The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1903, Page 2

BEST POLIGE MAN. ‘hat Is What Inspector Brooks Says of New Chief of Manhattan, Who Takes Byrnes for His Model and _ Means to Equal His Work. fie is a silont man, fn appearance not unlike a Broadway merchant, who sits in the heart of the Central Office in Mulberry stroet. With little) ar the typical policeman or of the Sherlock Holmes showing outwardly, Capt. es Langan brings to the command of what has been the most effective organization jn the world the experience of one, some of the talents isa : ‘ ‘ te Ke | ‘ ij , CARE RCD, Dee Pree Seek iv rae Orca occas : TO WARM PAUL. Brooklyn Road Uses “L” Cur- rent to Keep Street Trolleys Comfortable and Freezes and Delays Passengers Overhead, JANUARY 9, 1909, aS we HM, Sp f NEW SCHEDULE OUT TO-DAY. Fifth Car to Be Added®to Brighton Beach Trains, Incidentally, so You Can Enjoy a Day by the Sad Sea Waves, wt It was eo cold to-day that the offictals of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit actually pt the other and a forceful character. |) He brings, too, a model after whom he would pattern, and that model {8 Phe Inspector Byrnes of the old days in Mulberry street, the man who made Detective Bureau great. ‘This man on whom has been placed the responsibility for the greater work of the department in Manhattan brings to his task a detemina- & that the bureau shall regain its old excellence; that the men hall work, it every one of them shall “make good,” ‘him well in his twenty-four years of work on the force say there wiil no half measures about the execution of that policy. Inspector Brooks has called his -now Heutenent “the best policeman in United States.” If record counts for anything that of Capt. Langan’s pad four years of service is sufficient ground for the Inspector's opinion, one petty charge was ever placed against him, and it 1s said that he has @neray among the thousands of men on the force. A person rushing into Headquarters sedking aid in catching a thief Probably pick out any one of tho 143 slouths there as the chief before ) would turn to “Jim” Langan. ‘When the doorkeeper lete one in and says, ‘Here is the chief,” he is to look about for a Sherlock Holmes, only to sliake hands with a man looks much more Ike a well-to-do broker or Broadway merchant. SILENT MAN. And the visitor will do all the talking. _ {@wn brother in silence unless the other spoke first,” saya John Farrington, © {bf the Criminal Courts police, and John has known Langan since the latter @ schoolboy in the old Sixth Ward. Bo the first impression one has of New York's détective chief 1s the ‘one would get of a sphinx, It may be that he tells his wife—she who Mary Sullivan, of Grammar School No, 24, in City Hall Place—some of professional secrets, but not likely. “No one ever heard ‘Jim’ gossip,” Farrington. “That's the reason the little he does say goes so far.” "There was a new alr at Headquarters to-day. It was as though teacher bad suddenly returned and caught the scholars at horse play. One look, Bs and they are all bending over desks, buried in their lessons, eh Just Ike it used to be in Byrngs's time,” said a gray-haired gi've got to “eliver the goods now or go back to poundin’ bricks.” _ “That's pretty good,” observed Langan when an Evening World re- er repeuted to him the old sleuth’s commentary. Then he lapsed into leuth, “You don't look like a detective,” observed the reporter, taking mental p of the other's slightly rotund figure, his grayish hair, his white che, his persistent chin and his steady, blueish eyes. > #WWell, maybe T’n not,’ replied the Chief, taking out a light Havana aigar and methodically lighting it. “It's seventeen years since I was in this building. 1 was a youngster then, working under Byrnes, George Mo-| ~ Mueky wes.my side partner. Good man, George. I wish he was here now.” a blew a cloud of smoke. He seemed bored. BELIEVES IN BYRNES. ~_ Langun’'s face fairly glefmed. “Byrnes?” he repeated. “Why, he was ‘he best ever. If I do as well as Byrnes I'll be satisfied.” _ The Detective Chief seemed to be lvening up, and the reporter noted | Wen what ne had been told to look out for—Langan's eyes, > ‘He has a sort of slate-colored optic that gives one the impression that ‘Tooke through things, is observing and retentive, yet not piercing. It 6s not worry one. Just such an eye had Cecil Rhodes, Tf any one thinks that is a bachelor’s reverie all ke ‘thas to do is to look Ver Langan’s record and hear what others say about the man. in the firs. place, “Jiny” Langan was credited by Byrnos as haying “tho memory for faces” he ever knew. Langan’s distinction for that is un- to-day in the department. He rarely. if ever, forgets a face. “How do yeu do it?” asked the reporter; “have you any method? ow instance, would you remember me if you saw me again?” "The detective chief puffed once and then replied briskly; “Why, if I saw (9m again I’! say to myself, ‘That's a newspaper man. Ho acts ike one, | teases like one'—well, I won't say exactly that, but yoi. have the general “abit ofatype. You can't conceal it. » Now, if T wanted to talk with you I should simply go on that presump- ‘Op and put it up to you, I don't say I'd remember your name or your iper. Same as! migh? not remember whether you were a yegg or a sec- Ad-story man" —nasty stub that-~“but I'd remember your face as associated ie certain linc. I should watch you mighty close, whether you denied or 4t, In my fourt How mn years at Tombs and Criminal Court I rarely to recall a face after once seeing it, Merely habit of noting closely, | . When he joined the Police Department in 1878, shortly after grad- from Grammar Schoo! No, 24, he was assigned to the Mulberry street et, then the resort of a viclous set of crooks. Me made eo many ar- that when a detective force was organized under Byrnes the young po- ian was picked out first as one of the forty detective-sergeants, To iitetrate his method of thief-catching tt ts told of Langan that an ame in one day of a murder, and Tenth street and Fifth avenue under circumstances somewhat tO the recent murder of a boy at West Bighty-sixth street and the 'AYS IN SIGHT. caichor by the name of Terry McQuade was suspected and Langan)! i ini, He never allowed McQuade to get out of his sight, waiched ery movement ad eo worrled the murderer that he finally gave up. fre sure to get me come time,” he told Langan; “take me now.” 6 ipriaing.” the Chief sald to The Byening World reporter, “how| i , expecially inurderers, will break down with persistent hound- ‘That reason { om a believer in the third degree, dosens of murderers when confronted with a bloody pistol, #2 all to pieces, And when they do that you can count fen on thelr guilt.” in the police force can cite instances where “Jim"’ | Out an Old offender when every other failed, “Re- 1 piociusny vd “He does not hesitate about announcing his intent, and men who have iy “Jim' Langan would pass bis {attended most trials in General and Special Sessions, so that every offender treding, bulldog. enow-plough affair, but a well formed, teclsive chin that shows persistency. has persistency. was not discouraged, World reporter heard naught but praise for him. A little boy had been killed at One|? took plty on the poor pasecngers who have to come to Mamhattan from Brook- lyn tn the rush hours, They turned om the heat in the surface cars, To do this thef had to rob Peter tp pay Paul, for they took the’ curfeht which had been used to heat the "EL" ears, and part of that which ha been used to run them, in order to put {t'to use in the surface car heaters, A tot of the wheeny old steam engines, which had been displanted by the third rall, were brought out to run the “L" trains. There was not time, it was said, to make tho steam. pipe connec- tions all through the trains, so that they might be heated by steam, Pass- engers on the "I" therefore shivered, but as they are, as a rule, on’ the trains @ less time than those which creep through the streets In the eur. face cars, |t was probably better go, ‘The B. R. T. people say that if they have to use the steam engines aguim they will be able to make the staum connections and heat the trains in the old way. The B. R. T. also !ssued a new sched- ule on some of thetr lines to-day. ‘They announced that after Jan, 12 there would be a thorough service on the surface and “L’' via the Culver route and the Fifth avenue "L’ road to Coney Island, Cars from Coney Island will take tho SL" at ‘Thirty-ninth street. The heteat ef the Fulton street “Lat Flatvush avenue has been raised eighteen Incaue to permit the larger cara to he used on the Fifth avenue "I." to pas under. In In consequence of this change the Vanderbilt avenue surtace cars will not be operated beyond Ninth avenue an Twentieth street, in order, it 1s sald, to keep the line clear for the through ber vice, The surface servico from ‘Thirty. ninth street will also be discontinued ‘for the same reason. From Kensington care ‘will be ri after Jan. 12 by way of the Culver r Wifteenth street and Court street to Manhattan. Still another improvement will be the adding of a fifth car to the PLANS T0 HONOR ANDREW fl, GREEN, Cantor Wants the City to Have Painted a Portrait of “Father of Greater New York.” » FAarrRoumMaAN MAY 4+ 1878+ a ieading up to the Police Court. and day by day noted every face. He has also He stationed himself on the main floor and there held a sort of court of his own, One day he got in trouble and was arrested. COULDN’T INFLUENCE HIM. “I saw with my own eyes,” said John Farrington, “a United States Senater, a Congressman, an Alderman, an Assemblyman and finally the politician who made ‘Jim’ Langan all come in one after another and try to persvade Iangan to let this man off. He threw them all out, and the steerer had to take his medicine.” Langan wes born at No, 31 Park street and ved most of his life in the Sixtl. Ward. He believes in a policeman or detective being retained in | “ee that was tried in New York City for felony had to pass his scrutiny. If a training of this sort avails anywhere it should avail in his present position. POSSESSED OF PERSISTENCY. After the careful, steady eye, one next observes Langan’s chin, not a pro- President Cantor has suggested that, in the interests of art and education, the city provide for mural paint- ings, representing important histori- cal events, either nationai or munt- cipal, as part of the Interior decora- tions of the new Hall of Records. ‘He also suggests that the city en- gage an eminent artist to paint the Reflect on Langan’s career and you will be convinced ho The discouragements he has met have been enough to dishearten any one but a pers! tent Irishman, It has been the wonder of the Police De-|cne locality so that he can lay his hand any moment upon a “wanted” portrait of Andrew H. Green, “The) Brighton Beach trains and an extra cone partment that ‘Jim’ Langan had not received the gotd shield long before|man, “I used t> know every porson in my ward,” he said, “and ft is| Father of Greater New York,” to hang | @ucior Dhie leiice sadition will obviate In the Governor's room. In a com. | Waits tor the collection of fares, whlch Commissioner Greene prosented it, “Better man never wore uniform,” has| acquaintance of that sort that tells.” munieation to the Mayor President | pxvemeenoomnneram mete Pa been the word for twoscore years. Yet, while dozens of others less deserving were nflae captains “Jim” Langan plodded along as roundsman and sergeant. Twice he was tele- phoned to appear at Headquarters and get the much coveted promotion. The last time, in 1897, Inspector Thompson had already handed him the shield and Commissioner Parker had grasped his hand in congratulation when orders suddenly came to promote Sergeant Haslocher, now retired, and Langan wont back to the Criminal Courts, still a sergeant. But he A man who has lived his life in the lower part of New York City can- not be expected to have much social polish. “Jim' Langan 1s more or less a rough diamond He Is like the captain of « sailing chip who hag worked his way up through the hawse pipe and forecastic, He does not have any finicky sympathy for the men undor bim, and in telling what he proposed to do Langan spoke roughly, almost brutally. It sounded strange, coming from the yulet, sedate person he had appeared to be at firet glance. After saying that the detective force should be increased and a night force assigned to prevent burglaries and holdups he concluded: “Now say I’m a fair man and I'll see falr play. I've been right through © game, ava J know what's what. a ‘What T'm going to do fs to cruise around night tinies by myself. I'll go into every hole and corner of this city, and I'll see that every man under me does his duty. Ho's got to show me, and don't you forget that “Thore'l! be no more detectives standin’ round showing thetr shapes in front of hotels. They've all got to get busy. A “1'll find where these gangs hang out and tear 'em up. I purpose ta make every man toe the mark and earn his salary. You can print that, for it's straight. Have a cigar?” GREENE TO RAISE | Cantor writes: “It seems to me It would be eminemt- ly fit and proper for us to recognize in a substantial way, go that the citi- gens of this great municipality shall have it brought to their attention for all time, the services rendered to the clty by “The Father of Greater New York," Hon. Andrew H. Green, “It ts not necessary that I should do more than make the suggestion, in view of the future of this great munt- cipality, which will doubtless outatrip even the expectations of its founders, and continye to grow in power and in- fluence.’ ARAPAHOE INDIANS STARVE. Ralise No Crops and Get No Govern- ment Supplies, LANDER, Wyo., Jan, &.—The Arapa- hoe Indians are in a starving condition. Not a day passes but @ band és in town begging. , BABY'S FUTURE. Something for Mothers to Think About. Lives of Suffering and Sorrow Averted And Happiness and Prosperity Assured by In talking with dozens of policemen about the new Chief an Evening Most of the officers, ser- geants and captains, remarked with especial emphasis that Langan could not bo “reached,” Probably tho most notorious “grafter” {hat ever thrived in New York was a “steerer” at the Criminal Courts. This man had such remarkable Influence that he could even toy with Supreme Court Justices, TITUS TALKS OF man’s body, but could find no one who had seen him killed, Residents of the neighborhod told the policeman that tho milk train goes by every night at a high rate of spee police report that Captain, ~‘those ‘half-door' establish- ments Were put out of business.” About De Lacey’s Pool-Room, “Have you sized up the precinct as it ras lett bby Capt. O'Reilly?" the repor- Harowlte! wen giruck | by aneine No. ea egiane raised id creme to son oon x er asked. 2006, of iw York Central, which was] and they have no rations {seu . “Now, | am not going Into that mat- ‘narge Borts, of Albany.| by the Government, as t 4 intment: ter at all,” said the Captain omphati- | ia inate eer sR a a Ee ea CuticuraSoap, Oi f and Pille cally, “I have neither the time nor tie inclifation to do 20," added the Cap- When All Else Fails. Ly tain, diplomatically. “You ‘are reported as having tated that De Lacey's pool-room was In opera- tlon when you came into the precinct, and had been running for a considerable time before Capt. O'Reilly left,” sald Every child born into the world with Commissioner Will Ask the Leg- aor suleettad be ehslgrdeesl add Tees Commander of the Oak Street, Total Importations of ; ‘THE Precinct Incidentally Takes a| wae ‘ited on that score was that | Islature to Add $1,500 a Year cae Me abl a the deney to distressing, disfiguring ‘hu. Ra ateolutely, Geuenie LircemR aon % were mours of the skin, scalp and blood, be- Jaunt Through the Former ise \ oo tan eee ata to Pay Now Drawn by Inspec: 360,708 cases, of which aay vig: at iia aepiteotaee Home of the Tough Gangs. |iormant rhe? ineormation came to | tOrs, te licttude, not only because of its suffer. Pean A rewlt oC an, Invostigation which = 12 5 71 CASES Ing, but because of the dreadful fear r onoern! tie n THAT DE LACEY TROUBLE Masa Books ané Baciae len: f) were that the disfiguration is to be life) i} CORTRIGHT MAY GET $7,500. and mar {ts future happiness and pros. Naturally 1 wanted to know all about ~accy und other playes.in the pre- it “Was my DUMIRRBS to “ichow them, and when T set out it ut mr perity. Hence it becomes the duty of mothers of such affileted children to: quaint themselves with the best, purest and most effective treatmen available, viz., ‘Che Cuticura Treatment,’ Warm baths with Cuticura Soap to cleanse the skin and scalp of cruste and seales, gentle applications of Cuticura Ointment, to allay itching, Irritation and inflammation, and soothe and heal, and mild doses of Cuticura Resolvent Pills, to cool the blood inthe severer cases, are all that can be desired for the alle ing of bikin tor tured infants and children, and the come Muftied to the eum in a great over- coat, Capt. George F, ‘Ditus, whom official polive decree relegated from the head of the Central Office Detective Bureau to command at the Oak atreer station, made an active tour of his bailiwiek Unis morning. He was over- hauled on lower Catharine street by an Eveuing World reporter. ‘Jet looking ovew the situation and wetting a few points,” oald the Cap-| In giving a brief outline of what he would aek the Legislature to do for the New York Pollce Department, Commts- | stoner Greene said to-day that besides | asking for the third Deputy Commis- sioner ho would ask that the salary of teh new Chief Inspector, who te Cort- right, be increased from $5,000 to $7,000 a year and that the salarios of the Bor- rl ough Inspectors be increased by $1,600, The same increase in pay would apply to Inspector Molaughiin, but Commis ‘ongly that G.H MUMM & Co's Extra Dry, Being more thn ONE-THIRD of all the Champagne imported, THE PAMOUS 1898 VINTAGE OF MUMM'S EXTRA DRY, NOW ARRIVING, a the facts they camo to me reliably, It's not a 18 HU wide ope Posting odds on the n 1 get ts that dook hand book 1 he is ¢ pi nt odds quoted on the tcker tape or the following morning newspapers. ts absolutely tlon of the sufferi: tein, ‘renewing ol acquaintances, as|to bring such & case to tral, T ie{sioner Greone intimated 1S DESTINED TO MAKE A STILL MORE EMPHATIC INCREASE, fort of worn-out parents, 4 ive | De Lacey Is thos engaged he will get | Mclaughlin would ask to be retired on 5 . at sere, no new story to me. Wve) lice attontion just like any other per-l4 pension before long and that Brooks Millions of women use Cutloura done poll pris in this very precinct }son who ® violating the ta WoUd be rained ¢0 ae piace, As the assisted by Caticura Olntment, for pre- yeu ago and have seon Kome o: precinct, I cannot ay tr *) alae: of 81,000 now gives Brooke We] serving, purifying and beau ‘the. times in very nelght iy plans sare the Legislature will be as! to very nels ena 0 enforce | inhance lis salary $1,000 ea Chief of the skin, for cleansing the eoalp of rusts, on acales and dandruf, and the of falling hair, for softening, w and soothing red, rough and sore for baby rashes, itchings and in the form of washes for irritations and inflammations, many sanative, an which readily suggest the Captain waved a gloy direction of Cherry and W Tella of the Old Yes,” Ne added vemintss Water street in those daye there wore tough gangs of young men who rendes- oused In the various resorts which characterized the nelghberhood, ‘Thoy found hidtng-places, day and might as Well, in the numerous aileya which jut off the street and lead to rear courts which are fringed by the tenements now ‘There was old Bottle alley, the ecene of Many an encounter between the police} % end the toughs, and where nm a good policeman was laid out by @ (Feacherous Blow in thé dark. In those days we huwally hed two men to patrol the beat in company, The river front aloug Detective Bureau, oy BLVORLs, Gen. Gre: in this pre- tt Heeuves, ‘nema at all situated slong thoroughfare at big bridge. ‘The 1 ask the slature ave privilewed t . These places « Park Row, a po. all hours, and ordinary sal hour and kk: all the Captal Mow G t in known to Ca only lias De Lacey been di terrupind hand-book but > Jur wive tt to thy most of the Pp the District Attor He “sald that hy tions for r upon, except after had throigh the stipulated channels. cause for this was that a roundsmen out in Westchester a few days ee Sent to. Commissioner Greene his applt; cation for retirement on a pension, and that ¢ fier he was rétir fha_an hour after ng | nd Bina founded. We ne Met, it was fou CHOCOLATE €O) w ereatter that Worked, # TER ARERR tha franc sitorts inade by Ing to how quiekly io fhe nolla’ took om which one cea it every minute of the day, SPECIAL POR FRIDAY ONLY. VMOREMD DATES. cc. ceeccccreere steeele 100 SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY ONLY, WBIDAY AND SATURDAY. n bea i ie old brought to our atten! past few ‘yeutw J noticed our a gee 1. like Lost.’ 26 is sum! ye Jal and more 1 amusl 4 they our bby, QU ALIT: main' carefully and ustiess ‘or several gambling cinet have also beon he ot gambling place eet Hits had Interml ho last five months, . Hiayos, the fat taro dealer connected with ihe blishment, in 4 daily figure at the corner of Anh and Broadwa: ) show ub f th net at the NEW YORK’S DEATH AVENUE, It te decided by the manage- We wero stunding on the steps there,” said Jobn Far- sas Courts Prison, “when they brought @ man in nat i South street was a scene of mihtly le, and Gants and brawls were of hightly eceurtence, In those days the indoor” dives, frequented by palated) Xin er wore @ feature of the lower goo- the precinct, but these places ment to open up for a pny Ht the word and passea it along Lovthe Tree and file this fact has quenters Known fe him oerponally, Amo! Keown for months, but the p never heen raided Man Justantiy Killed by Central! Tee! at Forty-feowrth street, goveees " ihe ran! ‘i. wreath |