The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-08
NEW Y0RK'S SENSATION
THE POLICE BOARD PRESIDENT
 WALKS ABOUND

department had big surprise this morning. The sensation was the fact that during the night President Roose- welt had been on the street, patrolling on his own account, attending to the business some of his men were neglect ing.
 Before headquarters had got itself shaken into the routine folds of the de- partment business, a string of these men, half dozen in number, stood trembling at MT. Roosevelt's office door, summoned by orders to come forthwith and hear the presidents opinion of them.
 MT. Roosevelt started on his tour of inspection at 2:9O a. m. He had his plan of work all mapped out. He worked in the Twenltyvfirst precinct. A sketch of his triunlphhl progress is as follows:
 Two policemen stood talking on the corner of Forty-first street. They didn't know MT. Roosevelt, and didn't move when his great, round gold glasses beamed upon them. Mir, Roosevelt went half block and made up his mind to go back and put in word. But when he turned they were gone.
 They were so utterly lost that though he went five times over the avenue mans beat, twice over the upper and three times over the lower end of it, he didn't find a trace of either. One of of the men was the policeman on duty in Forty-first street, from Fourth to First avenue, who had no business on the avenue. The other was presumably Policeman Mahoney, who was covering the two beats from Thlrty-sixth to For ty-second street. It was not until 4I5 o'clock that the president ran him down at last returning to the chase with the dogged persistency of man not to be beaten. Then he found him as one of a conclave of three on saloon corner discussing politics with the roundsman.
 But for the moment he was dropped. checked mot there" on the list, and MT. Roosevelt continued down the avenue. The mann on beat 29 was munching bite of early luncheon in front of cof- fee house on Twenty-ninth street. The president turned his head the other way He was there, at all events, if he was eating. He hurried on to post 2S, which is between Thirtieth and Twenty-sev- enth streets, and searched it over three times, going on both sides of the street. IHeTG was IlO POllCeiiidli
 Just as he started back for a fourth trip a man came out of O'Neill's coffee house with club and, going to the cor ner of Twenty-eighth street, rapped three times for the policeman. The raps were easily heard all over his short post. No response coming, he rapped again with no better result. He gave up in disgust.
 ITa-Kt,,Sr +fefioyJ h {ylo ra1f at tba was absolutely deserted, and vainIy searched the elevated railroad stations at Twenty-eighth street and inspected the saloons and such stores near by s seemed tempting shelters to a police l man, and found them locked MT Roose- \ welt went down on Second avenue. l |gEhere are five posts, beginning with 23, l between Twenty and Forty-sec- |ond streets.
 Il The man on 23 was on the corner talk | ling to a citizen 24 was in doorway l hooking straight ahead; 25 was actually |patrolling his beat. MT. Roosevelt rub 1 |bed his spectacles, adjusted them care fully, took another look and made note lon his paper. This was the first and l |the last policeman found patrolling in | that precinct.
 At the corner of Thirty-eighth street | post 26-Patrolman Ebert Robesson | was found comfortably sitting down | the dawn in the east; | |time, $40
 On the last post-27-the policeman | was entertaining a woman. MT. Roose- welt watched them talking for a while, | land when the woman left went over and |said something himself. white and |scared policeman fell to patrolling his beat with sudden zeal.
 Back to Third avenue went MT. Roose- |Velt and patrolled posts 31 and 3l7S, from Forty second to Thirty-sixth streets, Eleven minutes by the clock, but found shothing One hour and a half covering Sbne-fourth of the precincts beats and lo roundsman had appeared. < It was exactly 4:02 a. m. when he open . .sd the door of the Thirty-flfth street #tation and gave Sergeant Pagan a |hock by saying simply:
 { q am Commissioner Roosevelt" < He desired to know where the rounds. han whose tour of patrol it was ruight Il be. The sergeant couldn't tell. He ex- ,lained that no sergeant was on patrol, s they were one short. One was asleep upstairs.
 Wake him up and let him see if he Nan find the roundsman, or the patrol han on beat 31," said MT. Roosevelt. Meanwhile he went back to look for i'm again. He came upon not only Policeman Ma Honey of beat 3, but another policeman nd the roundsman as well, gossiping on he saloon corner at Forty-second street nd Third avenue, at the extreme end f the beat. None of them knew the Commissioner, and they laughed with Nitying smile while he inquired what Hhey were doing there.
 "Standing of course;; what else?" "What is your beat, sir?" asked MT. 1 [oosevelt of one of the trio. He said
 was 31. "AhH said MT. Roosevelt. And #burs?" "Sixteen," said No 2, and the presi- ent turned his gaze upon the rounds < an. { "Post IT." he said, cheelsily. "auhw said MT. Roosevelt, eyeing 2 s stripes, and left them. IA block down the avenue Sergeant : . pyle came hastening up, aroused from ' bed. Mir. Roosevelt went back with z