New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-26
II. Clark Barber SAYS po.
session of Drug Should'
Be Made Crime.
FINDS DEFECTS IN
THE BOYLAN Bill
Many Appear Before c.
Health Committee in Beh,W
of Drug Legislation.
fBy Telegraph 10 Tho rribun.

Albany. FEB. 25.-H Clark R..,
perintendent Of the Society for
vention Of Crime, told the sena,. nv
Health Committee to-day that any !,
isistion to do away with n. ha,s,
ing drug evil must make possess.
any such drugs a crime He 81,
provision was contained in Tie ,,n
caine law enacted last year. ro.lo,..
a crusade made by The Tribune
That Law has been ins,rumen,,,-
saiG. lin enabling US to hunt the co.,.
sellers until there are few Ief, !, =.
York. Now II this provision q ..,.,,,
TO opium and an other hsbIt.,o--,-
drugs another long step viii nav. \.
made in the fight started by Tn. ~.
York Tribune.
The hearing was on the Boylaa ~
drafted through the efforts Of ch.,..
y. Towns. OF New York. 10 regula,. =,
greatly restrict the use OF all habl,.t.,,
ing drugs Mr. BARRIER said he f,,....
the principle OF the bill. but decl,r,.
would let down the bars set up BY n.
anti-cocaine law unless il made po,s...
sion a crime.
Il have been reliably Informed. 4.
said. that 800 worth Of opium, moroh;,.
and other drugs gets into sing sing pr,.
on every day n spite Of the mos, 81.
cere efforts Of Warden Clancy to ,,op D
These drugs are dealt in in The Brou,
Manhattan and Brooklyn TO my kuov.
edge Why discriminate between Their,
have heard Of a recent purchase n
10000 tablest OF codeIne by drug d,,..
e. This deriyatve OF opium. therefor,
gives promise Of 2 new problem. Only n.
Gently caused -.x federal and oe.
officers TO raid gangsters' fake csa,
store and they found full supply 4
opium in lichee nuts. but they could 4,
nothing. While a boy with deck a
cocaine Is an offender. these rurars
with a barrel OF opium, could 20 on s,l.
ing the stun TIE next day"
DR.. Lewis X. Neff, representing n,
New York State Medical Society, is
objected 10 the Bcylan bill because a
not make possession OF habit.iorrss
drugs crime. and he held that It's ~
visions did not include all drugs Of a.
character. Both Mr.. Towns and ;eaiy
Boylan, the introducer OF the bin. asre.s
to make these and other amendments
that were suggested during the ss,i.
noon.
II was brought out that since the enact.
ment OF the Tribune anti-cocsine law ln
use Of opium and heroin was on the d.
crease in New York city. Or. jackson
Campbell. the city prison physician. ie
clared that whole sections Of the clI
were being ruined by these drugs.
The neighborhood Of Tenth avenue an
6lst street, which has colored popgi.
ton of ten thousand he said. Is g.
tested with persons addicted to the drz
habit. The Use of heroin is also aecoH'
ing common among school children an
youths who work In the factories. II ~
vicinity of 18th street and Third aSeh1
are one thousand children who have elite
acquired the habit or are in immedr'
danger of II. The habit is growing al
terrible rate. and it is a pitiful thing
see the boys and girls 50 afflicted ID
have come 10 my attention after oeiE
arrested"
Dr. Campbell said that boys who h''
acquired the habit peddie drugs amos
school children and youths who ~oiS
factories. When arrested they sere
short time in jail and then go right eaA
TO the business of spreading the as
habit. The Boylan bill contains Pr
vision that addicted persons may be 81
by a magistrate to an institution ~
DR.. Campbell believed that the only Va
to stop the spread of tie eyh wa
make this provision mandatory
Others who appeared FOR the en- VIZ
C. W. Bloomingdale. trustee Of
House of Refuge az Randalls lsaD'
Carl T.. Whitney, former Assistant oh'-
States District Attorney and MI low
William r. Mcconnell. representing
drug section Of the New York bo~'s
Trade and Transportation. urged th~'"
bin be amended so that it would mol
terfere with the anti-cocaine Ia" o. -
wear