The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1904, Page 3

EVENING WORLD'S 7TH AUTO TOUR I (Continued from First Page.) old weather, [f policemen will not stay out and walk their beata on Leau- titul moonlight nights, such as have been the rule since Tho Evening World tavestigation began, what can be expected from tem in zero weather? Tt ts due to the people of the city that something should be done by Commissioner McAdoo to get his men busy on patrol. When he went into @ffice he boasted that he could not be fooled. The records of The Evening World investigation as far as !t has gone are against bim, + $+. ONLY 19 POLICEMEN WERE FOUND IN UPPER HARLEM. orient ecrenmensenees Roundsmen Had Gone Over the Ground Before The Evening World Automobile, ard the Patrolmen Were Resting Again—| No [en Near Scene of Many Burglaries, ‘In a tour through the streets of Harlem, Manhattanville and Wasbing- ton Heights early to-day The Evening World automobile picked up just nineteen policemen. ‘Tbirteen of these were found before 2.80 A. M. The Foundswren pald by the city to keep patrolmen on their posta had gone over their posts by that hour, and having “seen the rounds” the police: pmmediately began to disappear, The trip over Washington Heights was made after 3 A. M., and in the Alstrict below Ono Hundred and Fifty-second street but two policemen wero found. The auto went through about fourteen miles of streets in the East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth sireet, West One Hundred and Twenty- fifth street and West One Hundred and Fiftty-seoond street precincts. Edge- combe avenue was traversed throughout its entire length. Not a pol!ceman was found, Eighth avenue was gone over from One Hundred and Thirty- seventh to One tiundred and Fifty-fifth street, and four policemen wers discovered. Convent ave.ue was covered from One Hundred and Twenty- fitth street to One Hundied and Fifty-second street, with the result that one lone policeman sl! owed himself, From One Hundred and Fifty-second street south along Amsterdam ave- Bue and Broadway and Riverside Drive to Grant's Tomb, two policemen were found. One was at the Tomb. The tour showed that upper Harlem is the worst policed portion of Manhattan Island Seventh avenue, from One Hundred and Forty-ninth street eouth to One dred and Tweaty-fifth street, produced one patrolman, IN THE DISTRICT AROUND ONE HUNDRED AND FORTIFUH STREET, WHERE IN ONE) WEEK RECENTLY THERE WERE FOURTEEN BURGLARLES—SEVEN OF THESE OCC NG IN ONE NOW OF FLATS ALONE—NOT 4 POLIC MAN WAS FOUND, Upper Eighth avenue, where sleepers on the elevated! are turned out to be robbed and assaulted, was devold of police. Inquiry | among some trolley car employees at that point elicited the information that the policeman could be found if he were wanted for anything particular, KNEW WHERE ONE WAS, “Well, where is he?” asked the reporter, “Walt a few minutes and we'll get him,” was the reply, {The automobile didn’t wait. } The trip throughout the streets of uptown Manhattan was started from Eighth avenue and Ove Hundred and Twenty-ffth street at 2 A. M. The first policeman was found patrolling on One Hundred and ‘Twenty- sixth street, juss west of Eigith avenue. He was trying doors and looked busy, ‘The trip east through One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, across Seventh, Lencx, Fifth, Mudison, Fourth and Lexington avenues was without success, but the auto had just passed the East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth stree, ttativn, between Third and Lexington avenues, whon the second patrolman war found, He, (oo, was patrolling. Not a hundred feet further east, at Third avenue, the third policeman was encountered Tils attention was drawn to The Evening World's auto by two car conduc- tors © o were standing near the corner. Just a block further east—at Second avenue—the fourch policeman was seen, He was talking with the keeper of an oyster stand nearly opposite the entrance to Sulzer's Harlem River Park. TWO MILLS WITH NONE IN SIGHT, The prospects looked very promising. Harlem secmed filled with police. men, Four had been found within less than a mile, On the trip back through One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street, across Manhattan street to Broadway, north a block and east again to Third avenue through One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street, a distance of more thaa two miles, was covered without the trace of a policeman. As the auto turned up Third avenue a policeman was seen a block further north. He was talking with the starter of the Union Railway line at the south end of the Harlem Bridge. Going west through One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street to Eighth avenue another policeman was seen patrolling. On One Hundred and Thir- | tieth street between Seventh and Eighth avenues another was found. He) was also patrolling. The auto passed east again to Third avenue, turned and passed west to Park avenue, and north to One Hundred and Thirty-second street, thence west to Seventh avenue, where the next officer was seen. Another was en on One Hundred and Thirty-third street near Fitth avenue, The auw again passed east through One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street to Filth avenue, and north to One Hundred and Thirty-ninth street, thence west to Eighth avenue and north to One Hundred and Fifty-fitth street, Passing One Hundred and Fortieth street two policemen were seen conversing in the middle of the street. They were “side partners,” their posts meeting in the centre of the street, As they stood neither was off post, ; THE DOG WAS A ROUNDSMAN, At the northwest corner of One Hundred and Forty-fifth street cod Eighth avenue arother policeman was found, and two blocks further north was another. Both were standing on the sidewalk idly swinging their nightsticks. The second man was much interested in a shaggs-coated dog that stood at his feet. The same dog was seen later on with another patrolman. Down Eighth avenue again and across one of the upper streets to Sey- enth avenue, couch to One Hundred and Thirty-ninth street and east to Lenox avenue the auto proceeded, but not a policeman was passed. As the ‘@uto turned south into Lenox avenue, however, there was another police- | man. A half mile further down the avenue was another. This man saluted) the auto by sarcastically raising his helmet from his head and bowing with ROUT j | ip ee ee ee __‘THE WORLDi SATURDAY EVENING: SEPTEMBER 24; 1904 E OF THE EVENING WORLD AUTOS, SHOWING HOW HARLEM WAS COVER | = Puce uta? | ws Joulelsa Laren They Morving. RAM SAM seen, During the entire journey to and from Washingtoa Heights but two bollcemen had been d'scovered: both, however, were patrolling. Passing long Amsterdam avenue the side streets for a block on both sides were plainly visible, the moonlight making {t almost as bright as day, SECOND TOUR OF BROOKLYN SHOWS AN IMPROVEMENT Williamsburg Found to Be Fairly Well Patrolled Along Broadway, and a Sere geant and Roundsman Are Seen After Midnight. The activity on the part of the Brooklyn patrolmen during the midnight tour of duty was noticeabl> even to the ordinary citizen early to-day, asa result of the exposure in The Evening Work, One hundred per cent. more nen were doing patrol duty, and those who were caught napping would move when The Lvening World's auto was sighted, Roundsmen wore actually working, and even a police sergeant was out, j but only in the Bedford avenue precinet in Williamsburg. Broadway was Spotted with bluecoats, and south of that street several policemen were fourd, but nortn the conditions were just what a flat thief would call a “cinch.” The one automobile sent acrose the bridge to-day found thirty-nine men, while two autos yesterday recorded but twenty-six. The district in which Senator P, H. McCarren lives had little or no police protection, “There goes the shoo files,” was the greeting yelled by a policeman at the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge as the automobile sped toward the City of Churches. Last night no policeman was found on the big span; to-day three bluecoats were discovered shivering, but really patrolling. Up Fulton street the auto rolled and at Pierrepont street No. 4 was patrolling, and around the corner at Washington street and Myrtle avenue the next policeman was standing outside a saloon resting on his night stick, which was supported by a banana stand. A newsboy was talking to the policeman, Through Myrtle avenue the auto went and No. 6 was seen at Lawrence street walking briskly. At 12.40 o'clock lucky No, 7 was patrolling Fort Greene Park, and two blocks further the next policeman was standing In the doorway of a drug store at Adelphi street. He stepped quickly out on the walk and rapped his stick, which was heard by three men who Were talking to No. 9 at Clermont avenue. The auto was pointed out by the men and the patrolman walked across the street. The reporter then turned into Clermont to Willoughby avenue and thence to Bedford avenue, which is almost a mile, ft 18 a quiet resiaence street, mostly brown-stone houses, and from the numerous robberies should have some protection, but not a policeman was sean. Northward on Bed- ford avenue the electrical vehicle noiselessly crept and not until! Park ave- nue was reached did a patrolman come in viev, He was talking to 4 brother officer leaning against an iron railing, his voat unbuttoned and hel- met setting away aft showing « partly bald head, Three blocks further the residents. On to Broadway went the auto with nothing to record except no police- man. The reporter stopped at this point and for five minutes watched a bluecoat taik leaning against a (ruit stand outside a saloon. A trolley THE FIRST SERGEANT SEEN. The first sergeant and first roundeman seen !n the search were having a much dignity, | The auto passed east through One Hundred and Thirtieth street, and hear the corner of Fifth avenue policeman No, 16 was picked up and noted, At One Hundred and Thirty-second street and Fifth avenue, after! going north two blocks, another policeman was eeen. Ho had the same! shaggy-haired dog as @ companion, or one closely resembling the animal, previously seer, J Turning west again, the auto proceeded to Edgecombe avenue. This street was traversed to its northern extremity without a policeman being the iron pillar and talking to a citizen, It was outside a saloon, whica R. Wileox are mentioned. discovered. The avenue is built up with high-class apartment-houses, THE LAST POLICEMAN SEIN, Returning along Edgecombe avenwe to One Hundred and Twenty-fitth street and west, the auto turned up Convent avenue to Washington Hoights. Tt was a steady climb of more than a mile through a handsome residence section and past the Sacred Heart Convent. One Hundred and Forty-fitth street was reached before an officer was seen. He appeared at the top of| the hill from the direction of Eighth avenue. It was after 3 A. M. when the auto turned west from Convent avenue to Amsterdam avenue, It the station-house at that corner and proceeded south to 0: ‘and Forty-hird street, thence by a cross street to Broadway, At lively chat about the chances of the respectiv ecandidates for President. They with a patrolman werg standing outside a son at the Broadway ferry. They all belong to the Bedford avenue precinct, and it was the first aight the reporter had of either a sergeant or roundsman. The sergeant was the first to discover the auto and evidently knew its purpose, for he quickly stepped aside and walked away, the roundsman going a few steps | in another direction, and the patrolman swung his club. Just across Broad- didate to be prope way, at the foot of the elevated stairs, stood a policeman leaning against needed more protection than other places of business, He belonged to the Clymer street station, The automobile went on through Kent avenue, At Grand street a patrolman was standing in the gutter studying the moon, as it seemed to dart in and out of a string of clouds, It was then 1.20 o'clock and a saloon was wide open across the street, The next policeman found was really patrolling through Grand street, least of Driggs avenue, where the auto turned, A few blocks further and ©aptur another was unearthed holding up the Williamsburg bridge. His legs were crossed and he held the club behind him aad looked as comfortable as 4 cow in pasture. 4 " To Broadway and thence eastward was the route. Both sides of Broad- i) One Hundred and Forty-first strect and Broadway the last policeman was three inen were shouting in an hilarious manner intoxicated and awakening | car passed, and the auto was starting. A policoman Jumped from his seat in| the car and waving a newspaper laughingly shouted, “I'm off duty, old pal.” way wero picketed with bluecoats and the next policeman seen was patrolling the bridge plaza, Two blocks further and another stood at Marcy avenue Gnd stiil another at Johnson avenue, and Lynch street found itself protected | sci | by a night atick, likewise Gerry street and Barrett, These etreets are only a) few blocks apart and the next two policemen were chatting while standing between the car tracts at Wall street and only separated when the bright lights of Lhe auto were seen, NO POLICE IN SIGHT HERE. “Hello, boys:” yeiled a policeman who was standing in front of the Williamsburg Trust Company, at Myrtle avenue. The auto then turned into Stuyvesant avenue, and went through Willoughby avenue and went as far as) Nostrand avenue, but aot a bluecoat was seen and {t looked as though no | part of Willoughby avenue had the least protection, In front of No, 103 Nostrand avenue two patrolmen were talking while standing on opposite ‘sides of the street, and then the next policeman actually patrolling was seen at Bushwick avenuo near Nostrand, trying dvors. Bedford avenue vas again reached and the auto turned into Heyward street, passed the Forty- seventh Regiment Armory, went to Union avenue, thence to South Third street, to Berry, tc North Fifth, to Metropolitan avenue, to Leonard street. The avto had rolled on with no incident to record save streets for over half It was Serator McCarren’a district and possibly five miles had in a chorus, “Are you looking for cops, World? Well, you'll find none) now. They've all gone to roost.” The clock pointed 2.35 and hardly! bad they shouted when two policemen sprang as if out of the ground, separated and went on patrol. | HROUGH MYRTLE AVENUE. hale Middleton street to Nostrand avenue, to Wythe avenue, to Rodney street, to Division avenue, to Lee avenue. In the Clymer street lice station the desk sergeant was reading a newspaper. The route went ihrough Penn street, to Broadway, thence to Throop avenue, At Floyd street the last bluecoat was sighted. The auto went on to Willoughby , to Clermont avenue, to Myrtle avenue. area avenue is a busy thoroughfare, not only for trolley cars and the) “L" road, but for the colored settlement, where hold-ups are not of infre- quent occurrence, yet not @ policeman was seen. Men and women were t the street as though the sun shone, ean oF avenue the automobile rolled over the {ll-paved street " h Myrtle last wummer and went to Arverna, L. 1 yan sai was reached, The auto stopped here, but, except for & | The change ‘alled 0 restore hor Lene unt! t be cabs and a few newsboys shooting dice, the streets were deserted, ed oe eas back to her bune.| 1 ine eee aroush Washington street the automobile went to the Brooklyn wee, dena ald Ma er Mn ena To-Morrov . rs. Bankey, ridge and thence to New York. C.YANDERBILT WILL ‘NOTCO TCINGRES Millionaire Declines Nomination Offered to Him by the Repub- licans of the Thirteenth Dis- trict in Manhattan, NEW PUBLICATIONS. Cornelius Vanderbilt has definitely de- cided not to accept the Congressional | | nomination in the Thirteenth District ‘on the Republican ticket, because, na| he expressed it, his buisness interests would not allow him to spend the! greater part of two years In Washing- Stages Wan tes. Seaton Weone oe A. Bernardy, Illustrated. Oriental Rugs, by Florence Peltier, Mus seat harap ede ay Mie Set: | The President of 1940, by Alfred Henry |=) _ trated Rrd‘to look around for some other cane | lewis, First Prize Paper in Our Parents’ and Teachers’ it Pet Methe Parsany! | Winter Blcoming Plants, by Eben E. Rexford, Contest, : and former Park Commissioner William Mlustrated. The Model Fat, by Bertha H. Smith, Illus } — ‘ » Vark i Why Girls Don't Marry, by a New York Girl, trated. PRISONER WALKED OUT. by al John Baptiste, a waiter held on a charge of intoateation, got tired walt ing for the sergeant to disposo of A [at the Wem Thirty-seventh street sta- | thon and coolly sauntered out, Up to the present time he has not been re- 110c a Copy uate, who sadd he lived at No. 40 West Thirtioth street, was arrested by Policeman Scheffler. Scheffler went New York back to get another prisoner out of a) cell and sergeant turned to the t = = No one saw Baptiete afver ex POLCEMAN SE DOWN WOMAR Leaps Into Swift-Running River in | Insane Female, Who Fights | Him Off. ,THRONG BREATHLESSLY But for Aid in the Nick of Time Pair Would Have Drowned— Special Report on Policeman’s Bravery, Bottling with an teane woman and the terrific tide which rushes Iike a mill race past the dock at One Hundred | And Twenty-second atreet and the Kast Rever, Poles had leaped into the water, would have teen drowned but for assivtance that came as the pair were on the point of going down for the third cima, The woman, who later said she was Mary Strand, fifty years old, had been sitting to @ crowd of children when suddenly sho ran for the stringplece and Jantped Into the river, The acreams of the chil. dren brought Policeman Lewis ¢o the scene. Without hesitation, booted and trousered, Lewis leaped in after the ‘woman, Spectators Wateh Strugsh. Then, | the anxtous spectators watched the two struggling {n the water. Lewis did not loosen his hold on the woman, although her viol | Tent were threatening Iris life, while the strong | further | time Sergeant Mott and several other» |of the harbor police had manned a boat jand reached the couple not @ second too soa Lewis, wae revived in the station-house. The woman pital, where she was restored to can- ‘usness, Report om Policeman's Bravery, , She sald she was Mary Strand, f yours old, but with no Pritts ii4 only comembered that she once lived at Fort Lee and that her & carpenter, Bergt, Mott will make a s; port of Commissioner McAdoo, A of Twenty. the frst ¢ime that any one turned ——esigupeaeeet GRABBED BABY AND FLED. Margaret Johnson Didn't Want te Be Taken to Bellevue, Clasping tightly in her arma her two year olf daughter, Margaret Johnson, ot No. 8% West One Hundred and Forty-first street, who was being taken and committed to the insane mete his wif Pag wie z nson says wife - ing strang: for bo alternate rmoelanc! ee SANKEY’S GRANDCHILD DEAD, Pour-Tear-0l4 Girl Succumbs to ‘The Ii! and was a great favorite with key. She became ill w'th disbotes ocreseR| GOOD [ustouy| | HOUSEKEEPING A MONTHLY MAGAZINE—OUT TOOAY—OF NATIONAL REPUTATION To Edith, by Brander Matthews. The First of Our Talks to Girls by Name, A New Influence in Musics THE POPE, by Amy The above only suggest the rich variety, broad score, the helptul character, and the interest and value of GOOD HUUSEKECPING for the year to come. Sold Everywhere $1.00 a Yeat THE PHELPS PUBLISHING COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, MASS, the race” off the One Hund: Harlem to Rescue of an WATCHES STRUGGLE. POLE ees a Patrotmen Lewis, of the Harbor @nd the woman to save whom he on the dock telling fadry stories for & few breathless minutes, jont squirming and the swift cur. uptide was carrying them and further out. In the mean in ) Who was completely exhausted, waa taken to the Harlem Hos- father wes peclal re bravery, to ree number ve tumbled or leaped Into and -second street dock, and this is Te alive from the swift ourreng, Policeman Lewis’ Just snug enough to the foot securely, ro enough to afford perf ease, built along hygieni¢ lines, the Coward Shop 0 an hour. by her husband to Bellevue, became been covered without the bight of a policeman, and {t began to look as if| victont on reaching the hospital gates |forms the ideal foot co ~ they were ail playing pinochle, At Grand street one was to be seen; his| to-day and freeing herself from his|. f ' head turned when the chauffeur rang the bell. Then a roundsman and po-)§rs>., ran rapidly towards First ohnd lor men, women liceman were seen a fow blocks further on. She was captured by Patrolman lidren. Broadway was reached and the trip continued westward. At Lorimer | THe, the writ thes berate = street three colored men were crossing. Hailing the auto, they shouted she was expeained' by the tees SOLD NOWHERE ELS& JAMES S. COWARD, _ 268-274 Greenwich St., ye ha (reap wannen ovuaen} yy some ti spells of violent pe = ttle girl was only four NEW PUBLICATIONS, The Home Bullder and the Architect, the first of three brilliant papers, by Elizabeth Knight Tompkins, ad «4