The evening world. Newspaper, November 17, 1900, Page 1

Pbk ob ted ONK CENT. FIFTY WARRANTS WRATHER-RATN ON BYOW, N | __ EDITION Che (“ Cirewlation Books Open to All.” | to All, NEW YORK, ISSUED FOR DIVES. Wholesale Arrests Are Planned—York’s Cone fession of Guilt and BishopPotter's Charges Make Great Sensation in Police Circles, Devery and All 'His Cap- tains Shocked — Offi- clals Trying to Save Themselves by Belated Activity—Potter Will Ignore Croker, ~ Fifty warrants for dive-keepers were issued in the Centre Street Po Nee Court this afternoon, Distri Attorney Gardiner secured them. The police are in a pa, Presi dent. Yori’s confession and Bishop Potter's letter to the Mayor, emani ing the punishment of Captains Her Why and Diamond, are responsible for | 5 the police fright. Bishop Potter will have nothing to do with the Tammany vice crusade. President York cailed the police captains of Brooklyn together this afternoon and told them all dives mivst be closed. Wholesale arrems of dive-keopers are expected, Richard Croker sailed for Europe at noon, His last words were; “Keep up the war on vico,” Vice Inquiry Begins, Devery's next move is now awaited With interest, Within a week the Tam many Vice Committee will have beguy {te Investigation of the conditions com. plained of by ishop Potter, It is ex Dected there will be a sourryini “olean up things’ ao that @ purified city Mr. York direc police have nos done ther duty fore, “It ta unoleas to deny th President “The About theve attempts at reform tn th Wiee situation is the distrust among the Deople that the police are not doing wha they can to correct the evils becaune of considerations of various kinds (hat they receive, “That is the whole trouble, Nobody Knows that better than we do. It is eharged that the police take money for protecting theee plac Cites De “St ts mighty hard to prove that cap: tains accept tribute, proved, but it is next to impossible to prove such a thing in court, This is apparent when {i is remembered that every man except one who was dine mianed after the Lexow investigation for that sort of thing {# now back on the force, and even Capt. Dougherty, who ‘was convicted tn two Appellate Courts, has been pardoned and Gov, Roosevelt has signed a bill to give him a new trial, “They tale about a State Constabu.ury helping matters, That is all rot. The tains are not do! these kinds of Shes on account of politics, There Just as many men of one party in Kind of busines of another, 1 Pepent what 1 have before that a @ne-headed police commission is ‘he bea: change that eould come io the Police 't be stopped; tt ulated, We can't keep Indoors either, When there ta hot weather the people in the crowded ienements have got to get ou) of doors, There's no law by which we ean keep them inside, Hypocritical lawe give corrupt men the chance they want, The social evil will ( hat the heret exist, The best we can do Is to regulate} At and treat iis existence sensibly.” Chief Devery' admitted to-day thai h had “instructed his detectives to repor On al! “complainis” against pisces w Glsorderly pereons carry on thelr nue l nens. ‘Thy cepertment,” said the Chief, ‘is fa exis to deter, detect and _ Cpntinued on Becoad Page. ' pny ing boasts of : ¢ Tt may be morally! | | 2000000000000000000000000i 116060060000000000000C0000000000000 CROKER’S FAREWELL ADDRESS, “Gentlemen, the dives must be closed ! IN Ho deeply has the taint of vice eaten Iw Way Into the iife of the east side hat @ gang of procurers has become an organized inatitution there, There is a president and a general fund devoted to the defense of any members who shall bo molested by the law. The rate paid these men for their work ranges from $6 up. ‘They are in league with Keepers of disorderly housca roighout the city, Of late they have grown very conf dent, 44 was shown (his morning by the testimony in the case of Morris Cohen, wrested by Gerry Boclety agents, Agents Melor Barclay, of the ao-| CieLY, Arrested ( who {# also known | M4 Fred Watson, and who lives at 588 Park avenue, Brooklyn, ‘Tho girl he ts eed with abducting and selling for In Molllo Weinatotn, fifteen years old, of M2 Kast Fourth street The prisoner was trapped after m's father had found her in a reputable house, The procurer had taken her there after drugging her in a rear room of MeGurk'a How Trap Wan It Was arranged that the write note, king an eppolntment Mt Wldridge and Grand streets, The) agents followed them int laier, they | Jlarepus » were fhe was nmediately te ma wae tod, | tn the Basox Market Court this morn+{ bg he was held for trial on the charge! of abduction~-the most rertous that could be brought against him, Detec- tives who saw him ay his plotyre te int the Rowies Gallery, the ! irl should! e@ rirl Spare no one, dollar, don’t let it get away!” Organized Band That Girls for $5 Has a Fund to Defeat the Law. | Sells! To an Bvening World reporter Gerry Agent Meier vaid “These are the most diMeult caves tol deal with that we h It tn seldom] that any testimony can be brough into} OOUrL eXoOpt that of the victim himself, | and that is usually held to need cor- | roboration "It Is a shocking form of vice and now very prevalent on the east atte, | ‘The vile Kang that engages in the traffic has become A remularly organiaed body, banded together to defeat the efforts of the law “The girl victims are often too modest (o come forward with testimony that might convict. They are, asa rule, very young, not more (han fifteen, and some that are sacrificed are even as young as thirteen "A jury always demands some cor- | with them ] If any man sees a ay ; = APPALLING TRAFFIC EAST SIDE GIRLS. me for Special Hear there 1 ¢ afraid chat the percentage of Hons Je not so large as it ahould be Death Too Goid for Them, ‘Tt have sto (rate ¢ The \ means rh world of thelr eo: presence It In eld by Mote dent of the organ.ta times arrested Tn none of these instal viction been secured, Bo upning of these the law's grasp, roboration of the girl's atatement, and|@ [that ts in mont case Ienporsible to get. “We are working as hard as we can to suppreen this alarming condition of things, but it seems to be a growing evil Magistrate Crane said: many of these sitting in Kanex "LT have had "It is the worat form of crime known| j to me. It ts a black stain un the fale name of thie cliy that auch tra lc should iat the law to greatly hampered I have been)” in dealing with these creatures, “4 always bold such ae come belore ene ” ives that the pre was heen eight | Ca SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, VALE 2, RNG ma What Is don mol yay, but Lam, onvi express my a reatires that perp death ehatr ntamina ing hat a con. perfect ip the | Individuals In eluding | ihe fry engines artived it HARLEM FIRE STARTED BY AN INCENDIARY, co CSOCOm ~COSS. SOOoScosacy +O D WOMAN, UNABLE 10 MOVE, BURNED TO NEATH. | | — FOOTBALL GAMES TO-DAY, ‘THOUSANDS WATCH IG HARLEM FIRE, +60 ———— Seven- gine Apartment- House| | on Madison Avenue in Flames, | Fire was 1 a 4 \ K expensive o'oloe fternoon in even-atury | Ment houses 1 the widows of a t at there we Allied with men and wom Mad id ée ’ who watched the j seventh etreet and Madiaon @ There were (Wo. ‘bigs in Rahs The flames epread rapidly mat abe (hee, Had Hagar hint Gy One was parttelly destroyed. ar the biage would pr hue! Wan LAEREOADE. F i | and three more alarme w 1 t “i £ | The ote bultdl 1, but k Hit @as an located th ptt flames «prea an raptdty that « jentailed great dank irround: | the two bulldbnge were farming ing #tructures spite the efforts of the firemen the A ie yw cot! i ' were me gutted. | MOTHER PAWNS SHOES. PHILIPP! (W, VA.) IS ABLAZE, [Charmed with Spending Money for Many Mocks of Buildings Liquor and Sent (o Istand, Horned Down—¥ire & | Mra Mary Bartenbers, of WR Biahth | pains avenue, was arraigned to-day before) veer tonay Magistrate Cornell, of the Harlem Court 4 f ng the on m | and las Habe at May F Borned, jpn the caarge of taking the 4 B | her children and pawning therm White playtng around a stove this\ ‘4 afternoon Clero La Salo, two yeare otd,; “AUF rh mt ot, wan badly burned! 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They wind pot 1 they td a come ston of the wadte 1 o'clook, and tand hustled In aay 1 otands aon 1 Mm the singe hy if have "wero Jota od area ali ted an easy ra His Hitee on the Hell Me 4 wher k cam ama jaged fi pred oir " ardiy |" Apt ase In that vast 4 re Wa Y i no artiat could pa Under-gr ey shun and pretty wivle and matror Not a move muite pulldings ab wrecking that wae 1 Nn a If the Mall Sonaht Revenge, ne M Kn just n vis. Prince ing but victory. "How Teer LA bu, the Th fal threa: chanted " We'll fi i bat ‘they ‘were (Conunued ‘oo wiath Pega), ‘ $ Pim in Thon tw aly twa showed advant