Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-05
THE POLICEMAN'S LOT.
How the Howling Dog and the Cackling
Hen Add to His Many Woes.

| IAH MONu the people whom the ko-ko OF
| hlv the police department has on his list
| us are chronic complainants who want
| ~ vthe police to regulate their neighbour
| ~~W&dogs and horses and fowls. but do not
| want to be known in the matter themselves
| Persons who remain out late at night enjoy q
late nap in the morning il their neighbors and
| their neighbors live stock vii. Nt them. and
their failure to be able to enjoy that nap gives
them, As they think, reasonable grounds for
| complaint
UNWILLING TO BE KNOWN.
Although hundreds Of complaints are made
it is only now and then that the kicker" is
willing to back his complaint with an afida-
| Wit For instance people often complain to
the police that their neighbors children stand
| on street corners or gather on the streets in
| crowds and annoy. "But don't say said So"
| is always their cry. Thus the policeman on the
beat is kept constantly in hot water, and if he
should call upon such persons he is threatened
with "I'll fix you for this"
| If on the other hand he causes the arrest of
| the boys and takes them to court expecting
them to convict themselves and they fail to do
SO Judge Miller tells him that he cannot do the
arresting, swearing and everything else to
| satisfy the grumblers and dismisses the case for
| want of evidence. Then tbs lieutenant sees
the record dismissed and he wants an expla-
nation, SO that the officer finds it extremely
1 w oAo" uot anu COlu AT the same time.
THE EARLY MORNING WOOD CHOPPER.
| One source Of many complaints is the chop
ping OF wood by the early riser, who, perhaps,
has to be at his work at six or seven o'clock, and
in order to have his breakfast ready in time
hnds 1t necessary to split wood as early five
| o'clock
II really can't stand il" said little Anacostia
woman who made such complaint against her
nelghbor Its simply outrageous. and is
| enough to shock the nerves Of any one"
Then she inquired if there was any law on the
subject and was referred to the police regula-
tons. The policeman, turning to page 20 Of
the regulations, read:
| etc."
Needless" repeated the policeman as he ex-
pounded the law, Il think it is necessary to
| chop wood, aud especially in this section, for l
mad to chop wood this morning myself"
| wood for her fire.
| "!reckon you are right" she said, ''but please
don't say said anything about my neighbors."
THE DOGS AND THE ROSTERS
Barking dogs, Growing ROSTERS and cackling
| hens are also prohibited by the police regula-
lions from disturbing their owners neighbors,
and it is against such annoyances that so many
persons complain.
One citizen thinks it high time that his
neighbours spring chickens were killed because
1
thinks that people who live in glass houses
| should not throw stones. While the neighbor
has chickens the one who complains has a dog
and cat. The cat has killed a number of the
little chickens, and fowls that were spared are
OLD enough now to expand their lungs. When
| the hens begin to cacke and the cocks begin
| to crow the neighbours dog begins to howl and
still the concert only disturbs the comfort of
the man who owns the dog.
A great many persons, police official told
\ mia ipfa L..
| nelghbors whose ROSTERS crow and whose hens
| cackle before daybreak, but they are not will
ing to prosecute the people themselves. They
ask the question: What are the police paid
for?"
ITO attend to their honest and legitimate
duties" is what they are usually told
Ii Maj. Moore was to hear of a policeman
prosecuting such case there would. no doubt,
be an investigation and probably vacancy on
| the force.
The regulations say ''any fowl which by
Growing, cackling or in any other manner shall
disturb the comfort or quiet OF any person. "
IL an oficer is stealing quiet nap somewhere
early in the morning and he happens to be
disturbed by Growing rooster, he certainly ia
not going to complain.
GEORGETOWN CASE
Georgetown policeman recollects one of
the residents, whose name appears on many
pages of the complaint book, who protested of
his neighbours spring chickens. That was
some time before the police regulations went
into effect. The owner of the chickens had
something like hundred young fowls and be-
tween the yards was a picket fence. The young
chickens used to go through the fence and
scratch in the grass. Complaint after com
plant was made, but there was no redress to
be obtained. The persons who owned them
only chopped of head now and then but il
was not fast enough for the persons who
| claimed that they were annoyed
Finally the police were requested to arrest
the little chickens and turn them over to the
poundmaster, but they declined. So the I'M
| fortunate mans nerves were unsettled until the
chickens grew too large to get through the
picket fence. Now the police believe that his
| influence used on the Commissioners was the
means OF securing the present clause in the
police regulations
| AROUND THE PUMP.
When the late Lieut. Greer was in command
Of the second precinct he was constantly an
noyed by complaints from a man in front of
whose house stood a pump. The cool we'll
| water naturally attracted many persons and
evenings the small children in the neighbor-
hood would gather there and amuse themselves
where they could see people coming and going
| all the time. The man who occupied the house
| sent in complaints two or three times a week
and at last commenced visiting the station
| house.
He finally asked the lieutenant, "wha1Am l
going to do?"
Il don't know" responded the lieutenant,
throwing up his hands in despair. Il guess
| the poor little children will have to stop being
brought into the world"
Another British Investment.
| From the Chicago Tribune.
There is young son Of an English lord at