The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-16
ANDREWS
INSPECTS
POLICE
Men Make a Most
CreditabIe
Show.
We're All Out in Their
Best Blue Uni
form.
The Attorney General Promises to
Stand by the Police
Department.

The newly appointed Attorney Cen
eral, Lorrin Andrews, inspected the
police department of the city yesterday.
1t has become the custom for the Attor-
new General, under whose direction the
police of the Territory works, to hold
these inspections, and the inspection is
always a particularly important one
when a new Attorney General has been
appointed, as occasion is taken then TO
farniliarize the new official with the
working of the department upon whose
efficiency so much of the success of the
conduct of his office depends. and to
familiarize the men, on their part, with
the newly chosen official.
For these reasons the inspection of
yesterday was regarded as a most inn
portant event in police circles. Every
member of the department. from High
Sheriff Brown and his chief deputy
Charles ChiIlingworth, to the least of
the specials, was in his best suit, and
every star and buckle and brass button
shone Respondent in the morning sun.
The inspection had been appointed to
take place at half past nine o'clock.
At that hour every officer in the de-
partment, save four of the mounted
men and four of the tootmen, who were
Tor clio IL r. &c
Likewise, there were a number of Wis
ftors, members OF the Legislature and
others who had been invited to be pres
ent, among them being Senator Isen-
berg. Senator Crabbe. Representative
Chillingworth, Secretary Atkinson of
the Republican Central Committee, and
others. Attorney General Andrews.
Deputy Attorney General C. E. Peters,
and Assistant Attorney General Philip
Weaver were also on hand promptly on
time, and as the hands of the clock
showed the half hour these officials,
escorted by Sheriff Brown and Under
Sheriff Chillingworth, passed out into
the Jail yard where the policeman, in
shining uniforms, the mounted men at
one side. but without their horses, stood
drawn up IN line to greet their SUI
periors.
Sheriff Brown and the Under Sheriff,
taking positions with the Attorney
Generals staff in front of the center of
the line and facing the members of the
force, in few words introduced first
Mr.. Andrews to the department, then
Mr.. Peters and Mr. Weaver.
The Attorney General, after the intro
duction, stepped forward and said a
few words TO the men, but those few
were timely. so long as 1 am in con-
troll of the office of Attorney General"
be said, 1.-The members of the police
force can rely on it that they will be
backed in doing their duty by the whole
held up to ridicule, and no injustice
shall be done to any man upon the po
lice force if it is in my power to pre-
vent it. And L think it is timely to
take this occasion to commend the
police department for the way in which
it has recently been rounding up the
rough characters, gamblers and bur-
glars of the city That work has been
we'll done. I commend the department,
moreover upon the general appearance
of efficiency shown upon this COCOA
sion"
The mounted men fell out and the
foot officers were put through a short
military drill Then while the Attorney
Generals staff and the visitors were
inspecting the jail and the patrol wag-
on and the entire inside mechanism of
the department, Captain Parker's drill
SQUAD put on their riot uniforms and,
assembling once more in the jail yard
were put through the riot drill and the
| German bayonet drill, doing the latter
without orders and earning round after
round of applause from the spectators
This was. in effect, the show part o.
| the inspection, and was most cred
! table TO the men who participated ant
! to their drill master.
| The bayonet drill squad comprised
the following officers:
| CAPTAIN Kanae. Captain Pohaku
Lieutenant Naipo, Lieutenant Gardner
E. w. Kawaiaea, r. Parker Jr' II
Keliiaa. ]. Thomas, S. w. kepano' l.