New-York tribune., 1899-07-20
WILL HAVE NO NONSENSE.
DEyERY SAYS POLICE ARE TO SHOW NO
MERCY TO LAwBREAKERs
HE DECLARES THAT HE WILL PROTECT
LIFE AND PROPERTY At ANY COST.

HE DECLARES THAT he WILL PhCTEIT
LIFE AND PROPERTY At ANY COST.
Chief Devcry took another advantage in the
matter OF police arrangements for the strike
Manhattan. As on Saturday night when he hal
two thousand policemen moving over the Bridge
hours in advance of the brooklyn strike. the
Chief again was hours ahead IN making his ar
rangements TO handle yesterdays strike In this
borough
Chief Devery said he received information AZ
a hate hour that a strike was imminent on SONS
OF the electric roads and he went at once to
Police Headquarters. getting there about 1
O'Clock a m. He Immediately summoned Ser
geant Flood his secretary. and then the various
deputy chiefs and inspectors were ordered 10
report forthwith. Long before dawn hundreds
OF police reserves we're moving uptown. and
were being detailed at the various car stables
and power houses The Chief ordered four hum
dred reserves from various precincts In the bor-
oughs OF Brooklyn and Queens 10 report here.
The men arrived in squads. in charge of ser
geants and roundsmen. and reported at Head
quarters.
As fast as they came Captain Diamond, act
ing under orders from the Chief. assigned them
TO various precincts uptown All the reserves
from the lower precincts were ordered TO the
uptown stations. where they were massed and
held in reserve. The policemen from Manhattan
who have teen doing duty IN Brooklyn since
Saturday night were not taken back. as ChISf
pevery chose to leave than over there and
reinforce the men here with the Brooklyn and
Queens reserves BY o'clock yesterday morn
ing. so the Chief stated. every car stable and
power house manned by police, and every
thing was in readiness to meet any trouble that
might arise.
Reserves were massed al the West Forty
seventh-st., East Fifty-fTstst, East Sixty
seveLth-st., East Eighty y-eishth-st. West One
hundred ed-and-twenty-ffth-s and East one-hun-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. stations. There we're
about one hundred men held in each station
Chief Devery remained in his office at Head
quarters all night. attending 70 the police ar
rangements. President York OF the Police
Board Joined him at $50 o'clock. Later in the
morning Chief Devery made statement con-
corning the situation. H. said.
Information reached me AZ late hour last
night that strike on some Of the electric roads
In this borough was imminent l went at once
TO headquarters and Immediately made the
necessary arrangements 10 protect life and prop
erty and prevent disorder. Within a couple n
hours every point where there was likely TO be
trouble was fully covered by police. / had more
than four hundred men brought here from
have not drawn any OF the NewYork men back
from Brooklyn. They will stay there until their
services are no longer required All the car
barEs AID power hoIses are thoroughly poced.
and have reserves massed AT convenient police
stations for use in case Of any emergency The
police fully able 20 cope with the situation.
want 10 say that II the strikers resort % any
violence. there is any dynamiting or any
destruction OF property the police will have no
mercy with them. I will have no fooling. and
there1 he no nonsense. The police will take the
tops OF their heads off"
President York added 70 what the Chief had
stated that The Police Department required no
assistance from 1ry quarter whatsoever. Hs
said that no matter what might come the De-
rartment was we'll able 70 handle the situation
Chief Devery remained az Police Headquarters
until noon, and then went 20 his home for a
few hours rest. He left Deputy Chief Cortright
in charge In his absence. The Chief said that
he had completed all arrangements for the strike
and was perfectly able 20 cope with H. he was
confident that ne could handle II In every way
ard could control Msnhattln as well as Brook
lyn-
Fifty patrolmen from the EiGhtieth Precinct,
Staten Island. comprising the first platoon.
started early yesterday morning for Manhat-
ion and Acting Sergeant Frank Hodge. They
reported direct 70 Headquarters. 20 be assigned
70 different posts. Since the trolley strike IN
Brooklyn the Richmond force has been held In
readiness. by order of Chief Devery, 20 report
for special duty at any moment
II has been reported that the Staten Island
by Brooklyn delegates with view ~ starting
a sympathetic strike In Richmond II Is said
that they fatty refused 20 entertain the ides
The two companies on the island employ about
four hundred men.
Inspector Brooks had charge of the police from
Battery Place ani Greenwich-st. for consider
able distance up along the Sixth and Eighth
ave lines yesterday. At Battery Place six po-
licemen were stationed 70 guard the switches
There attempt at a disturbance there.
though a crowd gathered In the forenoon. FIND
ing no excitement. however. n gradually dis
persed
The INSPECTORS OF the railroad company sta
toned at Battery Place said there were just "a
many cars running ever.
Every car that was down here yesterday has
been here to-day" said one OF them
There's nothing TO call a strike on these
lines. All OF the men are satisfied, excepting
few OF the old hands who want % run things"
II was noticeable. however. that though plenty
Of cars came and went. they carried few and
many Of them no passengers This was IN
marked contrast 10 the ordinary traffic ~ the
Sixth and Eighth ave lines both going and COM