Evening star., 1898-07-27
POLICE Profession.
SeveraI communications Received by
The Star on the Subject.

nv osnE oh the SuDJccts
Several communications have been re-
ceived by The Star melted by the letter
published few days ago on police pro-
lection.
Sine Cera" says there is no such thing
as police protection, and that 1t is "a mere
fiction in certain localities" He adds: "A
certain esteemed citizen. friend and neigh
Dor, living near 2Sth and P streets north
west, is convalescing from an attack of
nervous prostration and insomnia. superin-
dueed by the inevitable street noises of
both day and night, viz: Newsboys hawk
ing papers in the early morning, say, about
o clock, narrowing that particular square
on 2Sth between p and Q streets north
west for upward of an hour and this, too,
despite the protest Of said good citizen ct
al, VINO even made a pilgrimage to the
Dlstr1ct OF Columbia Commissioners, but he
nad his trouble for his pains. Pie and milk
wagons. heavy double teams, driven like
jehu, about o'clock a m. until the welkin
rings and natures sweet restorer, balmy
steep, Is banished for the day. And all
this happening very opportunely for these
law breakers and murderers of innocent
sleep during the dog watch of the police.
During this watch all offenders are i'm
mune from apprehension or arrest, and
taxpayers are outraged by these monde
script street Arabs! Now, I submit that
Whlie there may be such a war emergency
as to justify semi-occasionalIy the crying
hours, there is no such exigence in the
ordinary course of the newspaper. milk
ana pie business as would justify this will
full sleep numbering Me thought l heard
voice cry. Sleep no more! Macbeth doth
murder sleep! The innocent sleep, sleep
that knlts up the raveled sleeve of care,
the death of each days life, sore labor's
bath, balm of hurt minds, great natures
second course. chief nourisher in life's
feast' But these American Macbeths,
their name is legion. and they not only
make both night and day hideous, but
cause the taxpayer to cry out in despair,
o! for lodge in some vast wilderness,
o! that | had the wings of dove, that
l might ny away and be at restr Rest for
subscriber is glad to learn that An
Employe' has. through the columns of
The Star, spoken for the benefit of the
employees of the bureau Of engraving and
printing. l thlnk 1t an outrage to have
women work sixteen hours day at hard
labor, then to have no convenience for
them to get home at - o'clock at night
If these poor souls are to work until this
hour 1t Is at least the duty Of the officials
to provide some means of protection to see
them safely through the disreputabie parts
of the city and not subject them to insult
walking down 14th street. The chiefs
might at least grant them time to meet
the last car down 14th street or charter
conveyance to take them to a near car
line. 1t is iphuman to have women work
such long hours in this extreme warm
weather, but since they are compelled L
think they might be granted some comfort
able means of reaching home. If they
cannot have cars let them have police pro-
lection"
ID. M" thinks that the article written
by an employe of the bureau of engraving
ana printing casts a reflection on most
respectable neighborhood-14th street be-
tween Pennsylvania avenue and the bu-
reau." He adds:
The writer seems to know very little
of the locality of which he complains and
is doubtless some fainthearted individual
who thinks he ought TO have special po-
lice protection whenever he is called upon
ment that holds him in the bureau until
a late hour at night This will happen per-
maps once In five years, or whenever we
have a war with Spain.
Fourteenth street is notably a very re-
spectacle thoroughfare, is entirely free
from dlsorderly houses. and If the person
VINO made complaint of the character of
the locallty saw young soldier in the
hahdS OF couple of Well-dressed touRhs
during the past few weeks, similar occur
rences have been reported all over the
city.
have been resident of the neigh
borhood complained of for more than
twenty years, and l have always found II
quiet and free from disturbances that
would be likely to render the place unde-
sifabie to househoders. Policemen are inst
as numerous in that section as in any other
part OF the city, and it has always been my
impression, because Of the good order that
prevails there, that these policemen had
an easy thing of it,