The morning times., 1896-11-27
POLICE BLESSED THE DAY
Everyone Was Good and They
Had a Rest.
CROWDS WERE ORDERLY
One or Two Liquid CelebratOrs Got
Locked Up, But the Spirit of
Thanksgiving Banished Wicked
ness-Only Minor Accidents Were
Reported at the Hospitals.

Washington is becoming good, at least
u is If last night can be taken as cri-
terion. and the police are OF the opinion
tlat the criminal element has reformed.
Yesterday and last evening was the
quietest. most commonplace, everyday
sort Of Thanksgiving i'll which the city
has ever indulged. or course, the usual
lumber of petty offenders were gathered
In. but for the most part the police simply
stood around corners and watched the
crowd go by and waited for something to
happen.
lu contrast with last year the improve
ment was marked. A year ago last night
people did all manner Of strange things and
celebrated the safe arrival OF the Pilgrim
Fathers in many peculiar ways. The
police were kept busy caring for the
nqulfIed celebrators and the men who make
II u rule to give thanks by engaging in
street fights. In the tough sections of the
ciy, nioodfieid. swan poodle" ana
"Foggy Bottom" everybody seemed to
have grudge against somebody else and
selected Thanksgiving night to pay off old
scores.
The police stations and hospitals were
filled to overlooking, and even then there
were some who escaped the vigilance Of
the patrolmen.
HOLIDAY FOR THE POLICE.
All this, however, has changed, and
Washington has INDUCED in a model Thanks
giving. Last night the station house blot
tiers were drcary waste of ncatly-ruled
white paper, and the patrol wa gons stood
idle i'll the sheds. Up to midnight not a
serious offense had been commit ID
throughout the city; the police yawned,
changed sections, and went home to dream
of turkey, or to their beats. to find some
quiet nook and-well, this is not the
night inspectors dairy.
There was some enthusiasm even last
night, but 1T was of the long haired. foot
ball variety. 1t was nice, Joyful, clean en-
thusiasm, and not the Kind that gets
people into trouble. The police smiled at
1t and passed by on the other side Of the
street, and allowed the football PLAYERS
and their friends full sway.
The few unfOrtunatcS who fell within tie
grasp of the law were all minor 1ffen Iers.
Some fell into the old error that Il cir
eyes were larger than the capacity Of rhcir
stomach and drank more than they &C uld
comfortably carry home. These were [ ared
for at the stations Until they were able
~ navigate.
nomg 5ne early arrivals az the Twelfth
street station was John L. Sullivan. At
least the man SAID he was THE cHampecn
fighter of 'em all y ani so he was christrned
John L. Mr.. Sulivau's trouble was that
his limbs and his think tank had got
upon separate tracks and the matter in
the latter was sadly muddled
Before he was taken in by Policeman LaiIy
Mr.. Suilivan's pugiiistic propenSities got
hininto OtherJrOuDie. He waSO Eleventh
street and having fought off snakes and
other things, and as there was no man In
sight to whip he turned his attention to
the plate glass window in front of a shop
at No. All Eleventh street.
FIST THROUGH THE WINDOW.
In the language of the ring John l.
swung his right. the window guard was
down and the blow we'll the blow it near
killed father" not To me ntion III uch brohken
glass and n cut hand.
Another victim of the liquid celebration
habit was Augustus Stein. When Police
man Bean found him Augustus and a half
pint of whisky We're bundled up together
on the sidewalk. They werc both sent 10
the New Jersey avenue station to sleep
ii Off
Lester Smith, who is black. Michael Gar
mon who is not, and Joseph Brown. WHO'S
like Lester Smith, were arrested as "sus-
rl-iouS y and sent 10 the sixth precinct
station by Policemen Wannell AMI Lynch.
The trio are all under twenty-one years
of age and their fault was that they
i'illtiiitN. al N tlp IrlgfssIr-
hood OF a car load ofturke Us in the baltimore
and Ohio yards. The watchman finally be-
came suspicious and had them put beyond
temptation.
Thomas Murray wanted his Thanks giving
dinner 'just like other people yester-
day, and as he did not have the price. he
proceeded To touch all who came hisway.
one OF these was Policeman Ronic-, and
when Thomas became abusive the patrol
man took him 10 the station.
Abe Coleman is culored, and lives in
South Washington. Like Murray, he was
u little short on the price OF a turkey
but thought he could make il up in a
crap game. Sergt. Daley and Policen an
Curry came down Fighting alley at the
wrong time for Abe, and he spent last
night i n Il cell.
terday and started out to enjoy it in a
buggy. He was driving along in South
Washington at a three-rninute gait. when
Policeman Marshall saw him. At the
station Mr.. Skidrnore left SO for his ap-
pearancc i'll court this morning to answer
a charge of fast driving.
HOSPITAL DOCTORS LoAFED.
AT Emergency Hospital the surgeons
gave thanks for very quiet day. No
serious cases came in and the list was
q short one.
LOulS 1OildTu GlSODeltu Ills il!Dlllcr YES
terday and went cunning. Later they
brought him to the hospital. Louis is thir-
teen years old and lives at No. 1905
Ninth street northwest. When he started
out yesterday with another boy and a
cat rifle his mother said she wished lie
" ould not co.
Louis was bent on getting big game
and thought his parent didn't know how
careful he was. When the got out in the
country the other boy peppcred Louis in
tie shoulder. At the hospital they probed
for the bullet and then sent the wounded
hunter home.
Edward Petersen is a plumber by trade
but Yesterday he played football. There
is more excitement chasing the pigskin
than there is meDding water pipes. Peter
sen tackled low and cut his head. At
the surgeons took two stitches
i'll the cut and sent him to his home, No.
S04 II street northwest
Rachel Ferguson is a cook and lives at
No. 2O04 n street. When she had washed
the Thanksgiving dinner dishes Rachel
went out Bicycle riding with the coachman.
They were on the Avenue, between Eigh-
teenth and Min eteentb streets There
was cab there, too.
just how it happened Rachel does not
KNOW, but W hen they pulled her out from
under the wheels and Strengthened out the
handle bars and bent the front forks around
i'll place, it was discovered that Rachel