The evening world. Newspaper, March 28, 1905, Page 3

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‘Wearly One-Third as i Last WAVE OF PE Many Crimes Against , Little Children Reported This Month ’ as During the Whole of Vear. “(-) ‘hat The Hvening World's efforts to blot out crimes against ,ifhiidren are alroady bearing frult !s shown by the combined and " "pnremitting efforts now put forth by the District-Attorney’s office, the pollee pnd the Gerry Society. ‘Assistant District-Attorney O'Connor's theory that a wave or epidemic tot this form of crime sweeps intermittently over the city and that New York ts now in the throes of an uriprecedentedly violent epidemic of the sort, fs backed hy: statistics which prove that more cases of the sort have come to Mght during the past month than during any period of equal length In the @epartment's history. is Kept in Two Districts, ‘The crime {9 almost wholly confined to two districts—the lower east slide, betwoen Cherry and Houston streets, weat of the Bowcry, and the weat side, ‘Twenty-elghth and Sixty- @ighth streets, west of Ninth and Co- tumbus In both@these dis- (ricta there are countless tenements fhe majority of their occupants are *pespectable and hard working people, put among thom are also an unusually large number of men whose pecullar and degenerate temperament has placed them on the list of human wreckage, oul flotsam and jetsam on the tide wf life's failures’ these men have drifted to the tenement districts, where rents Bre. comparatively low, where food of a ort is cheap and whore it {s easy to hide, It te to these men that practically (il the crimes against children of the Relghborhood are traceable, Strangely enough It is not the ordl- mary tough nor the unbalanced boy who le the offender, Nearly all the men ac- @used have passed the earliest prime of , Me and reached the age when saalty ts supposed to have roplaced the follies ‘of youth. The criminals run in years from thirty-five to sixty-five. Almost fwithout exception those under arrest present infallible marks of moral, Nyrental and physical degeneracy. They fre undersized, low browed and with ‘the “‘simfan'’ head and misshapen ear and jaw the Nordeau and Bertillon Pecadent, Not Criminals of Violence. ‘Their crime {s not one of violence, and ferein lies the chief danger, Their vic- ims are recruited largely from among Pohool children; and these children, in turn, are bribed to bring them new vic- tims, The parents of such little girls ea rule are forced to work away from home all day; or, if at home, are too busy to give thelr children the proper are and teachings, The youngsters fam the asirects at will, readily form: Ong ovil associations and ignorant of the ‘femong. that they suffer. "The victims with very few exceptions fangé in age from nine to thirteen Wears. There are also instances of boys @nd even of girls who receive ten cents mplece for little girls whom they bring to the degenerates, The scenes of most ‘of the crimes are coal cellars, Chinese Yaundries and basement shoemakers' It ts of interest to note that com- paratively few men of American birth ;@nd parentage ere accused of crimes | @galnat children, This statement is | Rorne ovt by a perusal of the twelve Bames now before the District-Attor- Bey, Of the twelve there t# but one man with an Anglo-Saxon cognomen, ‘He 1s Samuel Smith. There are three Chinamen—Hom Sing Lue, Hom Hing o, Hom Hoy Gong; five Itallans—An- mio Grasiano, James C; An- Calacoo, Yonio Cerino, Louls Cavallo and Sal- vatore Moresco, and three men of Ger- man parentage—Charles Goldstein, Vacbb Schwarz and Jacob Schwab, May Be Sentenced to Ten Years. The maximum penalty for thelr al- feged crime is ten yours’ Imprisonment yr each offense; and the District-At- rney 18 pressing each case with all possible speed. While the foregoing list @ontains the names of the Chinamen, Bnd while that especial crime was at one time prevalent among men of ti face in New York, there nave been’ ne Oharges of the sort made for some time pence & Chinaman until the present A study of the reconis of the District- (Attorney's office for the past five years | k Bhows the unaccountable ebb and ris. Of the "epidemics" along this line, tn 190 there were comparative! cases—twenty-three in all., In 1901 the umber had risen to fifty-nine, and in 1902 had decreased to forty-eight, de- gcending in 1908 to twenty-seven, 1901 Khia represented the flood tide of ‘orime Bapinet children, and 1900 and 1902 the ‘ebb, But in 194 the “wave'’ began to jae again, the cases for that year num. A Foor RACE BEPOREE BREAKFAST, fost? only exception to this widespread be- Hof in the power of publicity to stamp out the enime is Supt. Jenkins, of the Children's Soctety, he says, neglect their ohildreg in the mad rush for making money. Inspeetor Schmittberger, who has sieceassfully fought inet the “cadet” ning thirty-eight; while for the un- completed month of March alone, in ‘1005, there are twelve alloged offenders @waiting trial, This would indloate that the epldemit {is strongly on the Increase and that y-awakened indignation and atchfulness of teachers, principals, po- Tee, Gerry Society and District-Attor- ney ere needed to cope with {t and hold (t_in check, In the unlversal effort to protect the orals and safeguard the future of the imperiled children of New York, it is renotally recognized that publicity, and Subitoity alone, can remedy tthe evil, Parents More Watchful, Parents, read: in the newspapers of the dire peril to which thelr daugh- ters are exposed, are growing more matohful of the ttle ones and are Buarding them to the beet of thelr pow- er from evil surroundings. Perhaps the way the are jucation caste ting up the mental dlacloain, idden treasures of ontentment and happl- 088, LENSES thy ough which thin pow: bd ight is radinted are 161 INSTRUCTORS who offered to impart to you their stores of knowl- edge last week through MORNING ORE Mest them half way to-day, Life's pat tent’ of 'o ite rays, lig dark er a hig ill-treatment of lit. tle girls and the bri connected wit! ® nitoleus about which future cade! Mainy may in time’ flourish and sug> ts that ministers, teachers and par: its combine to cruah the vice. District-Attorney Jerome has placed the matter wholly In the hands of As- sistant District-Attorney Kéyran O'Connor, "We shall stamp this out In short order," says Mr, O'Connor, "there can be nothing but loathing against the of- fenders In every normal, decent man's mind, and I shall push each case re- lentlessly,”” = —_——— MR. HUNTER BLAMES BOARDOF EDUCATION “Vice and crime will continue to prey upon the children of New York, particnlarly in the crowded tenement districts, until the Board of Aducation awakens to a tull realiastion of its responsibilities and converts the school-housesinto children’s clubs afver the hours of ‘atudy, #0 as to keep the boys and girls of the poor off the streets and away from evil influences,” This was the answer made by Robert Hunter, of the University Settlement, when asked about the conditiops on the lower east side and the terrible crimes againat children recently discovered by a watchful school teacher, of little children tn the tenements have no place to go except to the streets, It would be barbarous for the parents to keep them cooped up in the narrow flats during the long hours intervening be- tween the closing of the gohools and bedtime, and for that reagon even cate- ful perenta let theif boya and girls RILS FOR ¥0 J,| do with the “Tt Isa ghastly thing that thousands | dist | Into thi out, although there is no telling mt will tako them afte! them, and thane | no telling under what dangerous influences they may fall, y should Keep Schools Open, “The pubblo schools of New York should open at § o'clock In the morning and not close until 10 o'clock at night, This syetem had been adopted with sup» eas in Paris, and I think would be even Diore successful here. After the houts ot study ¢fforty shoud be made to muse the obiiidren and develop théla physioally, Besides, the playground on the roof there should be @ reading-roomh, brary ahd gymnasium in every school- house, and the ohildten should be inter- ested ‘h Iiteraty and debating olubs, “OL Course, children who hav: Aone eemes cduld go to thém and remain In them until the begihning of the houts Of instruction after the closing of the Gay's classes, but those Who would waa soba lat oo thon ye quired to return after golng to thelr homes for mi “In ten years, I feel gure, this sye- IF THE PRESIDENT Wo TSDDE Sc TWO SECTIONS WHERE CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN PREVAIL. Two sections of the city to whith orlmei apainat children are ly restricted: From ©} HOOLGI NA CH 28, 1908, Age of the Criminale—The majority of the criminals are men pant the Gret prime of life. Ages usually range from thirty-five to sixty-five, Type bf Men—Most of them show the Hert: ym traits of moral atty-nihe, and im 1100, twenty. (By T. E, POWERS.) ‘TART RIDES 25 1 S EVRAY DAY eOUE FLESH THs Weutd REDUCE = WEA HT average Sgen of the girl Victim Almost invariably th re of thi to thirteen, jorer working classes, ‘Twelve cases have been laid before the Distriet-Attorney within the past fourtvem days, nalty—Ton years’ imprisonment tor oath offense, imet Children {8 Mayhattan in 1604 — Thirty-eight, three times as many ®9 BFb charged for por- Meaimom Crimes scarcely more thi tion of the pi month, 1008, twenty-seven onsen tem of both Rati and amueing thé ohildren after school houts will ba fully stablighed in every school-house if renter Ne Y hool Clubs, first attracted to the Foner of the schoo! to prevent children rom becoming viclous or oriminal sey+ eral years ago, Some ‘observer made tho discovery that offenses committ by children were more nui us durchg the months of the summer vacations than during the months of school, Cate. ful ayer lon seemed to prove quite clearly thet idleness had had much to commission of crime by juveniles, for the children, were certasn- y no wome in the aummér than in thé winter, Bummer schoole were accords ingly established, Then came the night school and finally the school club, “There is great ed of watch. ing over the o! in New Yor! than in any © the olfy’s crows not ponsible f other of a m tenement district to tell her ohf dren to run ont into the back yard and play. There a no yard to most of the tenements, “In the countty and in amalier cities a mother {s spared much worry and an- noyance because whe can tell her ohil- dren to remain dn the yard when tho: s ort of the door to play. And evel It they wo beyond the yard, there Is not such Xeumt emt danget of ora, NH to face with vice att crime as crowded metropolis, Yhousands Need Help. "On the east olde the Hducational Al- Uance ja doingemuch to help the chil: dren of the tenements, and the ive! sity Settlement offers them a place in which to amuse theneelves after ie leave thelr schools; but When we thin of the thousands of children who are In need of help and g@uldance which their parents are unable to give wo cau see how little this is when compared with what ought to be done, ere are Kindergartens and day rles scattered about the tenement stricta, In whidh the bables and very young children are gheltered, “These do a noble and useful work, but they do not provide accommoda- tions for the older children—thore that are big enough to run about and fall snares of evil-minded persons, ‘'Ct would be a colossal wb aertaning, to ys nor attempt to provide suitable p rounds and Amusement centres fu paren) abate F-reael bt by the woh suor ny observation which ea: ve mich thotight to the watching over these neglected boya and ris’ 80 a# to give them a chance to fe. to to be 00 th I ir, Ul fe ok Ing Over & lowing pal "In the fal the children and iB: th the wang habit oauses not Only of many unnecessary! BLAZING WOMAN KINDLED FIRE Clothing in Flames After Benzine Explosion, Mrs. Ballin Ran to| Neighbor’s Flat Seeking Help —Her Injuries Fatal. Mrs, Mary Ballin, with her clothing| NO COOKING! ablaze, ran to-day from on the thitd floor of the flat-house, at No, 420 Bast Miftleth apartment of Samuel Samuels, on the| ground floor, set fire to the front room | of the Samuels's flat and then ran up- stairs aguin to her own she fell upon the floor dying, She was taken to Flower Hospital, where her| case was called hopeless, Charles Ballin, the husband of the uh- fortunate woman, is a wine dealer, He went to a funeral to-day, and soon yi 0 Ohildren of th Len gran es without mi of, the .achgol “Crime and tin; ity are to Increase in Ni ork antil roblem of ing for the ‘with after his dlean a skirt with én and women with a to jut the volume, few lenves ho read the fol- | He to’ satisty thie need of | erly equipped pal playgrounds, the street rture his wife alurted to used me roblem of After tumn- abt the h become her apartment street, to the Kltchen, where | benalje, She 1908, torty-dight eases; in 1001, WANTS TO REDUCE. TOO A BOOK Tis Wowro.te Mont iMr. Powers Suggests How the President and Secretary Taft May Take Off Welght, : “Cries” “Tt le in thie spit, of child en Nt moat When one of them {s caught comm! HUMANE roentage thievery and and wicked- w York.’ mnot ask in thene “Too much publicity hag been given} “Do you wink it will telke that long?! | ¢0 A epidemic beanie to this matter,” he complainea yester- | waa asked, rol ti moe es of all sorts, day, “The best thing that could be ir, Hunter siniled, +|t0 prov’! y#cal, tenements furnish done would have been to publish noth-| “At tha rate such things moye in| Spring, ti jengt, ee, Without the Ing whatever on the subject. I deeply | New York,” he ald, “It will at jooking: atta attractive heme regret that it was allowed to become | least ten yeara, and it may een, the streot! x atever mental and nown, I have instructed all my sub-/That is, to soe the new system in| Of the cramped Mat, food they get they obtain. trem ordinates not to say a word, perfect Working order, A beginning h fl D a Hite of thie atreeth,, Te impresses It- Just what good he thought could belalready been ‘made In’ semen ae fi Polnted Out the Danger. ft Upon them, And they reproduce it gocome lated by falling to warn moth- | edhools, and tee am inatructors w! "Before the present disctission of the ing, Men » the vaudeville, ers and fathers of their ohildrayg Grave ftp, anxlous to do " H mot, but rit of the emiren of the tenemente | tl Ing, the torchilght processions— ease Olmrtend of "the "Wiebe |aund thet MAN isa ack at fade for | OAT eat Macnee ine By | aateve HAY 946 wOOH and bud lik MOUs ‘e lestro} , Court, places the blame on parenta BN that clase of work, eee morals a io ontldren, mentee okane \mnltete, of Children. LX that the their petty orim ten! ¢ ht to the Children’ a] a fe Aken aney Fro " rather and her fhe Inement and sent teh reform (7) sc Rol where, in certain unlfotmet iiktle aren pike tye Ni ced ov {ust rie h A wid tnimal, And thin fi ‘ofen th ie of me, thie centuries on jer thing do. yo} al ar to, Ty then punish’ therp nt beginning of a as More asked pray you, what ie, make thieves {er the kitohen, it loneeifie a’ gas stove with one burner all@ht, / The Stove flame communtcating| wih the bengine vapor caused an ex- plopion, Ballin caught fire A light Jacket worn by Mry. and blazing benaine was scattered about the room, ‘The woman mn downstairs, trying for on the way. ‘ Mra, Ba iin os ni Jenned out and The curtain and portlerres caught fl find the draught from the open window flow the flames through the ffat. insane from pein t her owh flat, found her when dust al to. Cream or Milk, GRAPE-NUTS , The frent door of muels apartment was unlocked at breakfast, Upon ita. Ballin all ablaze the basement. ed the front window, ecreamed tk P. re ulte Mra. Ballin ran back Where the firemen they arrived ittle ready. ‘Phe Road to S HAD CATARRH THIRT Congressman Gives Praise to Pe-ru- ” for His Recovery. ; $0000 4 na Neglected Colds Lead Catarrh, Neglected Catar ‘The fact that catarrh will cont! fot one person for thirty years Wheo Maistre heat okie : hy Uron the human system, it sine qt sition to remain. Catarrh ig not self-ourati nor self-eliminative. It @ tinues as long ae it is all to remain. aN Oatarrh is naturally a obronio and continues to grow worse, not For thitty years Cong. Meel tatrh, and yet he experienced'a Use of Peruna, \ ‘Buroly, it Peruna will cure # catarrh that bas rin thirty years, cure more recent cases. ‘There are probably ton don of unoured cases of in the United States alo + What a mmiltitude ‘of’ victims ” What an ocean of Keone Ldap ‘What a Niagara suffering! In all probability Peruna cure every one of these cording to the directions, fajle t) cure any case of ch | catarrh. i Troubled With Catarrh's —Cured by Pe-ru: Mra. William Mann, 606 Niles, Mich, writes: , | ‘After having been with catarrh all my naoured me., ; ‘3 ° LL y] POSES EO COD IP SEAOFOOOOOESOFOEDOFOOEHOOEFE OO OOO SOY Hon. Pavid Meekison, Napoleon, Ohio, ex-member of Witty-fifth and ritty-sixth Congresses, writee: < (gars patton tai Py abe) I dal atatheat athe deine nadine emaciated ‘(1 have used soveral bottles of Peruna and I feel greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feol encour- aged to believe that if I use it a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease of thirty years’ atanding,’? | me 5 “There was & oon ai I folt tired paces by ‘About two years ago totake Pernna, and I different person. ‘No through my out any trouble, and ness in my throat ia al SFOOS OOO SSS PESO HOSE OSS SOTOESEO SLOP OPO SOS OOOH OOO SOOO OHSS OPO POT OCOO® PoC CC OCOD > OSOO>OCOES OOOO political | be dictated the above letter to pe. Hart reer bY Lerme as | Ea game! HL. Mitchell, 4 Batdwin Mayor of the town in whioh he lives. Pee dinar teeta van lated to the ir. 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