The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1903, Page 5

| ! | t, | Nh i \ Ng them. I’ ™~ but when si 4 | | NEW MMANCER, Study of the Man Who Is Expected to ‘Correct Abuses in the Greater City’s Most Important Precinct—Strong, Mentally and Physically, with a Good Business Training. The who and what of John W. O’Connor, the Tenderloin new Po- Captain: He weighs 225 pounds, stands 5 feet 44 inches, and is forty years old. "Vee \ \ his life, and has been in the department twenty-three years, He sleeps four hours a ni is happy when working hard, uses dumbbells and boxes every day. ~ Has forceful, protruding chin, fighting ears and promises to make the Tenderloin as innocent as a May Day party in Central Park. ant, "We liked Capt. Miles O'Ret!ly,"" observed the tall lean roundsman, as he halted at Broadway and Thirtieth street. ‘In some ways he was the most agreeable cap. tain we ever had. Soon as he abandoned hopes of becoming an inspector he lost all his gruffness and was just like a father to us, You can see how much we thaught of him when we sent him yesterday a floral gift; no Tenderloin captain ever had that testimonial before. But this new man !s a mystery. You can't tell what he will do.” HAS THEM GUESSIN And that eums up the attitude of the Tenderloin toward the new commander. ‘He has all the ear marks of a very determined character. He looks as though he ‘would do exactly what he says. He has the White Light District guessing. The word “ear marks” is used advisedly. For !f you.ask ‘Father Bill” Daly, trainer of jockeys, how he picks out 2 novice for gritand persistence, he will an: Swer you laconially: “by the lay of his ears." The veteran trainer reckons that @ pair of ears lying close against the scalp means, for a surety, the two qualities atore mentioned. Capt. O'Connor has those ears. It would crowd a knife blade to place it between them and his head. He also has a chin that thrusts forward in a most ominous way. ‘The mustache !s brown and bristly. The hair flecked with gray. The nose is @ modified Roman. The mouth {s hard. The eyes are brown and steady. These fatal characteristics are ominous for the evil-doer. He doesn't like them, but wait to see what will happcn. LIKE A BUSINESS MAN. Probably from having been in the clerical department at Police Headquarters ‘with Inspector Cortright for two years, O'Connor conducted himself more like @ business man than a police captain. He would be at home in an Insurance office. He has little humor and no Broadway comic opera could get a laugh from At the same time you could not find a more vivid contrast to the Inspector ‘Thomas or “Clubber” Williams type of policeman. Captains like them, who ruled with the club, have been relegated to ancient history. O'Connor is a business man , and a diplomat. “Now, I do not know," he said to The Evening World reporter, ‘that there are apy gambling houses running just now. I have only been here since Saturday night. I was up till 4 A. M. Saturday, knocking about the precinct, and until 3 o'clock this morning, but 1 did not see any. COMMON SENSE AT LAST. “Thi sis a certain thing, though; when a club opens up the policeman on that beat knows {t within an hour. If he doesn’t seport to me directly, why that cop fs scratched, - of * "If he does, I say to him, ‘Go around there and try to get in, gently, mind you, but get in. If he fails I shall go myself and try the same tactics. Of course, there are limits to a pollceman’s authority and these gamblers are fly enough to know “m not going to make any mistakes by breaking In where I Tata sure that a place Is crooked I'll find way Of getting ihe wor ra dence.”” . Capt. O'Connor talks in an even tone. He seldom raises his voice, and is ex- ceedingly chary of profanity. He seems to know just what he wants and how he expects to get it. He has absolutely no affectations; ts not excitable. "Tell them whac to do? he exclaimed, lighting a ana cigar. No. Eyery policeman before he comes on the force has thirty days’ tutelage, and he ought to now his duties. What he does not know he should pick up fram his associates. - NO SPEECHES NEEDED. “It s a foolisn thing for a captain to harangue the men. They don't pay my attention to him. They stand there perspiring and cursing you under their breath for keeping them in: ali a copper, wants." Col. O'Connor uses the English language like a professor and quotes poetry to, illustrate his opinions. QUOTES POETRY TO ILLUSTRATE POINT, “Theee is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we may, he observed in speaking of a poilceman's life. “I:am a firm believer in fate. When [left the old Fifth Street School I went into a business house and finally becume a traveling salesman. But the police vocation attracted me and I took dt-up. I have never regretted it. “There are a lot of fine people in this department, and every day you read of instances where New York policemen exhibit cusixers, Judgment and prompt- ness of action in saving lyes and property. (“There are blacklegs, to be sure, but the force is constantly becoming better. In, the old days many officers could not sign thelr names to a feport. Now the standard of intelligence is as high as in most institutions of business or public Ufe. “IT hold that the New York policeman to-day (s, as a rule, courageous, honest and fully up to everything required I: he be handled properly.” “What do you think of the Tenderloin?” was asked. TENDERLOIN NOT SO BAD AS PAINTED, “Well.”’ seplied O'Connor, “go through Jt yourself and judge. O'Reilly left it fm good condition, and you bet It wili stay that way. Anyhow, the Tenderloin is painted blacker that it is, For the tast two years I have studted {t thoroughly aa know what I am talking about.” - It certainly seemed very quiet just then, and the Captain arose from his re- volving chair. stretched and yawned, "I slept six hours last night,” he satd, “and \t hes knocked me all out. I don't usually sleep more than four; if I go over that I yawn and feel seedy, Work ts wha: I like, It oan't come too swift for me,” “Do you think there is any ‘grafting’ in your precinct now?” | NO MORE “GRAF,” HE SAYS, @he Captain almost smiled, “Woil, anybody that would pay tor now," said he, ‘must oe a fool, Why-pay for eon ung you can’t Petar erate) added, ‘the only crooked business hee 1s gambiing. You can't stop people trom gambling, and there are houses running very quietly where admitted. 1 don't know as thvy do much harm, aloved they anal! be." Capt. O'Connor was appointed patrolman in March, 1883; rounds; tl; sergeant, March i3, 1891, and captain Magch 14, omy friends are but if the law aays ciose them, may, Nov, 1, 3%, Through having charge @ny other man on the force. “What do! you think of Commiasioner Greene?” leaving. Ray. the Captain, thinks you're toadying; bu', take it from me, he's the best Comm, bral isploner baits eS ‘HURT IN AN “L” CRUSH. |CLERK WAS HER HUSBAND, Ps Dvercrowding on Eapross Traine Resalts im Injury to a Hoy, One of ‘the latest victims of the erowded conditions of the elevated rall- way is seventeen-year-old Jake Kahn, ‘of No. 410 West One Hundred and Nine- | teenth street. This morning, when the thousands of downtown business men and women were anxiously awaiting thelr turn to be packed into the crowded expresses, Jake Kahn ouc- ‘a boarding the train waioh left One Hundred and Sixteenth street t ten minutes past eight, but orush attending the guard’ to close the mates young Kahn ‘ the iron asked the reporter upon Mre, Toy Han from Store and Got Warrant for Abandonment, James Toy, thirty-nine, of No. 14 EB: Tenth street, was held in ¢ Street Court to-day on doning his wife, Mary, supported herself since her husband left her, entered « Brooklyn department store to-day to make low Batted or mannan, om of 10 ited on her wi who wat! He, 418 Rot her el ‘out to wore out ati and:his right erm wa He was born at Sixth street and Avenue D, has lived in New York all) side, Just be kind, reasonable, firm and square. That's “whea you eulogize a superior officer every one| “| animated g: of th him down an) {HE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1 CAPT. O’CONNOR WHO WILL TRY TO CLEAN UP : ® 9 €6.06666.0000600806000065: THE TENDERLOIN. HEOCOSIDOO HS >> PPFS FHP O-> ODDLY I O92OFLF3S99F9 2-99 > 2OO83999- FREAKS GATHER IN BIC CARDEN. Bearded Woman, Midgets and Other Queer Circus Folk Watch the Transformation of Madison Square Building. ————— An army of human spiders fs at work in Madison Square Garden weaving a web of steel wires, cast {ron braces, flying rings, trapexes, rope nets, supple yeteel bars, pulleys, !oops and a maze of Intricate network through which a troupe of aerial acrobats will soon flash and twist and turn and gyrate to the confusion of the optical nerves and thrill of the spinal marrow. And while these splders weave, the | strangest freaks that the genius of the showman ever collected walk about the | soft brown earth that flours the arena! or sit back Jn the cane seats of the ble elifptical theatre, Thia was all in pre- paration for Barnum & Bailey's “Great- est Show on Earth,” Coming in from the Madison ayenue side one 1s first absorbed in the great web that grows so swiftly and silently as you watch, ‘Then all of a sudden, as the eye sweeps about the great circle of seats it 1s held by some bigarre creature atone in one of the empty ters of| weats, The face, of almost African swarthi- ness, low browed, covered with a tightly cured coal biuck beard, and having lit- tle beady eyes, had a pecullariy sinis- ter expression. “That one of your Mahometan war- riora?” asked the curlous vial "Go up and see for yourself,'* said one of the showmen, his face beaming. ‘The figure. as far as you could see it from « few inches above the waist line, Was not one that you would care to ap- proach with Inquisitiveness, But when the vieitor walked up the steep aisle he gathered courage as he noticed a smile Aicker under the black beard, ‘Then, all of a sudden, us you reached the seat, and saw that ajneat blue skirt covered the lower limbs of this strange you began to comprehend the bea smile of tne showman This dusky, bearded “warrior” was & woman, nghaicse woman, and Joung ‘woman at that. "AS you looked dose you could see that her hands were pmativend delicately formed, though her! Shoulders were broad and her faco ag-) ly masouline in every feature work fast,” ehe sald In he explained that with various fur more than Ove years, Her pegun to sprout when she wa Peat ae ae etl Then she. demon strated tbat ft was real and deep rooted, ‘The ‘next freak tn lin H nd. His face eniees 6 which grows clone boy is sixtsen years pid and wan born in Russia. He eat gione in a box and turned his head this rd’ that with, canine. curiosity of 8 mudden ih A a ETOVP Of midm from ‘nls showed wiih tn my Te ra he twenty m to a ii was Leo, the is covered with n dow hands with wher y eat ertures. Then th Uny litte men the mei making figure | tna STRUCK IN COURT-ROOH Padden, Enraged when Habeas Corpus for Possession of Child Was Refused, Attacked Her and Her Father. Enraged at failure to get custody of id, Edward Padden, of No. 152 e street, in the corridor of the County Court-House, Brooklyn, to-day smashed his father-in-law in the face and then gave his wife a couple of blows, den accused his wife's father, Michael Corcoran, living at phi street, of restraining hi and also Mrs, Fadden, He se writ of habeas corpus, which was heard by Justice Maddox and promptly dis- missed, As they emerged from the courtroom Paden’s law sald: “Now go and demand the child from the okt man.” Padden did ro, but met with refusa} both from his father-in-law and his wife Before the lawyer or court attendants struck two heavy blows. Not satiafled with that, he struck Mrs, Padden and was then restrained by court officers, The old man, holding a handkerchief to his eye, rushed away to get a war- rant. SEEKS RETRIAL FOR MOORE. > Jork had $85,000 of it. >| the lawyer, could intervene the infuriated husband | > Lawyer Says Fayné Moore's Hu band Was Wrongtally Cenyicte Lawyer William Cantwell, of Cantwell | | & Moore, to-day moved before Recorder {Goff in Part I1I., General Sessions, for| a new trial for W. A. E. Moore, who is eerving nineteen years and six months in Sing Sing for trying to blackmall the late Martin Mahon, proprietor of | the New Amsterdam Hotel, Cantwell said that he had now evidence that would clear his client st triad Mar he met king to the Metropole roborated oy latter now John cla her hu This testimony was co. Harry N. Fiel4, The se that he wae mistaken. iden. who lives at the Brooklyn, says that| on who was talking to} tnight. He |s corrob- | Warsaw, o street by 8. West Thirty-sixth DR. GREENE'S NERVURA CURES to my ri ight for the statl of Coco, the baby Fe litte >I ia the . el) as spl and fae wr Lea. GRIP IN THREE DAYS SHE RAN ANAY WITH MINSTER New London Girl Came to New York with Stranger Parson Who Talked of Riches and Is Said to Be a Fraud. POLICE PUT ON HER TRACK. Two Telegrams Were Received Stat- Ing She Had Arrived Safely, but Since Then There Has Been No Word from Young Woman. The Bureau of Information at Poitce Headquarters recei a letter to-day from New London, Con, signed "T. H. Shurtz."" The leter contained a request that the police look for a Mies Smalley, of New London, who was missing. “About three weeks aj the letter read, ‘a man who guve his name as Teaac Bopiin, a minister, put up at the boarding-house of Mr. and Mra. Smalley in this town, He told the Smalteys a fortune of $160,000 had been left to him In England and that a lawyer In New Last Tuesday Bop- Wn and Miss Smaliey started for New York ostensibly to get the money from On Wednesday a telegram was received which stated that Mies Ney and the minister had arrived safely. On ‘Thursday a similar telegram was received. Since then nothing has been heard of elther, and it 1s chought that Bplin Isa fraud." The description of the girl is given in the letter ay fololws: Twenty years old, 5 feet 4 inches in helght, dark complexion and wearing u black felt ‘hat, red gloves, tong grey walking skirt, oxford ttes, bouquet of Violets, small watch and beaded chain on Uttle Anger, Boplin is sald to be fifty yea: 5 feet 5 inches in height, pounds and has a dark-gray mustoche, He was wearing a derk sack sult, Apectacies, black derby hat, white shirt, old, green stones in cuff buttons and a small silver watoh, “not bis own.” The letter did not say to whom the watch be- longed. 1903. lL EFT $50,000 10 LAWYER FIEND Dr. Church First Gave His Gold) Watch to Him as He Was} About to Undergo Fatal Op- eration, HE EXPIRED SOON AFTER.| | Little Ie Known of the Deceased! in Jersey City, and He Had Not Practised His Profession for Some! Time, Willlam H. Rees, a young attorney of Jersey City, has just fallen netr to) $9,000 by the will of Dr. Arthur Y./ Church, who died tn St. Francis's Hos- pital as the result of an operation. The will wan drawn just before Dr. Church wont to the hospital. Rees, who was not aware that such a will had deen inade, accompanted Church to the howpital. As Church was about to go upon the operating table he handed ‘als handsome gold watch to} Rees, saying he contd not ive, and that he wanted him to kep It as a mamento. The operation, which was for appendi- citis, proved unsuccessful, and Church dled a few hou Little is know Church. ago and made ais home fir Hote! Washington and tatt Montgomery, He made no attem practise his professton, and, save for | Rees, he hud apparently no friends. it| was while he was at the hotel that Rees and hi ife met chu Mrs. | ki reason of his summer residence there. 5 ee JUSTICE DAY GAINING. Dortor Reports Patient's Condition | Most Encouragh , WASHINGTON, March 16.—Dr, jn after hiv visit to J forenoon “Justice night and couraging to: Har- yt spent a comfortable ondition is most en- B.Altmand Gs. Imported Silks. COMPLETE ASSORTMENTS ARE NOW SHOWN FOR SPRING comprising many original ideas, adapted for Promenade, Carriage For TUESDAY, March ALL-SILK PRINTED GRENADINES, 8,000 yards, choice d Reretofore $1.50 to $2.00 (Rear of —————EE A SALE WILL ALSO BE Turkish and India Rugs At Exceedingly Etahteent Street, Mineteemth Sireet and Sixt) Avena: HAIR GOODS. and SUMMER, and Evening wear. 17th: esigns (double width), yard,at $1.00 Yard. Rotunda.) HELD ON TUESDAY OF Low Prices. Two Hundred Thousand Yards of Fancy Madras at 10c 32 Inches Wide and Worth a Half More. HESE are all in this year’s new patterns— an assortment of about four hundred different de- signs—identical with goods selling everywhere at 15¢. a yard, The explanation of such a bargain coming now is simple enough. The mill's season is over, and the surplus goods are in one to four pieces of a pattern. impossible for jobbers to handle. (Quick selling demanded a great store that could show them directly to the public; and that meant WANAMAKER’S. More than three quarters of the entiré lot are in the favored blue and white grounds, with plain stripes and figured effects of the most beautiful designs of the s2ason. There is a sprinkling of the new grays, or gun-metal ef- fects ; also quite a quantity in the plain, solid colors. It is a superb variety of the best’ fifteen-cent madras on the market, today at 10c a yard! Fourth avenue, and Other Shoes HERE was large public enthusiasm over - this popular offering on Saturday. Certainly it is out of knowledge when a more timely offering of de- sirable Shoes has been made to the public. We were particularly fortunate in getting the shoes at this time, so are those that share them: Women’s $2 Oxford Shoes at $1 Also some specially good bargains ‘ sc jin high shoes: Women’s $3 Oxford Shoes at $1.65 Ad , Women’s $3 and $4 Oxford Shoes | Men’s $3 Wear -Well Shoes at $1.90 at $2 Men's $3 to $4 Shoes at $2.40 Women’s $3 Oxford Shoes at $2__| Women’s $3.90 boots at $2.40 ens $2.50 Oxford Shoes at 2 $1.90 | Women’s $2 Shoes at $1.20 Women’s $2 Oxford Shoes at $1.20 Boys and Youths’ Shoes at $1.30 " Shoe. and 9150 absiayrnaed and $5 Oxford Shoes Youths: and Boys’ Shoes at $1.50 5 and $1.7 yee and $3.90 Oxford Shoes Children's Shoes at $1.20, worth 75 an Men's $3 Ox’ord Shoes at $1.90 |Children’s Shoes at $1, usually Basement, ! $1.50 JOHN WANAMAKER Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co., Broadway. 4th ave., 9th and 10th sts. CAMMEYER| Our Store is the} Young Men’ s Store They know they secure the freshest styles and finest shoes of us and at \. the smallest prices. The Varsity, $5.00! High and Low Cut. This shce appeals to the young men because they are up-to-date, bench made, and of the v:ry latest fashions ani wear the longest and look the best, Made of imported patent leather, patent kid and f.ne black hid, cy e% Cafalogue Mailed Free on Application, 6th Ave., Cor, 2Cth St. 18 to 20 in. long, sold at regul here [0.0 .ccreerecepeces 6TH AVE.,, 22d AND 2 Special Tuesday & Wednesday Bar- gains in High-Grade Hair Goods. 200 Natural Human Hair Switches, short stems, regular price $3; here Tuesday and Wednesday for...., 500 Natural Wavy Human Hair SWITCHES, first quality, short stem, Ehrich Bros, 1.00 lar Hair Shops for $5; 3d STS., NEW YORK, fe] will place on sale SIL as follows: 26-inch Twilled med handl B. Altman & Go. novelty hendles, Ivory and Silver, Pearl and Silver, Horn and Silver, or 28-inch, with Natural Wood, ailver trim- n Tuesday, March 17th, K OMBRELLAS, Silk Umbrellas, with $3.00 each, May Rain. Better Select Samples fond This List if youn House- + Hunting. e e Bis Beviad Rewmete tat ~ an a ==