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0,000.a Year in Salaries No Police Duty. Pa HER REFORMS SOON. artment Being Rapidly Put Into forking Shape and Ifs Ofd- __ Time Morale Restored, intx Weeks ago to-(lay Gen. Theo- saost pessimistic admit that he ha: Pye roth wonders in that time. Persons fe. touch with the department who f® watohed all kinds of reform Com- ° marvel at the amount of lished. Already ho Sie betel fi i e 2 i i ; 1 ty i E 3 gf i i Es BF i pay they drew. wr believes that every {a @ watchman, and es such be Kept at his post whenever he 5 posed to be on duty. | Bridge Hog Suppressed. ough Inspector. Flood he has m: . tka relleye whe crush at the Brooik- wridge during the rush hour, and|- practically suppressed the car hog for years was a menace to the de- ‘traviler. For that alone the pub- es the new Commissioner a debt he hag} even, farther than. In Theda ‘ays there were 80 y details’ At Pollco Headquarters © that the men were falling over other trying to pretend to work any one in authority was about. @ best illustration of this revel of snaps became known a few days when the Commissioner found were duplicate and_ triplicate jes of routine and trivial reports out’ by, different policemen at tenet "BLAST HURLS ROCK “TO CHURCH ALTIR _Workmen in Pennsylvania Terminal’Came Near Caus- __ «ing Serious Explosions. “here were two explosions to-day from blasts that were not properly cov- i stre @red with ballast In the excavation of the Pennsylvania terminal. A rock weighing twenty pounds was fiurled by the first blast through tha, ‘Stained glass windows of the Church of | St John the Baptist, in Seventh avenue, | n ay imissing the altar boys and) mass was nding on the ar while ing finished. The Second blast, a few minutes later, © ¥as at Thirty-third street and Seventh hy Byenug, and scattered stones for half al Fone’ boulder crashing through a window of Kirby's saloon and smash- i against the bar, at which several |< eon were drinking. SBruptions of rocks, beam | fhom the depths of the exca' ) Become so frequesit that pedestri; ditivers keep as far to the We as they cin oN ran to cover, The trouble is said Be ‘that the workmen. in. preparing blasts do not put enough ballast ie xivnimite-filled holes, ft, John's Church the ‘altar was dirt. and pleces of rock the altar boys were almost In a ingbom could not the sense in this. ‘What ts the use of even a duplicate report?” he asked. “We have thy originals on file.” With that remark there were added a half dozen men to the regular force to protect the tax- payers and earn police salaries. ‘These easy places in the department Were as nothing compared to what the Commissioner found in the so-called CommIssIONER BINGHAFL ‘there were five Commissioner Bingham has been what he has done: ‘Abolished stx hundred easy detail Vice Squad... ++ 20) Shoofly Squad Chinatown Squad. Firecracker Squad Patrol wagon’ watchers. Traffic Squad relief. Ferry-boat Squad Theatre Squad.... Pistol Practice Squad. . - 30 -100) -100) . 15) sl % for patrol duty next week. ished the Bridge “Hog.” Bureau of Information. Gen. Bingham found thet the city was spending thou- sands of dollars a year answering all sorts of queer letters throughout the country. Just Sat Around All Day. Sometimes letters come from the West this: “Jahn Jones, late of this place, is in New York eomewhore. ‘Will you please find him for me?” Whi ever recelved this letter would take the time and waste the postage to anawer it. ‘The result was that from this department lone there were five men who enjoyed ‘the comforts of home while at busi- ness for years. They are now back on patrol duty. Ordera have been given that all foolish inquiries to the Bureau of Information be consigned to the waste basket. The postage bill {s small now. Another of the little detalls the Gen- eral found to the detriment of the de- partment was that of a half a dozen policemen at Headquarters with no other duty than to clip from the news- CAR VICTIM WAS TAKEN AS “INTOX™ Relatives of Harte Urge Coro- ner to Make the Police Explain. ppear at an to a ti death of James Harte, fa one 0! | ho hauled the ma enth street station dered the man | in loa to send hin ‘Gung urg-on from tae Roose. | pital looked the injur Is decided that d | ‘The nm n the as ar- | t ane) | token to the He lo when the rocks thundered over! Noor. LURING GIRL AWAY. "Mrs? Mary Mitchell, Held on Kid- ~ ping Charge, Accuses ; a Policeman. : Lodirs. Mary Mitchell, ewenty- ore ee of No, 3% Humboldt sirect, Brobk “who Wis Arrested yostentay Ronnéction with tho dtsa we date, when |. police have laid indé on ‘the other pocties to the al- ‘crime. woma) It 18 reported, has easion fo Capt. Gallagher, of the police station, In which she w# three persons—one a a= tached to the captain's sta- other two are a midwife and made 1 was taken from her home, etl RAys, by the policeman to her house on Humboldt Bt, Detnctives are investigating the ga story, ‘The policeman in the lod’ man with @ tarnily. po the | pte bi Sosa To All Wearers of Eye Glasses:— The highest medical authorities advise Re-Examination of the Eyes at least once a year. We oficr without | charge (or obligation) a thorough exam. ination by any of ou O ulists, all of | | whom are REGISTERED PHYSICIANS of | | eer i 1 y is this important and very valuable service rendered without charge, but if new glasses are required (and you choos: to order them) they will be made up at exceedingly moderate cost. . Ehrlich & d Oculists and Opticians, | 43 Years’ 223 Sixth Avenue ise siti Avenue Praetize. 1345 Broadway Below Moth’ st 217 Broadway 2s'Broad Street Arcade, q WHAT BINGHAM HAS DONE IN SIX WEEKS WITH POLICE. in office just six weeks, and this is 1s, as follows: Essex Market Squad..,......-++ . 10 News clippers 40 Information Squad * 5) Mendicancy Squad... or Record copyistS......+.sseeeeeee 1 Ottier minor details throughout city, police courts, &c.........271 Total Note—It is expected that 250 more men will be drafted from details Created the Brooklyn Bridge “Rush Hour” squad, which has abol- NN ee papers al! the stories that had anything *o do with the police. Besides the pay for the policemen who did the work, it | desk. cost $30 a month for the papers. Now the Commissioner pays a clipping bu- reau to do the work, and the total bill is $10 a month. The former clippers are out on posta. Next in the small details he turned his attention to the guards of patrol wagons. They are t! jen who hang on to the back strap every time the patrol wagon goes out. They had no other duty to perform. Now men sre sent from the reserve force of the station-house. In many ses It is not necessary to send a man, as the officer who has sent for the Wagon stands by tho prisoner, and then rides to the station to make his com- | plaint. Stops General Alarms, The first time the Commissioner was | in a statton-house as a squad was be- ing turned out he was amused at the foolish general alarms read off to the men. If John Jones had lost his hat through the adroitness of a@ thief, no matter if the aforesaid hat was worth | only $2, every outgoing policeman was told to look out for the hat and try to reover it. Th eCommissioner at once saw that this reading to the policeman of all the unimportant things reported In the pre- cinet not only wasted time, but that the men in trying to remember every- thing that had been told to them for- | sot the !mportant matters. The custom has been abolished, On Jan. 1, six weeks ago, the first thing the Commissioner did was to abolish the vice and shoo-fly squads of about thirty or more men. With the next stroke of the pen he sent the en- tire Chinatown squad back to patrol duty, Other men who enjoyed easy work did not become worried at this, because to everyone It was apparent that these squads were unnecessary. Then Ge: Stern Brothers Boys’ « Childrens’ Clothing Special Values for Saturday Washable Russian and Sailor Suits, of Linen, Piques, Ducks and Chambrays Norfolk, Sailor and Russian Suits and Overcoats, Worsted, Cheviot and Serge, Norfolk Suits, with extra knickerbocker sers, all wool, silk sewed, Spring Norfolk Suits, with extra knickerbocker trousers. of fine Fancy Cheviot, Boys’ Raincoats, of Waterproof Fabrics, aso Fancy Cheviot Tourist Overcoats, Misses’ « Girls’ Apparel Additional Spring Models—Attractively Priced Misses’ Suits, Eton Model, of Panama Cloth, in Alice, Rose, Navy, Black and Reseda, neatly trinrmed with fancy braid, 14 & 16 yrs. Girls’ Dresses, Russian Model, of Cheviots and Invisible Plaids, plain or with emblem, 4 to 12 yrs, Value $6.95 and 7.95, Girls’ Three Quarter Coats, of Navy Blue Cheviots, emblem on sleeve, yokes self lined, 4 to 14 yrs, Valve $9.95 and 11.50 Girls’ Wash Dresses, of Fancy Gingbams, Ghambrays, Value $2.95 and 3.95 Piques or Lawns, 4 to 14 yrs., West Twenty INSPECTOR WW. IR LAUGHLIN. | winter, when there were no fire-crack- | One hundred men lost easy places by ice who constituted the fire-cracker squad. Originally this squad's work ended at midnight on the Fourth of July, but for some years past the five had managed to look after the fire-cracker inspection all ers to look after, It was on Jan. 30 that he abolished the conductors of the patrol wagons, that order. On ‘the same day one hun- dred men were taken from the traffic squad on the recommendation of Capt. O'Brien. A sergeant and ten men, who had never reported to any one, also sent to do adtual police work. Still More Snaps. Seven men in the pistol practice Squad were found to be enjoying the easiest times in the whole department. When a recruit went ‘to the armory in Fourteenth street he was handed a re- yolver by one policeman. After he had emptied {t he handed & to another man. That one ‘Broke’ the gun and passed & to another. Tho third man passed {t to a fourth, who removed the empty shells. The last man re- loaded it and passed it back to the shooters. ‘The missioner could not understand why it should take so many $1,400-a~year men to load and reload a single revolver, @ so-calles ‘erry-boat squa was abolished on Feb. © there were Ate teen men in the squad. That same day saw the last of the mendicancy tuad of three patrolmen. Last Saturday seven men were sent away from Essex Market Police Court. Some other ways that Gen, Bing- ham¢has saved money and Improved the Working facilities of the department were by doing away with the filtered waker that was in every office, by the discharge of an assistant to the ‘Third Deputy Commissioner, and by doing away with the teleautograph, an elec: trical arrangement by which if the cereunt ae the Gas wrote oa ioe ay name on & pad it was reproduced on a similar pad on the Commissioner's It evidently had been introduced with the {dea of saving the overworked ser- geant at the door the labor of carrying the caller’s card into the next room ten feet away. Other Work Up to Date. Besldes all these details that th - missioner has attended to and the ne: forms that he has made he has also found. ume to try Inspector Schmitt berger and Capt. Dooley (who was fined eight days’ pay), appoint two chaplains, transfer Capt, O'Brien $2,the Tenderloin make inspector Me! a of the Detective Bureau. pees McLaughlin is of the old sc! raduate under the able pee rrey ot yrnes, and it is. generally understood he has spared no pains to give Gen, Bingham the benefit of his experience foward putting the department on a practical working basis. McLaughlin and ‘his men are slowly but. surely worrying the crooks out of town. The evs orgok of to-day, the Inspector sav id-tmers Ww. were 1s far cleverer than the 0! : “Only the other day," he sald, “there was an old-time crook standing in a crowd, when a young crook lifted his watch’ and chain and took his diamond pin. ‘The old man in his day was one of ‘the cleverest pickpockets. in. New York. My instructions to the men are to pick up the crooks every time they find one, no matter if the magistrates do discharge them.” Since McLaughlin has taken charge ther are no more easy Joos in the bureau. Under the existing conditions policemen who have never been able to alll into an easy job are happy. By adding six tmindred more men to the force doing actual patrol duty men have a chance now to get away on snectal occasions. It ts rumored about Headouarters that there will two hundred and fifty more details abolished next week. After New Ideas. Police Commissioner Bingham to-day eent Sergt. Enright, In charge the Bureau of Supplies and Repairs; Ar- thur Blot, first deputy chtef clerk, and James L. Mack, secretary to Deputy Commissioner Mack, to Washington, D. C., to study the record-filing sys- tem of the Police Department at the capital, e Commissioner wants to adopt the em here, $1.95 Usual Price $2.50 to 3.50, Usual Price $5.00 to 8.50, 3675 4.00 6.40 6.95 Usual Price $6.95 Usual Price $10.00, Usual Price $9.75 to 14.75, $19.75 $4.95, 5.95 7.50, 8.50 1.98, 2.95 “OLD MUSIC MAN” FROZEN TO DEATH Found in the Cellar He Called Home. HAD AN ACCORDION. Wheezy, Old, Patched-Up Instru- ment Will Be Buried in Potter’s Field with Him. There 1s mourning among the little children who attend the public school in One Hundred and Tenth street near Third avenue to-day for the death of the "Old Music Man," who for the past twelve yeats was a familiar character in the neighborhool. He was found frozen to death in the cellar of No. 212 Third avenue, the only place that he had known as home. His body fs in the Harlem Morgue. It will by buried in Potter’s Field to-morrow. Who the ‘Old Music Man" was no one in the neighborhood knows, and no one ever cared, Ho was about sixty years old and had never spoken to any one unless it was to ask for a few pennies, His accordion appeared to be as old as its owner. It played a dual part in the old man's life—s music box in the daytime and a pillow for the musisian’s weary head at night. Every druggist in the neighborhood had at some time or another in the past twelve years contributed his share of court-plaster to patch tp the Insteu- ment. There were thirty-six of these patches in the musical bellows. They Body of Children’s Friend % kept life in the instrument until the “Old Music Man" died. If the old man ever played a melody on the aocomiion no one was able to Perkeaee ua When he PI pee ae ut the bell ie man: the broken keys ail that came forth Was ordant notes. But it fidren, and they nies to the old; fr parents fed him week or more went to his bed. in avenue night jar ‘lay a it asain tad eee coe Others, but | Mr ‘a big-l he, old mua out, the. man + ) ‘Alwaya polite, the “Old Music Man’ never Fated to lift his hat whenever ae ee rave the neighbors. the i ve PEpression that he had” seen better Gaya, He somet! ato mumble to himself in German. ‘When the non, 6 taken) {oa Fotte jd the old accordion, wi pe patches, will be buried with him. Se BAYONETS FOR HUNGARIANS. —_——_——_ VIBNNA, Feb. 16—The outcome of Monday’s session of the Hungairan Diet, when a decree dissolving Parlia- ment will be read, 1s awalted with con- siderable anxiety in view of the reports that the Coalitionisis are determinedly ened to Buch a course. ome Pisiedetn of the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet, Herr Julius Justh, declares in an interview printed in the Die Zeit of this city to-day that the House will only yield to brute force and that the Deputies will not consent to a dissolution until they driven out of the bulld! DEFECTIVE FLUE CAUSED FIRE. A defective flue was the cause of a small fire in the Lewando dyeing estab- ture made over into first floor is occupled by concern, Thede was no damage except from smoke. prices next winter. prices are at low ebb. tailors’. + Salesrooms 39-41 Cortlandt Street \ AMBE Harvest Time for Good Clothes Buyers $25 & $30 Suits reduced to $16.75 $35, 40 & $45 Suits reduced to $22.50 We recently announced a Suit Sale which ‘was an enormous success. But we still have remaining the following: 250 Suits reduced to $16.75, formerly $25.00 & $30.00 150 Suits reduced to $22.50, The advance in wool means high clothes prompts you to buy NOW when clothes Why not, when you can get exceptionally high-grade suits of such advanced style that they will be good form next winter? Many of these were recently received and are superior in cut and tailoring to any- thing you can find outside the best custom “Ask the man who wears them.” \ampert “ $35.00, $40.00, $45.00 True economy Between 6th & 9th Ave.‘L”” Stations YING BABIES hei ITOHING SKINS N © REST, no sleep. Itch, itch, itch, scratching until the tender skin becomes,inflamed, sore and bleeding. artina Soa, Skinbeaith Ointment,’ gives the saffer- Fear and re- by $y, Seuptione, Ganaroke thin ba by “sath of Pine Ba deodorta! "“Broath of Pine Balsam in Every Latge 25c. Cakes; 3 cakes 65¢.; ‘Made by Philo Hay Co., Newark, N. J, ASK YOUH DRUGGIST ABOUT THIS OFFER, Hatrhealth| Keope You Looking Young roms, keeping ‘hatr soft, alk mot skin of linen. ie Great Hair Ailts’ dando! feeruin “alope ‘Teepe ore ‘motes fine growth. SOc, bottle, rinta’, a 25°, FREE SOAPONE ARG core érag- Almanac as follows: than the average took. We -third Street | A DAILY NECESSITY. SMITH & HEMENWAY CO., Manufacturers, Importers and Exporters, of 296 Broadway, New York, write the World “We are just tn receipt of a copy of The World Almanac for 1906 and must admit that it 1s the hand- somest book of its kind and has more information in it almost daily, both in business and domestio. affairs," can make use of- this. book 7.4 Sale To-morrow (Saturday) of Men’s 75c., 1.00 & 1.25 Shirts at 50c, Bach, 2,000 Shirts—Soft and stiff bosoms, cuffs attached, also separate. Light and dark effects, in percale and Madre. Formerly 75c,, 1.00, 1.25, to close at each 50c Sale of Men’s Half Hose Mercerized Lisle Thread Half Hose, value 35c. per} 19¢ POU | SeiGetic sro gels OCOU OUR OOBGUCONCRTO 3 pairs for 50c. Men's Black Cotton Half Hose, unbleached sos 19 Vallio25e. Her Dale Vat so csscajs'seeavesceeaeves c 3 pairs for Soc, Men’s Fancy Cotton Lisle Half Hose (broken 19¢ sites), value 50c. Per pat HOCIOSE, iii sees ome pairs for 50c. (Second Floor.) Sale of Boys’ Wash Suits Advance Styles at Manufacturers’ Prices These new stylish Wash Suits for Boys are cut in Russian, Eton, Sailor and Military styles; also Eton Blouse, Sailor Blouse, Eton Russa Sailor Russian and Military Russian. Special prices as ollows : 79c, 1.25, 1.50 and 2.00 Value 1.25, = 2.50 3.00 2.00, and New Spring Coats and Suits For Misses and’ Girls Misses’ Eton Suits—in a fine grade of Pan- ama, lined with satin and trimmed with silk braid, in navy and black. Sizes 14, 16 and 18 years. Special at. Misses’ Long Coats—The correct style for spring, in light mixtures, with notch Velvet Collar Sizes 14, 16 and 18 years, Special at ; Misses’ Pony Coats—In Covert Cloth, lined throughout with Satin Sizes 14, 16 and 18} VCATS., SpPcialjat Sanwa ajsiecssicisisoes ecoswisis10) Girls’ Russian Dresses—In_ Brilliantine and mixtures, trimmed with silk braid and but- 6,00 tons. Sizes 6 to 14 years. Snecial at...... Gitls’’ White’ Dresses —In Muslin and Organdies, trimmed with fine laces and embroideries. Sizes 6 to 14 years. Special, 2.25 to 6.75 (Third Floor.) 19°75 t $3.75 7.50 Closing Sale To-Morrow (Saturday) Fifty Suits for Women For One-Third Regular Prices Last clean-up of fall and winter Suits. None ‘ of these Suits were regularly marked less than yi 00 20.00, and some of them marked as high as Q 35.00.. All must go. Closing price........ Gn Sale Saturday Morning at 9 o’clock while they ast. : Take a Look at the New Separate Skirts for Spring Th Ski k ix- ¢ new Separate Skirts in checks and Wee i 3.95 m} 5,00 The new Separate French Circular Skirts, mixtures, solid colors and black, at.... The new Serge Skirts, in white or black, also stripes, at. . i } 10. 00 (Third Floor.) Merino Underwear and Hosiery Now on the Second Floor and Much Enlarged. , The following lots have been marked at much less than usual prices to close out. Children’s Merino Vests and Pants—Odds } 39 and ends, formerly 59c. each; marked to close at c i 35c Women’s Fleece-Lined Vests and Pants }25c —Value 50c. each; to close, 3 for 1.00; each.... Women’s Black Cotton Stockings — Hermsdorf dye, Maco split soles............05 Sale of Women’s Neckwear Odd lots of Lace, Ribbon, Silk and Chiffon Jabots, 25 also Stocks and’ Collars’ with and without tabs; | 23¢ many are hand-made. In white and colors, some #4 in beaded and jewelled effects, At..........608) SOC Formerly 50c. to 2.25 each, Saturday Sale of Women’s Dress and Walking Boots “ ‘Second Floor, Patent Leather, Gun Mehl vey via | 2 25 and soles; mili and $800 $n $50 values At. => medium heels.