The evening world., 1889-11-14
ONE HAPPY "COPPER'S" LOT.
ROUTINE OF A POLICEMAN's DAILY LIFE
GRAPHICALLY DETAILED.
D,versIons which Break tho MOnotOny Or
the Hours "On Post "-DOdginE the
Observation-Disclosures Calls in Saloons
and JanItors' ROOms-PleasRut Per-
a~uisites-PeoplS who Have "PullG."

ou~isites-PeopIe whO Have "PuIIs."
70 IA, EDITOR u The Erenin0 World:
have read your interviews with policemen
and the answers to your question as to whether
. policeman's life 10 . happy one.
have been four years on the force" 1
hogan with an idea that l could set any ono
straight that l saw breaking the laws or city ordi-
rances. l found the life then not at all q happy
one. For instance, 1 saw some half-grown boys
ono day out from one of the private schools for
their intermission. They were playing pranks
that we're harmless enough until the idea seized
them to upset an ash-can on the walk.
I shouted ct them TO let the can alone, when
the boy who held it marched boldly down and
asked what l said. 1 repeated my order that he
should not meddle with the ash-cans. He was
impairment, told me to mind my business and
attend to the servant girls he was a gentleman
and could attend to his, and so forth.
He stood close up to me. facing me impu-
IDENTIFY, and l hicked him on the cheek with q
white cotton glove 1 held and told him to shut
up or l would arrest him as disorderly. He
threatened me with breaking" took my num-
her and went off in a rage.
lie proved to be the son Of a rich brewer, who
complained Of me. | was, brought before the
Commissioners, reprimanded and changed to
My next, trouble was for ordering a liquor
dealer e. /, close ut ! o'clock At night. He did not
lis Place was keeping the crowd: He com
ordered to a post, down by the river.
did not meddle again for a long time. until
we're arrested. but managed to keep those on
wi was off post at / o'clock. There we're not so
many Of them about during the morning.;
and one SeH Of the saloons was running Jul. blast
with the shades up. l had ordered thedenler
S RsiO tod d m Pst to 9E mind M my 'f bnsfnes y" or o%f he would
have my scalp. This being Sunday 1 ordered
h hi% elSssd; o, HI he , saloon me ie to GO to SO / told fP Rim the te
get his hat and l took him to the ttation-house;
III, was released at the Captains orders and
Eon You ON see &c my W life 20 for the arst six months was
had some trouble with my mates. too, as
followed out the rule that. l was TO be relieved
station-hoiise. The man relieving me refused
to come the whole length Of the P4st, and got
Was rather fresh. and gave It up.
Ny NJ fem now Is an easy .p So as = ! m o12 es ss]s a
II When the I h TorE RtsSps as ! a Ess sIUS 3 m I SonId 1 n1t sst
so much even if 1 got work every day. and that
never did1what with strikes and delay after one
other day of duty from q p. N. Then the days
between are first, what We call a short day. then
n long day. Friday last was my long day,
went on at 9 in the morning and remained until
=. At 1 in the afternoon went on again until
U =. N. nv - u y hlRub1 NCub Oh hh"i " poehA
day morning, then was of till 9 Saturday even
ing.
and went back at s A. n. Sunday Tor my short
day. was OFF again at | Sunday afternoon and
at i this Monday morning. To-day Is again
20 Friday had two hours duty in the morn
ing and five in the afternoon, and from l2 too
SATURDAY, A; n; mskiHng Is eleven Satu hours h ~ duty h n
s%fps SIX Hours H" d"ty from omeG ! to ~ at night. So
that makes seventeen hours duty in forty
eight.
the morning, and ,l2 at, night to 9 Monday
morning, making eleven hours again n thst
SO we average, niue hours work, rain or shine,
cold or hot, strikes, fights, &C., with an occa-
sional prisoner in court taking time on the OF
Well. this seems, with the risks and calls to
fires, concerts. weddings and receptions, hard
work; but | am now able to get a pretty good
For instance, 1 go on at 0 this evening. There
is little house for q Waterman at some new
buildings on my post, aud as instead OF sleeping
l wr haHs pee ReSn a Ga r = rSGf / snail In 20 m% in there and
sleep until $50, when get ont 10 the corner
that IL IT, the .m rouG indiana avn VIII aS SSSf' tb hh sSm SlT t;%s pass eS.
don't come. Alter the roundsmHn comes the
house and get a little lunch and stay until II or
Ia or 60 back to the w%Gtchmen's honse.
a,Faloon to chat and for a "set-me-up"Ia I'M
Of bfSeaEaf1alst.' or sonletimes get shaved. Nv
somewhere until ., and then get, to the street
the roundSman goes through. That standing
around may not be over until 4, and sometimes
something prevents their, rounds And we are
hard, for it keeps us out until 9 for fear Of being
cAnght; but usually the Hounds" and the
Ser Ecant have gone by land we can go under
cover until 6. =.
have played cards from ? to o with q friend
IN the back room of a saloon or in a friends
house; have spent the time with ladies, or gone
When. we go on at IL at night all of the fell
lows going in one direction drop into a saloon
n n@9ii r shs 1'G pSsnGs fo OF Fl eRo h ofics s1IS snsp t EEs1 G we
al have our places of going to bed. go IN the
Sa.ement Of 2 LARGE fat where the iani tito
hours.
Thay are very nice at this fiat. / have taken
ttrgcants and rOundsmen had q, Grand Army
or club meeting and would not. be around. |
would 20 IN and take off my uniform and PIT
Last Grand Army picnic night four OF. us
PICKS from my post and played cards from 7
! often wonder that citizens who see these
h"tice or mind it. One man in our platoon was
IN u saloon asleep one afternoon when, a man
crushed, and no one seemed to know how to
ntnP The bleeding, no" how to ring Tor an
nnmnnIanco, 80, az they could not md the
pHIIiIplinan, some one ran to the hospital.
inc ambulance got :here lust a. the pHtrolman
ulu. and 40 nothing was said and he helped put
Gn ene tourH!iquet and get the man IN the ambu-
quarters Of an hour and was too feeble for oper-
hhtnn and died in an hour after arrival at the
islopld not like such a thing to happen to
M; | have been more lncky.
nv there were six robbe,ies BY, sneak thieves on
III CAV nnat ihia SDmmaF hIi / "a mt hlan1nH