Show CRUSADE METROPOLITAN VICE Bishop Potter Addresses Mayor Van Wyck on the of the Authorities New ew York ov hop Henry C potter tiC oC the Protestant ot of New ew York lifts hall sent nt a tu Vail VRn Wyck In to toI I ee e In fl thu city and on the cU Ide ThIs letter Is tie the one prom 1 J week ago when thu tho I hop that one ot his hH rec irs hall bt been en Krol li by the ot or a certain that la he proposed ed to take the matter In B a manner manlier which th the up ot or tile the pollee polle force lee feel I lotter calls call attention to the urk ork Is 10 done at the pro cathedral ISO Stanton UI In endeavoring oring to Improve the condition ot the por llor ot of th eat east side aide tenement district In which It 18 l located It hue hus Leen recognized all as on an Important tar cc tur In the virtue and good o of the community In I It lie R goes on to tell teU how when tile the called at th police eta sta station tion o of the to complaIn of oC the condition o of a ra II one ot of thrill them WaS wall told by br the police captain filM he 1111 anti that when eed b by such Ruch an experience the clergy carried his complaint to a high ligh higher er cr authoritY In the police he was WaR met It II Insolent derisIon The I 1 am not Mt I bog beg tu to cay unmindful I oC It the fact that the existence o of vice In Inn Ina n a WElt great city I Ii an inevitable condition ot of the life lite o of such a ty I om am not that vice Ice be 1 out by the pollee lolice or I nn other othor c civil 1 authority Thill ThIa Is b a task tak which would demand for It its achievement a race o of angels and not noto o of men Hut But I approach you SIr to with nil all m my power a against z 1 condition ot of things In vice Is nOh only tolerated but shielded and ngel by worn sworn duty It Ia 19 Iato to repress ond It and In the name Mme o of unsullied youth and InnocenCe e eo o of young girls end their mothers who though living under often of and the hard struggle for a aI I livelihood have In them eer every Instinct ot of virtue and nad purity that ore are the orna ornaments I ments of many gentlemen It In Inthe the land and ond before God and In the face or of th the or of New York J I protest as m my people have charged mt inc to do agaInst t the habitual the tent the unutterable de contacts to which day by day e o of the base complicity o of the polIce o of New York with th the t forma torm o of vice and crimes eMmell they are subject And In the tha name 0 till tIie little onee I theta the weak nd little on ChrIstian and hebrew alike of manY and ami tongues but of homes here God is II and tile law reverenced arid the he virtUe and honored and exem 1111 ft 11 t I call cal upon you ou sir to save Bave the those people who are In a very wn Wa committed to your our charge from a 0 hell bell defiling deadly damning to which the criminal supine ot of the constituted authorities set t for tiu tho of oC the and good orden to doom them Potter In conclusion IM y 8 ho hohall hohas has hall no methods to lo suggest for the bet or of the condition these thue are Bre Lu III Luhe he hands handl of oC the mayor lie says tile hll letter Is In with instructions laid on him h by the convention ot of the l church of this diocese and he leaves the matter In the hands Mayor Van Wyck at onN onee replied 1 to the bishop liy by I a letter In which ht he Mid caid tie Iut had the Ibe tion to the district attorney then adds I 1 wish here to al assure ur you that I will exert every ery pOWer which the law has given to light the wrong and to do aWRY away with the conditions o of which you ou complain and to secure leCUN 1 a and ef d cooperation IW by the police de with all II who are working to todo do 10 awn aWay with public violations ot of law lawand 81 II and decency I rend ready at cli to auIt t and coo frale with you ou In inthis this matter I Mayor Van letter to the die dietrict triet attorney requests him to co oper operate ate ato with and the police department In the movement In n a 11 let Itt letter ter to the board ot of pollee commissioners loners I lie maor It copy cOllY of M the bish bishops O ops I letter and directs the ors ore to at one once conduct a In Into the conduct of the two police who the bishop Insulted the cler lie also directs them to at once do 10 away with tile the con conditions complained ot of on the ut east side The mayors paragraph h Is IsI I wish tt It dl distinctly understood that thatto thatto to this end I shall use ule to the utmost limit all the vested In me and that I shall hold to personal respond thoen who tall to exert themselves In like manner IF NS New York Nov Croker sailed Balled for or today on the steam steamer er Lucania Before starting Mr r Croker said laid t This movement by hell vice means bu Se e have taken up this light to purify the dt In e earnest rne t and we propose to carry it Il to a issue Chief was asked aked toon today If IC he had read rud the letter sent dent by Bishop Pot Potter Potter ter to I or Van Riling stten tion tn La nn an alleged allege l laxness In the p lIce department lie He said saidI I he have nothIng to ay on onor onor or appertaining to that matter lIe He made malic a when naked asked I If the investigation and reluctant made b by the Tammar oem e of I five In the search after vies Ic Would lie be treated In the customary manner |