The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-02
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POLICEMAN'S TASK.

Regulation of Traffic on Fifth Avenue
 Too Much for Nervous Member.
 The nervous policeman who so long amused passersby at a busy corner of Fifth avenue has been transferred to other duty. General Green got wind of the fun his man was making and went up to watch him, with the result that in few minutes the commissioner was convinced that the poor fellow would be better elsewhere. Nobody who saw him struggling against his own ner- vousness could help laughing even though his sympathies were aroused. The unhappy man looked, when the avenue was crowded as if his last meal had violently disagreed with him. He stood midway the street, looking un- easily up and down for wheels and hoofs, and warily back and forth for such pedestrians as might need his conveyance. He was considerate and faithful in piloting women and children across the street, but he could not con- cea his uneasiness lest he or his charges should suffer harm. He jerked and lodged, nervously threw up his hand at an approaching coachman, oc- casionally called out in an uneasy voice and now and then seemed almost ready to turn and run for safety to the side walk
 The coachmen all soon learned his weakness, and every man of them took a malicious pleasure in driving as near to his heels as he would suffer them to come. When he attempted to look threatening they laughed in his face, and the bolder among them disregard ed his warning hand and drove on whenever they saw a chance of gaining yard Of headway.
 When a momentary lull came in the turmoil of the street the nervous police man stood with still disturbed counte- nance and one hand thrust behind him, while he spasmodically worked his gloved fingers as if warning back CO., horts of his mounted enemies. His lively imagination made it impossible that he should gain any relief from the momentary respite, and when the crush of vehicles began he was doubly nervous. He was altogether unable to |take lessons from his huge fellow po- licemen forty feet beyond on the oppo- site side of the cross street, who lounges with cool indifference just where the carriages are thickest, never betrays the slightest concern at the ap- proach of wheel or hoof, instantly halts the boldest coachman by the mere lift ing of a forefinger, and evidently di- gests his meals without the aid of spe- cially prepared pepsin.
 ''No, that wasn't his job," said a fel- low policeman, who had more than once watched with interest the almost involuntary gymnastics of the nervous man. "They ought to have given him other work long ago; the whole avenue has been laughing at him for weeks. He's a good fellow, but he has too much imagination for this corner. He'd have broken down with nervous pros tration if they hadn't relieved him. Mebbe you think the place is an easy one, but just ask Reddy there, who 1 seems so cool, how he felt the first week, or watch the nervous twitches of the big fellow up at Forty-second l street. who lets the wheels shave him a hundred times day, and can stop a coachman with single look. Only the ! toughest man can stand this sort of thing a whole season, and every man on the avenue is glad when June comes" >~ .,'.