WHAT CRIME COSTS IN MONEY ———— os sn ron, An Estimaie of Over $35,000,- 000 Every Year for New York City Alone, While the Coun- try as a Whole Suffers an An- nual Loss of Fully $600,000, 000 From Weak and Vicious Inhabitants. The most accurate statistics obtain. able show that crime and the results of erime entail upon the city of New York an annual expenditure sufficient to build a new subway every year Last year, for example, the items of expenditure fairly chargeable to this cause alone reached a total of $35.- 562,133.24, an amount sufficient to de- fray the cost of the Fourth Avenue Subway for which some Brooklynites are clamoring insistently, and leave something like $10,000,000 or $12,000,000 over to be applied to other needed improvements, State, county and city authorities in the St: out- side of Greater New York, spent $42. 605,473 for the prevention, detection and punishment of crime. The average citizen, too busy or too indifferent to regard details which do not come under his immediate obser- vation, is apt to cherish the delusion that the cost of maintaining the Po- lice Department, criminal courts, prison and reforr institutions, represents the cost of to the community. As a matter of fact, as he begins dimly to when he takes stock of his sing valuables the morning after a successful raid on his cozy flat, they are only a few of the items which enter into the cost of crime. One of the first brought to his attention after lirec* personal loss will be the District-At. torney’'s office, which, with its many assistants and elaborate machinery for bringing the criminal to justice, adds nearly half a million a to the cost of crime to the city of New York The figures f $424,180, which should be added to the $13,849.841 appropriated the maintenance of the Police Dep ment Besides ftems, genes Smith, study of the 80 le, the 1atory crime $i {= realize mia mis to be his own year 1907 were for art- these mors has been pol inted « an ¢€ xhat ustive Interna- years made for the who subject few item of iirectly reason of would not rould be erad- wiles of record afford Congress a exactly 10 to ion of and taining chargeable quate what crime It would be impossible say, the time of our officials is devo of penal statute erection and gulation of penal Institutions and ap- et yrfations for their maintenance In the same way the executive depart- ment rnment, which is charged enforcement of the law and judgments, is brought into almost continuous contact with crime Sev { our courts have both criminal and civil jurisdiction. The eriminal business makes vastly greater drafts upon the public treas. ury, however, for the that civil cases®costs and counsel fees a rns by parties at issue, v iminal cases all Arges oes, . treque ntly includi are a hres great it years for instance, ETT propor te legisialors prep of the State gov with the listens to appeal from its eral « reason the prisorer’s attorney, pullin trials ineux Pat ~added expense of rece rick and Harry several hundred irs each to the cost of erime to New York The military expenses of another item a proportion is manifestly chargeable of erime, since the chief value of $. 4% GOH the State are of which the is as a standing menace to evil-doers, Even the regular army is scmetimes called upon th perform police duty. Pennsylvania, Montana, Colorado, Ne. vada and some of the other Western States have had experience of this within recent years The inmates of almshouses, asy- lums and similar institutions number approximately 300,000 for the country at large, onefifth of which are sup- ported by’ private charity, the other four-fifths at a public expense of nearly $50,000,000 annually, Crime more than all other causes combined operates to crowd these public Insti tutions and it seems a moderate esti mate to ascribe to that cause least one-half of the expense of main. taining public charities. That means a little more than $3,000,000 for the city of New York. The Sheriff's office is another insti. tution one-half the expense of which bas been assigned to crime, and the same proportion is held to be just of various other departments of city and county administrations, including the Department of Public Bulldings, Lighting and Supplies, the Coroner's Office and rents pald for officeg and buildings in which to house the seav- eral departments of government. Other items of public expense prop. erly chargeable in part to crime and the results of erime are the mainten- ance of the County Clerk's office, the Department of Finance, the Depart ment of Taxes, Commissioners of Ac counts, the Department of Health, the 4 Mo i TT Fire Departmeht, each i in bh thd 1 Dropon tion of 20 per cent, and Law Depart- ment, Commissioner of Jurors and Su. prema Court expenses, each 10 per cent, In the total estimate should also be included 10 per cent. of the interest on the public debt and 10 per cent, of the redemption fund. A similar proportion of the city debt {t- self, likewise properly assignadle to the same cause, amounts to $78,866, 100. Recent outbreaks of Biack Hand and cther crimes of violence among aliens have induced a popular beliet that this class constitutes the larger part of our criminal population. Doubiless this belief hag arisen from the spectacular display with which certain bands of organized alien crim- inals surround their work, for the facts are less alarming when consid ered in the light of additional infor mation. On June 30, 1904, the date to which a census of the prison popula. tion of the United States was com- piled as a supplement to the last com. plete census of the country, the per- sons regarded as inmates of prisons numbered 81,772. Of this number only 12,945, or 15.8 per cent. of the whole, were of foreign birth, while the for eign born percentage of total popula- tion was 19.5, That there is an increasing dency to crime among allens, in State at least, was pointed out Commodore A. V. Wadhams, of State Board Parole, who stated at a recent meeting of the National Lib eral Immigration League that in 1908 they formed 33 per cent, of the prison of the State, having In about 13 per cent. sinca ithin the past year there has increase to 46 per ten. this by tha of population creased 1900. W been a cent, To an 2 of by further formulate anything more than pproximate estimate of the cos: ‘rime to the country at large would, of course, be a task almost im. of accomplishment, for the that in country districts rec. ords are much more imperfectly kept, while the proportionate cost of crime is undoubtedly higher. The cost of crima included in taxation in New York City is about $8 per capita of population, the highest in the country, Francisco it ig estimated at and other cities from $4 to 90 »asible regson In San about $5, $4.50 It is Provably wel ety to say that » to the $600.000.000 limits total direct country at larga $700,0600,000 1 within the of saf the cost of is about annually inal fire last year totalled about $100.000000, while the | 250,000 pris. oners in county jails and amounted to something over There are .at the 100,000 criminals prisons of it is est ed that from five ten times as more are eluding law, From to the Prison As- or Crim losses by oss of wages of some State, city and presser; contin in country, and the ful § the eful Ir Lae ics fob lat " canted SiaL18 presenieq ascertained that crime As a ation persons business rea- from spoll of the $1.600 each annum, When that the receivers of the lion's share of idea is obtained the cost to the community York World it has been who follow lize public it is con per ered oods get ¥ gome of the how great really is New To Fish From Motor Car Sleigh. Three years ago Capt. Halgren con- ceived the idea of a sleigh run by an engine and propelled by a spiked whee! which caught in the ice. He built several sleighs, but did not suc- cead in getting one that operated sat #torily. This season he took his horse gasoline engine ith a palr of friction clutches, on the same plan as an ile, with a spiked wheel which so that would rise or going over rough fice “or HOoOwWer built w automol was fitted fall when The sleigh is a common fisherman's with the engine attachment, but it has been run at a speed rangiog ten to fifteen miles an hour with ease. The sleight will be used this winter for fishing at Pesh- to be able to make the distance be. tween this city and Peshtigo Harbor in about onedourth of the time taken by the old sall sleighs under the best of conditions.-—Marinette corre spondence Milwaukee Sentinel. The Fixtures. A New York commercial traveller says that before old Georgia “went dny” he was one day in a saloon in that State when a man entered, nod ded to the owner of the place, who was also the bartender, seated himself and meditated. Presently he addressed the owner of the saloon, "Reckon yo’ wanter sell out, Bill?” For some ten minutes Bill con. tinued his occupation of filling pint flasks from a jug. Then he looked up. “Mout,” he admitted, “How much—-cash?” the other In quired. Bill filled another dozen flasks. “How much you give for the whole shebang—bulldin’, stock, good will, an’ all?” he (inquired cautiously. “What about the fixtures?” asked. “Oh, they go along with the rest of the outfit,” Bill assured Him; “fo” teep colonels, ten judges, nine majors, an’ a right smart sprinklin’ of hoss doctors.” Harper's Weekly, + The percentage of foreigners in Hol land is one and one-half 4 BULLDOG AlIDs SUICIDE. Harrisburg (8pecial).—After mak- ing two attempts to commit suicide, when a vicious bulldog used its best sndeavors to prevent the rescuers from pulling the man, weary of life, from the water, Henry P. Turpin, aged about 32 years, managed to frown himself in the old Pennsyl- vania canal at Steelton, near here. Turpin spent the night drinking ind early in the morning, adcom- panied by his bull terrier, went to the candl and plunged in, Edward McCord and Frank Magnellia made an attempt to reach him, but the log sprang at them, biting a plece out of the wrist of Magnellia., The dog was thrown aside and held by another man, while McCord and Mag- swam to the side of Turpin and dragged him ashore. Turpin ap- because the men would end his life, o'clock he return- again jumped in, to reach him was two men, but the dog! and bit McCord on thei more Turpin was rescu- | policeman was telephoned | him to after 8 permit Shortly not Another attempt made by the attacked both Once ed and a lor. efor 1 pin, wi - neck. ¢ he arrived, however, Tur-| hh the assistance of his faith- ful dog, got away from his and made a third and successful at-| tempt drown, He ran to the! anal, yelling “good-by" and jumped | in Once more the men followed, but the dog, more vicious than ever, after the other from the! canal. One of the men passing the dog and the stream, but the and attacked him. After minutes an officer ar- rived, and by shooting at the animal scared him from the canal. The res-| cuers then succeeded In dragging Turpin to shore after repeatedly div- ing for the body, but he was dead. | Turpin was the son of James P.! Turpin nmitted suicide 10 rescuers’ to hased one of the succeeded In jumped into dog followed some who come YOars ago. REDUCES LAND VALUES, Presider render Harrisburg Kunkel has cigion in Judge The appealed because there was of over $ the asse 8807 4 50.000 in valued wha had been ised as wood previousl) land as coal land In the decision Judge Kunk that all land within measure be valued at rate of $15 an acre, that tim land be taxed at $8 per and barren land at 33 per The ision is important the appeal of the county, whic of coal land Some of the rected unifare acre acre as It is kind t we made large de in the h has a area cuts made were strik- i reduced from | another fore iron $ third from | ing, one t $43,180 $16,611 to $1.911, 216.640 to 2 $2.0 and a ENJOINS UNION MINERS, i On the appli-} representing Mine Operators in| field, Judge J. M. | county court is- | Butler (Special). by attorneys the | Coal Butler-Mercer the President fourteen of the Francis Feehan, and all members United Mine Workers’ of America in| In the petition filed with the it was declared the employees i rious operators had with the terms on which the satisfied been | Union | izers from the Mine Workers’ appearance, It is sald in the petition that those who refused to join the union were termed “scabs” and “black hands,” and that in addition to this | were frightened by the dis- rifles or explo- old powder kegs, accom- threats, Conditions at quiet, of panied by the mines are HURT ON “PENNSY" LIMITED, Pittsburg (Spetial). — Three pas- sengers on the Pennsylvania Limited, due in Pittsburg at 9.45 o'clock P. M., were Injured when the combined Pullman and observation car Jus- titia became derailed just outside Union Station. The train was bound from New York to Chicago. The injured were Matthew Wil kinson, of Philadelphia, hurt about shoulder and head; Mrs. Matthew Wilkinson, contusion of left side and face; W. D. Wilson, Chicago, leg sprained and head cut. WANTS LANCASTER TOBACCO. Lancaster (Special). — That the fame of Lancaster County's tobacco has become widespread was evidenc- ed by the receipt of an order for seed from Prince Hayoji Rad II. 8. Weaver, of Kinzer, The Indian prince specifically stated that he desired the broad leat seed and that experiments would be made on his farms at Barada. ———— Bank Cashier Dies Suddenly, Milton (8peclal).—Major John M. Caldwell, cashier of the First Na- tional Bank, a Civil War veteran, and one of Milton's most prominent citizens, died suddenly of a bowel malady. Trolleymen Reject Wage Cut, Pittsburg (Special). ~~ By practi cally a unanimous vote the street ear men of this city have rejected the reduction of one cent an hour | pending arbitration, ———— STATE TO APPEAL. Harrisburg (Special).—An appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court from the decision of Judge Wanner, of York County, in the case of the commissioners of York County aginst H. M. Schmauck, which in- volves the payment of personal property tax to the State and under which the Commonwealth wou'd lose many thousands of dollars. It 18 charged that the defendant, who lives at Hanover, did not make true returns to the assessor for years and that he escaped payment of State tax amounting to $48,000, To make this up the commissioners reassessed the man, but at the expiration of the year for which the tax assessment was made, This action Judge Wan- ner declared was {llegal. The appeal will be made at once 80 that in the event of an adverse decision the Legislature can be asked to pass a bill covering the defect law. Senator John E. Fox, this elty, represented Auditor General Young in the case, INSANE. Because charged with and son, who is charged believed to be, the them were postponed and a commission in appointed examine BE (Special) SLAYER MAY Wilkes-Barre Frank Boner, who is wounding is. insane, murder, is Cases against the Court Was John Boner. During a family John shot and killed his brother, Louis, and was then stabbed and wounded by his father. The latter became insane after a few weeks in jail and is now in an asy- lum, and the son has been acting queerly some time. to fight last Fall, for HEALTH OFFICERS AT WORK. Reading (Special). — A field officers from of Health corps of Depart- and the State arrived here on the water shed Malden Creek supply to see if pollutions which were discovered along the stream some time have been abated The health officers, w for several weeks water shed of the River, are p ssing thelr work anc cleaning Sch uylkill apidly with to up the soon PARENTS FORGOT Shamokin Rothermel an awoke early and found the pled belr house CHILD. often flames. The was fire in many places. Fleeing for their Nellie, an Infant fell in the child burning stairway to the to the house burned 060, on child. crawled the The entail- down gireet, ground, THAIN ROBBE RS OX “PENNSY.™ Pittsburg ted express { Special) Two men se- the ork-8t. Louis on the Peansylvania, which left tnis city at 8.556 P. M., entered express car at Walkers’ Mills, ten miles west of this city, on the Pan Handle Division, overcame the and Sucaped with containin 8 currency. cre on New Y Canille Starts Blaze At Funeral, Chester (Special). — During the services over the remains of the 14-year-old daughter of Cariello, one of the lighted ignited a lace curtain. The | room quickly filled with smoke, but the blaze was extinguished before any serious damage resulted. The body was about to be removed from the house when the fire broke out fire companies responded, but | Maty, Saverio Reading (Special). being implicated In an attempt to secure from the local plant of the American Iron & Steel Company a secret process for the manufacture of a screw spike, which is a new thing used in rallroad construction, W. P. Kelly, a stranger in the city, was arrested and committed to jail in default of $1,000 bail. Several employees of the plant may be ar rested as accomplices. Charged with Chester Fire Victim Dies, Chester (Special). Charles Pul- ten, one of the colored workmen burned at the explosion and fire at the American Dyewood Extract Com- pany’'s plant, died in the Chester Hospital. The other twelve men in the hospital became very restless when they saw Pullen's dead body removed from the ward. Several of the men are in a eritical condition. i Motormen Badly Beaten. Chester (Special). — Two motor men were assaulted at Twelfth Street and REdgmont Avenue by strike sympathizers and badly beat. en. They were rescued by Lieuten- ant Voorhees, of Troop A, State Con. stabulary, who arrested one of the men suspected of being in the at- tacking party. a STATE ITEMS The Schuylkill County Commis. sioners, despite the depressing finan. cial times, have decided to redeem $60,000 of bonds, $20,000 more than they had agreed upon for this yea This will leave but $250,000 of coun. ty indebtedness. Rev. A. R. Meyers i as r of Covenant U. B. Church, caster, and Rev, Dr. Lowery, pre. siding elder of the East Pennsylvania Conference, appointed Rev. O, BE. Pil. grim, of Lisbon, Towa, to the charge. Jno. F. Gray & Son Suscdusors 0, GRANT HOOVER Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire and Lite losurance Companies fo the World. . . .. THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST . . . . 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New York Branch Waahirowan, I, b-faflofo fob se de de de de ok kk ok kok kk » You Only Have to * Steer Them and x They Take You * Everywhere. » Ahhh hkhk kh ddr bh hhh itn “The Men Who ok okok ok ok & Learned to Fly" tell the story of how they did it in an article by George Kibbe Turnes in McClure's Magazine. Ten years ago the secret of men flying was mas- tered, but no manageable machine had been made. Two American bi- cycle makers set to work to surmount the last obstacle, equilibrium. “Our idea was to secure a machine which, with a little practice, could be balanced and steered semi-auto- matically, by reflex action, just as a bicycle is. There {5 no time to be given to conscious thought in bal- fncing an aeroplane; the action of the air is too rapid. * * » “The problem of the real power driven flying machine was exactly what we knew ft must be—the ques- tion of equilibrium. We secured the use of a swampy meadow eight miles east of Dayton, Ohio. On our tests there it became clear that the flying machine would operate well in a straight line; the difficulty came im- mediately upon turning corners, as it was necessary to do in the small field. Just what the trouble was we could not tell. Several turns might be made safely; then, all at once, the machine would begin to lose its balance, and must be stopped and brought down to the ground. We kept experimenting to discover the cause of the trouble and the way of dealing with it, and in the latter part of the year 1804 we made some progress. We accom- plished a complete circle on Septem- ber 20, and two flights of three miles each around the course in November and December. The Wright Brothers now claim to have for sale an aerial warship which will give the government purchasing it 2 five years’ lead in flying machine development, Two pretty little princesses, Marga- Charles of Sweden, are beloved by the bright faces and kindly hearts. babe, but the other two girls are un- doubtedly the most popular children in Sweden, and anecdotes concerning them frequently appear in the news papers. Here is the iatest: Last Tuesday, when Princess Inge borg, their mother, was entertaining a few friends at afternoon tea in her new palace at Djurgarden, her little daughters were called downstairs to say “How do you do?” to the guests. Later, the children, playing with their dolls, became noisy, and had te be reproved more than once. But the noise continued. Princess Ingeborg turned to her little girl, and re marked: ‘ “Margaretha, a well-mannered child should be before all things obed —" “Obedient,” answered the child, without much show of enthusiasm. “And when she is told to be quiet, or to do anything, how many Umer must mamma tell her?” . “Six times,” replied Princess Mar garetha, with a mischievous glance at her mother’s friends, and there wae general laughter. Home Herald. AAS 15 HARD FLOOR. Pearl—" "Was Clarence hurt when Grace threw him over?” Ruby--"I should say so. She threw him over while they were roller skating, and Clarence had to have three stitches and Mla Sout planer.’ ATTORNEYS, D. ¥. vomruzy ATTORNEY -AT- LAW BELLEFONTE, PA Office North of Conrt House, w ———— YU. HARRISON WALKER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, PA No. 19 W. High Street. All professional business promptly attended Ww = Ez ERR 8. D. Gorrie Ino. J. Bowes W.D. Zznaw CS-ETTIG, BOWER & ZERBY ATTORNEYS AT LAW FaoLz Brook EELLEFORTE, PA. 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