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was such that the boy police did not see
how any youngster could come out I'M
smirched."
And so forth.
| read these sentences dozen times;
they sang in my ears like litany OF
he'll; and it seemed impossible--a frag-
ment tossed up by nightmare-these
five hundred girls. under IS, starred
with police badges, going out to look
for things."
I had to talk it over with some one.
I descended into the street and stopped
New Yorker. He was a dubious and
majestic old man Slightly fattened)
and blocked him in a gas filters door
and read the article to him.
splendid" he said. splendid! that's
the sort Of thing you see only In New
York.
He wallowed in civic pride.
To him ii seemed quite the natural
thing. That is the way a New Workers.
| logic il bent. 1t is part Of his general
attitude toward crime and toward the
police. He really likes his little girls
] to do the dirtiest part Of police work.
| that awful part Of 1t which in Paris is
given over to the Brigade des Moeurs.
| He IL proud as Punch when they come
and tell him they have been sticking
their poor little pink noses into some
thing exceptionally nasty. He pays
millions for police force; then cheerily
he pays Mr.. Blinkerton and the Rev.
Dr. Pockhoist and Mr.. Anthony Gum
sock other notable millions TO do the
| real work. 1t Is as though one should
keep n watch dog and--sit out in the
back yard on moonless nights and bark.
l
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Col w. A. Mcintyre organizer of the United Of Reformed
BOOZerS.

ply yielded To King Alcohol and he got
the best of them. If YOU had seen them
in their unreGenerate days you would
not have given ten cents for the whole
bunch, but now they are Il self-support-
ing. self-respecting aggregation"
No candidates have yet offered them
selves for office in the unique orGaniza-
ton, but 1t is expected that a man who
is now holding a responsible position
with large railway Will he the first
president. This man Is REGARDED as
moral miracle. He insists that from
the time he knet at the pentent form
he has never had the least desire for in
toxicants.
Col. Mcintyre. who has been asso-
ciated with the army III an official
capacity for the past thirty years, han
introduced a number OF Innovations, all
of which are said to have proved sue
ccssful. lIo instituted "boozers day"
a few years ago. Some of the iuer cap
tured on "hoozcrs day Will be charter
members Of the new organization one
Of these IL publisher who was lifted
out of "A seat in Union square a year
ago last Thanksgiving, carried to head
quarters on West Fourteenth street and
received for refrcshmont a liberal sup
ply of coffee.
"My rescue by those in charge of tho
water wagon was somewhat speCtacu-
lar" he said at recent meeting, "but
! have stuck fast. | was a pitiahlo oh
ject when they picked mo up, but | am
now quite sane and happy"
Before he was picked up by the pro-
Nost guard in charge OF tho watev
wagon the man quoted above had given
| up all hope OF saving what once was a
| prosperous business from destruction.
But after he sohcrcd up and was able
to convince few Of his friends that ha
was really In earnest capita was found
| for him and his badly cntanEled aitSigU
were readjusted.
"Iie was hundred per cent. drunk II
| ever there NaS one" said cot. Mcln-
tyre. "lle simply drank ana carnused
and let his business go any way it
chose. He makes no secret of his former
| career and can he heard any tnc thcre
is a meeting in progress on West -Four,
! teenth atrcot"
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there Is no properly organized secret
police. The detective force Is a mere
helter- SHELTER agglomeration. one day a
man may be walking the street in but
tons, and the next day serving as a de-
tective. Nine times out Of ten he Is as
we'll known to the criminals as Is the
patrolman on the beat. ! asked "a Head
quarters man how he did his work. He
explained that he had his own stool
pigeons" In other words, he had Or
ganlzed. in a haphazard way, "A secret
police of his own. He had his own spies
and informers: and he melted out justice
to them without concerning himself
with the courts or with his superiors.
He sacrificed little thief "a minnow OF
petty larceny to catch his burglar. 1t
was the only way he could get his work
done.
He has virtually set up a little clear
ing house Of crime on his own account.
When the balance is in his favor he
pays over the excess criminals to Head
quarters. And the detective, If he Is
frank, will tell you that although he has
a few saloonkeepers and divekeepers
among his spies, yet most of his allies
are criminals upon whom he has a
hold. He let's them run because they
are useful to him. This power-which
belongs to judge and jury--is entirely In
his own hands. Each detective Is. In his
lawless way, the head OF a secret police
recruited among the men OF crime.
In every great city secret police Is
necessary. That of Paris Is perhaps the
best 1t has Its spies and informers
in every class Of society. Your upper
| housemaid may be drawing pay from
the Surate--or the second man, who
buttons UP your boots Of morning be-
fore the butler comes to tell you the
motor car Is at the door. But the secret
police IL differed and disciplined like
| an army; authority mounts degree by
degree; there Is none Of this amazing
heedlessness that marks the New York
equivalent.
Haphazard as the police is, 1t does its
work?
1t does not.
! And the startling thing is that the
New Yorker does not expect 1t to do
It's work. He does not expect 1t to guard
his house or shop. to take care of him
in a railway station or to protect his
children or his horses. or to fence him
of from the attacks OF the painted
woman. That Is one Of the most discon-
certing things in New York. When the
New Workers. cashier abscOnds---Or his
wife elopes. or his Japanese butler
goes away with the Pekingese spaniel
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MS fellow officers must always he ready
to run down the stray sheep.
The man who tumblcs off the water
wagon will not he expelled from the or
gani2ation. hut he will Ice punished by
being excluded from service on COM
mittees and the right to vote will be
denied him until he gives evidence OF
amendment. Col. Mcintyre said in hunt
ing for motto for the new organiza-
ton he has come to the conclusion
that "All for one, and one for All"
would be the most suitable.
Col. Mcintyre said the man who has
never tasted liquor is poorly qualified
TO deal with the poor fellow whose crav-
ing for tho burning stuff has become
an obsession.
"Only a man who has been thirty
third degree jag himself can quite I'M
derstand the fellow whose life is bur-
dened 10y the craving" said the Colonel.
I There has never been n drunkard in
my family and my knowledge of tho sub
Ject is therefore purely theoretical. My
advice To man who believes that ho
must have a drink or die would be re-
ccived with scepticism If not with con-
tempt. But the fellow who has been
down and out, who has tasted the very
dregs and after Il Titanic struggle with
tho demon has conquered knows how to
reach the man who is in that condition.
This is no joke organization" said
Col. Mcintyre. at Is the most serious
thing have ever undertaken, and those
associated with me are quite convinced
that we have hit on a scheme that will
be tremendously beneficial 10 the men
/ tn roach NJ we'll IA Ia fhpSa
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other. picks the head Of the police. And
the man he picks is just about as free
and independent as though his Honor
wore him on his watch chain or kept
him In his trousers pocket with the rest
OF his loose change. BY way OF result
the Police Department has impermanent
amateurs on top. and beneath them more
or less regular policemen tied up in po-
litical ribbons. Even that bad method
Of getting II chief might be put up with,
for occasionally a man OF brains and
honesty gets the place. II the police
force were organized on modern lines
OF efficiency and specialization.
The main defect Of the system Ia that
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upon the action he did so decisively
take. l might as we'll tell you what 1t
was.
This: He sent out his policemen.
armed with nightsticks, to raid the un-
fashionable quarters Of town and
club those citizens who had an air OF
Indulgence and civic unworthiness. I'M
possible you say; but l assure you that
Is exactly what he did. And II was wild
work. His fiat footed cops swept the
Sums, diving into doorways, peering
into cellars, and when they saw a sallow
head they cracked il.
What do you think OF II?
Naturally you assume that this the
striral clubbing excursion, this vehe-
meut outburst of official lawlessness.
VA followed by storm OF public In
dlgnation. That is not the way things
are ordered in New York. A delighted
plhuc (crlme delights 'em, even official
c"m"l cheered the new police head.
Thy called him man of energy. They
praised his decisive action, Erubescent
drIuntrds hiccoughed appreciation in
tn cafes, Clergymen preached applau-
s.uy in the churches.
You fancy am eXaggerating? Read
h"l' the words are those OF the Rev.
h..t'I Luxe u. I.NeTs, IeNtoI VI ''e' an
d''Ns Church: what he said was:
"T1rr" is more law in the end OF a
n-1ts'ick than anything else l know
Of II is the New York way OF looking
a 'hnss. 1t would never occur to the
Now Yorker that police lawlessness Is
n'' whit better than the lawlessness
"' Va" gangmen.
Killing old men In the streets Is
ls"icss thing. but II Is equally lawless
10 crack the sallow heads OF the indi-
gent There are courts TO try such men.
and when convicted dire but legal penal
y may be laid upon their sallow heads.
Hl' YOU can't make the New Yorker
-" % that way. When 1t comes TO
crime he is constitutionally beyond the
reach Of logic. It Is when his policemen
take the streets like vigilantes or white
riders or a gang OF lynchers that he
IKE them best. And he calls them the
hnest' proudly.
This is a perfectly fair example OF the
police way Of doing things. When II
can't arrest a murderer It goes out and
cubs dirty boy-and every one (exceps
N" Sallow. dirty boy) Is happy. includ'
ing the murderer.
And the point II the New York Police
poparmont IL about the most fecklcss
"ohfjsod, ueadlcss and brainless organi-
~au"n nat was ever set to guard grea'
cn} II is merely "A haphaxard develop
m'ni o' the simple system by which
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Latest photograph Of Commander
Eva Booth.

where Commander Evangelne Booth
will be the guest Of honor. 1t Is also
expected that Miss Booth will be hon
orary president Of this unique organiza-
reformed jag.
Col. Mcintyre said the 200 who have
accepted invitations to the banquet will
be charter members OF the United or
der OF Reformed Boozers" It is intended
to take In more as the organization
grows older and to organize branches in
Chicago. Boston. Philadelphia. Balti-
more, Washington, s.. Louis and, in
fact, all over the United States and
Canada The Colonel is not quite sure
to where the novel movement will lead,
but he insists that It will III n long felt
need.
II have selected as charter members
Of this organization men who can prove
by incontestable testimony that they
have been 100 per cent. boozers,' said
Col, Mcintyre. II could have got lots
Of men who have reached about as far
as the blue lodge of 'jagGery' and quit
But I wanted none but the formerly
most abandoned drunks that could be
picked up in n months search of the
city. These after n close investigation
have met the requirements and have all
proved that they have been firmly seated
on tho watey wagon for the past six
months.
Now every person may not be aware
Of this, but my experience is that the
brainiest DRINKS are those who have
gone the limit at the alcohol trough.
These men have been saved from their
former habits and are now using their
gray matter in other and more promis-
ing fields. We need these brains in our
new organization"
Col Mcintyre said the primary pur-
pose Of calling the reformed DRINKS to-
gether was 10 effect cohesive and an
Iaggressive movement among them
selves. He said he noticed that men
backslid in many cases because they
were unable to find that intellectual
as we'll as heart sympathy 80 neces-
sary to sustain and stimulate them
In their fight against their former
master, whiskey.
| Men would come To the meetings,
profess conversion and then begin a
single handed struggle which sometimes
proved too much for them. Col. Mcln-
tyre said If these could be formed into
an organization the members of which
would soleinnly obligate themselves 10
stand by one another in every emergency
of life, many of them who would other
wise suffer relapses would be- rescued
and stay rescued.
IAN the details of the scheme have
not been worked out, but l rather think
we will make of the United Order of
Reformed Boozers a fraternal society
said Col. Mcintyre. 1T may be that We
will have sick benefits and limited in
surance feature in connection with it,
You see. the reformed boozer is ex-
cluded from these benefits in the ord-
nary way. Naturally enough. insurance
companies would not consider him a
good risk and this scheme may on eX-
animation prove to he impracticable
with us. But we can at least have a sys-
tenn Of mutual help which is hound ia
prove beneficial
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themselves to dance, to see pictures, and
In some cases they knew the girls who
had suffered and the manner Of their
downfall. 1t Is all a part of the method
which Mr.. Schlacht conceived last fall
as a good way to get real information
about the pitfalls of the East Side. lie
selected 500 girls and 100 boys. many
OF them going to school, and gave them
badges az boy and girl police Then
they promised to aid in the suppression
OF vice, crime, disease and ignorance
and went out to look for things which
before they had passed casually by
THE conduct OF persons in the picture
houses led some Of the boys to write
scathing reports. The license permitted
to mon and women In some of the places
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The tentative plan for the organiza-
presidents, secretary, treasurer and
board of trustees, the whole organization
to be under the general supervision Of
the Salvation Army. but enjoying al
most complete autonomy. A standing
committee will be appointed whose duty
will be to go right after any man who
happens to slide or fall off the water
wagon. If the committee cannot act the
president will be required to call on
others to perform the duty, and he and
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much interested. Nine. Eamcs will he as
sisted by her husband, Emilio de Gogorza.
the barytone, and the st. Cecilia Club,
Victor Harris, conductor.
Well known artists will appear at the
annual concert for the benefit OF the New
York Diet Kitchen Association of West
Thrty-fourth street. which will he held In
the large ballroom OF the Waldorf Astoria
on Monday morning, February re-. at IL
O'Clock. Teresa Carreno, pianist; Paul
Reimers. tenor; George Barrere, fiutist
and Alberto Bachmann. violinist, will give
an attractive programme.
Lorraine Wyman. a singer. and Ada
Sassoli. the harpist, viii be heard In joint
concert at the Little Theatre this eve
ming. Miss WNnan's specially Is old songs
in costume.
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Up the Ocklawaha". Marion Bauer
Albumblatt. ..........
Capriccio alfAntica.... Leone Sin,gaglia
Bagatelle. .,...........
Perpetuum Mobile. .Ottokar Novacek
Assisted ny Miss Mabel Mckinley, So
prano. Manolito Fumes. the Spanish hoy
pianist. will give a recital in Aeolian Hall
Tuesday evening. January 81. The pro-
gramme will be as follows:
Sonata No. Il tMoonlighD or. -.
Manolito Fumes
Mondnacht ................... Schunann
..,,''''.'''' -. w ldor
Nymphs ct Sylvaines ........ Bimberg
Miss Mabel Mckinley
Rondo Brilliant. on. 81 Weber
Waltz Caprice. op. ..............C Castro
Rhapsodie, No 1i.................. List
Manolito Fumes
Grand Polonaise. op. a2...D Chon;n
Berceuse. ................i
Impromptu, No 4. or. 90. ..... Schubert
Manolito Fumes
Little Pink Rose. ................. iSond
Ny LII Sweet Sunbeam. Mabel Mckinley
Hayfelds and Butterflies. Del RICO
Mss Mabel Mckinley
Menuet a fAntiaue, on. IA Paderewsh
.Tota Aragonssa Spanish Dance. Serrano
Manolito Fumes
For tho sixth consecutive season Miss
Isabel Hauser and the Saslavsky string
Quartet will give a series OF concerts at
the Belasco Theatre. The first concert.
which will be devoted entirely to Dvorak.
takes place Sunday evening. February 1.
The second will be given Sunday evening.
March !.
Carl Fiesch. the violinist. gives his first
New York recital at CarneSie Han Thurs
day afternoon. February 3. The programme
will contain numbers by Nirdini Bach,
S n um a n n-Dvorak, Schubert Wilhelmj
Brahms Joachim and Paganini.
AT It's concert In Aeolian Hall on Fehru-
AIRY "a tho Adele Margulies Trio will play
for the first time In America "A new sonata
for violin and piano by Erich korngod.
The work Is the latest production OF the
sixteen-year-o Viennese prodigy and Is
grasp of form. intricacy Of development
and general musical interest.
Walter Damrosch will continue his ex-
planatory iecitals at the plano on Wag-
ners Nibelungcn TrNogy on Wednesday
afternoon, January IS. Mt Aeolian Hall.
on that afternoon he will start "Sieg-
fried" giving act l. Acts and OF
"Siegfriei" will be given On Tuesday,
February 3.
After nine years of work tina Institute
of Musical Art. Frank Damrosch. director,
will give its first public concert at AGO.
! liam Hall Monday evening, February o.
The programme, which will be performed
by some of the graduates and advanced
students OF the institute. Will include vio-
! lin concertos by Tschaikowsky and
Brahms, compositions FOR piano by Weber
and Paderewski and an aria from Verdi's
I"Don Carlos" The soloists will be as
sisted by the orchestra OF the symphony
| Society Of New York.
Nine, Emma Eames. the soprano, Will
he heard next Thursday evening at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel In charity con-
! cert for the benefit of the Little Mission
| ary's Day Nursery, IN which she Is very
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LaWlessness Of Police and
Gangs Delight New Workers
He Plays With Crime and Vice Though They Were|
anne Rabbts-He Makes Game OF 1t and Teaches
1t to His Children, Says Vance THOMPSON

small village safeguards its virtues
With seven old constables. wearing tin
shields. and hog warden.
How the head of the Department is
chosen you know. one man IL made
Mayor of the city. He may be naughty
politician or. again. he may be "A states-
man with an aureole; but he. and no
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and the plated silver spoons-he calls
up Mr.. Burns or Mr.. Pinkerton.
("Only the degenerate Latin races
would tolerate a secret police-it is so
un-American!')
At this moment one hundred and
twenty-four private detective agencies
are advertising their expert secret SER
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.WO HUNDRED men have quail
fed for membership in "The
L United Order of Reformed Booz-
ers" to be inaugurated by Col.
w. A. Mcintyre of the Salvation Army
at Memorial Hall. 1872 West Fourteenth
street. next Thursday evening. The
boozers. who have all given satisfactory
evidence that they were In their bib
bling days thirty-third degree drunks.
will be entertained at a turkey dinner
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Assisted ny Miss Mabel Mckinley. so
prano. Manolito Fumes. the Spanish boy
pianist. will give a recital in Aeolian Hall
Tuesday evening. January 81. Tho pro-
gramme will be as follows:
Snnata M Il IMnnnlishtl On -
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Cohttnned YTOw Ef1hfh Noe.
"I'p the Ocklawaha". Marion Bauer
Albumhlatt. ...........
Capriccio alrAntica.... Leone Sinigaglia
Bagatelle, ,...........
Perpetuum Mobile. 49,. .Ottokar Novacek
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WING in New York Is mildly
amusing reading Mark
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Nine, Emma Eames. the soprano. Will
he heard next Thursday evening at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel In a charity con-
cert for the benefit of the Little Mission
ary's Day Nursery, IN which she Is very
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-16
6. R. fORbES.IS
now DOOMED FOR
COUNTY engineer
Superintendent Of Public Works
Backed BY Non Partisans ).
to Succeed NJ. A Wall
ATTITUDE OF REPUBL IcAN
REGIME MAY BE ADVERSE
Four Supervisors Elect Said to
Favor Getting Former En-
!. gineer Whitehouse

Charles R. Forbes, superintendent
of public works, is being doomed Tor
the successor to William A.. Wall as
city and county engineer. -sIt is taken
for granted by most of the politicians
that Wall will be displaced when the
new Republican administration takes
office on January /, and rumor is now
busy with the possibilities Of the situ-
alton. -
Last Saturday the statement was
made by a~man who Is alleged to pos
sess "sinside" information that L. NJ.
Whitehouse is certain to be appointed
engineer. It was said that four SUI
pervisors elect have declared that he
is the man for the JOB and that they
will stand together to see that he gets
ii. Certainly the former city engineer
now has many staunch friends out
working for him.
On the other hand whispers Of oppo-
sition to Mhftehouse are not few or
one reason and another various people
say that WhitehoLse should not be
named.
Z Just how far the movement on be-
half of Forbes has gone could not be
learned today. It is conceded that
some opposition to him would arise
from Republican politicians, because
he is now holding appointment to the
territorial position under a Democratic
administration and presumably salts
fled the administration that he is a
Democrat to whatever. extent he is
politically active. On the other hand
the movement to secure him as county
engineer, according to one of those in
terested in 1t, is non-partisan move
ment based on the need for an eff
cfent and influential man in the city
engineers office. Forbes answers to
that description, it was claimed for
him today. 80. $
This afternoon the Chamber of Com
merce's committee on, county and mti.
nicipaI affairs is holding meeting
with the newly-elseted supervisors,
and it was stated this morning that
the matter 1.-THE next county engineer
might be brought up. z5s &i.st