The Green Forest tribune., 1894-05-03
FIXING FOR COxEY'S ARMY.
WASHiNGTOM'G CHEF OF POLICE iNcREAs.
ES AND iNSTEUC13 HIS FORCE.
COxyites Caught Begging will Be Given a free
Side 70 The Lookup. trouble Feared

W AsHINGToN, Aprll 3U.-Ihls
afternoon Chief of Police Moore
issued general order concerning
the conduct of his men during the
CoXey invasion. 1t is as follows:
"Your number will be increased
temporarily, and it is expected
that members from the thus aug
mented force will meetthe expecta-
tiens Of the community and ref ect
! credit upon the department.
Remember that you are serving
the people, and should conduct
yourselves as gentleman.
PAY especial attention to the
protection of persons and proper
ty within the confines of your
beat.
extend to strangers in the city
every courtesy.
"Suspicious and idle persons
caught longing about public
places or institutions, begging upon
the public streets or from door to
door, should be disperced or ap-
pretended.
ssDo not use force in making an
arrest unless absolutely necessary,
and never make personal matter
of an arrest.
"Keep your hands clear and your
eyes open, and make no distinction
in persons IN maintaining the law.
"rhe first principal to be re-
membered is the prevention Of
disorder and crime"
Two Washington detectives who
joined the Coxey army at Cumber-
land have made their report to the
chef. They say the army is most
ly composed OF disrepntable crowds
of "bums" and "hobos, numbering
275; the rest would not work il
they could get it, and those belong
ing to labor unions were OF a kind
that never stick to job longer
than two weeks.
One of the officers says: "Tho
army is in q badly disorgan-
lied state. The men are dirty, and
some of them arc covered with
vermin. Take them all in all,
they are the most forlorn set OF
men that ever walked through the
Maryland hills"
Osman, one of the Coxey lieu
tenats, has arrived in town to ar
range with Col. Redstone, the local
Commonweal agent, for route
to the capitol and for the meeting
on the capitol steps. He and Red
stone saw several Populists con-
gressmen.
Residents of that part of Wash
ington City limits are holding
meeting to deyise means for pro-
lection while the Coxey army is in
the vicinity OF their homes, and 1T
was decided to ask the commits
sioners for police aid in so doing.
DR.. Hammet, the health officer,
said that he would visit the camp
with number of inspectors and
phycians to decide whether the
sanitary laws have been violated.
'In the event that any contagi-
Gus disease appears in camp" said
DR.. Hammet, it will be necessary
to quarantine the entire crowd and
isolate every person or persons at
ficted with the disease.
Lennrd Van Har!lon, the go M
monwcal bugIer, and Tom Murphy,
whom Coxey dismissed from the
army have been arraigned in the
police court tor begging on tho
streets and sent to the work house
for thirty days.
A sergeant of police has been
placed on duty at the White
House, making the total force OF
police there now twenty-five. flf-
teen policeman will be on duty in
and about the White House every
| night, aud seven in the day, in add'-
ton to the ushers aud messengers,
who are authorized to act AS police
officers.
Col. Redstone says he has secured
a tent that will hold l,500 people,
and he will send it tc Brightwood
Park to be used for Coxey's meet
ings. H says Coxey's circus tent,
OF which so much has been heard,
will hold 7.0OO people.