Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25
CRANKS AND CROOKS
How the President is Guarded
Against Their Visits.
Six Officers Scrutinize Every
White House Caller.

"Why should not any person who
happened to be so disposed attempt to
assassinato the President at one of his
receptions" qucricd representative OF
tho Washington Star.
Simply for the reason that it would
be very difficult for any individual so
inclined to reach the presence of Dir.
Harrison" replied the White House
usher addressed. You don't sec WHY.
but that is because you never looked
about you when you have attended
reception ut the executive mansion.
low many officers do you suppose
surveyed you critically while you
we're passing into the cloak room2 Six
in all. No, one of these men but has
had years OF experience i'll the police
service. They nre so tIaincd--cvcry
man OF thcm-that thoy can tel at n
glance just what sort OF person each
guest who enters il. Two classes of pco.
pie are chl..ilJ to be LOCKED out for
cr'nk' and crooks, sTho crooks are
readily disccrniblc by the educated eve
their aspect always bctrays them. AS
Tor tho cIanks thoy arc distinguishablc
with equal readiness. The task Of
making them out is re ndcrod CASTOR, to
Begin with, by consideration of tho fact
that three fourths of all mild lunatics
arc crazy on religious topics. OF course
oncc in while visitor gets IN here
who Is not entirely sanc-that is una.
voldablo necessarily. But it is a very
oxceptionablc case. AS an almost IN
variable rule can tell crank at the
first glance. and if do not another of
the guards will" The typical crank
il almost unmistnkablc. He, supposiur
him maic-or female, for that matter
has little chance TO pass the scutric, at
The door and beyond. Each of these
scntrics, apart from his acutcncss of
perception, is man of great muscular
strength. Come here, Jiml"
Tho guard called up ono of his fci
lows and babe him double his arm. 1t
was as hard as Il rock and as big as an
ordinary mans thigh.
''This is tho scniiy who stands at tho
beginning of the reception Inc in the
doorway" he continued. "Suppose
That you arc crank, how far do YOU
think you would get in an assault upou
the President before you arc grabbed
and disarmci and thrown out into thu
street to be carried off to tho nearest
police station' Not very far puc,s.
tell you the President is as closely
fortified in the White House as if it
were the strongest castle that ever OK.
islcd.
"Ihc minute we see a person whose
does not satisfy IL, entirely
We AK him whathis cuisines, is. Unless
his reply Is satisfactory We pursue the
inquiry a man called hero tho other
day to SEQ the President with a tin box
under his arm. pressed him closely
about his GRAND aud he finally said he
had new kind OF religion in tho box
to show TO President Harrison. Tha,
settled him. Once in whilo, una
voidably. drunken man gets into the
WHITE House at reception or some
such entertainment. 1t woald astonish
you to see the way in which person so
affected by liquor is thrown out, being
passed along from one guard to IN other
until he reaches the driveway. 1t is
lone SO quickly, practice making per-
feet, ns to excite no attention. Per-
haps the funniest of all the queer poo.
pic who como to tho White House arc
those who demand permission to visit
The most private rooms of the Prcsident
ON the ground that they, as representa-.
lives OF the public, own the establish
ment."