The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-23
POLICE TO GUARD
PRINCE HENRY
Arrangements Completed for
Reception to Visitor.
DETECTIVES ON THE LOOKOUT
To MinEIe With Crowd in Search of
Suspicious PersOns-Major SyIyes-
ter in Charge-Entrance Through
Line. by State Department Pass.

The police arrangements for the recep
ton of Prince Henry have been completed
and general orders issued to the members
of the department yesterday by Major syl-
vster, who has personally taken charge and
made the necessary details.
According to schedule the prince is ex-
pected to arrive at the Pennsylvania depot
at 1915 o'clock tomorrow morning. At
$50 large detail of police will report at
the depot and clear the streets from the
south end Of the train shed to the north
curb of Pennsylvania Avenue, the entire
street from that point to the White House
grounds and beyond TO Seventeenth Street
having been previously roped off and closed
to traffic.
The cars viii be stopped and only those
with passes from the Department OF State
will be permitted within the lines until
such time as the prince and his escort
shall have passed.
National Guard Out.
The line Of march will be guarded by
large details of policemen and the entire
National Guard of the District of Column
bia. Detectives will mingle Will the
crowd, carefully scrutinizing all strangers
and suspicious persons. The local force is
to be augmented by experts from the prin-
cipal detective bureaus of the country, and
almost the entire force Of the Secret Ser
vice Bureau with a detail of postoffice in
spectors.
Lieutenant Boyle will be in charge of a
force of forty policemen at the White
House. while affairs at the Capitol in the
afternoon will he looked after BY Captains
Heffner and Cross. Forty men will re-
port to Lieutenant Byrnes at Fourteenth
Street and Massachusetts Avenue for duty
at the German Embassy on Highland Ter
race. the street being roDed off and traffic
thereon suspended.
Should the weather be prOpitious IN ad-
ditional detail of twenty bicycle police
men will he detailed for duty The
mounted officers who will precede and form
the rear guard of the escort will remain in
the vicinity after the arrival of the escort
at the Embassy, for such duty as they may
be assigned.
Orders Are Explicit.
After the prince reaches the Capitol in
the afternoon Captain Cross will withdraw
fifty of the one hundred men on duty at
the Capitol and proceed to the Congress
sional Library, where the front entrance
VIII be cleared in anticipation OF the ar
rival of the party. The orders issued yes
terday by Major Sylvester are most ex-
plicit, the full text being as follows:
Upon arrival he will go to the White
House via Sixth Street, Pennsylvania
Avenue, and Fifteenth Street.
In order to carry out this part of the
programme the Commissioners OF the Dis
trict of Columbia have authorized that
the street mentioned shall be closed to all
traffic after 10 o'clock 4. NJ until such
hour as the prince and escort shall have
passed up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Members of the National Guard of the
District OF Columbia will extend their
numbers on either side of Pennsylvania
Avenue from Sixth Street TO the White
House, which will materially aid the po-
lice in carrying out this programme.
"a mounted platoon of twelve privates
will report TO Acting Lieutenant Mathews
at Sixth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
at $50 a. M. on the Gath inst, TO act az