Evening star., 1901-09-07
YORK'S POLICE
Some Queer Things That Happen
in the Big City.
ONE COPS EXCITING EXPERIENCE
Scant Welcome for Women Who
Arrive After NightfaII.
LUCK IN HORSE RACING

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
| NEW YORK, September 6. 1901.
Not all of the queer revelations that have
| recently been made concerning the inside
! operations Of the New York police force
have served to estop the traditional playful
| ness, not to say kittenishness. Of the cops
themselves. Witness. for example. the re-
| cent joyous night of 1t that one of the cops
of the Broadway squad had. The one sad
| feature in connection with this case is that
| the policeman who made so much merri-
| ment for himself Is not an Irishman. thus
giving the reformers an additional chance
| to lambaste the Hibernian race. He Is a
Teuton. Had he been an Irishruan We
| should already have been swamped with
predictions by the reformers that the con-
spirator of the Emerald Isle were planning
| a bombardment of New York.
| Anyhow, this Teutonic cop was strolling
| down Broadway the other night, swinging
his club, humming snatches about that
famous watch on the Rhine, and feeling
very excellent with himself Just how good
| he felt was obvious from his heavy list to
| starboard as he patrolled his beat-a list
which could not possibly have been caused
| by the fact that he swung his locust in his
| right hand and that his gun was sheltered
In his right-hand back pocket. He swayed,
swamp, and anon-after he had disappeared
within few side doors and emerged again
his humming hau risen to chant of VIC
| tory. When he got to the corner Of 31st
street and Broadway he was swept by a.
poignant appreciation of the prosaic char
| acter of his existence. He struggled with
a strong feeling Of the faulty of a mere
| lOcuSt-tw -twirling career, and he longed for
action, and lots of it. He stopped on the
| corner and gazed about him as If in search
OF this pined-for action. When his bleared
| eyes fell upon hanson cab pulled up at
| the curb 1t was plain to see that he felt
| that here was his opportunity to get out Of
the inane rut into which he was convinced
| he had fallen.
| On a Hanson.
boy was guarding the cab by slumber-
ing on the high seat while the driver Of
the rig was applying sustenance to his
person at an around-the-corner restaurant
The Teutonic guardian Of the law who
longed for sudden eventfulness in his life
| trtpped heavily over to the curb, grabbed
the slumbering youth by the sackness Of
| his coat and pulled him from the hanson.
| 'Vot You do-shleep, heinz" inquired the
| cop of the Broadway squad playfully dig
| ging the boy in the ribs with his club.
| Yes. sir" said the boy. fearsomely rub
| bing his eyes.
We're is de poss oof dis rig?" inquired
the officer OF the peace. ''Iss he maiging
mooch money, nod?"
This question was too much for the bow
| who stood shivering.
well, maig him some money ain'd it?
announced the custodian of four squares
OF Broadway, and he climbed into the ham
| whip. clucked to the horse and followed
this up with swift rap across the ant
mails withers, and they were off in a clus-
| ter.
| The Teutonic cop had, it seemed, no par
| ticular destination. Moreover one side If
| broadway appeared to suit him just as
| well as the other, for he see-sawed the
puzzled hanson horse impartially from one
! side of the great artery to the other The
one thing that the cop did especially de-
! sire, however, was speed, and all he could
| get OF 1t. He stood up In his place. sway
and lashing the horse to the tune Of his
song, which was now a shout. The cab
miraculously cleared the automobiles ana
carriages and whizzing cars Of the great
tnoroughfare and after about six blocks
| OF this the cop turned into one OF the
cross streets. His diversion while on
broadway had been very great indeed, and
the spectacle of a fair-haired cop heims,
less, but merrily musical, slugging a cab
horse from the cabman's seat reused even
the habitual boulevardiers of Broadway to
expressions of mild amusement. Quite a
NUMBER or persons, In fact were so enter
ta1ned by the spectacle that they rushed
around to the Tenderloin station to Inform
the cops superiors of the sight that was
being afforded on Broadway by one of tic
\
OF the TenderlOin reserves were turned ont
10 investigate the show was all over.
ana the CAP and the happy, chanting dri,er
tnereof had disappeared
The Wrong Man Punished.
About two hours later a decent-looking
young man with an honest face drove the
cab up in front Of the Tenderloin station on
3Oth street. He reported that he had found
the abandoned cab and horse over on sth
aVenne-fha nvStifod
from one side of the street to the other,
and in danger Of being run down They
were very stern with the young man in
the station, and they wound up by locking
him up for being drunk and disorderIy al
though he was as sober as a Quaker Not
only that, but he was taken to the police
court after his night in a cell and fined SO
the next morning for having been drunk
and disorderly on the night before He
paid the fine, but the dazed look that he
wore on his features when he departed
from the police court will no doubt suffuse
his features for some time to come
Now, this skNtish cop is walking his
Broadway beat this afternoon, looking. as
the saying goes, as II butter wouldn't melt
TN his mouth. Nothing has been done to
him. They tell you at the Tenderloin sta
ton. with the most solemn manner in the
world, that they couldn't find out which
or the broadway cops had engaged in the
escapade-this, notwithstanding the fact
that the large Teuton custodian of the
four Broadway blocks was reported "off
post" by his roundsman while he was en-
joying himself. and that he reported "sick'
for twenty-four hours after it all happened,
while he was at home nursing that next
morning feeling.
Such a jovial, hearty. kittenish lot some
Of these Broadway cops are. anyhow, and
how amazingly most Of them "get away
with It," too!
Where He Made q Mistake.
And while on the subject Of policemen.
there's one Of them now on duty down at
the Battery who doesn't know today ex-
actly where he stands. except that he isn't
likely to stroll beneath the outrageous
boughs OF the Battery much longer He
was chided quite earnestly the first day he
took the post by prosperous-lookln man
in large-checked suit and numerous ag-
gressive diamonds.
This new policeman observed the prosper
ous-looking man engaging in much conf
Dental converse with several groups of
newly arrived immigrants, and he marveIed
greatly thereat. The man with the large
checks and the diamonds didn't appear like
a person who could derive any particular
benefit from the polyglot discourse Of i'm
migrants OF many nationaiities.
The young cop solved the mystery. or had