The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1905, Page 3

THE CAN BE CITIZENS TELL HOW POLICE FORCE REFORMED Prominent New Vorkers Give The Even= ing World Their Way of Ending Views as to Best Corruption and Throttling the “System” WOULD INCREASE POWER OF THE COMMISSIONER. Men Who Have Studied the Evils Honeycombing the Present Force Join in an Immense Movement to Bring About a Better State of Affairs, {7 How ts the Police Department to be reformed? How is the ‘Syste,’ thc’ basis of al! police corruption, the strength and protection of every dishonest officia) in the department, to be broken down? How is the start to be made? The Evening World has collected this wbject, which Js now engaging civic organization in the elty. At the the views of prominent citizens on the united attention of nearly every big meoting in the Chamber of Com- merce yesterday the evils of present police conditions were extensively dwelt upon, but few speakers touched on the most important feature of all— how the desired result 1s to be attained, Among the men interviewed by Evening World reporters are former commissioners of po.ice and citizens study for years and been unceasing uplift under all administrations, substantial suggestion In their views, who have made police corruption a in their efforts for the department's There is much of carnest thought and which follow. The consensus {s that the term of the Pollce Commissioner should be made longer, that legislation should be secured to take the power of review of police cases away from the courts 6o that bad men can be forced from the department and kept out, and that the powers of the Police Commis- sioner should be largely increased, It {8 also the opinion of almost every student of police conditions that a member of the uniformed force, compe- tent and honest, if one such can be found, should be the head of the de- partment under the Commiissioner, eo that the latter can get his advice on amatters of strict police administration from one who knows the ropes, and not have to go, as he does now, to men in whom neither he nor anybody else has the slightest confidence, GEORGE IL, RIVES BLAMES COURTS. Their Power to Put Back Men ‘Who Haye Been Removed an U alified Evil. George L. Rives, Corporation Counsel under Mayor Low: "The greatest evil that the Police Department has to- day is the power of the courts to put men back who have been removed. I have no hesitation in stating that tt is @n unqualified evil. “A man removed by the Commissioner for dishonesty or any other reason, and put back by the courts, is @ source of infection to the entire force, He 1s of no use to the olty that employs him, he {3 good for nothing as 4 policeman, and he js a danger to the morals of the department. “A friend once asked me how in the world such a provision allowing the courts to review police cases ever got into the law, 1 told him it was an ac* cient and {t certainly was, Noah Da- vis in his ‘Dissenting Opinions,’ pubs lished In 1880, gave his views of this evil In a manner which !s more eloquent than anything I could say,:and our ex- perience during the twenty-five years since certainly proves his every conten- tion. “It is the helght of absurdity that @ policeman should be forced back on the city which does not want him, Tet him collect damages If he must but do not force the city to take him back In {ts service, Apply the principle to yours golf and suppose you unjustly discharged | your cook and the courts forced you to take her back, what kind of dinners would you be likely to get? “We should have legisiation to remove this evil. 1. will be argued that ft Is unjust to the men, but better an Injus- tice to one or two men than that tho city should stagger longer under such conditions. We might oceastonally do ai injustice to some such high-minded and honorable man as Inspector Cross, but better that than let the courts con- atantly load up the force with men proved to be unfit.”” FOCUS PUBLIC OPINION.—ADLER, felix Adier:; "We should proceed to foous public opinion on the police sit- uation, After we have done that we should provide those in charge of the Police Department with the proper mar chinery and seo that it 1s eet In motion, If public opinion is solldiied and thor: oughly aroused it 1s bound to prevall, ERHARDT SCORES THREE PLATOONS, Joel B. Erhardt, former Pollce Com- missioner and former Collector of the Port: "One of the great evils of the Police Department at the present time {a the three-platoon system, No min ‘under tho regulations that now prevall can possibly do effective service to the olty that pave him, Policemen must be ruled by fear, and nothing can be done as long as the man on the street Is the real boss of the department as at ent. Drastic measures are needed, even to the legislating out of office of the entire department, Years ago 1} predicted thet the time would come} when we would have to resort to somo, Buch measure, Furthermore, the Com missioner should have either permanent tenure or at least ten years. No great harm conld come of the permanent ‘tenure so long as the Commissioner could be removed on charges submitted to the Suprema Court of the Slate," LIFE TENURE FOR COMMISSIONER. | Isaac N. Sollgman: "My idea js to have a committee of prominent citizens co-operate with the muntetpal authori- tes, and, If necessary, Slate legislators, with a view of raislhg the foree to a higher moral plane and killing the sya- tem that is responsible for the graft and corruption, "We must strike at the root of the evil to accomplish anything, What wo Rant, ey neeinerient reform, 'Dho bee ‘way to this end Is a co-operative plan acing the olty ‘authorities, Md eA Mayor, ‘the District-Attorney and the Pollee commissioner, T think it might be well to have @ Mfe tenure of office for the head of the Department, who should be a man above reproach and one without party aMliations—a man that would be under obligations to no onc.” WINDMULLER SAYS LICENSE GAMBLING, Louls Windmuller; ‘The situation |e in the hands of the people, They make graft possible. In fevers of reform they pass laws which put premiums on im- morality and which praotically say to the members of the police force who are so inclined, ‘Go forth and hold up the woman of the street; hold up the gambler; hold up the saloon-keeper.”” “The people enact laws, which, from the beginning, have been broken and which to the end of time will be vio- lated, If it were possible to elimimate crime from the scheme under which we live then laws would be unnecessary, But knowing that crime is a condition the best that clytiization can hope to do is control it; keep jt within bounds, “go if I were Commissioner of Police T would ask that gambling be licensed; that the women of the streets be li- censed, The fear by wich the police levy blackmail on these classes would then be removed. The gambler, tlio courtesan would not have to pay ‘the man higher up' nor his agentts for per mission to break the law. What I pro- ose ig not new, Suah a system exists in New Orleans, I believe there la such @ system jn St, Louls, It js in opera- tion In Parts, in Hamburg and no one will say that in the older cities muni- iy re Seren i Pat understood, i ‘Reformers should always keep th In mind: Men who wish to gamble will gamble despite all the laws that can be formulated, and there {8 no reagon to believe from what we know of past civilizations and of our own, that men and women will ever be different from what they are now. When these two phases of life are realized In the fullest, then our progress toward a more cleanly system of existence will be sasier of ac- complishment, “T know many persons will rise up and declare loudly that the Ideas T hold are wrong; that New York {s not Paris; that {t ts not Hamburg, No, I answer, it ls New York, but New York has yet much to learn.” PROVIDF LONGER TERM, SAYS ORR, Alexander BE, Orr, President of the Rapid ansit Commission: "It seems to me that, first of all, we must glye the Police Commissioner a longer term of office, No man can get morethan fairly inder way in the brief timo that & Commissioner serves nowadays, I have no other suggestion than that to make at this time, for Tam walting to see what (he committee that ts to 1@ lip pointed mains to do, Tam sure that it will be made up of men who will make 4 Lhorovs' stu ty of the entire situation afore trey do “anything, "Tf legislation ls necessary, why we should have legislation at once, There should bo no obstacle In the way of getting It, If {t Is simply a ense of rreaent laws belng sufficlent when en- foreed, Why let us see to It that our resent laws are enforced, ‘The thing has got to where something must be done, and as goon as we hit on the right thing [am sure that we can do it’ as the Mayor of this elty Is tn the matter heart and soul.” SCHIFF DOUBTS CITIZENS’ WORK. Jacob Schiff, banker: “Experience has taught us that te work of commit. {acs of citizens 18 not permanent, Changes, come and wipe out the good Which) has been accomplished “Bay men know this, In the Pollee Depart. ment the bad men that their Commissioner Will obange after a short time, while they wil remain, and they have less fear than they otherwise would have In doing evil As long a tne head of the department is chan. every fow years there will t discipline, For my part, 1 would like to. see the Pollee Commisstoner hold oftice for life. If he prove an honest and efficient man MORE POWER FOR HEAD OF FORCE, R, Fulton Cutting, President of the Citizens’ Union: “In order to stamp out the ‘graft system’ we should give the Pollce Commissioner more power, It has been objected that although Commissioner McAdoo Js a good man and would use Increased power wisely and well, he might have a bad suc- the cessor, who would use euch power in G7 the interest of corruption, That is true. But nevertheless I believe in in- creasing the Commigsioner's power, “The {dea {8 to hold the man in authority responsible for the good or evil that he does, Applying this theory to the Police Department we should give the Commissioner ample power to drive out the crooks and cor- rect existing evils, If he fails he is to blame, and It Is clearly then the best step to put In his place an abler man,” NOT SO BAD AS IN THE OLD DAYS, Charlgs Stewart Smith: ie police situation atts clty to-day ita nhatter of vital Importance to every man, wom- an and child In the city, I do not per- alte belleve that the Reparsmont Ie as bad to-day as it was just before the Lexow Committee was organized, but i still go bad that we who are In- terested in thoroughly purifying It need make no apologies for the steps we are ng.” WIPE OUT OLD LAWS, SAYS DIKE. [Sworman a ite ex-Shorift Keel ‘ounty: ‘This movement for oleansin, the Police Department will be tht-reacte Ing in its scope and I have no doubt that it will sonoma the object for which it {s intended, The only chance for permanent reform {n the department js by wiping out the old laws and mak- ing’ new ones that will prevent the courts from returning to the force men who «re known to be discredited, Ag a lawyer this system seems to me the most ridiculous thing that I ever heard of, It is no wonder that when the courts return a crook to the force on some technicality, he thinks he ls the biggest man on the force." END THE GRAFT, SLICER URGRS. Rey, Thomas R. Slicer, of the City Club; "It te the duty of every good citi- gen to fgllaw this movement to put an | ond to the ‘graft system’ In the Police | Department. Commissioner McAdoo {3 doing us well as he can, but he hasn't the power to reach the root of the evil, me years ago we reduced the number ¥ commassioners from three to one. Vhile we increased the respons!bilities of the man placed In charge of the de- partment, we did nothing to Increase his power, and that {s whore we made our great mistake, Commissioner McAdoo, {f given the power, would soon get all of the crcoks out of the way, We need evough legisiation to give the Commis. sicner this power. Otherwise the laws are all right. When we have cleaned out the rascals from the department wo should Increase the force numerically, 80 that tho elty can be properly patrolled.” CAREFUL, STUDY IS NEEDED,—FOX. Austen G, Fox: "“Conditigns make it clear that something shouid be done, put it will take long and careful de- Nberation to determine just what should pe done to correct existing evils. lor my part [ am eagerly sceking sugges: tlons. Among the many {ideas which lay be advahyed by our thinking men there will surely be one that will prove effeotive,”’ LAWS ENOUGH NOW, SAYS HAYES, J. Noble ; “We have Jaws enough, We do not need new laws, or a change in existing laws, but a change of the men who are enforcing the law. It we rid the deaprtment of bad men, grafting will end, and that will be the end of the so-called ‘system,’ " [ERM OF MAN AT HEAD TOO SHORT, Former Congressman Coombes: “By having new laws passed we might ameliorate existing conditions, but leg- jstation, Wil NOt Teaoh the root of the evil wuptil we have men at the head Of the Police Depantment who under- giand its Workings 80 well that they can act without leaning upon exper{- «iced subordinates. One of the causes of the lack of discipline and graft is the fact that the Pollce Commissioner holds office only @ short time, while the men aro on the force for life, Lt it very nuph i Key in vi Bayh The Secretary of the Navy 1s handicapped by his Jack of knowledge of the ins trilcacics, of his departm: end of four years, whet know something, he retires to make place for another inexperienced man. Phe men dn the Polioe, Depayarecs do lot respect the Commissioner as much Live TM LALP APPT DL [GAT// ESDAY EVENING, JANUARY ayy hy 1905, By 7. E, Powers. THAY RR, PUDDING (3 ALL To THE | i, fe is Utd Y << SHOT AT JEROME Discussing the Excise Bribery Presentment, the Senator Places the Burden of Explan- ation on the District-Attorney (Bpocial to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan. 81,—Republican Leader John Raines in the Senate to-day acored District-Attorney Jerome in connection with the exolse bribery ecandal, In moving to refer the Grand Jury present- mént, made public a few weeks ago, to the Judiciary Committee, Senator Raines sald: “In opening the proceedings before the Grand Jury, Mr. Jerome, the District- Attorney, sald of this Inquiry; “Mr, Foreman, this ¢ an inquiry in reference to the bribery of public of- ficlals, “On that Hne the Inquiry proceeded, the effort being to ascertain what be- came of a certain fund of twenty-three thousand and odd dollalrs which was raised by the liquor dealers of the State of New York and of the city of New York for the avowed purpose of advano- Ing bills in their Interest that were be- fore the Legislature of the State, no- tably a bill which at somebody's re- quest former Senator Green fntroduced in the Benate, “I want to state that so far as this inquiry to ascertain what became of that money, and as to whether any of St was used for the purposes of bribl H h Ing jofficials of the State, which meant, ag the names appear in that evidence, the Governor of the State, the Legislature of the State and officials of the Excise |and Department, that no penny of that money was handled by any member of the Legislature or of the Excise De- partment or by any official of the Stato of New York, except one, and that Is the admitted evidence that a part of ‘that money—a very small amount, and possibly entirely legitimate in its expen- diture—went into the hand of Mr. Je- rome, the District-Attorney of the coun- ty of New York," Aside from that, the only evidence which points to any one momber of the Legislature {8 the allusion to one mem- ber of the Assembly, mentioned by name In the evidence, who ts said to have borrowed $0 and to have ro turned {t, Aside from that there ts no mention derogatory to any Senator In this circle, ‘There is no mention by name derogatory to any Assemblyman of the Legislature, “phere is a sort of a general mud throwing by four witnesses, and I ao not hegltate to say that Mr. Jerome himself, if put on the stand, would swear {that he would not belleve elther one of them under oath,” WOMAN DIES FROM BURNS, PATERSON, N. Jy Jan, 8L—Mrs, Mary MeGuinnis, seventy-five years old, died in St, Josevh's Hospital last night as the result of burns which she re- celved at her home, No, M9 Paterson avenue, yesterday, they should because they think thi they know more about pene duty oan he does, To remedy this and to keep the policeman from the temptations of we should firet of all 2 ce 8 man at thelr head who understands the workings of the Police Departme: and is not under the necessity of 4 6ul nates for hints, and after ee we should have laws under wi mlssio ich ner who failed in his futy LLL (CLA LAPAPD ESTHER ] .~ GY | INSPECTORS ON DOCTORS’ RACK Board of Police, Surgeons Ex- amine Five—Drahan, Smith, Cortright, Brooks and Kane— P. H. McLaughlin Resigns. ee) The Board of Police Surgeons, headed by Dr, 8, G, Cook, began to-day at Po- Nice Headquanters, the physical exam- ination of Inspectors Durham, Smith, Cortright, Brooks and Kane, ordered by Commissioner McAdoo, Inspector McLaughlin, who was alsy ordered be- fore the Board, was relleved of tho necessity of appearing, becauso earlior {n the day he made application for re- tlrement, which was granted, His re- tirement is to take effect on May 1 next, McLaughlin was recently sup- planted as Borough Inspector of Brook- lyn by Inspector Adanr A. Crons. Inspector Druhan was the firet be- fore the boanl, He was under ex- amination for an hour, When the came ont he was all smiles, Inepector Cort- right met him in the hall and sald; “Hello, young fellow, how are you feeling?” “Nover felt better in my life,” ans swered Druhan, Inspector Smith was the second man in, Before he went In he shook hands with everybody he met, giving pee rips which disabused their minds 01 any Idea they may have had that the Inspector was not physically up to his lob, It took the board fifty minutes to got through with Smith, 4 Inspector CortNght went in next an was only examined for fifteen minutes. Inspector Brooks went on the rack then Inepeotor Kane brought up the rear, None of. phe Inspectors expressed the slightest doubt as to the outcome of tho testa, ——_—— COLER QUITS CIVIL SERVICE BOARD, Resigns as President Owing $0 Pressure of Private Busl- nean Affaire, Former Comptroller Coler in accord- ance with his statement of several weeks ago, resigned to-day as Presl- dent of the Olvil Service Commission, He gives pressure of business aftalns ag the reason for abandoning the office, | Several weeks ago Mr, Coler told) ‘he Evening World that he was going} to resign his office because his business | concerns would not permit of hls hold- ing the place for a long period, In hig letter to the Mayor Mr, Coler re- peats his reasons for resigning and sug- gests that his request to place the members of the Civil Service Commis- sion on salary be granted, A story to the effect that Mr, Coler, Ag President of the Commission, was Objectionable to certain Tammany a trict leaders, and that they, with Cha man Knox, of the Tammany Law Com- mittee and former President of Commission, had combined to effect the resignation of Mr. Coler, went the rounds Forney Mr, Knox will Mr, Coler. Mr. Coler, in ils letter to the Mayor, in all probability succeed says: “T phall be pleased to ald your admin- istration in possible other than in an official position,” Speaking of his resignation, Mr, Color td clal inter are 80 o mM © to the olty for $6,000 a Sir, men can make that sum muoh more eerily,” the! It was stated also that) THE YEAR OF THE GREAT BLIZZARD. M, Be ees COMING % HERE WE ARE IN THE COLD, COLD SNOW—OUR HANDS IN OWR POCKETS EMPTY OF DOUGH. RAINES AIMS A MADOO WOULD BANISH CROOKS Commissioner to Submit to Mayor His New Bill for Driv- ing Vagrants and Vagabonds Out of the City. Police Commissioner McAdoo an- nounced to-day that he has completed his new vagabond law, which is to be the medium through which he hopes to drive every professional orook out of New York, and that he will aubmét !t to the Mayor at once. The bill {is made up largely of the present Vagrant Jaw, with part of the Massachusetts Vagrant law Inoorporated, One pas- fage reads: “All {dle means} persons whth no visible support and with no lawful employment found wandering abroad, vis}ting tipping houses or ‘found in sheds, barng or in the eae alr and not living a @00d Recount of themselves are ‘0 be deemed vagrants, Also any known jooket, thief, burglar or any one nown to have been convicted of a felony found prowling bout any steam. nee landing, roiiroad statlon bank or rokerage offige of at any public guth- ering Wel be, deemed a ar \ia ix The maximum preety ig xX months at ‘hard labor, There js also a section of the bill which says that any man found !n a pool-room or known to be a pool-room Iiwbitue will be fined $5, O'BRIEN’S ORDER: ‘CATCH BANDIT” Efforts of Detective Bureau Concentrated in Pursuit of Lone Highwayman Who Has Robbed Millionaires’ Homes. M’ADOO WILL NOT LISTEN TO ANY EXCUSE. Residence Portions of the City Swarm with Sleuths, Who, Working on Own Acoount, Hope to Win $1,000 Reward, Spurred on by the offer of $1,000 meade by The Evening World for the capture and conviction of the hold man who, with masked face and ready pistol, has terrorized the residence section of the city, dosens of detectives, both public and private, are today scurrying through the upper west-aide section of the olty, Acting Inspector Stephen O'Brien has taken personal command of the detectiver from the Central Office who are in the bandit hunt, Most of the staff of Central Headquar- tens have been assigned to duty through the faghionable resident portion of the olty, and every ‘ome in the neighbor hood where the hold-up man has op- erated Is under watch, The acting In- epector has given orders that the robe ber be captured at all hazards. He has been instructed by Commissioner of Po» lice McAdoo that the man must be caught, and that no excuse will be ac- cepted, A young man, who gave his name to the police as Bert Lambert, who was arrested at the home of William F, Day, No, 114 Weat Seventy-ninth street, on Sunday night, is stilt in the custody of the police, charged with being a sus- plolous person, ‘This the police have done in spite of the fact that witness in the Woers, Dr, Talbot, Meltmann and other hold-up cases failed to {den- tify him, ‘The man {n custody declares that he is from Bellhaven, Conn., and insists that he is a nephew of William MoCourt, a wealthy iron merchant of this city, It In said that recently there have been a number of bold”robberies in Bellhaven and the New York police want to inves- tigate his story further before Iiberat- ine him, Austen G, Fox, who wae elected per- manent chairman of the Citizens’ Com- mittee, whivh has onganimed to fight po- ee graft and corruption, is In Albany to-day, Upon his return he is expected to have the personnel of his committes of mine men, The men will get down to business at once, They will have the co-operation of Police Commissioner MoAdoo, Believe He Is Right Man, GREENWICH, Conn., Jan, 81.—Sherift W. BH. Ritch has returned from Now York satisfied that the man held by the New York police, anf who says he is Bert Lambert, is the man wanted here, and the expects to have evidence enough to bring him into Connbotdout on requi- aktion if New York authorities will ro- Unquish thelr claim on him, He told the Sheriff that he had lived in and about New York for three years and never worked—only gambled, has ved in Larchmont, and spent three months last summer boarding in Green- wich, during which time he mingled with the sons of W, H. McCord, W. H, Day, Col, Robert C, McKinley, F, J, Froment and Francis 8, Robbins, at- tending receptions and ontertalnments at the Bellhaven Casino with them, It is believed, from his description, that he made use of the knowledge gained in ihe summer by calling at the residences of Mr, McCord, A, I, Mead and others and telling them of nocl- dental happenings which caused him to] ), need money, which was readily ob- tained, Later the same plan was worked successfully on Columbia College stu- dents In New York, and by a man of the same doseription, INDIAN FUND STIR IN SENATE PresidentRoosevelt Brought Into Bard that Sectarian School Money Is Not Properly Divided WASHINGTON, Jan, 81,—Sensational statements In relation to the alleged use of Indian trust funds fur the aup- port of sectarian schools were made to-day by Senator Bard tn @ statement to the Senate Committee on Indlan Affairs, Tn addition to the charge that Roman Catholic schoola have received 98 per cent, of the money expended under contracts made by the Indian Commis- stoner, the Seator sald that he had been approached by a representative of a Catholle association with a promise of carrying a certain stated number of isiricts in California for him fn return for his Influence in bringing about a cotinuance of such fayorable contracts. The statement of 8nabor Bard cro- ated a stir in the committee and he was asked to give |, detailed acccunt of tie transaction, a well as any other matters relating to the use of trust funds for gectorian school purposes on which he was Informed, He filed with the committee a state- |ment covering the oonversation and lalso a list of the districts the Catholic ussociation proposed to carry for him, He then discussed the statement of S. M. Brosius, agent of the Indian Rights Association, and also, quoted frum a circular issued by M, K, snif- fen, secretary of tha. association, charging that ithe discrimination favor of Roman Catholics was hy dl- rection of the Presi Genator Bard aid that he attached Charges Made by Senator i fi relat toe, “made ion” great importance to the Act of Con; gress of June 7, 1897, which declared that it was settled policy of the Govertar at @& hy reafter no te propriation whatever for education in Any sectarian school,” The enator stated that he had been He} ti Philip Molntyre, Under Forgery. Charge, A and Has Lively” Magistrate Pool, : peare, and. Inoiden cused the Police o win His Money. Philip McIntyre, wanted’ ti & charge of passing a wo for $900 on the Bank of Mexico, was arraigned Tombs Police Court to-day of swindling the Citizen Bank of Norfolk, Va.’ gullty, much to the surprise trate Pool, to the Mexico ch When McIntyre wag ai Magistrate Pool yesterday not guilty to that charge, manded to a Federal officer before United States ih Shields, who discharged. Him ground that there washing bef from the Mexican author! tyre was immediately ren Detective-Sergt. Murphy, and back to Pollce Headquarters Norfolk cimrge, Sup Dp the Pinkerton Dotective senting the American B ation, supplying the evid dence formed the ba before Maglatrate Pool tox ; Mointyre an Old enough to convince ‘his rights, ‘The first was entitled to counsel, He: “When I was arrested IT had 92,870. ‘Thwt away trom me, I have tt here, I have not b cess to that money in o engage counsel,” 2 ‘Whom ao you wish asked the Court. a “I want to comm A, Pryor, I believe in the business when df one jias the money money,’ Magiatratt Pool tried cept one of the law} McIntyre sald: ‘They may be but T never do) best lawyer that a ve | Bent to the A briet adjournment ¥ der that Mr, Pryor m catedw Ith, 500, ‘@ then an hour: spersed withimany a qu tween Magistrate and trate Pool is given to que and Shak re 08 the the discomaiture pri McIntyre he met his mai quotation from elther & capped it with one ogually other things the prisoner “IT am glad to find m A Kangaroo Court, where polloet inate the Judge. i If I must to the ‘want to Le rigl I'd rather serve {ean prison than spen what you oall your Po ere Police Have G “Your police have: played” me, They want to get alibi now in thelr hands. I ageot @.vinion, but they th mi ey want it all ani they seem to h T have Ward Iine it foo, I want to go aft not alone, for I migh but under the men who have me ever since MoIntyre madi the Court 1) tou Informed that there was no record at) gy the Interlor Departmeit of authority for the diversion of giese trust funds to the supoort of Catholle missions, but he had statement that it was do) rai ich of the Association alleged to by the President. The committee took the mtatement seriously, and it was the sentiment that at the next meeting an amendment would be off to the Indian annroprl. ation bill prohi Met d in the future the use of the Indian trust funds in manner charged, PLAN TO REORGANIZE THE AMERICAN ICE COMPANY, 1 win $20,000,000 Common Stock in Exchange for Old Holdin, J, W, Borne, William L, Bull, GR. Sheldon, Oaklaigh Thorne and Frederick L, Eldredge, members of the committee formed some time ago to consider the roorganization of the finances of the American Ice Company, to-day made public its plan and Invited the devostt lof stock with the Knickerbocker Trust Company. The plan ts to form a new holding pany to be known as the American lce Securitles Company, with a cavi- tallzation of $20,000,000, all in common wek, ‘Nhe stock of the new company, under the plan, will be Issued in ex, change for the stock of the present company, a ehare of the new, common for a share of the old preferred, and a share of the new common for five shares of the old common, It {8 etated that tne American Joe Company made a profit of $324,258 this year, as compared with a deficit of $8,420 in 1903, and of $346,962 dn 1902, The profits of the past year were made outside of New York City, where, on account of the competition’ of artificial doe Dlants, the business was run at & joss, Nhe American Ice Company found go into the manufacture | 0 and halt of its output 4 5, proper 9 cabin » aoe bia gn Werinendn jt i dy which the child fou ‘mot al i ) tried hard but fafied to M/ADOO BUYS HO —— Getn $26,000 from Board |: mate and Parchases 75 Ami Pollee Commissioner McAdoo ed to-day that the Board of had allowed him $25,000 for the of seventy-five horses and ment, in as he reo the money had been alto amgsloner ned a 0 animals, i