The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-19
WOES OF COPS UrDER PIPER.
HARD TO WALK THE CURB WITH
4 MARTIAL TREAD.
Salute . One-.Armed Man OH sight. the TIP
Now--Troiiey Men Bear warning OF
the New Deputy's Tours-some Of the
Force Try TO Keep on the Curbstone.

Capt. Piper's recent order that police
men on patrol must walk on the curb line
has had some curious results Many Of the
policemen have the idea that they must
walk on the curbstone itself.
A policeman of the Eldridge street sta
ton who weighs 800 pounds did his best yes.
terday to accomplish the feat IN Delauo cy
street where the curbstone is only about
four inches wide and in some places -laI,s
toward the street at an angle of IS degrees.
He tried 10 use his club as balancing
pole. but IL was not heavy enough. Al
intervals one foot was on the sidewalk and
the other in the gutter. As he wired the
perspiration from his forehead, he re-
marked
-Oi niver thought Old be "A toightrope
walker. They tell me il Oi don't dothi-,
Oi'll he pped Of by Piper. Oi think he
must be relation Of that Teller they call
the Pied Piper Of Heidsick who sells cham
pag-nc wather downt own"
Another result of the Piper regime ia to
arouse a martial spi,i, among the men
A soldierly bearing is in demand now, bur
it's n little hard for a cop that s as thick
through as he Is long TO keep his chest
out IA he should.
Last night a crowd Of small boys with
banners and tin-pan drums had a parade
In the interests of Charles =. Adler, the
Republican candidate for Congress in the
Ninth district.
Policeman Michael Doolev was assigned
to do escort duty for the youngsters. and
for three hours they walked Dooiey around.
He stuck manfully to his task. looking
neither to the right nor the left. and with
head erect ard martial tread
Dooley's efforts were wasted on the small
boys in the crowds on the sidewalk They
greeted him with
Hey. cop. you're ripcd by the Piper"
Pipe him on. fellers'
Smoke up, Dooley, your pipe Is out.
II was said yesterday that the moi ormen
ard conductors on the surface cars had
volunteered to act az lookouts for the po-
lice and TO keep them posted as TO the Dep
uty Commissioner doiugs
Early Yesterday morning word was
passed along Third avenue that Piper had
started dowltown from Harlem and was
jumping on the cars az different point :
where he saw policemen talking Oh post or
away from the curb line. The effect on
the force from this rumor was magical
Cops who had been rourd-shoulder,d for
wears ma mage 10 straighten out in mcas-
ure. Their head- were thrown back. clean
white gloves adorned their hands, and
their clubs were Respondent with the regu-
lation blue tasses
Ons-armed men all over town are greeted
with military salutes now. some OF them
were old enough To- be Deputy Commissioners
Piper's grandfather, but the policemen
take no chances.
The Deputy Commissioner called on
Capt Walsh Of 'ha Tenderloin station
her ~ hn
seventh street station and Capt. Miles
O'Reilly Of the Oak street station Yes
terday.
His presence on the Fast Side as quickly
noted A policeman Of the Eldridge street
station. who recently won fame by arrestinp
an Italian organ grinder for playing
"Boyne Water and -Croppiee Lie Down
for the purpose Of insulting him. never
left the curbstone in Grand street all yester.
day afternoon.