the blanks and Will rely on
the Legislature to make the necessary
provision at the next session.
Meanwhile, il appears that it will be
impossible to comply with that portion
of the new law that provides for the
commitment Of drug addicts TO state,
county and city hospitals. All such IN
stitutions are crowded beyond their
capacities.
Under the new law drug addicts may
apply to a magistrate and be committed
TO a hospital for medical treatment
The local sponsors OF the law, IN
letter sent to Mayor Mitchell last Sat
urday. suggested that the Board OF rs
innate and Apportionment, which has
been asked for $4,000 for the State
Colony for Inebriates, at Warwick,
Orange County, furnish an additional
sum for the construction Of a building
there to he set aside for the use OF the
drug addicts. The inebriate colony
will probably receive its share of drug
users, in any event. as the legal detinl-
tion of an inebriate is made to include
those addicted to drugs.
The law requires drug dealers, physi-
clans. dentists and veterinarians TO use
the official order blanks in making pur-
chases Of opium. morphine. heroin or
other opiates. These blanks will be
issued in duplicate by the State De-
partment of Health. The first delivery
of the books will be made Monday.
Henry Malarkey, Of the Union Square
Pharmacy, 48 Union Square, entered a
plea of guilty before Justice Collins IN
Special Sessions yesterday to a charge
of selling heroin to Samuel Deane, one
of Assistant District Attorney Wiimots
Investigators. lie was continued on bail
until July ,, when he will come up for
sentence.
The arrest of Malarkey resulted from
"squeal" made by another pharmacist
who had been arrested on a similar
Square Pharmacy, where he was intro
duced to Malarkey as being "all right,
and bought 1000 heroin tablets, saying
that nc was supplying an out-of-town
trade.
The case Of Charles p. Pray and Ed
ward c. Peterson, wholesale druggists
at 6S New Chambers ST., who are also
charged with selling drugs without a
doctors order, was put over until next
Tuesday.
Four men and a woman were ar
rested last night in a raid on a West
44th st. house and locked up in the
West 47th ST. station. One of the men
and the woman were charged with
keeping an opium den, two alleged
patrons were charged with disorderly
conduct and another man was ar
rested for having narcotics in lis pos
session. This man, who said he was
John Doe, Of Boston, entered the
place during the raid.
The detectives found about $1,000
worth Of a drug believed TO be opium
$500 worth of what is said TO be
heroin and layout valued at $500
/ A campaign has been started By Har-
lem real estate owners against the drug
traffic. In the section between l3lst
and l40th SITS, where there is a popula.
ton Of more than fifty thousand ne.
groes, Shepard y. Edmonds. of the
National Detective Bureau, reports the
sale of drugs is greater than in any
other district Of like proportions in
the city.
There have been two committees
formed. one of whites and the other OF
negro residents and property owners OF
the section, who have been actively
engaged in formulating plans to stamI
out the drug evil.