Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-01

OuS pen goes WllnOuL saying Inc TAX
payers of the District would make paying
investment to stake him to a 6rst-class
newspaper if he would accept its manage
ment.
The subject matter of his letter to Major
Sylvester refers, among other things to the
case of one Luscombe who was granted
permit to erect gasoline engine accord
ing to regulations" which required brick
walls, with ceilings, doors, and shutters
covered with metal
Inspector Ashford was charged with the
inspection or construction of the proposed
engine and building. Instead of Mr.. Lus-
combe erecting brick walls, etc, he enclosed
the engine with a frame building Mr.
Raymond says he asked Mr.. Luscombe how
he managed to avoid the regulations, and
here Is what he alleges in another open
letter to Commissioners Ross, that Mr. Lus.
combe said.
II kept the Inspector drunk until I got it
up, and after that he was afraid to 'squeal.
Here is Mr.. Ravmond's scorcher to the
chief Of police.
MAJOR K. SYLVESTER,
SIR Having heard through a friend Of
the high time you had at Louisville have
heldup a general circulation of 27 900 copies
of the brochure enclosed in order to give
You chance to reflect with sober thought
upon the shabby and treacherous manner
in which have been treated, and to give
you an opportunity to make any explana.
tion you might see ht to Justify your course.
lust before you left for Louisville I told
you that you could do your dirty work in
the dark or behind others, but that would
uncover it, and the same day went to the
Ninth Precinct to meet Capt. Cross, where
i told him to tell you that my remarks in
that note had reference to what had over.
heard between himself and his Italian friend
in his gasoline engine shed the day previous.
Later on I put my grievance before
friends in the Senate and House and in
this mornings mail received ten replies,
one from a Senator and the others from
members of the House.
The Senator says You can count upon
my support in all that you say or do to ex-
pose the peculiar police methods of which
you complain Nolevel-headed Chief would
dignity a complaint made against an officer
by a person after being fined on his account
and especially after pleading guilty as in
the case by Private Williams Nor would
any common sense Chief suub a lieutenant
by ordering an Investigation of such COM
paint by another officer, much less allow
him to pursue such an outrageous course
towards you as his friend
"a member of the House whom you
count on as a friend says: Your favor Of
this date came as a great surprise, because
/ had a good opinion of the person who in
dorsed the conduct Of which you complain,
that reflects no credit upon either Of them
and should not be tolerated by the Com
missioner in charge of the force.
Another says: I do not approve of such
conduct on the part of chief The digni-
flying of such complaints in the manner you
speak Of, is not in keeping with a well-regu.
lated police force. 1t is, in fact most un-
warranted aud uniustihable proceeding
therefore, rest assured that whenever you
are ready it will afford me pleasure to intro.
duce a resolution such as you suggest
L have others Of like tenor, all of which
Mr. Ross may see to satisfy himself that it
reflects no credit upon him to uphold Ash.
ford Cross, Gessford and yourself in conui.
vance and abuse of power. Nor will sub
init to It without exhausting every means in
my power to show it up. This makes clear
to you what my next move will be unless
action is taken to punish your subordinates
and to make Luscombe comply with the
law. Delay will result in sending police
chiefs copies of my brochure.
You will remember that Ashford said in
his report on the case that he had no per-
init for wood yard within 6fty feet Of a
building, therefore you are delinquent in
your duty by allowing his buzz saw and
gasoline engine to be operated twenty feet
from Mr.. Turner's stable and but forty feet
from Nr. Herbert's place. The legal status
of the case is not changed by Com. Biddle's s
slop-headed ruling to the effect that gaso-
line engines are so dangerous around brick
buildings, within the FIRE limits, they must
be enclosed by brick walls with ceilings.
doors and shutters covered with metal, but
that there is no danger incurred IN one ell
closed by a wooden building closely sur
rounded by frame structures that make il
not only veritable tiuder box, bat death
trap which no official except a d. fool or
connivug rascal would impose upon poor
people to ieopardize their lives. Il reminds
people of Christ's remark about the blind
guides straiuing at a guat and swallowing a
camel, 20 see Mr.. Ross and Mr.. Macfarland
upholding Dutton and yourself in legally
robbiug poor iremen aud policemen out of
their hard earnings upon trivial charges Of
overindulgeuce while winking like two
hardened sinners al the perilous con-
ditions forced upon poor people, evi-
IDENTIFY through a drunken inspector IS
delinquency. II this Is not true why
did he fail to enforce the regulations
attached to the permit relating to brick
walls metal doors, ceiling and shutters.
If you we're not conniviug with Ashford "a
make monkey out Of Com. Biddie, why
did you tear the copy Of the regulation.
from the original permit that / sent you to
show him2 Why did you not, like ar
honest man, return the permit 10 me as yor
received il. with the regulations attached
which you we'll understood were part Of Il?
GAS your ears tingle with shame over thi.
falsehearted trick. want YOU to think o
your vileuess in representing tile writer 4
your lieutenants as one who betrayed tn,