New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-05
CLEANUP DAILY
SUCCEEDS DWYER
IN 1ENDERLoIN
Inspector Who Cleansed
Harlem and Brooklyn
Sent to Bright Lights.
DIVER GOES TO THE
CHINATOWN DISTRICT
Tierney, Made Full Inspector
Gets the Brooklyn
TenderlOin.

Tierney, Made Fall Inspector
Gets the Brooklyn
Tenderloin.
The Tenderloin shivered last night
when. with the first blinking OF the
bright lights. word came from Police
Headquarters that Inspector John +.
DIVER was no longer in charge and
that John DAILY, the man who put the
lid on in Harlem and later in Brooklyn
had succeeded TO the command.
In the bright light district DAILY the
cleanup man. is as welcome as a moth
in fur coat.
The change came as shock yet ~
was not unexpected. for since the early
DAYS of the E1genia Kelly case last
spring. which exposed wide open con
ditions in the tango dives and cabarets'
rumor has had it that Dryer was slat-
ed 20 20. But he had been allowed 20
remain so long Broadway had begun
TO think he had become immune.
DIVER leaves the Tenderloin for the
Second Inspection District, which in
cludes Chinatown, 10 replace Inspector
George Wakefield. VINO is reduced TO
the rank of captain.
Nor is this all of the biggest shake-up
in the department SINCE Commissioner
Wood took charge. Aong with the
other changes it was announced thaV
CAPTAIN Tierney, of the Adams street
Station, in Brooklyn, had been ad-
vanced to full rank as inspector 10
succeed Daily in the Brooklyn ender-
loin; that Captain BILLY Boettler was
made acting inspector in NlliianinSD u! <
to succeed Tierney there; that GapIal"
1osonb Conboy. Of the West Thirty
seventh Street Station, had been sent
4 - Queens as acting inspector. and that
Cantain Charles g. Mead went from
The Bronx TO take his place
Dryers Rise Rapid.
The reduced Wakefield takes Mead $
,1ace as captain Of the Bathgate sta
ton in The Bronx. These changes Will
carry with them the shifting OF many
natrolmen. as the new inspectors, II
tbev follow custom, will organize their
own stats. This will mean that many
natrolmen who have been working III
Main clothes will go back TO pounding
the pavements. ..,,,.;or
The two principles in this revolution
have marked records in the department I:
DIVERS rise TO inspector was one o.
tho most sudden in police history. a
retired chief quartermaster OF the navy
he became a patrolman IN 1871
,ook him seven years 20 become ser
geant but his lieutenancy came TWO
Gears later. Then there was a seven
year wait until 1912. when ne was
made a captain. Then, within a month";
came his Jump 10 an inspectorsnlp,
This was by grace OF C0niillas S!o, ~
Waldo. who placed him in charge OF Ihe
new Tenderloin following the MURDER
If Rosenthal at the instigation OF 70
leo lieutenant Charles Becker.
Practically all of Dryers police eX-
rerionce up to this time had been as a
member Of the harbor squad lie was
nut ID against the problem OF DONG
that more seasoned men had been I'M
.hIc 10 do. HIS hard-hitting methods
the smashing down Of doors TO gam,
hing and other resorts and posting OF
guards in front Of suspected houses 70
5,a-n visitors of their character 10
a storm Of complaints.
Arrested for Assault.
Ono complain Mt managed to get ms
caee before the grand jury, but noun,
ing came of il. Dwyer got lnVoINeG
wifh the law again when, as result oil
~ etronp-arm methods ii enforcing
Wavor Gavnor's curfew order, ne was
arreeted for assault on the complaint
81 citizen whom he elected from
UeaIv's restaurant. The compliant IN
this action was withdrawn
Among recent symptoms OF unsats-
fac,orv conditions IN the district were
the revelations of cafe lie br0ugn
about by the revived Eugema heAy
case. There was no lack OF ralds oi
tho mart of Dwyer and his men, Du'
conditions apparently had gotten De-
yond them.
ONLY last week Mrs. Ella Pomeroy'
arrested by Dryers men, charged WIZ
maintaining a public nuisance, was nls-
charged by Magistrate Appleton wheh
- was shown that as lessee of house
she had made several unsuccessful at
tennis TO see Dwyer regarding the
character of the tenants. and had 20
resort TO Headquarters before he would
see her.
Recently. also. two Of his men were
arrested for assaulting persons In a
club. but the men were discharged. In
addition il has been cause OF comment
tina, "Honest Dan" Costigan and ms
Central Office vice squad have taken
opportunities to make several raids
over Dryers head.
DIVERS successor, John DAILY, IS an
oldtimer. He joined the force just ten
wears earlier than Dwyer. lie became
a sergeant in 1891. lieutenant IN ls96
contain in 1903 and inspector IN l9O9
lie was sent TO Chinatown and bur bur,
nishcd things up there bit. In 1911
h, was tried and acquitted OF failing
to maintain discipline lie was sen
conviction of the Harlem grating IN
spectors. succeeding Denis sweeney
there, Then he was sent to the Brook
lvn Tenderloin. He cleaned II up III
two months.
350 DEAD: $500 SUFFER