The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1906, Page 3

< e Activity of Thugs Shows| the Necessity of Abol- ishing Soft Snaps. MEN SHOULD BE ON POST Hundreds of Policemen Now at Work Which Could Be Done by Others, ever has the necessity for more patrolmen on duty been more appar- ent than within the last few days. Bince the word has gone out that Com- missioner Bingham 1s really going to take a lot of men now in soft snaps and set them to doing the police duty they are paid to do, the thugs and @rooka seem to be trying to get in @@i the work possible before the new order of things goes into effect. ‘The hold-up yesterday, in which Mrs. ‘Brooks was beaten ami robbed in the entrance of her own apartment, in a erowded section of the fashionable west aide, following the brutal assault on a trained nurse in Harlem the day before, and three burglaries in the Preceding nights, has made it appar- ent that immediate action !s not only weeded but imperative. Word was passed around to-day that there was going to be something doing up at Police Headquarters within the next week, and that many more of the old-timers assigned to "snaps" would be either forced to resign ¢ a pension or go back to the high art work of pounding the sidewalk with a night stick. All this {s because Gen. Bingham has started out to abolish as far as he can the detail work, that will give to the department a thousand or more men that are now enjoying the fruits of a political pul!, instead of patrolling Kno Drops Riay ‘Works Te ‘eri Districts. @ beat. Comptroller Mets te aame lay. He objects to old creplt policemen being assigned tect clerks carrying money for trom one department to another. ‘There are in the Equipment Depart- ment policemen who have about three weeks’ work out of the fifty-two. In @ year they don't do the work that the average girl does in a department store in ome day. All they have to do is to change the helmets of the patrolmen, sergeants, &c., twice & year. ‘These men could at least be gent to the Bronx, to protect the men and women who have been the vic- tims of the strongerm men in that section within the past week. Over in the Elm street branch of the Property Clerk's Department there are assigned four patrolmen as clerks and | oa and to pi 53 eels ih eee =A Under the Bridge one sergeant at the rate of $2,00 @ , THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, Tun. [eee] a a ate me ll a Arches. policemen for drivers. does the Com- missioner himself, Commissioner @lso has a roundsman to run the switch- board in his office, This work might be worth anywhere ‘from $10 to a week to a bright girl. Added protection would be given to the taxpiyers. Gen, Monk ham also has assigned to his office a sergeant, a roundsman and three patro.- men. The law permits an assignment of twenty-three men for the sanitary squad at the Health Department. The law If always violated, for the reason that there aro. alwaya more than twenty- three policemen doing that kind of work. Four Men Do Work of Two. | In one of the offices at Headquarters lit takes four men to do two men's wort. ‘That place Is known as the leper eviony. Every morning when the returns co.ne year as a janitor. They do not have anything to do, and are the vy of all the lazy ones in the department. A jamtorship of any old kind of @ building at $2,000 a year is a berth worth having, in or out of the Police Deparment; but it must be said for Posto, the sergeant, that he is @ hustler, and that he does try to earn the money that the city pays him. Where Graft Is Eas; Then there are the “snaps” at the Piers, where “if you are in rigit” the “graft” is easy either in passes or in money, At ‘Police Headquarters alone there are fifty places that might be abolished fo-morrow with, a stroke of the pen rom the new Commissioner. Men are jn from ‘the various precincts one clerk doing clerical work for from $1,400 to reads to the other, who copies about as $2,000 a year that a civilian Working follows: for half the money would be glad to, “Nineteenth Precinct—John Doe. whi- wet. age thirty-three, U. complainant Both Deputies Waldo and Mack have Richard Roe, assault, P t fie n_n L/L the Hold Up Man At work. read. Sketched from Li HOW TUAN FON VIEWS THE CTS STRENUOUS LF Viceroy Confides His Im- pressions of Us to Re- porter Fo Ksi. ‘With two fist sofa pillows emblazoned with dandelions, tucked neatly within the ample chest folds of their pajama Jackets, the two Imperial Commisston- |, ers from China, Tuan Fong and Tai et ventured forth €rom the Fitth Avenue Hotel to-day on their seo- ond day of seeing New York. “May the fingernails of the Empress ‘Talan never grow shorter,’ remarked Mr. Fong to his comrade, Hung-chi, “but this air is keen. Swear for us, Choo Choo,” added his excellency, to his personal bodyguard, and Choo Choo, whose hollow chest was vibrating uke the strings of « harp as he swal- lowed and choked over the biting wind, swore by the ghosts of the Imperial Wings. Fo Ksl, special correspondent for the Pekin Blow Dragon, the Chinese Social organ, who Is one of the party of fitty- three distinguished Chinamen and their eervents, exhausted forty-four reams of scarlet copy paper before noon to- @sy in obronicling an exact and vera- two Oriental noblemen he learned of their “opinions of what they had seen, which the painted at length“? i Views of Tuan Fong. This is almost a literal translatioa yo Kal's interview ag iui ittamataly in the Pekin $ rea iow Dragon: ings and canyon lanes, snorting benzine rickshaws and thun- oer “tne scared. crocodile “By the scared ci tooth of t frat Dmperor Bing, Bing,” respon od pie most August “Excellency “Viceroy ‘ong, “but I am not quite sure-of flat-| Pe! fering thoughts. | ‘The thirteenth dora | Sbout Vertebra of my'neck has a crimp from| Sever ook mighty tea~ Puitdliigs that cleave she sky, nest ot "An," ran on Fo Ki in the Ch ee Chinese Merchants Cail. cally concluded the inter- ng correspondent r on one. foot farriman marking: time r, the occasion was a feel. EB ce coal, aot understand. ree’ bald, “1 approclate the enthusiastic manner in which Ten ae wicked by those sitting near me at Stock Exchange Like. ‘ag"Apad the Stock Exchange, most lord- ‘Woreexaltednes "Treaurer ‘Hung-eht ont en sy eterna tel WHEE crise uremic: oc enue Some ie eee ae “Indeed, it was + nes nn slndesa, tt most, interesting,” re- | appetite, | Ooe aeay and cream. Then fred a small steak with enushrooms, ‘of kidney gtew, French tried of tea and a plate ufty white ‘description made ie almont room, interview the 5, You must have ‘ed your auto ride y B Aue, Wheto wilthone who dwell ure raver Ki Surely your secretary, Woo usm, Helen, has Informed ‘you ‘ot. the Palaces on thi ih woe occupy, the E they an- feta) to an Byening World reporter bs i 4 two weeks’ since they ar- "Yes," the Viceroy. trrday; Atve United States. pat sotly, “he: Rel these hint clnctes" iarieos May Tackle “Beef and” — turtie.of a pamphieteer who wrote | ‘That. they have become adept aiiou! Enees | oro0le efint stung | casemel notion ca kell. ‘The eat mp: todmaw ho Wanked | the maner ig” whieh tod dlaape der the onslai au rin Onion toa fd) au this New| sions ‘gatied on to-da THE VISITING IMPERIAL COMMISSIONERS FROM: CHINA, ife for The Evening World by Staff Artist Macauley. tess to the District-Attorney ‘December. I have been hoodwinked by him. man Consul looking. knob. From shoes to headgear he !s immacu- late. the Hotel America last fall. a Hungarian actress. The distinguished looking person scored a hit with her on his first appearance and they be- came good friends, ACCUSE “BARON” OF CHEATING COUNTESS Frederick Von Gordon-Seefeld Brought Here from Fine Quarters in Philadelphia. “Baron” feld 1s ‘at home” in the Tombs to-day. He vacated his sumptous apartment in Philadelphia at the urgent invitation On Monday General Sessions to plead to the charge of separating the Countess Mka Palmay from the of a New York detective. he will be called In sum of $2,000. When an indictment was found against the “Baron” his lawyers were surprised and diamayed. They had pro- cured $1,000 bail for him. Lo, he was gone. The trail led to Philadelphia, where the ‘Baron’ was found living in | state. | “I’m a gentleman," exclaimed the “Baron, when his sulte was inyaded. He consented to come back. The “Baron” is tall and soldierly He has the polish of a brass He 1s moulded into his clothes. Countess Palmay met the “Bari” at She is “He is a parvenu,” wailed the Coun- late is in should “To think that She Tells of a Swindle. “He told me that he was in the Ger- fe office and had been sent here by the Kaiser to get information for the War Department. came to e said to lose his automobile. had Tips to Fong. BY WALTER A. SINCLAIR. Come, beat the gong for Viceroy Fong! And let the shooting cease. Let's fete and feast the wise Far East Commissioners of Peace, Who come to see the isle that we Consider all the stuff, Where rival tongs with guns right wrongs, Then scorch the shirt and cuff. It’s not for these the wise Chinese General Sessions. ‘Tracy will Have left their East to roam. te veel acy They made the trip to get our tip And take the method home— ‘The way to hold both jobe and gold, To graft, command respect, Give missions cash and smash the hash Of people one has wrecked. They'll see the 'Change, likewise the range Where Hips sing all the day, While On Leongs And other tongs Fade eilently away. But what of that? Chop-sueyed rat Annoys them. Also rice. . They'd-fain report: “How Joke In Court On Counsellor’s Advice,” ‘They yearn to learn how mergers earn + Great riches by the sack, . With torture snaps, like five-cent straps, More painful than the rack. The scandal knocks, the watered stocks, The roll of grafters long— Such things as these would greatly please »* The mind of Viceroy Fong. The Art ts departed 19), When the Chinese mer Teneheon oped, iy : attarwand ‘the entine suite of Atty rtwe auto) y ting with ¢! missioners arid mem-{ *tatted for Governor's Island tn’ car- bom of thelr’ aust. Bach merchant had mobiles to return Gen- Hawes and . leca of card. | Grant's ondl. m, Governor's or cover, be- Juror Marcus Weaver, a Twenty-third street boarding-house keeper, the trial of Chris Tracy, charged with obtain- ing $50,000 from John Felix via the wire- tapi the next term, One day be he was about le said It cost me and h peed Stes WIRE-TAPPING CASE OFF. 1» of Juror Sends Tracy Trial Over the Term. to the continued Owe IMness of per's game, went over to-day until Judge Foster discharged the jury in be re- greatest eradicator of if Radium Radia is appl PRICE 50c and 25¢ And the other fourteen-hundred-dollar- ‘-year man ooples what his partner has Frederick von Gordon-See- is a remedy that should be in all homes, as it is the COUGHS AND COLDS PNEUMONIA It Never Fails to CURE APPLIED EXTERNALLY *« Sold at Drug Stores and 13 W. 26th St., N, Y. City . Many peraons who are familiar with the situation in the department think that the Commissioner might begin housecleasting at once and make No. 300 Mulberry street the initial point of action, ‘That the city needs more police protec- tion there Is not tho slightest doubt. Nearly every night there are hold-ups under the bridge arches. Not @ police- man ts ever in sight when the hold-up man appears. Down there they have the strong-atm man to deal with. At the Battery it 1s the knockout-drop game. At Fourteenth street they watch for th drunks that go to the Third avenw Frarik Wilsons, station and fallow them to the Bronx. These kind are known as the “trailers,” The Tong feuds in Chinatown might also be checked with the extra men tn the department whose places are simply sinccures originally obtained through @ politiea! pull. CHURCHMAN IS ~ HELO ON CHARGE OF EMBEZZLNG William H. Speer Accused of Taking Funds of a Passaic Association. (Special to The Evening World.) PASSAIC, N. J., Feb, 2—William Henry Speer, Secretary of the People's Bullding and Loan Association, of this place, was arrested at his home, No. 2% Baullson avenue, to-day by Police- | men Turner and Smith, and later ar- warrant sworn out by John Hardifer, Vice-President of the association, charg- ing him with the embezzlement of $1,885.67 of the organization's money. Speer waived examination and held in $6,000 bail for the Grand Jury, His ‘father, Albert Speer, who 1s eighty-seven years of age, accompanted him to court and furnished the neces- sary bell, giving as security “Speer's Chateau,” which ts valued “at about $60,000, The elder Specr lives at No. 138 Main avenue, He ts a well-known wine merchant and is heart broken over his son's arrest, Speer, who is sixty years of age. has for thirty-five years been a warden of St. John’s Episcopal Church and at present is sentor warden in that chyrch. | The charge against Speer is the re- sult of an investigution into the affairs of the Bullding and Loan Association | by the New Jersey State Banking De- partment. Two passbooks of the asso- cdation, held by the Hobart Bank and ‘Trust Company as collateral security for a loan, were alleged to be worthless and the matter was called to the atten- tion of the Banking Department and the Investigation begun. The People's Building and Lown As- raignod before Justice Dalrymple on a| w ATTEMPTED TO ANNEX A POLICEMAN’S COAT. Drunken Sailor Said He Had Been Robbed and Wanted to Up- Toot a Lamppost. When Policeman Knowles heard cries for help from Secénd avenue and One Hundred and Seventh street early to- day he started for the corner at top speed. As he neared there he saw two men run in opposite directions. He succeeded in stopping one of them. The fellow said he was going away to avold publicity. Knowles took“him back to where a man was endeavoring to uproot a lamp- post. The man at the lamppost toid the policeman that he was a Sweaisa sailor and that he lived at No, 2337 Bec- ond avenue. He said that he had just ‘been robbed of a gold watch and $19 in silver. Then he tried to remove the policeman's coat and was arrested. the ground was the gold watch, but there was on trace of the silver. ne h for intoxication. The 0 his name as William Darby and his address as No. 2074 Second avenue. He vas locked up as a dl OF MODERN TIMES. We Reve arown our present loos~ ‘ ieee whee ieee Ret be sold at our presen loot! 50 WEST 34th STREET, of This Great Sale of Men’sandWomen’sFine Wearing Apparel Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, and * iets $6.98 so Men's Fine Trousers. SaleG] 98 Hire, Suits ant$8 08 ot $2.98 sal Pett “$5.98 Settee). Bad ts 229$1,98 Men's and Women's Suits made to order at one-half their former prices, PAUL MISCH, 50 West 34th Street, UPSTAIRS, (Bet, eh & 6th Ava) OPEN EVENINGS. 3 nd, Salosiadies Extra Salem ply at Office. B sta wil continue £0.00, 5 Mutts), $10.00, Fine, Furs ft le Pei Liquozone Free. Jk yuu wetu Layuvnvde Une deve never |name and state disease with which you are suffering. We will then maib | you an order on a local druggist for ‘a full-size bottle, and will pay the druggist ourselves for it. This is our free gift, made to convince you;! to let the product itself show you what it can do. In justice te yourselé please accept it to-day, for ft places Jou snaee nq qhlieatics whatever, The Vianazene Comnany, 458-404 Webash Av., Chicago. Sloan's Liniment For Tonsilitis Price 257 50f & F100 | No Extra Charge for It. | Advertisements for The World may be at any American District Messenger in tl city until ® P. ML Reducti wherein we telling Jation 1s one of the oldest financial institutions in Passaic. ————— WANT YOUR MIND READ? Do you want to know what you are thinking about? There is a man in New York who can tell you, sometimes to your embarrassment, At the same time that he does the most wonderful things of this sort, he will tell you that most mind-reading exhibitions are pure trickery, and for the edification of SUNDAY WORLD readers he ex- joses some of the best known “stunts,” interesting reading. —————— WAS ROBBED AS HE PRAYED. $25 Suits $30 Suits $35 Suits $40 Suits $45 Suits ‘Thief Drove Away with Jersey~ man's Hig During Service, (Special to The Evening World.) ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. 2.— While William Heilman and his family took part in a revival service at Pleas- antville last night one of the unre- generate unhitched the Heiman horse And carriage from the church wagon sheds and drove wway. ‘The loss was discovered when the tiog broke up near midnight. De- been put on the case. Both single and sack suits—sty fabrics. “ready-to-wear” Salesrooms: ied when colds are first felt Write for Booklet | MEN'S SUITS reductions through. Prices tell the story of great economies. $15 Suits 92 §20 Suits 13.2 Not the ordinary “ready- but strictly hand-taitered clothes that have every essential quality of the best custom tailors’ garments. :: : “Ask the man who wears them, 39-41 Cortlandt ~ mi \ AMBERT on Sale announce all 162 222 double - breasted lish in cut and i J Between 6th & 9th Ave. * Stations. THE CALL OF In 1905, the twenty-third year of The World’s continuous growth since its uplifting began in 1883, it printed, in 4,080 if M ‘columns of advertising, an increase of 8; 1,134,959 single paid advertisements, a gain over 1904 of 206,316. The New York newspaper closest to The World in total space grew less than half as much in columns and increased but 7,011 single advertlse~ GROWTH BY PERIODS: || ments, So TTT TLL J i 34,959 The World's Want momentum reached its greatest force in the last halt of the year, when, according to a count made by & Co., chartered accountants, it printed 817 printed by the New York Herald, printed for the six months from July 1 No other newspaper ever before made such gains in a similar perlod or reached so vast a total, More than 75 per cent, of The World's Want advertisers give their business, addresses, but, despite this, over $70,000 replies came to the box numbers The Worlt's own post-office, THE WORLD. and Sunday editions only, its ornin| Sse of 8.498% columns, divided Into much ivts, Published. 86,577 448,793 782,794 874.958 Messrs. Barrow, Wade, Guthrie 611,215 advertisements, against leading it by 55,396 in the agi 4 to January 1, ‘ried it, please sena us your: