The sun., 1903-02-19
PIPER STUDIES THE BOBBY.
FINDS LONDON POLICEMEN MORE
POLITE THAN OURS.
But Remarks mat New York Cops Haven't
Time 10 Ne p0lite-Tramo Better
Handled in London Than Here-Deputy
Commissioner Gets Ideas fer Reforms.
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LONDON, feD. ls.-Lapt. A. ". Piper.
Deputy Police Commissioner Of New York,
who arrived here Tuesday on the steamer
Minnehaha started to execute his mission
Immediately upop his arrival.
He was just In time 10 witness the royal
procession to Parliament, for which the
police gave him special facilities. To-day
ne conferred at Scotland Yard with Col.
Sir Edward Bradford. Commissioner Of the
Metropolitan Police. and devoted the re-
uainder Of the day TO watching the street
traffic in the West End. Tomorrow. at
tended by oficiala, he will watch the con-
troll Of the heavy trafic In the city ware
house district. and also the Whitechapel
coster street trading district. On Friday
Capt. Piper will 60 to Paris to investigate
police methods there. after which he viii
spend two days in London He will sail
for New York on Feb. IS.
In an interview with the correspondent
Of TIE SUN Capt. Piper appeared to have
already formulated several ideas for sue-
gestion to the Police Commissioner Of New
York, having. In addition to watching the
streets, perused all the printed police
regulations with the view to comparing
them with those Of New York. He said
-There is a general idea In New York
that the London police regulate trafic
better than We do. ! am going to see
II We can improve our service any. This
experience will help me II the bill appoint
ing another Deputy Commissioner passes
at Albany, because then will have prac-
tically all outaide work. / noticed on
Tuesday that the demeanor Of the people
hers seems to be more subservient than
that Of the Americans. The average police
man here Is more civil, and there is a natural
tendency for one man To be more polite
than another. This is, perhaps, constitu-
tional. Our police haven't time to tell
strangerr what time the o'clock train
goes The instructions here are no more
stringent than ours, but when a police
man makes an arrest here for disobedience
OF the rules of the road the Magistrate
invariably holds and Furnishes the person
arrested. while nine times out of ten when
We make an arrest for this reason the
Magistrate turns the man loose without
fining him and cusses the policeman for
bringing him to court. think that it Is
the Magistrates lack Of appreciation Of
the policeman's duties that causes the
most trouble In New York.
swhere We need reform Ia in the busiest
centres In these places in London the
trafic moves IS per cent. quicker than
ours This y ewing to the regulations
that between 10 o'clock in the morning and
Q O'Clock In the evening carriers are not
allowed TO back up to the sidswAlk or to
deliver coal. casks or heavy freight which
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got to come to In New York, and IL seems
to me that the change will have to be very
radical storekeepers will have to open
earlier in the morning or keep open later At
ight to get their goods handled. In the
London warehouse district there are little
intersecting alleys and courts between
the main thoroughfares where heavy freight
can be handled without interfering with
the general trathc New York wastes
all the space equivalent to these alleys
Look out of the windows Of our big stores
and what do We SEQ? A lot OF waste space
strewn with empty packing boxes and
other litter. Why shouldn't storckeepers
be compelled to utilize this space for build
ing back entrances. the same a. in London?
.One or two minor things we do not pay
sufficient attention to. The police here all
carry a cape Our men are constantly
reported on their posts and always say
that they had TO 90 to get . cape or some
thing We have not provided. Further, at
night tho police here all carry bullseye
lanterns. think this would be an ex-
osllent thing for our police for the proper
inspection Of doors and locks
Capt. Piper's Investigations. on which
he will base recommendations. promise
to b made in record time for such Q COM
prehensivs mission. He proposes to learn
all that is to be learned in London and
Paris in . week