The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-23
LEOPOLD ADLER.

ual experience, and It was to get this
actual experience that he went out the
other night upon a tour of inspection along
the patrolmens beats. He was favored
then by the fact that very few or none
of the night men knew him by sight; their
surprise at learning that the young man
who beamed upon them through gold
trimmed spectacles and whose accent and
manner were so totally unlike those OF
the conventional police official was The
odore Roosevelt must have been great
1t has been said of him that under his
presidency the board will practically be
a one-headed commission. and that in ef-
feet, though not in name, he will be the
chief of police, leaving TO the man who
nominally fills that place the performance
Of only a few comparatively unimportant
functions. But neither of these assump-
tons is wholly correct. The decisions of
the police board viii i'm the future, as in
the past, be governed by the will of the
majority and it Is highly probable that
the time may come when the president
will find himself in the minority upon
some questions. Like the good Ameri-
can that he is, he will undoubtedly bow
to the majority's will when that time ar
rves, though II Is also very probable
that he will do his very level best to pre-
vent the necessity of submission. AS to
his assuming the duties of the chief of po-
lice, II is not likely that he will take a
hand in the actual ferreting out of crime.
which is the real work of the chief and
the detective bureau, though 1t is GER
tain, beyond question, tnat he will con-
tinue in his efforts to bring about and
maintain the most rigid discipline in the
force.
On the whole, Commissioner Roosevelt
has the earnest support or the majority
of New York's citizens. They do not
care one jot If, as charged, he is keeping
a sharp weather eye to the future of
Roosevelt. What they want IS a proper
administration Of the police department
of the city government. If in accomplish
ing this Mr.. Roosevelt helps himself. we'll
and good, but II his unusual and some
what quaint methods shall after all re-
suit in failure, something decidedly heavy
will surely fall upon him.
Down to the present time he has had the
most earnest cooperation of the other
members of the board-a cooperation, by
the way, that is not really a blind and
slavish obedience to his expressed wishes,
but the carrying out of the laws as
they understand them by sincere, though
by no means infallible, earnest men.
Though Theodore Roosevelt is not large
of person, he is not little man, but would
be spoken Of more accurately as of the
medium hight and size. He dresses IN
obtrusivey, wearing a brown suit and
derby hat when at his official duties,
and his manner is as distinctly non-ofiicial
as can we'll be imagined. But ne means
every word he says, and he expects to
be obeyed by those whose duty II is TO
accept his dictum, as the police have al
ready found out.
His father, Theodore Roosevelt. was a
son Of Cornelius Van Schaick Roosevelt
a millionaire merchant, one of whose
sons. Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, uncle
to the present police commissioner is
best known perhaps. because of his prom
inence as a fish culturist but like his
nephew, has taken hand I'm politics and
literature He served some years ago as
United States minister to the Neither
lands. and, in 1892, as a member Of the
democratic national coram;ttee, when his
once popular, but now almost forgotten
hook. Five Acres Too Much" was
dragged out and used as d campaign doc
ument by the opposition. but, as the
country well remembers, without great
effect. This book was a sort Of burlesque
on Horace Greeleys Ten Acres Enough"
and when published had a great vogue as
a work of humor. But in its pages the
author had a great deal Of fun with the
Irish. and 1t was that that caused it's
resurrection In 1892, ana made Bob
Roosevelt declare that man an idiot who
writes a book.
The present Theodore Roosevelt. then.
enjoyed every advantage that could be