Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-05

means of the scrutf of your neck,
through hooting and madding crowd,
but the policeman who has arrested
YOU sends in signal from the nearest
box. and directly, as the English put
it, or right away, as the American has
it. a beautiful silver-mounted droska,
or Rise-up- William Riley-and-come
along-with- me phaeton, drawn by gayly
caparisoned and neighing steeds,
dashes up to the curb, driven by an
Olive street gondolier You bound
lightly into the beautifully fecked
chariot, tiny silver gong about the
size of railroad timetable tinkles
gayly, and away you go, arousing the
envy and admiration Of those who have
never been under arrest.
But how, asks the keen and pungent
reader, can ST. Louis afford to do this,
while in city like New York the
criminal must either walk to the sta
tion-house or forego the joys of arrest
entirely. The answer is simple. Here
the criminal pays $3.50 for an arrest
which he used to get at So. This pays
his droska hire and makes his arrest
something to look back to with pleas
ure. People who yield to the police
and become arrested from time to time
do not care for the expense. Mostly
they refer the expense to place which
should be alluded to sparingly in q
Sunday paper. And so the sum of 50. SO
doesn't bother them at all. They pay it
if they have it, and if they do not, an OPP
portunity is given them to earn it later
on at some skilled labor like pounding
sand. This makes the arrest an orna-
ment to the city, and the gentlemanly
criminal or misdemeanor obligato pays
for it, thus contributing to his own
comfort and making his arrest ddi-
cate tribute to himself which the pa-
pers can use, and which will read we'll
in scrap-book when forked over Ito
future generations.
st. Louis points with pride to her
police system and methods Of arrest.
A New York man who comes to St.
Louis and gets arrested is treated list
as we'll as if he had been born hete;
whereas St. Louis man who goesIto
New York, when arrested, is at oIce
looked upon with suspicion.
The people of st. Louis love Ito
compare their police and arrest systd DIM
with those of other cities, and to speAk
of Chicago with quiet scorn. Thky
love to point with pardonable pride to
their five mayors, neither one of whom
dared for some time to leave town fbr
fear one of the others would be SIDE
mayor when he got back. They aho
speak with some acrimony of the OIL
time Chicago justice of the peace, wi 10
used to have his shrine over gilded
hell. He had deaf and dumb waiter
built in, back of the bench, also a
speaking tube, by means of which he
could refer difficult points of law ia a
lowbrowed chemist in his shirt sleeres
down stairs, and so, as we say in the
Rue de Bowery, he would ever and
anon roll the rock" And it fell cut
that in his court justice was not only
! blind, but she had bad hiccough as
the day wore on, while now snd
then the hoarse overruling power
of the justice mingled its accents with
the whistle of the speaking tube and
the low moan of the tipless dumb
waiter.
Thus it happened that in the records
of the Office the stenographer has erro-
neously embodied in the Justices rrl-