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Show Prominent Men Are Forced to Organize For Protection Now York, Feb. 1G New York City Is to have a vigilance committee, which, like similar volunteer committees commit-tees in frontier mining camps, alms to make the streets of the metropolis safer for the citizens and restrain the carrying of firearms by the prosecuting prosecut-ing of those active In east side gang fights, and In murderous attacks on tho foreign colonies of the city. The vigilance committee Is a volunteer organization, or-ganization, Including In Its membership member-ship Bishop Greer, Hudson Masim, Jacob H Schlff. John Wanamaker, Henry Clews and others. The formation of the committee Is due to the Initiative or the city coroner's cor-oner's office, which sent twenty letters let-ters to men conspicuous In all walks of life, asking thorn to organize for the purpose of restilctlng, If possible, the Increasing number of homicides In NewYork. More than half of those appealed to respondod, while others, JQcludlng John D. Rockefeller, expressed express-ed thejr sympathy with" tho movement and promised their moral support. Tho committee will endeavor to have laws passed, making It necessary for the state to license all shops until un-til the applicant has secured a permit per-mit from the police department. The number of homicides in New York In 1910 was sixty per cent greater than In the previous year. |