New-York tribune., 1903-06-21

the applicant justified In his request TO carry
weapon he turns the man over to Cornlrlls-
sioaer Greene who either signs or Vetoes 'ho
annlication. The sum paid for the permit Is
g,van to Sergeant Sheldon for the police pension
fund.
Although the police captains are FAR more
strict now than in the days Of Devery, never
theless many applications get as far as IN
spector Brooks which make this white haired
veteran pull hard on his goatee to prevent out
breaks Of laughter.
And why do you want to carry a gun?' he
asked the other day of huge, round stomached.
round faced, round fisted German saloonkeeper.
"Vor to brotect mineselluf. yes" was the
answer.
Are you not protection enough in yourselfT'
asked the inspector surveying the formidable
proportions of the
"Neinl Neini I no talk of bolice projections.
Dat is it, isn't it? I means dis. closes mine
saloon at Elm uhr''-
What"
II closes mine saloon at vun o'clock IN der
morgen. I shuts de door, but de crowd 1t donts
go out. Den I takes mine pistol vrom mine
pocket, and puts II by dee clock. und L says:
Boys, it list time to go homes already Und
de crowd see mine pistol. dey co.
The inspector calmly advised the liquor dealer
to ask a patroman to look through the frort
door about the time he wont to flourish his
pistol, and see If he did not get the same re-
suits.
Many a fruit dealer who sells from a push
cart on an East Side street, and who changes
the three-cent card to the two-cent card and
finally to the one-cent card over the same pile
of bananas as business drags and passersby do
not look at his wares, bitterly complains nova
days that he cannot get his pistol permit
Though the license fee and the cost Of the
weapon equal TO nearly a weeks saving. yet
he must feel the steel against his hip or he
grows nervous.
"They get in the habit of carrying weapon"
said the inspector ''and become frightened If
they haven't one handy"
Still others who go but fail to get pistol per-
mits at Police Headquarters truckmen,
printers, walters, with now and then an actor.
All say their vocations keep them out late at
night and thus expose them TO danger. Strange
it may seem, not one Of the hundreds of
musicians who play to the citys theatregoers. to
the cafe habtues, in the dancing academies and
other places of nocturnal pleasure. have asked
for pistol permit
"Only fool would hold up musician" said
one long haired violnst. We never have any
thing one could steal, except our instruments"
When man proves to US" explained Inspec-
tor Brooks, after he had concluded the examina-
tion of a bank messenger. that he is constantly
carrying large sums of money through the
streets we grant him a permit cheerfuily. Col
Iectors, messengers for banks or brokerage
houses. night watchmen and others whom the
crooks are constantly studying, in order to catch
them off their guard, need to go armed. We
want them armed
Though Brooklyn has long distances and many
dark spaces between its lamp posts. few resi-
dents of this broad borough carry revolvers.
Out of the total of 1.249 permits in force last
April only 152 were held by Brooklyn men. The
rest were for dwellers on Manhattan Island and
of these the great majority were Italians One
hundred and seventy-fve permits had been
granted by the captain OF the Mulberry-st. sta
ton alone, and under the present system this
precinct, with its large italian population. was
still credited with thirty-fve. In the Twenty
ninth Precinct, which contains the Little Italy"
of Harlem, one-half the permits have been
celled In the last month