The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-17
POLICE AS EXPLORERS.
Men Sent to Hudson City
Investigate Their Sur
roundings.

I Police Captains Wohlleben and Farrier,
who We're transferred to the Sixth and
Third precincts, respectively, by Monday
nights unexpected shake up, with
their new sergeants. roundsmen and de-
tectives, spent all day yesterday getting
acquainted with their new quarters and
the patrolmen of their new precincts. But
few of the men transferred to these pre-
cincts have ever served in them before,
and to many the names and locations OF
streets are as little known as those of
a foreign city.
Old Hudson City is a revelation to
many of these higher police officials. who:
will now perambulate her streets. To
some, whose police experience was linz
tied to Headquarters, the "Old Fourth
was known as an outlying district which
some time in the seventies had been an
nexed to lower Jersey City, but had
nothing in commo with the latter except
the name of being a part of 1t. The
thought of being sent to that section was
to these policemen much as that of the
exile when about to be transported to
Siberia.
Captain George Wohileben was. of
course, an exception. He is an old Hud-
son Cityite and almost as much at home
in the Sixth as he was in the Third pre-
cinct. He could not, however, regard the
change from the airy and comfortable
oakland avenue station to the squalid
Webster avenue lookup as a promotion.
Detective George Douglass, too, seems
almost aeclimated. He has been a resi-
dent of the Five Corners section for many
years, and, it is rumored, has at times
ventured as far north as the station
house at which he is now located.
Sergeant Bob Miller is at home in any
The fact that he spent several
years of his life in the Third before he
was elevated TO the s~ergeantcy, may aid
him in enduring the climate and surround
ings of the Sixth.
Sergeant Battersby. too, was located at
the Third for a considerable period and
the knowledge he gained there of the
habits and customs of the 'cliff jewellers"
may assist him in tolerating life half a
mile nearer the North Pole thai his
former stand was.
Captain Farrier and the majority of the
new men at the Third are, unfortunately.
not so well acclimated. The iabyrinths
Of ''Shinney Park and the vast deserts
of the West End will be new territory
Tor them TO explore. But IL is nOpeQ lndl
they will survive their first hazardous
expedition to these far distant climes and
live to tell the stories of their wonderful
experiences there to future generations.
OF the men who nave gone there are
many who will be missed, and some who
the general public of this section fondlyI
hope will never come back. Both Captain
Wohlleben and Captain Cody, during their
brief incumbency of office here, nave made
themselves popular with the people, and
it is regretted that the latter has gone.
OF the subordinate officials Detective
keenan, and Roundsman Jackson will,
perhaps, be most missed in the Third,
and Sergeants Cannon and Wade and
Roundsman Casey in the Sixth.
AS to what the general public of old
| Hudson City thinks Of the change it is
hard as yet to determine. Many are in
clined to believe, however, that the
efficiency of the service might have been
better promoted by allowing at least the
detectives, who were acquainted with the
crooks and their rendezvous In the two
| precincts, to remain where they were.