Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-06-25
DOG POLICEMAN NAMED BUM.
He Goes Out on Patrol, Catches Bur
glars and Has Many Friends.


and it is not recorded that he has any
enemies in the precinct, except posi-
bly, some burglars who have felt his
teeth.
He arrived at the police station In
! Eighty-eighth street far over toward
the East river, one bitterly cold night
four winters ago. Captain Freers was
in command at that time, and he hap
pened to be sitting beside Sergeant
Tom Reilly behind the desk. The street
door opened and a diminutive black
and-tan dog lodged in at the heels OF
Roundsman Hawkins.
Here's poor little bum almost froz
en- to DEATH" said the roundsman
Lets thaw him out"
Sure" said the captain; "let him lie
down by the stove"
But Bum didn't like the stove. He
was 80 benumbed by the cold that he
could hardly walk. He managed to
drag himself around behind the desk
however, and curl up by Sergeant Reil-
lys chair.
That was the beginning Of their
friendship. Sergeant Reilly was his
favorite from the first. and has con-
tinued so.
He looked up at me in such an ap-
pealing way, said the sergeant, 81
could not help but pity the little crea-
ture.
Bum was not the pick-and-span-
looking dog then he is today. He was
small, scraggly and half-starved. Ser
geant Reilly sent out and bought him
some meat and liver when he was
thawed out. It was probably the first
square meal Bum had ever had.
His next acquisition Of fortune was ar
old blanket to lie on upstairs In the
dormitory. The men all came to know
him soon, and his fortune prospered
correspondingly.
He made his home about the police
station, and began to go about the pre-
cinct with the men when they went or
post. But he stuck to Sergeant Reilly
more than any of the rest, and ever
since that time they have been accus-
toned to take long walks together.
The name Bum" stuck to him from
the remark made by Roundsman Haw-
kins the first night he came into the
house. Before long the policemen ir
the house Clipped in and bought him
handsome collar inscribed Bum
and also bearing regulation brass fg'
ures "2S," used to indicate the number
Of the precinct.
He is very fastidious about his meals
now. but he has friends about the pre-
cinct who give him anything he wants
The night watchman at the Astoria
ferry house has a plate Of cooked mea,
or liver ready for him every night al
| II o'clock And Bum Is usually or
hand. So between the policemen IN the
house and his friends on the outside
he fares pretty we'll.
He always turns out with the mid
night platoon and barks his approval
as the men march out.
The conductors on the Eighty-sixtf
street crosstown horse cars all kno"
him, and he rides free with them just
| like a policeman in uniform. He has
learned the limits Of the precincts
from the men on post, and he has never
been known to go below Seventy-ninth
street or above Ninety-sixth street.
He has the record also Of having fas-
tened his teeth in the trousers of more
than one burglar or thief running te
escape arrest. Bum always manages
to interest them until policeman coulo
make the capture.
Altogether the men Of the Twenty
eighth precinct think they have pret'
ty intelligent dog.-New York Sun.