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‘ Enter BEATEN, | ADMITS: ot layed Action Eleven Months on Randall's Island. MERCY PLEA BY CHILD. «*Mayor Also Knew on Taking Office of Institution's Reputation. ‘Gommissioner of Charities Kinge-) "bury frankly dimitted to-day he had ‘personaly seen feeble-minded chil- * Gren beaten by attendants in the New York City Hospital and Schools for ‘Children on Randall's Island os far ,back'as April of last year, and that for @teven months he did nothing to “Sorrect the conditions until he filed his charges against Mrs. Mary C. Derphy, superintendént of the instl- . tution, yesterday. ..., Mra, Dunphy, wit! be called on next “Baturday to dhswer charges of in: fiicting corporal punishment on feeble: «Minded children; failure to sateguard » Sealnst the spread of infectious dis- eases; failure to provide sufficient , fopd for inmates, and failure to adopt and enforce proper regulations . for Gre protection. It developed to-day that Mayor Mitchel was also aware of the con- ditions charged against the institu- dion when he took office on Jan. 1, 1914, Commissioner Kingabury this after- «noon suspended Mrs, Dunphy without pay, pending the outcome of the hear- ing beginning next Saturday. Mr. Kingsbury would not say who Mra Dunphy's successor would be, but in- timated his selection probably would be Joseph Flick, Superintendent of the Farm Colony on Staten Island. Tho: publication of the charges against Mrs. Dunphy brought more than.a hundred mothers of children, who they charged, had been badly pegpeated at Randall's Island, to the of- & fices of Commissioner Kingsbury this : afternoon. Twenty-five of them were granted interviews with Commission- er Kingsbury. Their stories, Com- missioner Kingsbury stated, corrob- > Stated the charges already made against Mra, Dunphy. val :Commissioner Kingsbury ee®now!l- she took office, fourteen months ago, Qut did not learn of the acutal condi- tions on the island until he aad Deputy Commissioner William J. Doherty dropped in at the teiation Snexpect “It is true that we , of feeble-minded children as they wero beaten by attendants,’ ." Commissioner Kingsbury admitted. “In fact we saw leaded for mercy. i coyrse I stopped the attendant from continuing the beat: “Were charges preferred the attendant for violatin; in dnfiictt corporal punishment?” he was ask + Not by me,” was the Commission- ers answer. ee im that particular case, but I the man is now out of the de- » I don’t take up such mat- ordinates, but repors tendent. the law I idea the time was to find out whether the things we saw on the Isl that day were individual cages or itual offenses.” “But it’s true that you took no ac- tion ‘to remedy conditions until you erred your charges against Mra. _Dunph: ‘yaw ge “Ac! was gio "Ki declared, "because there’ was presumption in Mrs. Dunphy’: vor, At the time the State Board of Chari- ‘ties had made reports favorable to the institution, it was charged also ice existed against Mrs, » and, besides, she had been forty-seven years in the position.” | Ce ——— “BOMB-PLANTERS DECIDE (TO FIGHT ACGUSATIONS * brop Alleged Plan to Plead Guilty and Will Be Arraigned Hy Mowday. " >) Prank Abarno and Carmine Car- “bone, arrested for attempting to ex- plodé a bomb in St, Patrick's Cathe- dral, will be placed on trial as soon as possible. They will be arraigned before Judge Swann Monday and will plead not guilty. The decision to plead not guilty wae arrived at to-day before W. G, Kier and Simon O. Pollock, counsel for the accused Anarchiate,' went into conference with Judge Swann, They told the Judge they would prefer that the prisoners be not brought before him until arraigned, It had been the belief of the Court that the men were to plead guilty at to-day’s conference, and Judge Swan Was prepared to act at once. In the event of a plea of guilty being en- tered he would have been ready to lmposo sentence, ‘The District Attorney's office says jg ds not the least dl bed ut the ‘uttitude of counsel for the Anarch- iets, for Mr. Perkins is satisfied that ry oe) have don, their full duty. * ‘Nevertheless the decision of the Aes ermeticets gurazse arena © the “Copperette Jot “Violators of Law With Night. Stickette| TO ND FIGHT) | Court Says Bose Has. ae st: But Will She Patrol a Beat? Mies Anita Grish of Jersey City, America’s Only Poormistress, Doubts if Policewomen Will Supplant Men. Can Do Splendid Work in Courts, Playgrounds and Parke—Take Graft? Well, if Men Accept Cigars - and Drinks, Soda and Candy Might Tempt. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. And now it’s the policewoman, the copperette, that’s going to give the naughtihess of New Jereey its next jolt! Gov. Fielder has just signed the which sathorises Dill introduced by Senator Colgate, the appointment of women police officers. Every municipality may appoint women as police guards, with the same rights and powers as policemen and other police officers. According to the new law, the policewomen shail perform such police duty as the authority having charge of police matters shall direct, though physical examination and requirements may be waived. 4 ‘The law. politety and discreetly evades the matter of police uniforms for women. Of course they will wear badges, and it has been hinted that the use of the night stick will come Iike second nature to the hand that wields the rolling pin. Chicago and other hinterlands have tried the copperette and not found her wanting. But in the East she ls still @ novelty, and when I heard that Mies Anita Grish, Poormistress ot Jersey City, was on the point of applying for a job as policewoman, I decided to ask her what planned to accomplish tm that pos. tion. POLICE WILL HAVE TO 00 WITHOUT MISS GRISH, Just at present, howe' is convinced that it ig better to be poormistress than policewoman. There is only one of her in the United States; why shoyld she enter a more crowded profession? Then there aro numerous and sundry Jersey polifici- ‘ans who for ten months or so did their little best te relieve her of her present job. Now that she has it double-riveted, in sho to delight her foes by resigning? Be it known, therefore, that the women’s auxiliary of the New Jersey police force will have to get along without Miss Grish, But though she is not yet thirty she has done many sorts of civic and social work. Be- fore accepting her present position she was probation officer, secretary of the Cbarity Organization Society, and officer in the Philadelphia State Home for Girls. Through her fa- millarity with public needs she is woll equipped to say what special ones can best > aatisfled by women, and her notion of the policewoman’s field is interesting. #1 do not betleve women will ever be cont out to patrol the atreets,” che began, positively. “That seems to me out of the question. | could as soon imagine ‘a man doing fancy work in the parlor as @ woman patrolling a beat. Men are ebviously better fitted for that sort of work and for handling desperate prisoners.’ “A policewoman in Chicago was wounded the other day while making * I mentioned. "Was s! a perceptible wrinkling of her smooth brow. “I wouldn't like to be shot up. | I've had words enough shot at me since I was in this office, but bullets would be worse.” Just here it may be as well to re- mark that Miss Grish totally upsets preconception of a woman office nothing mature or a 1 tall, well-rounded young worpan, has smooth black locks, laughing hazel frankly feminine mannerisms. possesses a happy by-play of expression—a smile, & shrug or lifted brows—and all the time I talked with her she was strok- ing her muff as if it were a pet kitten, ELIEVES WOMEN WILL NEVER SUPPLANT MEN ON FORCE, “Don't you believe in policewomen?” Tesked, “Isn't there some work they can do better than men?” “First of all, I want to say that I think our policemen are splendid,” sald Miss Grish earnestly. “I believe that we have’some of the best in the world right here in Jersey City. I} know how much help they bave given: this office. We make volunteer workers of them. “Wemen. will never supplant men on the police force. But | ees. Women know how id inetinet- ively desire to protect them. They would keep erder in the play- greunds and warn off marauders. “In the parks, too, they could keep an eye on the young people and seo that the lovemaking didn't go too far. The policemen are supposed to do that, of course, but I think a silly, rash girl might take a word of wise advice from a motherly policewoman when a male admonisber would only speceed in making her angry. “It might be « good plan to have policewomen in the large railway sta- tions, where unprotected girls are constantly arriving, although the ‘Travellers’ Aid Society has regular agents to look after such. girls. 4 ‘Then Miss Grish proved herself in complete agreement with City Magis- trate Charles W. Appleton, who told me recently that “there ought to be ® woman jn every court in New York.” ee Y werk in the courts and in the care and supervision of wemen prisoners,” che said with enthusi- paps eee ought to bea me. in every police te whem the women priecners 1 might tell their stories. She would size them up correctly, and she should remain hem wi from the rt and the pricon. rom court a tl When delinquent Girls are sent to the houses of groseten potion: women, rather than men, shoul go with them. WOULD HAVE WOMEN ON DI TECTIVE FORCE, “A certain number of the police detectives ought to be women, I have often ha do detective work for the Judges of the criminal courts. I believe that women make admirable detectives, particularly in a case where women are involved, or where @ report of conditions in a home is desired. Women see and note little things that men are likely to pass over, and they can usually tell whether a member of their sex is tying. “Without police powers, I can find out what I want to know about the rsons who come into this office,” isa Grish added with a smile. “The deserting husbands, the fathers who won't support their children and the abused wives tell their stdries with- out compulsion if they are ap- proached in the right manner.” “By the way, do you think police- ‘women could be ‘approached’ as read- ly as policemen?” ed. “Maybe policeme: York, but ours don’t,” Miss Grish re- sponded loyally. Then her eyes be- gan to twinkle, ovriane and cigars oe, not ihe eort of grat at would appea t wo " itted. “But Pi an ice cream soda Ino! tally, the Poormistrass has proved that she fulfils her duties without aay Fd favor. One of the why id gating circumstance in the case father who is evading the sup- rt of his child. “Do you think Oye will object to policewomen “Not a bit,” are beginning to roalize women's co-operation. Women not asking for thes» new positions of public responsibility so much as men are stepping forward and saying, "Won't you please help us out?” “Then you think there will be masy policewomen?” “No, I don't,”. she exclaimed, die concertingly. “The political office. holders made fuss enough when | took this job, and [ don’t know what they'll aay to the idea of women oh the police force. Anyway, I'm sure ‘there won't be any women on beats, THE WEATHER Forecast: Unsettled Tonight and Tomorrow; Probably Rain. NO SUNSHINE. But A GOOD Day for , 99 WOMEN PoLice Cons GE MOTHERLY ADVICE TO SPOONGRS IN THE PARMS am = = : l Ryery Proture ‘ wf Tells a Sto CUT BIR TAXES| 748k What You DoN _-s Governor and City Officials Confer to Prevent Duplica- tion of Institutions. Gov. Whitman and Lieut. Gov. Schoeneck came to New York to-day for a conference with city officials jene bankers on financial affairs, The rising 'tax rate and the increasing ex- penditures of both .State and city have become most vital questions of government, “The chief alm,” said the Governor, “ie to bring about closer co-operation peeteesn State and city administra- ‘tions in budgets, It will be necessary Where You ys a ¥ oi ase Got It, It You for Work with a Whether Your Feet Hurt Becasis | Tangoed Too Much Last] . | How You Got That Black Skinned Your thelr nights at tango parties gay placea for the Stato to levy a direct tax} Thelr to meet the burden of expensive gov-| #0 know wi ernment willed to us, The present administration is in no way responst- ble for the present conditions. It was an inheritance from previous Demo- cratic administrations. The figures Prove it, | “There is, I think, opportunity for jconstderable reduction in expenses in {conduct of our State institutions. In jsome of them there may be found ‘duplication of effort by State and city, | That ie not necessary and should be iy “Whatever direc’ State tax te tevied | must be added to the city’s own taz rate. I do not agree with those who jsay that the city Is paying the larger part of the tax burden for the benefit ‘of up-Btate. “The City of New York participates jin the benefits of the State's institu. ‘tions, Its poor, ite insane and its | Prisoners form @ large part of the inmates of State institutions, It |ghares in the benefits of State govern- ment. “Therefore, it Ie not correct to state that New York City pays 70 or 80 per cent. of the taxes and gets noth- ing in return.” “But the main thing we seek is a reduction of taxes and that can be brought about by bringing the State and the city into oo-operation in the maken of budmets. “q think there is opportunit: eacn vy wake savings in expend! and combinations in operations which | wil) result in material decrease of costs. “The direct State tax has been ten- page hg ile jum requit it. T hope is the maxim: remen'| t it can be greatly decreased, eo Pog instead of New York City hav. ted at $18,000,000. 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