Show fEW HEW YORKS VIGILANTES To sf Rye HundrI Me Moo of an and Proe Proved ar and lp lip I It rell low 11 Jill I lit untie to 1111 nud New Yok York Ja Jait I T World says AYI The vigilance In committo favored by Bishop I Is being formed by In Individual members of tIl the City club chub wIll not b be o ot of them nor 1101 60 and wi oly only mi men ut of tried al and proved aM aad conservatism e ti Ill be I Ui In the ranks Tb total may not exceed 1 The City xe club chub a all am I is nut ye the Ine tar lor the corn com commit mit mute o ox vigilantes LUI but aftel Ih the or baN tt len been a Ullon DIY b h submitted d to 10 the Ihl Ie hers ot of the club to bod body tr Bishop lid said lii In of the vigilante nc last lall night 1 thInk that a buy body or of earnest hot honest men who would ploll promptly f r port to 10 a central committee t I dl litton laUon of the law tr the Ibe U i Ice which rain came under their 4 01 the Ille of the cl city the extent or of officIal Ixl laxity JIl render a service of oC the very try greatest t alue t to an objection la math l by some ome of the members ot of the 1 ot of tu to the employment ot of yung oung Ien men in III the stork ork the bishop lid ink T Thet t has h truck In a rather funny runn I Soberly J I dont see how the oung I men ot of the cl city arc likely to Cal fall reater danger thai non no ml ln I i I i an over the city Of OC course J I Id d lut advocate any 11 cit it ing Into lh the secret uC of hou houses or any allY participation In ii gum gum Dil But there are f few W men In the th city who tiny hot lot t one time or r nn an another other ben been solicited to vice Ice or I II It flaunted In the streets 10 Is It II g j jIlg Ilg to hurt huT theta to make a 1 record of the that fact anti report It to comlee for InvestIgation I COl COlf con f eu I dont dontI see I 1 ha have on 1 mv desk a letor letter this morning ron telling me inc meI or of the existence ot of 1 a disorderly house houseIn In a certain strait and of the coping In of leli by two tO policemen In Iii plaIn clothe cloth who get their payout ay out of the themen men they Now how Is It len to hurt a young un man who II sees that Ihal frol from acl across the Ihl street to report th the matter It II seeing to III me that no reform lem such uch as we wish to see accomplished can an l be brought about but In any allY wa way 10 savo of oC the ly the persistent publication lon hI abundant Instances of cOrrUptIOn and collusion with lh vice ice I It ha has been n shown hown that th the whole city Is suffering from a rel reign of oC terrorism on the hart or of the t police le rore force On the Et East Side this I is marked Many Ian Imal small tradesmen do business there sole solely I ly by grace if bribing the thice Th bIshop 1 told of other othier form forna of t 11 lice cupidity le lie cited the cl case ot of a a policeman who found the lost son Ion of ont one of his friends recently The plc police policeman man simply did hil lila duty In taking the small lal boy to the station house where he Wi was found I a little later b by an old brother Hut Bul the Policeman appeared at the boys house houle on three day days and demanded payment for Ini Ir the little fellow Im Im that Ihal that indIfference II Is at the bottom of a god good deal of oC the trouble What w we ned need mot most of oC all 1 is isa 1 a constant concentration of Public Rt at upon th the present prent conditions That Thai l ii what I 1 believe to 10 b be essentIal to reform line I se no beleI better wa way ot of no ao It than Ihan through such uch a vig I lance rom committee church mi te as I advocated In 51 St A DEFENSe oJ Oh NIn NII New York Jan 20 19 Comptroller Co Ca Cair CoIr Ir ir ot of New York ork spoke last lut be before forI fore the Outlook club of Mont lair N NI The City of New NewYork I J 1 His I subject was i York Hi Ills addre address war a defense of oC what he caled called the greatest cIty cilY In the we rid The great t city he said stands stand a In Inthe Inthe the glare ot of conflicting and No matter nhat the cause caule th dark pot In the c ty ae ate b being held hehl up to view and the bright spots Art ar lot lost sight or of The city ot of New York YorkI I is at al In the throe of nf ne uC of those thoe peculiar convulsions which break breR breakout out In al all great ret cities The opinion that thaI New York I Is 1 a wicked city II the of the Iho efforts f 1 a fl fe men whose Instincts are arc so 10 good 00 that thul thatto to them even In beyond their own on shadow I Is and Ind black From what I is bing beng said about NI New York Yur YurI I it would apar appear Ihl he h a corrupt gov o ani Sn n govern overn government ment and that tat vice and flourish on nn the streel streets Ind and everywhere Ever Even ni evil place which flourishes wih with or without lolle protection each sink Ink sinkhole hole hol of crIme and moral degradation II is being out and her own seem tm to veith 11 each other to se see whit wh coull could pRint paint th fair city blackest New Nl York the comptroller declared dc d dB Was B growing bt better r not WOre worse 11 lie revenues A three quarters of ofa ofa a million clIck el h working day Y She spent more morp for Cor education more for charl charity lorl more for public improvements ure far the benefit of oC the public that 11 all the nil other cities ties ot of the country together Her bier expenses 1 approximate of th lii national government but nowhere II in inthe the world was a 1 so nueh ro good done I so mill many obtained |