New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-14
EPSTEIN HOME AGAIN.
Thinks Berlin Police Would NOT
Do Here.
HAS FEW VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS

AS result Of his inspection of the Police De
,sr-r,ert OF Berlin Deputy Police Commissioner
Fhstein who arrived from there on the Augusta
Victoria of the Hamburg American Line yes
ferday says that he viii have very few sugges-
sions 10 offer with relation TO the aoopuon u
German police methods in New-fork. Inc per
lin notice he said. might be all right there pu'
they would never DO here and he would rather
have one New-Y9rk policeman than ten Of the
Berlin ones. He does have an idea however
that this city might copy from the Berlin plan
An -sesrd 70 the regulation of the liquor traf11c
Regarding this ne said:
II am not going to advocate the all day sun
day liquor business as it is carried on IN Berlin
because ii is q fact that liquor dealers are al
lowed TO do pretty much as they please on sun
6av while all other kinds Of stores close at
nm But in the regulation Of the LIQUOR trafhc
st night we might learn something Inc heao
official of the Police Department has numoer
Of concessions that he may make to the LIQUOR
dealer Every new saloonkeeper must close at
II O'Clock at night, but he may later receive
hermit TO keep open until midnight or 1 or
m But If he does not keep a decent. orderly
Mace his late permit is taken away. There is
no ter11porizing- He is closed up at the hour
named in his license He may have his case re-
viewed by the courts. but the police mandate rs
generally upheld. because it is rarely made with
out due cause
Major Ebstein told how all the members OF
the Berlin police force were taken from those
who had served III the army for six years. The
candidate serves q probationary period without
paw in the department before severing his con-
-,ection with the army The rank and the file of
She department can get nc higher than sergeant,
the higher officers being taken from comnls-
stoned officers in the army The discipline was
OF course, almost perfect but the major was N
clined to think that it was huruul TO the de-
neIopn1ent of common sense and independence
end good Judgment of action in emergencies,
which traits distinguished the New-York po-
icenan. For instance, he saw two policemen
looking handsome and standing idly by wnlie a
1rucknasn trying to get fallen morse 10 MS
feet The policemen told him it was not their
business 20 lend helping hand unless the street
traffic seriously interfered with
Tie traffic problem there he added, was SIM
ME The streets were broad, and the policeman
stood in the centre Of the thoroughfares ana
kept travel in different directions on opposite
sides of the street To attempt ii in Newly ork
would mean the manning of a policeman or TWO
day -. 49,
The custinn of having no separate stations, as
On this country nor any department telephone
system. Major Ebstein thought was great ms
take One thing that did attract his attention.
however and which he will probably recon-
mend for reproduction in this city was the po-
lice museum. where an extensive collec-
ZION of everything that would be Of interest TO a
student Of crime. such bloodstalns on 81
sorts of materials, footprints on various sorts
Of surfaces and complete COLLECTION OF LOUIS
,,sed in all kinds Of criminal work
Deputy Commissioner Ebstein expressed nluch
surprise when he told OF the suspension OF
CAPTAIN Rooney, of the Fulton-st station, put
would not comment on any OF the acts OF Dep
,Itv Commissioners Piper in his absence He DID
NOT know that he had crossed the path OF the
pev Cortland Myers who is his way to
Furope somewhere on the ocean, and said that
he guessed the clergynan's declaration that ne
would send a wireless message 10 mayor EpStelh
was only a playful joke
Denutv Commissioner Ebstein remained at
home after his return yesterday, but SAID ne
v,oT1ld he at Police Headquarters tomorrow