The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-21
NYE UNDER ARREST.
His Experiences In London,
Paris and New York.
SOME TRUTHFUL COMPARISONS.
Etxxr wills Nrs.

/ yo1s6 very much lAe, VIVA tA- Seeses
permission. 10 draw 3 few comparisons be-
tween the average policeman OF New YORK,
Paris and London. The nasive-born New
York policeman says: II don't care
dang vho makes the laz OF me country 30
that / kin knack At the nawz ay the man
that violates them"
He is proud Of the position. He would
rather he the proud guardian OF beat than
10 be foreign minister with foreign con-
gTegasion and only two donations year.
He also wears good fitting clothes and IS
proud OF his Job. The American police
man. though at times the victim OF insoul-
MIA. is the best looking specimen OF man
hood. think, OF the three l 90 not say
this in order 10 stand well with the police
of my own country alone, for find that
am about As likely 70 be arrested IN one
country as another, but truth and justice
demand that I should say honestly that
the police of our own country stand at the
head of their profession. also at the head
OF their victim, and look better by large
percentage This is especially true OF our
more thoroughly American policemen from
Germany and Ireland.
Different nations give the policeman Pc
culiar embIems and peculiar methods. The
New York copper carries club which gets
heavier as the sun goes down. The French
policeman carries short stab knife, with
which he is supposed to neatly scoop out
the seth Thomas works of those who resist
him, but am told that there Is no sword
in the tin scabbard, only dummy handle
for style-iust as i. Wall used TO carry
seven or eight different colored silk UNI
brelia covers in which he would insert his
cane from time to time, thus opportunity
wearing an umbrella for each hour OF the
day at great reduction Of expense.
The London policeman carries mysseri-
Gus weapon which 1t took me all OF one
forenoon 70 fully understand the principle
Of. But found out after a while. 1t was
long. black. shiny cylinder, hanging at
the side and looking like little, juvenile
canon without a breech. Finally l got SO
curious gave large corned-beef police
man thrippence 10 tell me about it. He
then unrolled the gun and saw that it was
akind of macintosh made of oilcloth to be
worn when it rains. which it sometimes
does in London, especially during what IS
called the rainy season.
The English policeman regards his Office
with peculiar yeneration, exceeded only
DIV Tie awe Will " HIGH IC fck0I0S AiAESclk
His Jaw is kept in place by strong, black
shiny strap which passes under the chin
and prevents the mouth from falling open
in such a way as TO admit flies or other in
sects. The London policeman rarely speaks
to any one, but the silent way in which he
controls the carriages cabs and pedestrians,
compelling nervous Americans to keep to
the left, when they have always been in
the habit of keeping to the right, challenges
the admiration OF the civilized world and
awakens feeling OF profound admiration
even in the calm and padded bosom OF the
policeman himself.
And yet this same man is in degree cor
rupt. With shilling one may blunt the
moral sense of a whole squad. With six
pence you may select the style OF indignity
which you would like to present to one OF
them, not for the intrinsic value, but as
mark of esteem.
was at the opening OF the trial of Mrs.
Mavbrick in Liverpool. The police guarded
the entrance TO the great courthouse where
the pure Juice OF justice was so soon to be
squeezed from the ripe knowledge Of an
average jury instructed by peculiar judge.
] stood about, hoping to be drawn on the
jury myself, but was unsuccessful. could
not conceal my intelligence, and so other
men were chosen. IL | had been on the
jury would have been there yet, think.
AS understood the case, it was trial on
the charge OF murder, and not on the
charge of piracy. willful negligence or adul.
terry. Ii ! am the wife OF man who eats
arsenic between meals for twenty years
and 1T the end OF that time find that he
fails TO get up for his breakfast having dur
ing the night assembled the ilume, and am
arrested and. though it il not proved at
all that | gave him the arsenic it is shown
that four years ago neglected to pay my
gas bill or wrote poem on spring, am TO
be hung for murder or starved 10 death in
my cell, and then given life sentence? |
trust not.
But was speaking of the police notice
this difference in the methods of policemen
in the countries named. When arrested in
London | was taken by the tender spot
just above the elbow. In Paris the gen
d'arme took me politely as ore would take
the arm of lady who had threatened to
he sister 10 him. In New York. the first
time was arrested, ii am not mistaken.
policeman took me by the rear of the coat
collar and by dexterous turn of the wrist
aSHAs tiiC q lew llUiDfIltS so llat
! could see the heavens roll together like a
scroll. lost consciousness for a little
time and all was blank II had not acct
den'slly caught a reviving whiH of the no.
licemsn's breath. | guess would not have
been re>usoitated at all.
The Partisan policeman must say. il
inferior in his general appearance. SO is
the average French soldier. used to
wonder how France could maintain large
army While she was Sd poor and in debt.
bat see Il ali now. She saves many MILL
ions OF francs each year by making the tails
o. the coats OF the military shorter as times
get harder and also shortening the waists
OF the same. 1t has got So now that the
two coattail buttons and the collar hutton
behind are almost in row. Adde's! IL
that, the French soldier il getting smaller
every year. Ii had to fight in a real war
| would rather he attacked think. hy A
French soldier in a short.Iail coat and
wide, red cotton trousers than by anv other
adversary can think of. They are no,
the kind OF soldiers who sustained the re.
markaale supremacy OF the emperor.
The French policeman wears a navy blue
coat that tits him in rambling and desul.
tory way. He also wears linen trousers
which should have tatling around the
borders. bat the republic IS at pre- sent in
s1ieh chaotic and turbulent state that i;
: almost Impossible 70 get tie tattiag ap-
preparation through. These white linen
trousers, costing. We wlll say. = francs (. O.
D, that IS 10 say 70 cents free on board the
cars are the sole covering of the Paris
POaceT2 az legs. Hence he always has the
ar O: how VITO has heea recently chas.
USED lie carrie, a. ! Say. short sworl
( % sror ssah-&a.se hich adds sofne dignity
+ to u otherwise sTsoAoEet:c appearance
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