The evening world. Newspaper, August 7, 1902, Page 10

~—~Aecond, by the Points Out Reforms Already Accomplished in His Long-Delayed Talk—Wants a Chief to Handle the Force, and the Dismissal of Corrupt Men in Clothes Spies on Sun- Made Easier—No Pla day Excise Violations. Mayor Low to-day mide public his ; Jong heralded “talk” on tue police. | He first discussed the embarraas- | ments of the Police Commissioner, | showing how he is hampered by the Jaw. This is illustrated by a refer- ence to reforms accomplished in the Street-Cleaning Department. It is asserted by the Mayor that if the Police Commissioner had tue game power to remove inspectors and captains that the Street-Clean ing Commissioner has to remove subordinates results would come quickly. | In spite of all difficulties, the Mayor | contends that much has been accom- plished in the way of reform. The Mayor says a Chief of BOlice)| fs needed, that changes in the platoon system may well be made, and sys he will appoint a commission to draw | amendments to the law. Comcerning Sunday says the polic not expected to @o anything that they cannot ac- ecomplish IN FULL UNIFORM, i} Here is what the Mayor says DiMfculties to Be Met. | “The Police Department touches the | people at so many points as to make @ discussion of ft difficult under the! conditions that attach to these talks Fspecially is this the case at a moment | when public opinion Is excited in con- | nection with # partioular {natdent suoh | es is now under investigation. Even now, however, it may not be amiss to| consider some of the problems with ‘which the Police Commissioner is called | ‘upon to deal “Let me try to illustrate his first em- barrassment. During the last s!x months, the Department of Street Cleaning tn the bureau of final disposition, has saved $28,000 ay compared with last year, notwithstanding the fact that it has hhandled 42,000 loads more than last year, excise he to | POLICE LAWS, POLICE AND EXCISE A SEEN BY LOW ACCOMPLISHED : “Red Light” district wiped out. “Cadet system” abolished. TO BE ACCOMPLISHED: Easier mathod of getting rid of corrupt and inefficient of» Sicials. Chief of Police to manage the entire force. Commissioner has now too many duties to perform, He should be relieved of the duty of conducting police trials, Commission to change the laws for avcomplishing these ends, SUNDAY EXCISE LAW: Police are only expected to enforce letter of law. They must see that the doors of places net authorized to sell on Sunday are locked and the screens raised, THEY ARE NOT BOUND OR EXPECTED TO GO BE- YOND WHAT THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH IN FULL UNIFORM. Vi In addition, during the entire month of| oyitgea to conduct all important trials July, it has not sent a single load of] pereonally. 1s ali Waste to sen. These are notable achieve-| "There ‘are doubtless other amend- ments, They have been made possible, | ments which experience under the pres- firat, by the substitution of Commission- | °° eel My i . ate to be desirable, er Woodbury by the Mayor for the for- 1 bave, therefor determined to | {¢ mer Street Cleaning Compnissioner, and, substitution of Capt Piper by Commissioner Woodbury fo ‘the former Superintendent of Final Dis- position, “The inspectore and captains of the police force are to the Police Commis sioner what the heads of departments are to the Mayor, and what the Superin tendent of Final Disposition is to the Street-Cleaning Commissioner “If the Police Comminnt could remove inspectors and cap- tains at will, or as eanily an of- felals not on the uniformed force ean be removed, results would bo expected quickly, which, under ex- isting Inws relating to the Pollo Department, can only be had slowly. “But the Police Commissioner can do this. All that he can do Js to #) is officers around. Reforms Pointed Out. “It is no small matter that, her even un Ger these ciroumstances, the Co sioner of Police hae succeeded w fm putting an end to the ‘Red Li district, of which so much was hear im the last campaign; in abolishing 1 horrible ‘cadet’ system, which was part of it, and in breaking up not a fey of the most notorious evil resorts in Uh city. Some progress has been made | ether directions as well “In every discussion of the police force {t must always be borne in min. that all good citizens want to think of 4t and to be proud of !t, and that thr foros itself wants to be well thous Things that injure or discredit t) force must be apoken o: th dy werve; but it would be a grave injus tice to the great body of the force to sup) for an instant that it ty not ashamed of the things that bring just criticism upon it. I am sure that In the long run, the city may coi dently make {ts appeal to the Belences of the men who, as police men, wear the city’s uniform. “1 am impreaned, however, with the belief that, in one way or an- ther, if must be made easier than it is now for the Police Commin- ficient or whom he believes (0 bi eorrupt. | "At the present time charges must be to rid the department of an| \\ cer whom he knows to be inef- | appoint a commission, co of Co sioner Partridge Bugene A. Ibin and Gen, D. Andrews, to look into thin anb- Ject and to make such suggentio an to the amendments of law a may seem to them good.” ave ting Mr. eh much interested also in whi been carried atoon 8. ar That the sit was formerly and welghty, On eritieisms Present two-platoon seem to me to be very efore, ask the sane gen-| Me Km Into’ this matter and. to heir recommendations in perhaps, to cali of ull to the fact that as been greatly changed yn—twenty Roosevelt Commission rk under Mayor sta) The change in the method of issuing Hoe tel by the Raines law acunsion rat the present was, in my | Son th far-reaating’ end salu: te flow from these pro- | wil Jaw. First, that tn saloons which are qualified as’ hotels, lquo: lawfully sold on sundays, Dror with @ meal, and in than the ‘barrooen, nave held that a Hauer This means + es which, { proved in & manner that wil! stand the ‘eet of a court of law hb partment can be rid of an un: Rory officer. Only recently the C ven almost all {me | 4 to thi captain, Provesding pene for discipline he meanwhile the administration of the department understand that the oonilitions attach fo police service make mre prote of off! removal Needs Chief of Police, the firnt place, the torce and will expected to Sy Present time tx not properly| specie requirements of anengorce the | Biliott, her sixth husband, she having} charges against him with the object of The Police Commi \- hotel ASAE OF Wey saloons that are not | f married him under ihe name of Ellen pent nlm Placed Hader heavy bunda to pi o sing of no: 0 cep the pet fs oblige Oo administer it) HEY AK | Russell Sage, @ director of the Manhattan Raflway Company and one of Cw hipple aati APR SUL aiving: | heen F 4 @ Ohlet of Poli This ag AND Nin "ORL eye 1 its largest stockholders, waa interviewed by an Evening World reporter on| Downesville and t to Walton, as though the Secretary -OhCUMMS start |his arrival in New York from his summer bome in Lawrence, L. 1, Mr.| Meera amen: Pl Moopy AT § eae’ aa Dee an aac 8 LIKE IT. TO GO a TD | Sage sald : "| Winslow. ‘Totten Is sald to be still all WASHINGTON, “Aug, T.~fMecretary WHAT THEY CAN Fo080 HOS iN | Elliott says he Was surprised when,| Moody, with his Congressiosal guests the Army without a hiet, ome © must ace that loons are kept screens ora of sue) locked; that the on o gathering of people in the barroom, and the Mke. Urvond this St does not seem to me the daty ef the pollee to #9 under ordinary conditions, “In other words, th yPallee are bound, PULL UNIFORM. ANYTHING 1 WL io’ BE | ainoese upon she » In Avery |the “L” telegraphers, whe also have gric Mr. tives of the firemen on ductors or gatemen at stations, power-houses, THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1902. "L” ENGINEERS URGE AN IMMEDIATE STRIKE; DEPUTY CHIEF YOUNGSON ADVISES ANOTHER APPEAL, {DEPUTY CHIEF YOUNGSON AND ‘“ ce-President of the Order of Railway Telegraphers Here to Adjust Grievances of the “L’’ Operators. (Continued from First Page.) stand by the engineers. T. M. Pierson, Vice-President of the SAYS HIS HIS, WIFE Order of Railway Telegraphers, was also present in the i Although as This agreement fixes their pay at $3 With this committee were James Kinney and John Wells, representa- the elevated railroads, who have determined to nd by the engineers in any steps they may take. Gould and Skitt Confer. If atatements made at the offices of the will not see Mr. Sklit before Saturday. 1 not return for two days Where he went and who he went to gee have not been divulged, George Govld, who came from Saratoga yesterday, had a long conference with Mr. Skit last night and left for Saratoga this morning, Hanrahan, of Peorla, II, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, would come to New York to talk wit nd’ €e"e 1" Ty men about thelr demands upon the Manhattan system. But, Mr. Han- et eee rahan is busy in the Weat. He wired to-day that he had erdered Charles Wilson, Vice-Grand Master 41 o¢ the Brotherhood, to repair to this clty as soon as possible and confer It was expected that John J. +-—______— “Talk of a strike is absurd. Public sentiment would be against it, ees, ured by the engineers that . ! it would he futile, | Youngson insisted on appealing again to General Manager Skitt before any definite action was taken, Engineers Talk of Trickery. | All that stands in the way of a strike on the Manhattan “1”, system is an agreement signed by a representative of the en-| gineers last February binding them to a ten-hour day as motor. “L" to-day are true Mr, Young-| a The assistants of the General Manager of the Manhattan say that Mr, Skitt left town this morning and positions paying them as much salary as they drew as firemen unt! such a time as they are promoted to be motormen, A few of the firemen have been promoted. Others are acting as con- The majority have been put to work in the /PUBLIC SENTIMENT AGAINST STRIKE, SAYS MR. SAGE. | On the part head of the The ENGINEERS AT THE BROADWAY CENTRAL. —— BELIEVE HYLAS MEANT MURDER Police Arrest Bohe- mian Who Wrote ot Intention to Slay Miss Anna Petran. HAS 1 HUSBANDS Astounding Charges Made by Thomas E. Elliott in a Separa- tion Suit. In a suit before Justice Steckler in] tm the arrest of Gottlieb Hylas, a of the Manhattan system the agreement was signed by General the Supreme Court to-day, Thomas young Rohemlan, of No. 20 Bast Doesn't All Depend on Law, ft Ric C & Base) saya B. Elliott charged that the woman | Elghty-seventh street, Capt. Titus be- 1 will not be imagines, Tam aun Manager Skitt, “ ae whom he married Jan, 21, 1869, has HAVER Win he had prevented he murder ' y reliance” solely tat Before the engineers can take any further steps to right the wrongs] since wedded err dr} Miss Anna Petran, of No. Bas nd th the ronAsumt-|\ney assert aro belng inflicted upon them they aust convince tt se since wedded six other husbands, /goventy-fourth strect, and put a check au they assert are being pe L % onyin ne chief) some of whom are sull living. She}to nis own suicide. officers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers that the agreement] admits four marriages. ‘The Chief of Deteotives 1s not inclined was, as they maintain, secured through trickery. Mrs. Helen C. Eliott had applied for] to sider the young tailor's action in As » > * aiimony and counsel fees the] the light of a joke. The arrest of Hy- Firemen with the Engineers. trial of an action for a soy . jas was alded by Wiliam Bousa, a sy, 3 rs. Ell or, as her h and allot a 3 st =! I Mr, Youngson arrived in New York this morning and went to the], MP. Elliott, or, as her hust mal) Eilon: sat #16) (West: Dhirty-atath Se LP A Pee ory renee aim Vea sean lo ; her to be. Mrs, Blliott-Dur ok- | street whom Hylas had worked and Broadway Centra ot bs irievance Commit.->| Wripple Markwith-smith-Totter, says | Who recelved from Hylas a letter Mon- of the L. road engineers and motormen—Willlam L, Jencks, Chief of Di-| giiott on May 1 ordered her from his day morning, In the letter Hylas said vision No. 105; J, W, Smith, W, C. Hoff, Andrew H, McFarland, Frank] home at No, 78 Charles street, She is]he bed Killed his sweetheart in the while Parrish, H. B. Penny, 1. D. Woolsey and J. F, Bingham Mixty-four and 1s now living at No. 116] woods near Winfleld, L. J., and that he West Fifteenth street himself would he dead by the time {9 a Custom-House watchman at Bousa received the letter, a year ,Bousa took the letter to Capt. Titus. annilontiintine Ginna: An thvestlmtion showed that Hylas as st and Bilolt tn his affidavit sets forth that |; ailys) And “he swae. anpented his pockets were several other let- ters addressed to friends and relatives. All were similar to that received by Bousa. Hylas told the police it was al! a joke, But Capt. Titus's men have a differen: story, They saw Miss Petran, and she said that Hylas had called on her Sun- day evening, just after he had matied the letter to Bowsa, and had tried to money from @ relative and did not want] persuade her to a drive with him, eug- to have anything to do with him, kesting that they go to Long Island He left and sought shelter elsewhere, | for the evening, Bhe told the police when he married the plaintift Miss Helen Towle. In 187i, wh snowstorm was raging, he returned home one night to find the door locked against ‘him. In reply to his demand for ad- mittance, he says, he was informed by his wife that his trunk was packed in the hall ‘and that he could take it and leave, as Mrs. Eliott had received some and from that time until April last—|tnat she suspected something was thirty-one years—he says he never heard| wrong and refused to go. She gaid to of her, the detectly He then proceeds to give the alleged] ‘Phere was something about him record of his wife's other marriages, ob-| which made me believe he wanted to pear. te oe jMatoons, | with the representative of the engineers already on the ground. The firemen] tained after a searshing investigation, | get away from home and I would not iy have the assurance of Mr, Hanrahan that any action they may take will] On Aus 2%, 187%, he @ays, the plain-| go. He had threatened to kill me if 1 No Spies in Saloons, be backed up by the order of which they are members, tiff, under the name of Ellen Tywle,| id not marry him. I was always afraid This » t@ two questions 4 ns “yi married August C, Duncan, who had] of him. When he came Sunday evening t not io, leavin alt one et: | Grievances of the Firemen. the marriage annulled and made the proposition to go out 1 iuestion out of view, that aiaalganhith acirameninare 1 In 1882 he says she married George|ran upstairs where he could not get forth oT wey makes As a matter of fac y Have as many grievances as the engi-| peck under the name of Ellen C. Dun-| me and from there I told him that I von Bundas M224 | neers, The railway company has promised them that as fast as they are|can. ‘The newly marrted pair, Elitott] would not go. 1 also told him to go ty of the police on | get down from their cabs in the locomotives they will be taken care of in| alleges. were tried and convicted and fen ffan the Rouse and not to, come ns which have sentenced to #lx months’ imprisonment him of From what ha transpired, t alle that he intended to ng Island and kill m pare 1 feel Fete] now hat in Snake Hill Penitentlary for robbery Charles Whipple, Elliott alleges, 1a- ter married her under the name of| haps, kill himself, Helen ©, Peck, and lived with her at] Ne, Is arrested : Capt. Titus said that he believed that Seventeenth street and Sixth avenue Hylan after being: spurned “by Aline As Ellen Whipple, the woman married, | Petran. rego to wait his nei In elther | Kil her, fe stil held an a dan- ke rous (pera He will be arraigned in the Jefferson Market Court to-morrow morning and the police will rry to have him committed to Bellevue £0 have bis mental condition pagsed upon. It be declared to be sane the i will preter ohn Markwith, hey Went to live In Orange, re Markwith died in 1898, on Smith, of Downesville, Dela- ware County, N. Y, was, according to Eliott says 1885 or 1886. |Heavy Steel HIRD “L” RAIL BURNS TWOMEN Hammer Coming in Contact with Charged Iron Causes Explosion. John Wolfert, thirty-six years old, of No, 198 Third avenue, and John Coghlin, thirty-eight years old, of No, %8 Tenth avenue, electricians, at workk at Twen- ty-el@hth street on the Third avenue Elevated tracks at 2 o'clock this after- noon were dangerously If not fatally in- jured by an electric shock. They were taken to Bellevue Hospital. Coghlin held a heavy steel hammer which came in contact with the electric third rail, and an explosion followed which startied the neighborhood for a block around. Flames were started, and Wolfert's clothes caught fire. He jump- ed to the street, where Policeman Ditch tore his clothes from ihis body. Coghlin received the greater shock ‘but was not #0 badly burned. Residents in the neighborhood thought. that xome Aisastrous explosion had occurred. It is feared that both men may dle. WENDELL RAIDS BIG POOL-ROOM. Elizabeth Street Police Captain Arrests Gam. blers in Stewart Building. Police Captain Wendell, of the Eliza- beth street station, accompanied by Detectives Roth, Burns, 6inn and Burt stein, raided a poolroom in room 92 on the second floor of the Stewart Buila- Ing, Broadway and Chambers etreet, » place which politicians frequent and where many of the city offices are, and arrested James McDonald, Charles Jones and Charles McCarthy. The officers then went to the aaloon of Andrew Berger, at Centre and Cham- bers street, and arrested Berger and George Wallace for running a handbook. ‘The five prismers were arraigned befo‘e Magistrate Flamer at the Centre Street Court and al) were held. Lawyer Joseph Moss, of the firm of ‘Howe & Hummel, apepared for the de- fendants. Bergen's saloon is a landmark fre- a Family of Five Burned to Death, STOCKTON, Cal., Aug. 7.—Leo Wilder, wife and three children were burned to death at their country home near the Village of Elitott, this county. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a defective flue. West 1 Rothenberg &: quented by many prominent politica and his arest for violation of the Ex: law caused some aurprise. ‘The greatest interest was shown, how- ever, In the fact that an alleged pool- room was raided right under the noves of some of the moat prominent of the heads of the city’s departments. 4th St August Fur Great Bargains Every Day in the: niture Sale, | A Sensat figures, these two specials : Pants 9c. | Value 19c. to 29c., double print galatea, linen, duck, crashes, chambrays| and percale. 50 styles, fast sizes 3 to 14 years.ees, Hemmed Sheets. Made of the celebrated New York Mills Muslin at prices less than the cost of the muslin by the yard: 54x90 245¢ 81x90 ards of heavy unbleached > Shecting, 8c quality, at.ieee dic ting Flannels, new designs, Sacto chia fs BS Bic Heavy hemmed Huck Towels. 58-inch bleached Table Dam- ask, per yard..e. Good quality hemstitched Pil low Cases, size 45x36..... 10c " 23¢ 12'c Fine Washable worth less than $2,060. Full Seamless Hose, cor- rect in sizes and worth 10c, and 12%4c. per pair, atuereees Men’s Socks. Women's Fast Black Cotton 5 less Socks, fine quality, extra clastic and every pair worth 12}GCr Atevorevereersnoesers lied and sald she had last April, she 0 18 now aboard the Dolphin, will join the North THAN TH BATE: | surface lines have all they can handle, and to tie up the elevated would ro.| 220° tunis elegans, wie | Auantkc Squadron at Newport next THis W. elt in @ great outcry, They could not afford to stop the operation of the| permitted to stay tp i ihe"and he A_UBE © UN | elevated. Pele oa fs » a0. rh “Ot course thats there will be conferences to-day with our people” ‘aottem Pants and Blouses at Half and a Third. A Wonderful Purchase! Belter values than the season has produced anywhere before. best garments that we haye ver seen offered at such astounding Values are positively underestimatce color, taped seams, patent bands, deep, turn-up hems, Cc Great Skirt Sale. Washable Skirts, made from polka dot Russian duck, full graduating flare flounce, piped with white pique, shown in black and white and blue and white, less than half price, at.ceee allover tucks, full flare flounce, trimmed with embroid- ery to match, shown in blues, oxblood and green, also Handsome Foulardi flounce style, trimmed and white, black and white. double flounce style, et: While they last Women’sHose] Fruit Jars. Men's All Fast Black Seam- 5 [oe Hi Bargain Friday ion for Boys. Entire clean-up from the makers, The Look at Sailor Blouses 15c. Values 39c.to59c., fancy linen, cham- bray, duck, crashes and galatea, detach- able embroidered shields, extra large lined sailor handsomely trimmed, (e sizes 3 to 9, at... Golonials collar, full blouse, some and Oxfords. and Children. In patent leather only, but patent leather is the most stylish and desirable sort this season,” All are nicely made, and the Colonials have large buckles. Sizes from 8 to 2: spring heels. Special from Until aitoomorreWs aloecerens A OC ‘Skirts, made from woven chambray, Skirts, silk foulard pattern, flare ith 3 rows of lace; shades of ‘blue Russian polka dot duck, Nothing in this lot Ne BOR Mason Fruit Jars, porcelain lined zine tops: ___ Pints, Quarts. 49c. doz. 59c. doz. 1-2 Gallon, 79. doz. ero Quart Jars, glass Oph, patent fastening, per doz... *95¢ Stern Brothers To-morrow and Until Noon Saturday Ladies’ Golf & Walking Skirts $2.50 of White Pique, with stitched Flounce, Formerly $3.95 of Striped Cheviots, Latest Models, $4.75 Real value $6,00 Women’ s Shirt Waists White and Colored at 65°, 95 Formerly $1.25, 1.90 ana *1.50 and 2,75 West Twenty-third ‘Street.