Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-17
THE POLICE CHIEFS.
Maj. Sylvester in St. Louis Preparing
for the Exhibit

Maj. Richard Sylvester, chief of police.
who has been in ST Louis several DAYS on
business connected with the police exhibit
at the exposition, Is expected to return
home tonight or tomorrow. Mrs Sylvester
accompanied him to st. Louis where she
visited her father, Colonel McFall Con-
corning the meeting of the police committee
and the work under their charge the st.
Louis Republic printed the following:
The headquarters of the national bureau
OF Identification will be in st. Louis from
next May to the following October.
The office at Washington, with it's officers
and attaches and all It's appurtenances for
the detection and capture of criminals, will
be part of the exhibit of the international
Association of Police Chiefs at the world s
fair.
The committee appointed at the last meet
Ing of the association in New Orleans to
arrange the exhibit met In the admins
tration building at the grounds yesterday
and decided to place the exhibit in the
educational and social economy building
In addition to the working of the identi-
f1catfon bureau there will be on display a
collection of the tools of crime taken In
all parts of the country for the last twenty
years. 1t will include the weapons Of many
of the country's most notorious outlaws
and examples OF the burglars and safe
blowers work
A detail of patrolmen from every city in
the country which belongs to the associa-
ton will be sent to St. Louis in turns and
will aid the local force under Chief Kiely
in protecting visitors.
These squads will come every week or
every two weeks, depending upon the num-
Der in each squad. which will be determined
by the number police chiefs in the diff
ferent cities will be able to send.
A force of detectives from each of the
cities in proportion to the number of pa
troll vrvsn leo he oor,k << q
turns, and they will work in connection
with the Identification bureau. Chief of
Detectives Desmond will be in charge of
these men, who will work with the st.
Louis force.
The work of the bureau of Identification
will be an elaborate exhibit of modern
methods of identifying criminals, including
a thorough demonstration of the Bertillon
system which originated IN Paris. but which
has been adopted in all the principal cities
of this country. The fnger-print system,
which was first used in London. will also
be shown.
The instruments Of torture in all ages will
be shown. The headmans block of the
middle ages, the gnillOtine of the French
reign of terror. the gallows and the electric
chair will all be shown in exact reproduc-
ton of size and arrangement.
The gallery of criminals will be the great
est collection of photographs of transgress-
ors ever made in the world. In the section
Of social economy the police exhibit will IN
clude material and methods in the care OF
the destitute the conduct of reform shoots
hospitals and dispensaries.
The committee. consisting of Richard Syl-
vester of Washington, president of the In
ternational Association; Francis ONein OF
Chicago, Frank Cassadas of Elmira, NJ Y;
John ]. Mason of Memphis, J. j. Hanger OF
Louisville, Matthew kKiely of ST. Louis, w
c. Baldwin of RoanOke, Va, accompanied
by Chief of Detectives Desmond, visited the
grounds yesterday afternoon, and after
calling on President Francis and Secretary
Stevens held a conference with Howard J.
Rogers, chief Of the worlds fair depart
ment of social economy.