The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-02
AyeritabIe Nocturnal Pande.
lloniuIn Reigns in Waco.
NIGHT TURNED INTO BRAWLINC DAY
Where Are Our Efficient Guardians Of the
Peace. the Night Police?

editor News: 10 the unfortunate
citizen who seeks his nightly rest in
the precinct lying between Third
and Sixth streets, on Austin avenue,
this question cannot but be a burn
ing one. Many times he has dis.
tractedly apostrophized the mani
mate objects in his bedchamber
with the same qaery. 1t has burst
from his frerzied lips in the sad of
night, as he YEARLY ignites match
and counts the hours that remain
before the light of morning impsra.
lively calls him and spoils his last
chance of slanber. The repetl.
ton of it brings to his memory tie
shouts of excited hackmen, quarrel
ing with their cursing, intoxicated
patrons, and the symphonious
melodies of mad drunk midnight
jewellers. During waking moments,
protracted sometimes into hours,
heavy wad of cotton stuffed into
each ear, and the lines of care
showing distressingly in the blue,
sulphurous CLEANS playing about
his dawn, pale face, he has soueh.
in vain reasonable answer to this
apparently simple question. Inter
jections and EXPLANATIONS he has
used with prod gality, aud inter
spersed his language with the
choicest quotations from the voca
bulsry of pious lifetime; but the
knocking answer "Where?" has been
his only comforter.
Flippancy aside, l ask: Does
Waco pay for night protection and
police supervision? And, if SO,
where are thu police? There sell
dom passes night when residents
on our principal business street ave
not awaked from their slumbers
by dscordant noises and disorierly
conduct on the street or in the sa.
looms and gambling rooms which
form the ceDters of nightly attrac
ton in our otherwise orderly city.
Article 4 of the Revised Ordinan
ces of the City of Waco provides:
'1f any person snail 60 into or near
any public place, or into or near
any private house, and shall use
i loud and voclferous or obscene,
Il Vulgar or indecent language,
or swear, or curse, or yell
or shrek, in a manner
calculated to disturb the inhabi'
tants Of such public place or private
house, he shall be tined in any sum
not exceeding Slo0;" and Article
8 defines public place to mean
any public road, street or alley, OF
any inn, tavern, hotel, store,
grocery or workshop, or place al
which people are assembled, OF
to which people commonly resort
Tor purposes of business, amuse
ment, recreation or other Lawful
purpose. Article rs provides: ''It
shall not be lawful for any person
owning or controlling any premises
In this city to permit such boisterou'
conduct, loud hallooing, stamping
dancing, skating, sliding, cursing
swearing or other vociferous or un
usual noises thereon, as shall BIZ
anreasonably troublesome, annoying
or vexatious to the neigh5orhood
or any person or family, etc." witt
an imposed fine, upon conviction
OF from So to 800. Article 2lS
provides: "It shall be unlawful
tor any owner, driver or person il
cfarge of any vehicle whatever il
this city, while employed or Will,
awaiting employment, to crack
snap or fl ourish his whip unneces
sarlly, so as to cause inconvenience
10 another, or to use loud, indecen
or profane language, or to vex O
annoy travellers or citizens" And
nnsily, Art. 40 provides: "Th
mayor of the city, as it's chief ex
ecutive officer, is hereby required tt
uiVlde, or cause to be divided, thu
Guy iato one.half as many district
az there are policemen, and shall
assign, or cause the marshal I,
assiga' to each a policeman TO
ou,y; and such policeman shall
walk In his district faithfully unit