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NEW YORK FACES
PROBLEM IN IIS
RIVAL GANGSTERS
Politicians and High Police Officials
Blamed for Existence
of This Menace to the
Country's Chief City.
PUBLIC ALSO INDIFFERENT
TO CRIME AND CRIMINALS
Efforts to Break Up the More Powerful
Organizations Have Resulted in
the Formation of Smaller Bodies
Just as Menacing?Writer Sees
Possible Good in the Boy Scout
Movement ? Lawless Youngsters
Mostly American Born and Come
From the Tenement Districts.
NEW YORK.?Rival gangsters fought
:i revolver battle from automobiles
on primary day, September 1G, in
broad sunlight, at the corner of Sixty<1
ft i. at...
nun oticrt unu uruauwu)'^ jusi uiv
matinee crowdH were pouring out of
the theaters. The police managed to
got four of the combatants, and the
car which they had used in the shooting
affray was found to contain lists
of voters in six election districts, s> steinaticaliy
arranged to enable repeating
It was the gang in the service of the
politician, just as in the Rosenthal
murder the gang had been in the service
of a high police otllciul. The
gang serves those who pay it or can
protect it against the law. For $5
It will detail a "ki*' to black a man's
eyes; for $50 you cati liavo a man
stabbed, and "doing the big Job" will
cost you more than $500 or $1,000 if
you are properly vouched for to the
gang leader by some one with a "big
pull."
The man with the "big pull" Is always
a politician or a gambler, writes
Henry N. Ilall in the Sunday NewYork
World. The politician's alliance
with the gangster is as close today,
if not as open, as when a district
_ leader on the eve of an Important election
gave an Interview to newsjaiper
men with one foot on a box from which
hie lieutenants were distributing 500
lead-loaded blackjacks to "the boys"
for use the next day, or when a political
lender?now one of New York's
most distinguished representatives in
the congress of the United Stateswent
over to New Jersey to testify under
oath that "Monk" Eastman was a
reputable business man and an other
wise desirable citizen.
Difficult Problem.
There is 110 more ditllcult problem
in A inert call civic life today than the
elimination of the gang- There are
three reasons for this. The lirst is
that the American public is indifferent
to crime. There is 110 place In the
world where the man in the street who
goes about his own business and keeps
clear of the underworld is as safe in
his person as he is here, and the
result is that unless he himself, or
some one he knows personally, is the
victim of a crime, he reads about these
things in the paper with an interested
complacency not unlike the feelings ho
derives from a thrilling moving-picture
show. Clangs, gangsters, Black Hand
crimes and bomb outrages are accept- (
ed as among the things incidental to
life in a big city, and it is impossible
to arouee anything like public indignation
over their presence.
The second reason is that the interests
to which the gangs are useful?
the politicians, the gamblers and thoso
who grow rich in the underworld?are
bo powerful that they are able to protect
those who are of service to them.
It is only in exceptional cases, when ,
public feeling is outraged by some 1
f -^l'
The politician's alliance with the
gangster Ic as close today as when a
political leader went over to New Jersey
to testify under oath that "Monk" |
Eastman was a reputable business
man.
wanton defiance of law, some very
spectacular and serious crime, that
protection from "above" fails to secure
Immunity.
The third reason is that however
effectively you may break up a gang
Its members will always ally themselves
with other gangsters and reform
other associations. Iireaklng up
& powerful gang is followed too often
4
by the appearance of three or four
smaller and rival organizations. It is
only scattering the trouble.
Catching the Gangster Young.
There 'is only one way to put down
gangs iu a city like New York, and
that is to cut off their supply of recruits.
The gangster has to be caught
young. There is no gang In Njw York
today which willingly adds grown men
to its ranks. The new recruits all
come up from the streets. I have
j talked with a number of gangsters, and
; there is such a surprising unanimity
| about their boyhood days that it is not
impossible to picture the upgrowth
of the "gorilla."
Watch almost any gung of small
boys playing in the streets of the ten- ;
ement districts. They always have a
lender. It matters not what they are
doing or to what mischief they are j
up, there is always one who is braver,
stronger, more resourceful than the
i rest. He will grow into a man of ac;
tion. He will make a success of life i
if his home influences and early opportunities
give him a fair chance; but
if he goes wrong he is the material of
which the gangster is made. It is so |
I easy for him to go wrong.
As he gets older he may commit ,
some little breach of the law that
other boys will take pride In as a
proof of his daring. The corner saloonkeeper
patroniees him and marshals
him with others of his kind.. He
gets his introduction into the under1
world and meets real gangsters upon ,
whom the women of the streets fawn
j and who nod knowingly to the "cop"
j on the corner. If he stumbles into a ;
scrape the saloonkeeper or one of Ills
newly acquired friends will appeal to
some ward politician for bail, lawyers ,
j and the necessary "pull" to get him j
out of trouble. Then he sticks to his i
I friends, ami gangdom has won another 1
I recruit
Irrepressible Conflict.
All this is perfectly well known to j
tlie chureliee, the settlement workers
and all the "reformers," and many and ,
strange are the ways of those who
would lead youth in the paths of right- i
eousness. There is going on nil the |
time in this as in every other great
city a constant tussle between the
forces of good and the forces of evil, j
Moth are reaching down into the '
struggling mass of upgrowing human- !
ity, seeking for new recruits.
A great deaT. cf perfectly good energy
has been wasted in trjlng to get
real live boys to spend their Sunday* :
Real gar-gsters upon whom the worn- i
en of the streets fawn and who nod
knowingl) to the "cop" on the corner.
afternoons in summer attending Bible
classes when they wanted to play ball j
in the corner lot. That is just an in- j
vitation to the daring boy to play tru- |
ant, and as the rest of "de gang" who !
lack the initiative to grow up into ;
anything but law-abiding citizens any- !
how are not there to play with him i
he goes off and gets into mischief.
Field for Boy Scouts.
Only one organization really seems
to be properly equipped for attracting
to Itself the boys who but for its existence
would grow up to be gangsters,
and that is the Hoy Scouts. It is just
the kind of thing that appeals to high- :
spirited boys and it is doing a most
wonderful work in making them Into
manly youths who will grow up to be
good and useful citizens. There is a
striking sameness about the gangster's
unwritten code and the laws of the
"Thou shalt not squeal," is the first ;
law of the gangster. The gangster's
honor is to be trusted in gangdom. The
first law of the Hoy Scouts is 'A
scout's honor is to be trusted." If he
breaks his honor by telling a lie he
ceases to be a scout. If the gangster
squeals the penalty is death.
Next to not squealing, the law of the
gang i? that its members shall be
"hunky." A scout's second law is loyalty
to his country and his friends.
"He must stick to them through 'hick
and thin against anyone who is their '
enemy." And so on. A scout must be j
brave and daring and must obey or- ,
ders without question and he must
never sulk. All of which things are
expected of the gangster.
Mostly American-Born.
A large majority of the gangsters
are American-born, mostly of Irish or
Italian descent. The young Jew does
not make good gang material, or rather
what gangs there are in or of the !
(Ihetto differ from rhe real "gunmen." |
The young Jew who goes wrong be- !
comes a thief, a "dip," or pickpocket,
or else he gambles?generally with
nlore or lees success?in which case
he hires gangsters to protect his profits.
Here and there on the lower Hast
side a gang of young Jews will get up
a fake lottery and sell their worthless
tickets to the small shopkeepers, who
know that refusal to "come acrose"
with the 50 cents demands would Ic.-d
t
THE FORT MILL TIMES, FO
to a stone being pitched through their
store window at night, or tome wanton
damage being done to their goods. It
is a cheap form of blackmail.
Leaders Who Play Safe.
There are several gangs in New
York with a membership of more than
a thousand, hut more and more the
men at the head of them keep their 1
hands free of actual crime. The lead- j
er is the man with brains and money,
and above all with the contidence of
the itolitician, who h4s enough influence
to smooth out the serious trou- j
Klau ??l%lnl> #-11 " ? '
wico iiiiu in* iuiiuwtT? may iau. |
In case of a murder or killing it is
the general /rule for the actual murderer
to be safely hidden away while
the arrest is brought about of some
other member of the gang, who, on
trial, will be able to put in a perfect
"He Will Attend to That When He
Gets Out."
defense, or who will have to be released
by tlie police for lack of evidence.
Although it la literally true that
there are in New York today dozens of
gangs and thousands of gangsters, the
great majority are without real standing
in the underworld. At a conservative
estimate there are, however, from
twenty to twenty-five recognized j
gangs, with a membership in excess of :
6,000 men, from which politicians and
gamblers and others requiring their (
services can get thugs, repeaters and j
strong-arm men for any purpose, from j
carrying an election or breaking a i
strike to securing the com mission of
crime against the poisons or property
of citizens.
Settle Their Own C'*&putes.
Gangdom recognizes this state of
outlawry and it always setrles its own j
disputes. The recognized forces of
law and order?the police?are never j
called upon to listen to its complaints. ]
If a gangster falls in any feud, if he
has been shot or stabbed, he never 1
gives the name of his assailant. "He j
will attend to that when lie gets out." |
If he dies he knows that his friends '
will avenge him, and oft.n in New
York hospitals when the police have
vainly tried to get a wounded gang- j
ster to "sQueal" some member of his
gnng will call at the hospital, bend
over tho little white cot and only a
tightening of his jaw tells the policemen
on guard that tho visitor lias
learned the nrflnn of the man who is to
pay fo? the gangster's death.
HORSE OUTRUNS A KANGAROO
Men Attack the Big Animals With
Oniy Clubs For Weapons, and
Kill Them.
Notwithstanding the kangaroo's
popular reputation for speed, he is
easily overtaken in the bush by a good
horse within half a mile. A capable
kangaroo dog?a lean, swift beast, a
cross between a greyhound and a
mastiff, bred to course and kill -soon
runs him to bay. Without dogs it is
the custom to kill with a cudgel. This
is often accomplished by tin- sportsman
from the back of his horse l>is- j
mounted, however, with lite kangaroo
waiting alertly for attack, it is sometimes
a perilous venture to come to
close quarters. A slip?and the sportsman
finds himself all at once in a des- :
perate situation. A lumberjack
showed scars of an encounter. He
had ridden the kangaroo down and.
being in haste to make an end of the
sport, he had caught up the first likely
stick his eye could discover, and he
had stepped quickly and confidently
in, and he had struck hard and accurately.
And the next instant, caught
off the ground, he was struggling. 1
breast to breast, in the hug of the
creature, frightfully aware that he
must escape before the deadly hind
foot had devastated him.
"My club broke," be exclaimed, "and
the boomer got me."?Norman Duncan
in Harper's Magazine.
Not the Same.
Robert W. Chambers, at a liter
ary luncheon in Garden City replied
to an attack on publishers mad*
by a young writer.
"If there is a demand for an author's
book," said Mr. Chambers, "he
will find his publisher anxious to treat ;
him fairly and even generously. Of i
course there are exceptions ? my
friend Blank's publisher, for instance,
was an exception.
"After a short conversation one day
in Fifth avenue, Blank, on taking
leave of me, said:
" 'By the way, do yotf remember
my telling you that my publisher said ,
he would raise my royalties in a
month or so?"
" 'Yes,' I replied. 'Hasn't lie?'
"'No. 1 misunderstood him. He
meant he'd try and raise the back 1
royalties due on the last year's sales
of my book. 1 .haven't had a sent
yet.'"
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MIGHT LEARN FROM ENGLAND
In that Country the Movement for
Proper Housing Conditions Has
Made Much Headway.
Under the guidance of Co-partnership
Tenants, Ltd., the co-partnership
in housing movement continues to
make steady progress in various parta
oi England, it is exciting the interest
of the many deputations from the
continent that have lately visited that
country, and the extension of the
methods both in the colonies and ou
the continent is assured.
Although the Liverpool Garden Suburb
will, when completed, be the
largest of the estates federated with
Co-partnership Tenants. Ltd., that at
Hampstead has tip to the present attracted
most attention. The whole
suburb will consist of 6(55 acres, about
100 of which will be glvei up to open
spaces, including woods that have
been reserved in the general layout,
as designed by .Mr. Raymond I'nwin,
and various playing fields that may
be regarded as an essential feature of
such a model estate. This was visited
recently hv the American Civic
usbuviiiiiun aihi .nr. it. h. w atrous,
tlic secretary, thought the Hampstoad
Garden suburb a 'vast and really wonderfully
organized system." The
preservation of these woods is regard
ed by all who are fond of natural beauty
as a great tribute to the co-partnership
movement, says the Town
Planning Review.
At Liverpool. 2a eut of the ISO acres
of which the suburb will ultimately
consist have been developed by the
erection of 250 houses, this being the
limit established by the central body.
There is the nucleus of a community I
that will have a well-organized social i
life and the local education author!- i
ties, who will shortly have U> consider
the question of school nceom- I
laudation, have just furnished the In- 1
stitute as a temporary elementary I
school to suflice for the time being
The provision of gardens was regarded
by a deputation of German town
planners who recently visited the
suburb as one of the best features of
the housing work they had seen In
Liverpool.
CITY AND SUBURBS ARE ONE]
Philadelphia Has Recognized Truth of
This and Is Making Its Plans
Accordingly.
Governor Tenor of Pennsylvania has
selected a very strong commission to
carry out the Idea of the law nassed
by the last legislature to plan the development
of the Philadelphia suburbs.
In the course of time the incorporation
of these suburbs with the city is
inevitable. Even us it is they are
part of the metropolitan district, their
interests and associations are vitn
the city and it is only sensible that
the city plan and suburban plans
should match and supplement each
other. An attractive city invites residents
and keeps them. The planned
city is not a fad. It is a science
that has taken lirm root in America
and good rsults have been manifested :
from it in older countries. England
Is building many model villages. In
Germany cities which a few' years ago
were dump heaps of grimy IndustrialIsm
have been transformed without 1
the least interference with business
activity and to the benefit of the public
at large. Boston, Chicago and New
York have caught the artistic spirit
as is seen In the magnificent approaches
and terminals recently constructed.
Philadelphia is behind none
of these in its civic vigilance, and the
opportunity to make the greater mo- j
tropolis second to none in its green
and spacious aspect is before us.
Beauty of Cities Has Cash Value.
A decision which should he of special
interest to San Franciscans, perpb
xe.l as to the billboard problem. ;
has just been handed down by tho aprtollafit
o/.iift /littE.E... - ? * * 4' *
rv.iUK ivilli UMIMUII <11 (ll<? IM'W
York courts, says the San Francisco |
Chronicle. A construction company
has unnecessarily destroyed several
shade trees on a city street, and tho j
lower court had mulcted It in damages j
to the extent of $f?00 for each tree
destroyed, and $1,000 In addition for
willful destruction of aids to civio j
beauty. The bearing of this decision
on tiie billboard problem Is seen in
the new conception of beauty as a civ- |
ic asset, a view of the local difficulty
to often lost sight of. In upholding
the award, the appellate court stated
that It looked not so much at the commercial
worth of the trees as at their
esthetic value, which, it considered,
was the more Important of the two.
The decision is without precedent, but
it is a striking Illustration of the new
idea as to the Importance of civic
beauty, not only for esthetic but for
commercial reasons.
Mental Cloud Lasted Long.
A modern Rip Van Winkle, awaking 1
from nine years of oblivion, finds his
old friends dead and his children
grown to manhood. He resides in that
same Sleepy Hollow country, where
was laid the scene of the mngic story.
His name is Hyinan T^evy, and for
many years he was a leading merchant
in Tarrytown, N. Y., before the
"sleep" of years began It was a mental
cloud-that shrouded him and made
blm almost as one dead to his friends.
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Mrs. French Yanderbilt, at a luncheon
at Harbourviewe, her beautiful
Newport villa, said of the nouveaux
riches of Gotham:
"These people form, undoubtedly, a
very splendid ami ornate society?but
it is a social upper crust based exclusively,
as it were, on the financial
dough beneath."
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