New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-29
DRUG CRUSADERS
PLAN BIG CONFAB
CITY and Federal Officials
TO Hold a General Con-
ference Tomorrow.
DRAFT OF LAW
MAY BE RESULT
Druggists Associations Composed
of $4,000 Members Join in
Urging Legislation.

Federal and city officials and others
Who arc taking an active interest I'm the
crusade started by Mrs w *. Wander
r.t ST. against tho drug evil VIII TO-
morrow afternoon Join in general cor
ference boo the chambers of Judge Edward
srann. or General Sessions Needed
legislation to further restrict the sale ana
uso ~ au habit forming drugs is to he
discussed and probably the DRAFT OF
nr made which 10 is intended 60 mlo-
du-e neat week M the Legislature al
Albany Ernest N Cou,ter, of Coulter "
Rord. 80. . Rector street, who arc acting
us counsel Tor Mrs Vanderbilt i'm the
camraicn. sai1 YESTERDAY that tho follow
ing persons were expected TO attend the
conference;
Judge Swami John IT, BOYLE and hd"in
". stanton. Assistant United states at
torncys. chief Magistrate McAdoo. Police
Commissioner Mckay. Justice Cornelius
p Collins. Of Special Sessions. chief
MAGISTRATE otto Kcmpncr. Of Brooklyn.
Miss Katherine Davis, commissioner OF
CORE. ton. and Deputy Commissioner
Lewis. Dr. o. r. LOWS, % IN" Prison
Association. pr Jackson Il. Campbell
prison physician. Dr William q. Ander-
son. president OF the American Druggists
SYNDICATE. James T. Atkinson. chemist o.
tho department OF Health. and Warden
Hanley Of the Tombs.
we expect o. get down to bed rock ON
ihe question of the drug evil at this con
ference said Nj Coulter, and the
situation and how to cope with it viii be
discussed from every angle. There has
been a lot ~ legislation suggested. and 1t
will he our purpose 20 crystalize all these
suggestions into proposed bill which
will adequately cover the whole situation.
We ali agree that now and drastic legisla-
ton against the indiscriminste sale ana
use Of cocaine, hcroin and other drugs Is
,orely needed. not only in the state but
ln the nation
AIR. Coulter had conference last night
with Assistant United States Attorneys
yV1mot and Collins. and he said they
were keenly interested in obtaining ed
ersl laws TO regulate Importation ana
interstate uaffc i'm the habi'-formlns
drugs.
Thcy told Mr. coulter that the federal
laws were wholly Inadequate to cover
cases where physicians dispensed NOR
phine and IT'S derivatives TO victims who
posed az their pauentA in order to get it.
An organized gang" OF young men,
most OF whom were under twenty years
of age. known as the SNOW Birds be-
cause 81 their habitual use and traffic
in the white powder cocaine and
horoin,. in the car barn district in
East 9th and 9Stn streets, were found
recently in the course Of the Vanderbilt
investigation.
Nj Coulter conferred yesterday with
pr. Anderson. Of the Druggists Syndi-
cate. which has a membership Of II eN)
druggists and 900 physicians. Or. An
dcrsou also represents the National As
ISOLATION Of Retail Druggists. which has
c2,o1o members lie said that the two as
socistions would heartily support the pro-
posed legislation against the drug evil
owing 70 the delay or the Health De
psrtmcnt in analyzing drugs taken by the
police for evidence and submitted to the
departments chemists for analysis. Mag
istrato Deuel. i'm the West Side court
yesterday was compelled 10 discharge
seven prisoners arraigned before him or
tho charge NJ having i'm their possession
powder which the police believed to b.
cocanc