Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-25
OLICED LIKE A CITY.
n Immense Force of Men to frotect
Worlds FAIR Visitors.
,NNSYLVANIA LAWS DESIRED
Facilitate the Arrest and Punishment OF
Visiting Crooks.
pr NMaRk'SEXPERIENCE In CHICAGO
PIT. o,MAREsEXPERIENCE IN CHICAGO

Police Superintendent O'Mars returned
evening from Chicago where ne had
m doing secret service duty during the
.ring exercises at the Worlds Fair.
hile there he was present at conference
nolice authorities from the leading cities
the country at which plans were decided
ON for guarding the peace and protecting
people attending the Fair next year.
enty cities were represented in the con-
ence.
rohn Bonfeld, who made a record at the
,e of the Haymarket riots in 1887 as
eff inspector of the Chicago police, has
IN given full control of the police and
RET service of the Exposition. He Will
70 pnder him three classes of men. There
Il he 500 uniformed officers on duty as
-ular policemen inside the grounds
Detectives From Every Country.
each citv of more than $4,000 population
every civilized country in the world Will
asked to send two or more experienced
.ectives to do special duty in the crowds.
Fair Commission will pay the travel
expenses of all such men and PROVIDE
,ir meals and sleeping accommodations
lie on duty. The city government which
IDS them will be expected to pay thelr
aries.
The argument is made that the Worlds
ir will be an institution in which all
,ntries will be more or less interested
,ough the attendance of their citizens,
/ for their protection there should be an
GER from each of their cities to look after
! protect them. This argument applies
.ticularly to American cities. 1t is fully
,ected, however, that Paris, London,
Rim aud all the other big European cities
/ send their men under the conditions
iicat.d. That the big cities of this
lntry will do so Chief Bonfield is sure.
intends to make a trip during the winter
all the big cities and demonstrate to the
orer officers the necessity for sending
II men.
VIII Railroad All Offenders.
n the scheme of policing the Exposition
will be laid out In districts like city,
II district with q certain number oil
GERS. who will be held accountable for
.rything transpiring in their district. A
ice station will be located just outside
grounds, with a magistrate in charge,
take immediate action on every case.
Gamewell police system, with several
-ol wagons. will be in force on the
unds. Whenever supposed crook or
ef is arrested the officers from all the
les represented on the Exposition force
be called in to identify the prisoner.
order to give the system any value the
in,is Legislature will be asked at Its
It session to pass laws for the protectlor
the people against crooks At present
V have no law under which a policeman
make an arrest unless he catches mar
the act of committing crime. Iher'
three acts in this State which it is ex
ted Illinois will copy. One is th'
rant act, one the suspicious person &C
the other the act to suppress probes
nal thieves An arrest of anv suspected
son can be made under any one OF them
if it is proven the suspicion is correct I
ltence can be imposed. The officials a
Icago believe the Pennsylvania laws thu
"a of anv State in the country, and unde
circumstances they believe the Legisla
will be compelled to adopt them.
A Complete Fire Department
he fire department inside the Exposition
be as complete as that OF any CITY. Th
ard of Underwriters of Chicago havin
Is on all the Fair buildings, have alread
tipped five engines inside the grounds
number will be increased by the tim
Fair opens. All the tiremen will b
)rn in to do police duty under Che
1ield, who will be in charge at any fir
aking out until the Chicago fire chief al
es. The entire Chicago department wi
pond to second alarm at the Expositio
unds.
Ine point all Chicago officers will b
cred to strictly attend to will be that n
son in any line of business overcharg'
ltors for ANYTHING Superintender
lara saws that during the immen:
wd last week no complaints of overcharg
e heard of The Mayor of the city ha
led an order prohibiting overcharges
kmen, hotel keepers and others holdin
nses from the city under penalty
ing their license revoked. Regardir
conduct of the police at Chicago la
k Superintendent O'Mara SAYS thu
e been grossly misrepresented- Tl
,e, he says, is a frst-class one and Il
handled the crowds last week as We