Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-07

is mad and the universal opinion is that the |
Republican convention for congress will be
broad farce, humbug, as no one feels that |
they will be bound by its action or that of the
boilers. Kindred, however, seems to have de-
cidedly the NEST friends.
The cry is, on to Grand Forks Everybody |
and his uncle goes this week to see the flyers. |
So, also, yours. AC.
CH1oAao,s PCL1oE.
The Boa System Witch Is the Terror Of
Crinssnals-Sonse Quick Work.
William J. McGarigle, general super
intendent of the Chicago police, has been
personally investigating the police sys-
tenn of London and Paris. He has been
able to give the authorities over the
water some good points regarding police
work IN this city. The basis of Mr.. Nc
Garigle's plan is the development of
rapid communication between one part
of the city and another. The telephone
and the telegraph are placed within
easy access of the policeman on his beat
and the citizen in the street or at his own
home.
Chicago is laid out in about twenty
four police districts, in each of which is a
special depot, where are to be found a
reserve of three policeman, wagon and
four horses. Each depot is connected by
telegraph and telephone wires with boxes
placed in conspicuous and convenient
places throughout the district. These
boxes are somewhat like old fashioned
sentry boxes and are placed at the corner
| of streets. They are octagonal in
shape and often do duty as lamp
posts, the gas pipes being con-
cealed in the woodwork and running out
side up to the handsome lamp surmount-
ing it, so as to cause no obstruction in
the interior. Within each box is tele-
graph signal box and telephone instru-
ment, the former for the use of the pub
lie and the police, and the latter, except
in rare cases, for the use of the police
only. The door of the sentry box is kept
locked. but can be opened at any time by
anybody who needs the help of the police,
keys being freely supplied to all citizens
who ask for them land literally distributed
among accessible stores for the use of
those who have neglected to provide
themselves with them; and, of course,
every policeman is provided with one.
The precautions taken to prevent false
alarms are as effective as they are ingeni-
GUS. Every key issued is numbered, and
the individual to whose care it is en-
trusted is held responsible by the police
department for its safe keeping and prop
er use. Whenever a key is used to open
the door of one of the boxes it is held
there by "trap" lock and can be re.
moxed only by ssrelease'' key, which
nobody but member of the police force
can procure. To give false alarm is
therefore a difficult thing to do without
running dangerous risk of detection,
and detectionl renders the perpetrator
liable to atine of $50.
When policeman or citizen touches
the signal for assistance the door of the
nearest reserve depot stable is simultane-
Ously thrown open and the fastenings of
the pair Of horses kept harnessed to the
wagon!are released, and in one minute and
a half at most from the giving Of the call
three extra policemen will be at the sig
nal box from which it was sent. In case
further assistance is needed the telephone
can be used by one of the policemen and
in a few minutes large force can be
gathered from other depOts or from head
quarters:
The superiority of this system is suffi-
GENTLY obvious, but there are some i'm.
portant advantages connected with it
that may not occur to the ordinary reader.
By the use of the signal box the employ
ment Of rOundsmen is rendered super
fous. Instead of reporting to rounds
man, who has to 60 to the policeman on
his beat, he goes to the signal box and
himself reports ''All vel" "Prisoner in
CHARGE" or whatever he has to
say. Whether anything occurs OF
not the, policeman on duty must re.
port at stated intervals. Records
of the reports from every district
are kept at each reserve depot and for
warded to the central Office, so that every
morning the superintendent can see at a
glance what each man has been doing at
any period of the twenty four hours.
pays large proportion of the cost of the
reserve depots, and the increased eff
cheney of the whole force, obtained
through the absolute certain control over
the actions of each policeman, reduces
the general expenditure for police protec-
ton bv the general reduction of crime.
Since the plan was first tried in Chi
Icago-now some eighteen months since
1.-The most troublesome districts in the
city have become comparatively quiet.
The opportunities of the thief are re-
duced in every way. When policeman
captures prisoner he does not leave his
beat to the mercy of the cautious burg.
lar and the wary thief Instead of going
on his perilous way with his prisoner to
the police station he signals for wagon
and hands him over to the three reserve
policemen who come with it. The knowl-
edge of this fact, added to that of the
probability that in anY house he NAV
select there may be in use private sig
nal box (obtainable by any citizen at an
outlay of thirty dollars), deters the burg
lar and makes bold the timid householder
and gives confidence to the lonely house.
holders wife.
DEFEATED DESPERADOES.
Train Robbers Given Away by q Pa, and
i Part of tho Gang Arrested.
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