Judge — July 24, 1909 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Jepentemies, and Mexico, ‘To Cas Suadld $1.04 year JUDGE cannot be found a ay sews HANGE OF anily el tute the bist copy of JUD sident building. Chancery Lame, lareach's News hechange, Mains, {he pebllahers will be ander obligations if that tact be promptly reported on postal-card Cable Address, “ Judgarl PWS 4130-7 At Tel. 6632 Madison sq:are. Anihur ‘Lerry, Treasurer Seeresary. yacte Building, Chi Grant F. Hamilton, Art Editor, The contents of FUDGE are protected by conyright in both the United States ard Great tain. CONTPIBUTORS must inciose a stamped and self-addressed entvelope with all manuscrotte otherivise rerurm of the Latter when founs unavailable cannot be guaranteed. boy letter. umber on theit wiapger, From two to thiee weeks must HE DID HIS DUTY AS HE SAW IT. HEODORE A. BINGHAM, Brigadies A. (retired), Poli ommissioner of Greater New York (fired), has gone to What has happened in his absence is summed up by a New York newspaper “Although Police Commissioner Bingham has been out of office less than ten days, the cial tip’ has already gone out that New York is again to be nen town, and gamblers are flocking to the city. Upper iway yesterday in the vicinity of the Hotel Albany and the Knickerbocker looked like Manhattan in ‘the old days.’ Little crowds of * sure-thing men,’ ‘bank’ dealers, and ‘wheel rollers’ yregated on corners, and a brisk activity in the rental market resulted as a consequence of the many-sided fights for good locations in the White Light for gambling houses."" The Outlook, in an editorial which opens the says that the New York police situation ** is something far more than an incident of local municipal administration,"’ and puts it down as ‘* as serious a problem as any in that whole range of serious problems which con ‘ipal government."* Even the extremely conservative Evening Post boldly asserts: ster lawyers, st gouging bondsmen, and others of the piratical crew who hang about the police courts of the city are add- ing their voices to the chorus of thankfulness sung by those who feared Commissioner Bingham.” Three years and a half ago General Bingham was made Police Commissioner of New York. Whatever Mr. Bingham may or may not be personally, no one can question his sincerity and his honesty of purpose, If he did not drive out the gamblers that thronged the city’s thoroughfares, he confined them to the underground abodes, as follows: of sue for July 10th, ess — A POLICE-EYE RASA MORE VIEW OF What New York has become since Commissioner Bingham was removed from office. If he did not put out the flame in the red-light district, he turned it down so low that it was much less attractive to the young had been dazed by its brightness in the past. If he could not make the police force what he wanted it to be, he continually raised the lard of the men, as any one with half an eye could sce if the dif- ferent police parades were watched. If he could not close up those pawnshops which were nothing more nor less than banking houses for thieves and brokers’ offices for corrupt policemen, he at least made them pay some attention to the statutes of New York. For trying todo his duty as he saw eneral Bingham was “‘ fired "’ by the present mayor of New York. Ordinarily Jupcr has nothing to say about the filthy rats that swarm the sewer mains of New York; but when lids are lifted and species are allowed to secx quar- ters where they may, the sight cannot be passed by unnoticed. 8 a great optimist, but he is inclined to take much the same that taken by his neighbor, the World, which believes that the solution of the police problem in New York lies in the direction of a State police. girls who stan degenerate rats of the two: PEN-POINTS. son are just beginning HE college graduates of the 1909 | to learn that they will have to exchange the cap and gown for jumper and overalls if they are going to keep out of the bread line. The Pittsburgh Chronicle - Telegram bemoans the fact that “ Squint-eyed Bob, the Bully of the Woods," is net in Dr, Eliot's list of ks for a five-foot library. If Dr. Eliot has omitted your favorite book, tell Jupce. NEW YORK CITY.