The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-25
BRIDGE POLICE AT HIGHE
Eight Supposed 60 he Constnntiy on ths
Promenade but They Rr~ Hard 70 Find.

Eight Supposed 20 he Constantiy On the
| Promenade, but They nr~ Hard to Find.
| Since the promenad, on the big bridge has
! been made free It has become one OF the streets
OF New York. The number OF pedestrians
who travel across IL every day has Increased
aud on hot summer nights crowds swarm up
from the tenement districts 10 cool of In tho
shadow OF the big stone towers. In sultry
weather the tramps desert their favorite
benches In CITY Hall Park for the breezes
which they always ind on the bridge. The
Italian colony in Mulberry street has found
out that n walk across the bridge is free. and
II axes good uss of their opportunities
In walk across the bridge on any warm
evening the chances are that YOU will meet
seven persons OF foreign birth to every three
born Americans With this COSMOPOLITAN
crowd. the promenade should be properly pa
trOlled ut oil hours OF the dry and night. Cant.
Ward OF the bridge police says 1t Ia. but THE
SuN has received several comnlnnts from OBJ
servant citiz lately who any that lnte OF
night it is quito usual to walk the whole
length OF the bridge without meeting police.
man. There are doubtless enough policemen
about during the day Their hardest work
then consists Of answering questions and
keeping lnnuisi,i,e small hovs from climbing
I'D on the iron work on each side Of the walk.
The crowds that tbrong tho structure all day
necessarily make the chances Of IN assault in
daylight very small. The snme is true during
the early hours OF tho evening. whom there is
safety in the multitule; but BY II o'clock the
crowd begins to dwinde away. and after mid
night tho pedestrians on the bridge are few AT
Just his time the police should he on the alert
iota possible crime, but Mt lnst this time The
polio. nre most negligent H. the rules were
strictly enforced there would he no cause for
bridge in such n way that POINT upon II
cannot be kept under surveillance There are
+ ''i" 9"r. an %rryaach and
nnother on the Brooklyn anLroach Two more
sqa en- SfD t on aa.s ash
river SIM is pron cted BY two men. All this Is
K SIN reporter who walked across. the bridge
the "ther night with his ayes omen found that
the policemen weren't there. 1t wa. not long
ne cables. Al'osS,her il wasn't tne Kind q
police evidently thought so. for they didn't
tnke the tr .nhlr tc stay on their beats at all;
There were several no lcemen clus round
started 10 Ii across hut he had to walk
two,thtd. Of tie way oyrr before he
sbs New i ois lana sUsn. thin came the ew
be on duty He wasn't visible to the reporter.
shcd is bull, asalns. the si!e o. tho t;wer.
or three shn Iowy forms in the darkness. These
may or may not have been the men whose
posts wero vacant. The walk over 1he river 10
coats. But when he arrived at tho tower the
reporters search was rewarded. There were
pier. They were laughing and talking, and
seemed to te enjoying themselves. The next
ea GeH ets HsH and e
space. Another hurried III to the steps lead-
ing down from the platform and tMe third dis
move was explained when the reporter got
around to the her sid" of the tower. for a
policeman with round .man's stripes, on his
The reporter found Just one more policeman
before he arrived at Brooklyn entrance.
an. sni ths "ne was ne"r tn" STEPS a. he end OF
posed to b. on duty. lust two could be said to
be Mt their posts. one of the three standing at
the BROOKLYN land span. This is by no means
an extreme case, for many times not even one
policeman is IN sight from entrance to entrance.
lighted is a natural protection against crime.
but still It would be a very cas-. matter for
assault aud l.'urder'o take place Without the
ronfedera,es might lure a victim out on the
river snnan aud knock him into insen-i.
his BODY over the low nras, oss
it down to he river below through the OPEN
ings alongside Of the cable roni. The body
dication o. murder but M ono would suspect
that it came T. ON the bridge whers SO many
policemen are on duty.
was assaulted on the Brooklyn approach. He
Of three or four men. He recovered from the
taken 10 THAR heels when they saw that the
blow had not stunned thor victim. Capt. Ward
said hers mo- sf6r OF n.
escaping, II they did 1t. There are those, how
ever who don't agree with Capt. Ward.