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on the grass for, the Park employees to
pick up afterward
4. To prevent disaster to the big army Of
I'May-day visitors and send them home in
as good conGtion as when they came.
there Is lively shuttle OF both pItrolmen
apd mounted police beginning with the
first Saturday in May. Said the sergeant
in charge Of the police precinct at the Arse
nal.
'The Park police force is Away. increased
IN summer, and during the reign of the
May parties we take pltrolnen from the
less freaIented parts of the. park and add
them to the usual guard at the p oints given
over to the children. The mounted police
even letter work than the patrol in keeping
children from running on the driveways
and coming 70 grief from horses and auto
mobiles The special business Of the
open for all snnll interloper:, and on Sat-
urdays In particular they do scarcely any
thing else but chase small boys and girls
bsck from the roodways..
@You see, the children who come In droves
on these May day parties, the very minue
to the wi,.ds. Most Of them act as if they
were wild. The girla are just as bad as the
boys. Boys and girls alike break branches
from the shrubbery, pick the flowers ard
try their best to uproot plants and shrubs
s,ard in tho slightest awe of the police
men, for they have lear cd somehow that
II it can possibly he helped no arrests will
be made. Sometimes q BOY Is run In. but he
Is seldom held.
charge do their best to keep the p, ace, but
then there are never enough of them.
teacher will ask for a permit to bril- go
children Tor an Quit 6. Then she gets
two or three friends to come a.ong TO help
her. She ought to have sbout twenty.
n L.
come along with the children give the
police q lot more be Their than the kids 10.
II the weather is balmy the ign women
make themselves comfortable by remov-
of their shoes ard stoch, gs 1t is not the
easiest job il the world to make them I'M
derstand that the rules of the Park don't
permit them to do this and TO persuade
them to put their clothes on agail.
done et to 's a i ps by ahe sS S' p aaRss'
explained an Off ?ial lis nature and it Is
wonderful how quickly sh. does her work.
Sometimes l am aim! st tempted to believe
that she works overtime and on the double
the most serious feature Of the repairs.
Fort unately most Of the bushes Ia the
Park are OF the more Etloy Varieties
and little rough usage doesn't do, them
las.iI.g injury. The eashes made by
e snd ae as
which at this time Of year has not y.
got it's full growth. Then before long The
new branch will start 10 take the place OF
the one destroyed.
'The work of rejuvenating this lawns
depends a good deal on the weather. II
there happens to be drought our task Is
hard, but If the season ia damp, or II there
are frequent rains, a miracle almost IL
wrought in two or three days. With un-
favorable conditions We are sometimes
obliged to guard the lawns from trespassers !
for several days in succession, not even |
excepting Sundays, to save them from |
ruin. We always do our best, though, to !,
give the children every benefit OF them In |
May. After every May party the sod has !
70 be relaid In places flor even Park police. /
man can't be omnipresenU, and some Of /,
the small plants must he replaced; but this ,
has come 10 be such matter Of course that |
We don't give it thought. The punches
Of lilacs and other flowers that are broken .
from their stems and carried oil, Of course
we resign ourselves to lose. They can't
be replaced
One OF the most thrilling features Of May
parti,s Is the wall Of the lost that go.'s up
On some occasions the police precinct
there rtsembl,s an out-and -out orphan
asylum filled with very unwilling and v.ry
inmates who tax the patience
Of the inatron. the sergeant and even the
captain to its utmost. On one fine day -
last May no fewer than $50 Children were
led into that retr at by perspiring policemen,
Ave hours. Before shutdown most Of them
had been reclaimed by their guardians,
but long before that time every .ofiicial
with the precinct was as limp -
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