The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1919, Page 5

~~ THE ‘BEST POLICE CHIEF,’ ~* KILLED BY STROKE Picturesque New Yorker Suc- , Cumbs Suddenly to Apoplexy . —Ran for Mayor. The merry month of June with its attendant weddings still “registers” at Essex Market Court, The scenes enacted before Judge “Big Bill" Devery lay dead at his| Tobias yesterday kept the court in -home in Rockaway Beach to-day and|a semi-hysterical state, There was ‘everybody with a memory more than|™Ore action in 10 minutes than in ¥ @ custard pie comedy. The wedding lined ‘yeary OM emiled in MeMOFY customs of the east side, where a ‘ Pieturesque flavor which went! cuost is provided with seltaer if he ‘owt of Now York City life with him—! brings whiskey, where three chickens whether the memories of him recalled! are intended to provide foo@ for 100 civic wickedness or merriment, ac-| guests, and where thero is diffien'ty cording as the reminiscent citizen|in distinguishitig guests from wait- had been a civic uplifter or a care-|ere—all had @ place on the calendar. Yeas observer of human nature. Sam Hollander and Joe Sohmoltz ‘William Stephen Devery was sixty-| wore the waiters and complainants. five years old when he died of apo-| Michaet Moxon and Isadore Rosen- plexy last night in his home. ,He ae werd guests and defendants. want out of public office in thts alty | bromer'of the bride, tn OMS ia 1903 when Seth Low was elected! "Did you have on evening clothes?” Mayor on a campaign which charged | asked Judge Tobias of Sam. ea alliance between organized vice | ,.,)" qi Mint and black tle was me” ‘and the police under Devery, who had | dishes when—ding! I gets one. Pitty Been called by Van Wyck, Low’s pre- | others more were fighting, I simply <n ae re ie & evone men tol fant © hundred. Police New York ever had.” ve Since his departure from office Dev- wuasever thet 1m hank get ‘Seougn ery bas been a broker and a specu-| chicken. They sald some ono pinch lator in reat estate. Ho had a keen|the chicken. They wag, eunse of realty values, and those who | “chars for 100 people. deprecated his existence in the old Gaya did not hesitate to charge that only threo|in a big fight. “They said I served only some men because I was for a nickel tip,” Fm yay: Joo. * mn was I qur- rounded by thirty men who ali kicked me, beat me wp and put bur cigars om mé to make me jump, saw a leading to the cellar all I have in mind is the reach of the T took a strong sprin' for myself and wy Then along comes Sam down @uimbwaiter, sliding like. I says ‘What happens to you?’ and he says, ‘I got Bit eame way after you.’” “Where were the bride and groom? “They were in the hystericals and went for @ walk with themeecivea” a there a hundred men after you?" “Only about thirty. And every bone in my body now gives me a v The defendant and brother of the bride then did his best to uphold the family records for hospitality. “They was plenty of poultry for everybody,” he said. “Wore you in evening clothes?” “Sure! I was best man and bad a reas sult and a plug hat.” wee wearing the bat at the “No, I wag carrying it areund with me all the time.” “It has been my experience,” said His Honor in gummitng up the ease, “that some one is always ready to join It was highly com- mendable of Michael to try to make vicased and give his aister nd-off, So I declare the case “Did you hit anybody?" “T hit the floor.” Joe Schmeits then told his troubles, be gained profitable knowledge of fu- ture real estate developments, such ‘am the building of the Pennsylvania , terminal, through the use of his po- ioe privileges and powers. Devery was that rare O. Henry bird, a native New Yorker. He liked | wo tell of the youthful days “when I was educated over on the east side by epieling all night with a girl on @ dime.” No less an authority than Charles A. Dana vindicated Devery's tnnova- admirers gilded in the exuberance of their devotion. In that campaign William Travers Jerome turned on Seth Low for re- election. Low “Little Eva” in derision of the purity of the motives of the Citizens’ Union, “And now here comes ‘Topsy,’ said Devery, axle grease all over Little Eva's white starched skirts.” George McClusky, head of the De- tective Bureau, had gained high standing with Wall Street interests. tions in the English language. A re- porter had been reprimanded for|Chesty George.” McClusky became ‘using “Devery slang.” Mr, Dana ex-{ unimportant for the rest of his life. “They told you Butler would show up at Albany with horns on him,” said Devery. “Now they find a real human man hag butted into their ame.” misunderstand what | & They tell ene,” eald “tak man Devery means y Devery, a9 ee ee ee ee | ae command of the men of Kidridge reet Station, notorio graft rid- “You have a good wite and children | fen in the older, Hed. Laght. days, and enough pay from the police to|“thore’s grafting here. Hereafter if support them properly,” said Devery,| there's grafting to be done, I'll do it.” then Deputy Commissioner of Police,} “When you get caught with the to @ patrolman on trial for dissipa-| goods on you,” he admonished a sub- tion, “instead of which you go arvund | ordinate, “don' flying a kite.” \ waft.” Devery, peevish toward Tammany| He loved sonorous ~— phrases. *Hall, ren as a candidate for Mayor to “Touchin' on and appertainin’ to” split the organization vote, He called | this or that subject was his intro~ himself “The People's Party” and his duction to any discussion. A news~ headquarters was “the Pump,” a fire; paper reperter wrote a review, of hydrant in front of a saloon near his | Devary’s life ag & campaign pamnplet home on the west side, which bi | for the dret Low campaign under the title “Touchin’ on and Appeftainin’ to Mr. Doputy Commissioner Devery.” Devery sent detectives to the repor- ter advising him grimly to leavo onerated him. “The purpose of language,” raid “Mr, Dana, “is to convey thought. Did anybody ever ADVERTISEMENT, ARTICLE NO, 18 after dark for some time. Years later, during the People’s Party campaign, the reporter met Devery at “The Pump." Devery, not recognizing his historian, invited “everybody have a drink.” “You don't want to drink with me, Chief,” said the writer. Chiropractic for Health |: There are many who believe that! Devery first flushed, much of the scientific inquiry into the | nim over slowly and chuckied. — oe + being sonenerte meine Gh ‘he BSif 50 the bartender, long ye wron, Ines an jat no ive js guy ri 8," sort heath renita ay, ne SF oti a m any school of health thought that views the cause of human disease | QLEROY UNITE IN APPE! @ matter in which bacterial life is| chiefly responsible for Practically | every kind of sickness that brings the | . organs of man to a degencrate state. The theory that germs cause disease to a healthy body or any part that is of normal resistance to them, is wide- ly disputed and members of such health professions as dissent from the germ theory produce many recoveries in supposedly germ-caused diseases without wu any of the remedies thre other side declares necessary to effect a “cure.” If you desire to regain and retain ur health consider Chiropractic, It js in accord with the natural law of the body. A spike in a machine will stop its movement. Poor coal makes inadequate steam. Too much friction will burn out bearings. A displaced | phe statement is signed by Geo! joint in your spine will interfere with | aiexander, First Presbyterian Chare Fital force from the brain, and the |Gharies R. Hrown, Dean of the Schoo} organs, then se and ners CUM i ser lof Religion, Yale University; Henry B, ine will not wor ‘hb, West End Collegiate Reform Ser tated Vial (aroe (X00 Gah Carin many am Gale siasdlgge Avie recover from practically any ailment jue. Presbyterian Church; Henry B. cod He eee teen asaetrsente | Feet professor in Union Theological Investigation of the Chiropractic! Prespytorian mere Fe Meriih pres Science is courted. Opportunity is Aneel ’ - pcb given for full’ songeltation, North, Gecretary Board of Foreign Mia- Plead for Freedom of Speech and Abandoning of Attempts to “Coerce Minority Opinion.” A group of New York clergymen Joined to-day in an appeal for the de- feat of “forces of bittemesn and vio~ lence in our national life.” The state- ment condemns the horrors of bomb outrages and the growth of Bolshe- vism. At the same time it denounces “repressive legistation, pleads for freedom of ai and asks that attempts to “coerce” minority opinion be abandoned. Methodist pl: 1 Ch There 1s no obligation to take service, |"0n MOGs: "MpleerenChiiree) Inquiry may result in distinct advan- ar : by tere le anyone afflicted with any rie t hi Live ye Bivies: Wibians form of ailment which other methods | Linpitaned man, hove failed to relieve. jand Ralph W,. Sockman, Madison Aves nue . EB, Cuureh, Before consulting a Chiropractor al-|"“* ™ ways make inquiry to the Chiropractic | Bureau of Public Information i} ASKS BAN ON EXPLOSIVES, Address ell inquiries to C. B., Box 50. a ee ey The Evening World, New York City pole Chiropractors of New York & New Jerey | WASIDNGTON, June 21.—Beeau sa in (Righ' ve.) of recent activities of bomb throwers, Secretary. Lane has asked Congress for {immediate passage of legislation de- Perfectly harmless |»: s0 wsreise um roritions wow Pleasant to take ed Restrictions hrowil tribution of high explosives, Manu- facture of explosives would be con- Unucd after the signing of the peace under the Heensing system required during the war and a special organiza- tion of fitfeen expert explosive in- epectors would be created in the In- r Department under the Secre- tary's propo. A Devery had been calling “and smears Devery quarrelled with him. Instead |rope to-day, the of putting him under serious charges} Favre, the latter for Liverpool. The he oegan referring to McClusky a4 | Espagne carries 960 passengers and the squeal, Stand the town, and the reporter kept indoors “I'm the then looked TO CHECK BOLSHEVISM HERE Secretary Lane's request, made in @ letter to Speaker Gillett, was referred MME, GATTI-CASAZZA SAILS ON THE ESPAGNE Anti-Saloon League Delegation and “Bud” Fisher Start for Eng- land on the Lapland, ‘The French liner Bepagne and the White 6tar liner Lapland sail for Eu- former bound for Lapland 1,150, the largest number the Lapland has ever carried. Among the notables on the French ship were Mms. Frances Gatti-Casazza, whose operatic husband went to Naples last week; Mme, Yvette Guilbert and Mra. Philip Lidl, whe is going to Paris to sign her final degree of di- vorce from Major Philip M. Lovig, ULB. A. ‘The Lapland carries a varied assort- ment of passengers ranging from the Anti-faloon League delegation all the way up to “Bud" Fisher, who says he is going to search England for a sense of bumor. ‘The Prohibition committer, which ts going to “study the situation,” and which would like to give Epglaed a« neat little Righteenth Amendngent. ¢dn- qietaof the Rav. Henry Carter, Dr. C. leeby, W. J. Allison, Johe Gailey and Thor Rea. BIDS FOR NEW SING SING | TO BE OPENED TUESDA | Approximate Cost of Buildings for { “Ideal Prison” to Be About $1,600,000, Bids for the new Sing Sing prison | will be opened in this city next Tu day by Superintendent of Prisons | James F. Rattigan. The superin- tendent has temporarily opened a4 | branch office in the Muntelpal Bulld- | ing. | ‘The aproximate cost of the bulld- ings, which phrenologists say will make an ideal prison, will be about $1,600,000. The cell block in the Present prison, now more than 100 years old, is already being de- mollshed. Surrounded by a high wall on the east of the New York Centra! Rall- road tracks, the new Sing Sing will cover about twenty acres, Almost adjoining the tracks will be the chapel and in back of this will be the Administration Building. Prom- inemt in the new prison will be the possibdiliities of segregation for psychiatric and medical examination of prisoners. .C. For New York Private. June 21.-—General Pershing has made the following awards of the Distinguished Service ‘ Corporal William B. Aylward, ‘bury, Conn, and Private Bron- meckre ‘oki, No, 600 Bast 186th w ‘ork ‘City. Nitlioris Or Hairs AKK Losr Taat Covtp Be Saves toi «= WT Dewbros Hervpicide gta ar one Tei at Pode Countere — RE BV RNING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1019. ‘BIG BILL’ DEVERY, Sam Should Know by Now ' It’s Dangerous Business | To Watch Nuptial Riots He Wore Evening Clothes Just Like Others, but They Didn’t Stop Fists. GONPERS RENAMED AS PRESIDENT OF LABOR FEDERATION fe-Election an Answer Unions to Their Traducers and Opponents, He Says. ATLANTIC GITY, June 2i1.—Sam- wel Gompers was to-day re-elected President of the American Federa- tion of Labor, in convention Mr. Gompers in @ speech said the se- yection was American Labor's answer te ite traducers and opponents This morning Denver was leading im favor as the next convention oity although there was strong sentiment for selection of an eastern site for it. The convention conclude its business to-day, Mr. Gompers received am the League of Nations principle, ‘The resolution favoring the League was adopted 29,756 to 420, after Mr. | of Gompers had made a stirring speech | registered such im favor of it. Irish sympathizers in the convention obtained insertion of an amendment specifying that the convention did not mean to go on record as aproving anything that Would prevent Ireland continuing ite campaign for seif-determination, During debate on the League, a| message from President Wilson was introduced, in which he declared the League would constitute “a most ser- viceable Magna Charta.” Mr. Gompers is expecting @ reply to- day from President Wilson to his cablogram of last night informing the President of the action of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor convention in indorsing the Teague of Nations of here. covenant. tion in was expected to 000 oppose it. tele- Serve on > grams of congratulation to-day, giv-| ing him credit for swinging the con-| oppdrtunity afforded & gathering of vention overwhelmingly In fayor of} the representetives of the commen people of America to give expression Under the system of representa- the Federation each vote recorded stands for 1,000 members. Bo the vote shows &976,000 union members favor the league and only ‘It most gratifying,” said Prest- to their will o Nations ce coven: 1am exceeding’ make the sacrifice burdens of war, of an American completed shortly, Rertholf, Commanda: the Rew company chant f pmpany will The American institution. dent Gompers to-day, isive indorsement giad that the Amer- majority of the plain people who] =_—_—- TO FORM AMERICAN ‘LLOYDS.’ neore Carmees of t Meriwe, WASHINGTON, June #.—Formation Lioyds” to tnewre the new American merchant marine Will be it Was learned to- day when Secretary Daniest announced the retirement on June 99 of C Guard. Bertholf, Daniest aid, will be con- nected in an exccutive capadity with Te Will Imeure ear goes and ships of the Americhn ma feet bulit up durin .My boy—yourU now, to serve in many parts of the world, and Uncle Sam will main’ cient, patriotic army to guard it. 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