The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02

child arrested ard the next day he is
ordered by the neighbor to go over to
the same mans house on similar err
rand. The man meets him at the door
smiling and after q few moments talk
gets excited about the matter, threat
ems to report the matter to the chief of
police, and tells the officer he does not
know his business. The man knows that
his children would not throw stones at
anybody's windows.
A good illustration of the compli-
ments an officer receives for helping Il
man out of hole happened in the Union
station Tuesday afternoon. The station
was crowded as usual and inspectors
O,Day and Stone in pursuit of their
business were standing. in the corridor.
An old countryman who had asked
every man, woman and child in the sta
ton what time the next train left for
Wilbraham, walked up to Inspector
O'Day and queried him about the leav-
ing time of the train. The inspector put
himself out Of the way to tell the man
about the train and also brought the old
fellow out into the train shed and point
ed to the, train that would take him to
North Wilbraham.
The inspector left the old fellow
and went inside the depot.
In the meantime, another train drew
up on the local Boston and Albany
track, and the old fellow, anxious to
get out of the city, jumped up on the
steps. The train was just leaving the
station when the inspector, who had
walked out into the trainshed, discovered
the old fellow standing on the bottom
step of the last car. He called to the
old fellow, telling him that he was on
the wrong train, but the man from
Wilbraham did not pay any attention
until he was seized by Inspector O'Day
and gently pulled off of the step of the
car and landed on the floor. He was
again reminded that his train stood on
the other track. He looked at the in
spector and then walked quickly over
to one of the big iron pillars In the
spector, took his pocketbook out of his
inside pocket and counted his money
over two or three times. He made
hasty search of his pockets, and after
making sure that he had not been
touched, he brushed by the sleuth az if
he was an emissary of Satan, and
walked over to his train. The inspect
or says he will always do his duty, but
he does not like to be mistaken for
bunco man.
Once in a while a call for the emer-
geney ambulance is sent into Station /,
and the vehicle is hitched UP in sec
ond's time and driver and patrolman
is off for the supposed injured man.
They arrive on the scene, pull out the
stretcher and find a man dead drunk.
The drunk is carried to Station l in
the ambulance, with a good, soft bed
to lie on, and he will then. nine times
out of ten, put up fight with the Off
Ger that ends any way but pleasantly
for the officer. He gets jollied by his
brother officer and stands even chances
of getting kicked by the jag before he
is safely locked in a cell.
For the past two months an order has
been in vogue at the central station
calling for the men to devote every
other night in two weeks to sleeping at
Station /. The officer is obliged to re-
main at the station until s o'clock in
the morning, and then he may have to
show up again for duty at 2 o'clock in
| the afternoon. He gets no extra pay for
| this, and If he is unlucky enough he
duty again at o'clock at night. While
| it only happens occasionally it is a
| thing that the officers do not like
| When an officer grows old in the SER
vice, a thing that will happen to any
mortal If he stays at the business long
enough, he is a subject for the opin-
| ions of other members of the depart
ment. He is too aged to do his duty
correctly, or else he is not spry enough
, to get around. The chief talks about
the Inauguration of a pension system
and other things that makes man
who has devoted his life's work to the
| interests of the city feel his position
keenly.
| During the past week nothing has
caused more talk and CONSERVATION
than the shake-up which Chief of Po-
| lice James M. brennan has made in the
! department. Men at Station have
been looked at by police department
| officials as incompetent, and seven of
| them have been brought up from Sta
| ton 2 to be renovated at the central
station. Two sergeants have also been
brought up from Station 2. One of
them, who is as clever an officer as
| there is in the department, was brought
up because hewanted to bebut the other
was transferred because he would be
under the eye of the chief. The men
who were brought up do not like the
! idea, and they are certain that surely
a. policemans lot is not happy one.