The sun., 1903-05-24

and by big millionaire, at that.
"You'd "a thought he'd learned to tax
on cattle ship He was goin' to have me
run out OF the department inside OF week.
was to be diggn' ditches Accordin
to him my job wasn't worth the price OF
beer.
Il held my tongue, and just as soon as
! got him up to the desk he calls out
Sergeant, this is the daindest most
dignifled cop ever net eyes on. He ought
10 be Judge, but. by heaven. I'm goin'
to have him brote'
He was comm right along with more
OF the same when the sergeant jumps up
out of his chair and tells him that II he
don't stop threatening al officer In the per-
for,nance of his duty, he'll send him back
for disorderly conduct. He cools down
after this. gives bail and goes away. but
without 40 much as word Of goodby to me.
Another time a gentleman steps up to
me on the corner and gets into conversa-
ton. After little while he makes 1t known
that he's a lawyer identified with auto
mobile interests. When we'd been talkn'
bit he wanted to know, as man TO man.
what was the use OF my arrestin' his friends
for little bursts o speed.
Maybe they do like to travel over
your beat at a little over eight miles an
hour he says. That's natural. What's
the use Of owning an automobile If man
can't travel In it faster than he can walk
With all due respect for your ability
as a lawyer answers, takin' on bit of
the professional style myself, I want to
ask you. man to man, as you say, wtetrer
YOU think it would be wise ard sensible
for me to ARRANGE a speed limit OF me
own? The law does that ard I'm rot PAD
to make it. If you think the laws wrong
get it changed You can do it easier than
l can
This happens to be school corner,
went on. Suppose a machine Genes
plurgin along at a twenty mile clip when
children are crossin' If some of item
don't get killed they're lucky. II l see a
coon on the street with revolver in his
hand. I don't wait till Re kills somebody
to pull him in It's the same thing
Well, officer he says, there's such
thing as bein' too Jealous. These people
are gettin' sore on you
Il told him I wasn't paid for doin de-
tective work findin' out who was sore on
me. and this ended the argument.
yet you'll maybe be surprised to know
that some of these automobilers. especially
the young chaps, don't mind bein' pulled
in once or twice. I've had em yell at ME,
and start out to give me race. I've no
objections; it's my game. ard tefc1e we
know it we've swung away on regular
home-stretch spurt.
"It's hot pace while it lasts. tell you
~ nil IT, ha
avenue with children likely to run out or
wagons to swing around a corner. my
hearts in my mouth And don't always
git them at that.
-One day when was hittin' it up little
fox terrier thought he would take fall out
Of me. Well. he did struck him square
in the back As he came out from the curb,
and sailed about ten feet in the air, landn'
nicely in a sittin' down position.
Il can see the chaps in the back seat
Of that autonobuggy laughin' now as they
dodged into l2sth street. and III bet they're
tellin their friends vet how they lost me.
1T don't happen often that way though.
A little brush like this has cost some Of them
twenty FIVE. But they don't mind it. As
say. some Of the young chaps rather like it
for once because it gets their names In all
the papers as bein' dashin' divils with their
automobuggies. 1t sort O. puts .hem in
the same class with the Newport swells.
Its only on the wet days that they have
the laugh on me. tcan't give them spiel
on account Of slippn' all over the avenue
on the wet asphalt, and they know it. So
they give me a merry smile as they go by.
myself, But il see them in time jump
out in front, and they have to stop or run
me down.
Once when I had a punct ure seen a
white machine comm along like runaway.
l grabbed my bike and began waving it in
me, but was on the spot. II was like
shooin' a hull but it worked all right,
-'Ye're under arrest, l said,
.What for? asked the lad with the big
specks in a surprised and innocent kind Of
-'why. for pickin' flowers. Of course
.At this they laughed, and on the way
around to the station house the lad with the
speclss lighted big cigar and nullin out
small token Of his regard. When told him
that l was sorry, but under the present
circumst ances l couldn't smoke with him
he laughed again, and seeing that couldn't
ride my wheel on account of he puncture
he invited me 70 get in and stow tho bike
behind
-'Do ye want to kidnap me?' asks
him.
well. they had bit O. fun out Of it. and
1t only cost the lad with the specks a ten
But the chaffers is the boy. that don't
like to be pulled, especially If the boss
amt along. II he amt had the fun O. the
speedin he don't. as a rule. care about
the fun O payin' the fine. About every
time hold up chatter he tells me he'll
lose his job II I don't let him go.
~But they're wise boys, the chaffers.
They know pretty well where they can
take q chance and where they cant. One
of them told me the other day that it used
to be a cinch for them down on Fifth ave-
nue. along the Park where there was no
cars TO interfere with them But the de-
pa tment has six extra men down there
now.
-The chaffers try to cultivate the ac-
quaintance OF the bicycle cops. They
know the names OF a good many of u.s.
and some OF them have got so they seem
to DO able TO spot us about ten blocks on
It's the plain clothes men that have been
put on in some OF the upper precincts that
has them guessin'.
you see, when a mans without his
uniform they have to sec his face before
they can be sure. This keeps them rub
BERN at everybody on wheel in sight
and makes 'em nervous.
"They know US but by the same token
we know them. I've got In little book
the numbers OF most OF the machines that