Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-06-06
AwE-sTRIcKEN POLICEMEN.
What Effect Theodore Roosevelt ha:
as q Police Commissioners.

New York World: There USED ID be
laughter among the merry accused
men when any one OF them said any
thing funny in his defense. Today
little Is said that is meant to be funny.
and there is not the faintest inclination
70 laugh. A roundsman with freckles
and face too funny for anything bur
the finest tells how four men accused
by him were lying under their beds
In the dormitory. That would have
been thought fenny at a police trial
once. It is not thought at all funny
now.
IL the common, every day New York
or could have seen those trials yester.
day his heart would lave been warm
ed. The common New Yorker has been
occasionally dubbed; he has been con
stantly ordered 10 move on: he has felt
that IL he existed Ut all ii was ID
grace of the gentlemen in blue who
kindly decided what he might do and
might not do. In past times any man
In New York would have incurred the
wrath OF four presidents Of the United
States rather than that of one
policeman.
Now that seems about to change.
Yesterday the average New Yorker
might have seen samples of the finest
Who looked after passing through the
hands of the new police commits sioner
as limp as a shirt fresh from the
blueing tub. He might have seen DO
Ia 1.f oil 1ta, 4
Ing like schoolboys before the awful
man who does not know enough 10
respect pull. These biz policemen
stood twirling their fingers with ner-
youSness ard their knees shook under
them. not tiguratiyely, but literally.
In the long room there We're more
than loo men Of the force. Every one
Of these studied the new man who
has come to worry and unsettle them.
Their verdict concerning him was sad,
gloomy. One very gray old man said
a cheerful thing.
He $ not quite so fresh, it seems to
me, as he was the first time | seen
him." That was the only cheerful re.
mark Of the day.
Mr.. Roosevelt, who is going TO make
of our police force business-like dis
ciplined body Of public servants, If
it can he done. is calculated to worry
any well-regulated little boss. He does
not even know that the men before
him look upon him as a dude sent 10
punish them for their sins. He tries 10
be kind to them takes it for granted
that his manners and education must
emharaSs them a little, and talks to
them as patronizingly as obey have
always talked TO the public.
Think what must be the poor police
mans feelings when he comes up for
trial before man like Roosevelt.
Roosevelt speaks English accurately
He does not say Il done it or Il seen
it.. He talks much more like Boston
man or an Englishman than like a
New York police commissioner He
wears little rundown collar. He
looks like dude, hardened but still
like a dude according To police rules.
His cuffs are very long, and they
show all the time. He las big gold
mond about him. His spectacles are of
gold, and the glasses are very big
and round. They looked bigger and
tiercer to the accused men yesterday
than did the VOLTS eyes to Little Red
Riding Hood.
When he asks a question Dir. Roose-
welt shoots it at the poor trembling
policeman as he would shoot bullet
at q coyote. Even when he asks a
question he shows a set of teeth cal
culated to unnerye the brayeSt of the
finest. The teeth are very white and
almost as big as colts teeth. They
are broad teeth, they form a perfectly
straight line. The lower teeth look
like a row of dominoes. They do not
lap over OF under each other, as most
teeth do but come together evenly
lie has a knaek of showing them
all at once when he speaks quickly,
and when he does that he seems to
say: TELL the truth to your conmis-
sioner, or he'll bite your head off"
Remember about Mr.. Rooseyelt's
teeth. because they are the best thing
about him.
But there are other things. His ear,
for instance, deserves the careful study
OF all policemen. II Is probably the
smallest ear on any full-grown man
in New ! ork. In picture it is con-
trastcd wi.u the ear Of Commissioner
Grant, son of the great Grant You
may see that 1t is only about half the
normal size If a small ear wonder
fully small ear, means anything, Mr..
RooSeveIt's ear means a lot.
Generally speaking, this interesting
commissioner face is red He has
lived great deal out Of doors, and
that accounts for I'll His hair y thick
aud short His hair is something like
4 poheemans hair lie parts it On the
left side, ana above the right-hand
corner Of his forehead he has a sort
of pun that might have been made
by lick from some COW or steer
Willie Ike was ranchiHg Under his
right ear he has u long scar Ii is the
opinion al ail the policemen who have