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Show a bitter: fight ' '. Between Superintendent Byrnes and Dr. Parkhurst, A1I0I1T M.W Ytll.K'S MOIIAMTY flu Police Ofllc.r Gives the Divine an Earnest Lctore. mint: Timiitr thin ph verier. Mr llm llorlnl'a I lilrf llrlictlt Inillelxl IJ Hie llranil Jnrr lue ttinraea errtlurllen. Nrw Yomc, Dec. 8. The fl ht be-tweeu be-tweeu Bunrlutendeut of Polloe llyrneti and the Itov, Dr, Parhhurtt, president of tho eoclcty for Iheaup-prcailon Iheaup-prcailon or vice, Is glowing moro bitter. llyrnea camo cut tonight Inn lengthy reply to Parkliiuat'a lattat communication. communica-tion. In It ho produces statistics to show that whllo there aru bourns ol prcatltullou In New York, theru la not another city lu thu world ol Its elze bo Iree Irom the uvll. After talking nt great length uf tho ivarlom methods tortliusupiusslonof this Nice, Iiyruos sues: "Dr. l'Aikhurtt lias lived In this world long enough to know how uncharitable un-charitable It la to this class ot tinners (fallen womon). How hltlo he baa learned ot the lesson his Muster taught him whon they brought lefolo Him a woman atlzod lu adultery. Let me aak Parkhurst how many of them he has given sheltelT How many hla society has taken from the street where they weru drivcu by the lubllo sentiment he rofessea pi reirist-ul? Theoretically there II ru two waya to dial with prostitution. One Is toauppnsa It, the other to license It. Practically, Practi-cally, thero la only uno way. Bup-priaied Bup-priaied It never cnu be. l.ven Parkhurst will not claim that, though he Insists that the police shall do it. Lie emu It we will not. Thero remal ua only the middle courae, of compromise. If Parkburitchoosot that, of courso it la to thrust thu uvll as far as potalblo out of sight. Hide It from utllo view where It caunot corrupt tho morals of our growing youth. That's all tbu Iiollce can do and they aro doing It tit tho best of their ability. Paikbuitt may call 11 a subterfuge, but ho knows It, nud every policeman knona by experience ex-perience that In proportion lo the tltorta mado totuppntaevllalougthu only itvallahle path, it increanea In vlrukuco, because the breaking up ol houses of lll.famo simply results lu ecatterlng the Inmates throughout teuemeut and apartment bouses, wbire they do Infinitely moru harm Ihau before. "Aato gambling houses, let me aay when teaching and preaching makia good men then wambling will atjp. Never In the history of our city waa there as little gambling In publlo nnd as much in private aa today. Patrons now gambio at their cluba and lu private houiee which the polico cannot reicb." Inclosing thesuperlntendeut sayst "True charily begins at homo. I shall bo prepared when Dr.l'arkhuratcomos to me in a proper spirit of Inquiry to show him tbo well troddeu path that leada Irom tho very door of hla church, aa It wero, to tho brothel hardly a gun shot away upou which hla 'shadowa' might exploit themselves Willi nd-vantago nd-vantago to the eeourity nnd good re-into re-into ot hla congregation, and with better auccesa than they havo attained In their pnaent hunt. Bucti shadowing shadow-ing as tho mltcoaduct of Parkhurit'a agents aud luformerscompellej me to dolu the interests of morality, hat couvincod mo that ho has In hla paid agents and epics ua great a ait of Bcoundrolsosover misled a reputable man into suviderlng the fair name of tho city whiru he makes hla home." I'AllKlimiST'a ULTLCTIVi: lNDlCTl'D. The grand Jury llila afternoon found two indictments egalost Cbarlea M. Uardner, chief detective for Dr. Park-hurst's Park-hurst's eoclcty, one ou the charge of extortion and the other for attempt od extortion. The complaining wit-ihh wit-ihh was a keer of a disreputable house. |