The sun., 1903-05-24
AUTO HUNTING IS EXCITING.
BICYCLE COP TELLS or THE
SPORT UPTOWN.
Women Take Arrest Harder Than Men
How the Man on the Wheel Catches
the Red Devtl-ChauHeurs and others
Getting Wary-Mishaps OF the Hunter

How tne WAN on tnr Vuec' $~@
the Red Devtl-ChauHeurs and others
Getting Wary-Mishaps OF the Hunter
They're not as wild as they were,' re-
marked the bicycle policeman.
But they are still wild enough. and this
is why the members Of the bicycle squad
with posts on Fifth avenue, RiveTsice
Drive and the thoroughfares running north
from Central Park don't have TO go 70
the woods to enjoy the excitement OF the
chase.
There is excellent sport with big game
just now, for example, on Eighth avenue
from the park to Macomb's Dam Briis-
With Seventh avenue, north from l25th
street, In a state OF being macadamized
Eighth avenue offers the most convenient
route to Morris Park. and every afternoon
a procession Of automobiles rushes from
Central Park into the Eighth avenue land
scape.
At about 1 o'clock the vanguard appears,
and 1t is at this time that the bicycle police
man takes another hitch in his belt, feels
for his stop watch. and sees that his bicycle
is ready for instant action.
Just notice that big fellow slow up, 'ex-
claimed the policeman, hastily interrupting
himself In the act Of plotting to the sidewalk
the last of the little girls hurrying to a
nearby school. -The chatter has me spotted.
He's had his eye peeled for me all the way
from 10th street.
when they don't see me down there
somewhere they know I'm at this end OF
the line. and they stand ready to ease up
When they're going out to the track about
this time Of day usually stay up here so
as to keep them guessin, and when they're
comm back, I'm usually down below
But this don't follow. by any means
I'm liable to be anywhere, and this is what
troubles them.
"They hate to go slow along here. You
sec. there's none Of the beauties of nature
TO admire like over on the Drive, and then
a good many of them's afraid they'll miss
the first race.
-On the way back it's worse yet They've
got to get home and change their clothes
for dinner, you know, and most likely
they've got appointments for the evening.
SO when they see clear space for block
or two they take chance and let her out.
This is where l come in. The other
afternoon at about five o'clock l saw a
big machine Of about forty horsepower
pluggin' down the avenue like wild engine.
held the watch on them. Of course.
well. they made block in nine seconds,
which means about twenty miles an hour.
jumps on my bike and am we'll in motion
when they come up with me.
-'Stop' yells.
The chap beside the chatter Gays some
thing; they all ducks little lower-the
ladies behind as we'll ard the machine
goes by me like trotter by cart horse.
But this don't worry me any. know they
can't shake me, even at thirty mile clip
for few blocks anyway, and l swings in
behind. countin' on the traffic on one Of
the big cross streets to hold 'em till come
up.
well, It was just as say. They had
to slow down at l25th street, and was right
up with them. They seen they couldn't
lose me, 80 they stopped. And then you
ought to have heard the game O talk, not
by the men, but by one Of the ladies in
behind.
-'Well, II this isn't an outrage! she says
to the others Then she turns to me.
Look here, officer she calls out in fine.
hish-toned voice. please let us pass in
ner tonight, and we're late now. We can't
stop here. not a second
.I'm sorry for the dinner, madam
says, as polite as knew how. bellevtn'
that it's the right thing to be policeman
and a gentleman at the same time, but
your chatter anyway. will have to stop long
enough to come around to the station house
and be bailed out
a'But that's impossible. officer she
answered; he's the only one that can run
the machine, and this engagement s very
important
al can't help that, madam told her,
I'm here to do me duty.
well, did you ever hear Of anything
so outrageousv she says to the other lady.
Then she remarks to me again, in a way
that would freeze you: You seem to be
great on duty, officer. Do you always
do 1t as we'll as thisf'
'The crowd that had gathered thought
1t was funny to see the lady get mad.
.'For heavens sake, Nan. keep still
We can't argue the matter here says the
young fellow in front. 90 ahead, officer.
Well follow you to the station house
1T didn't take them more than five min
utes to fix up the bail papers-the young
fellow owned lot of real estate-and then
they got started again, the lady that did
the tallkin' still tellin' the others what an
outrage 1t was.
It's usually the ladies that has the most
to say when I'm forced to take an auto
mobile party to the station house. They
even get highly indignant when trail their
machine for a little way to give them
warnin'.
-'There's a policeman who seems to be
followin' US, I heard one Of them exclaim
one day. What right has he tor 1t looks
as II We was under arrest
.And yet they're not all 30 squeamish
about the respectful attention Of a fairly
good lookin policeman like me. was
comm up pretty close to an automobuggy
one afternoon to tell the fellow at the steerin'
gear to ease her on bit, when I noticed
the ladies tucked in behind had kind Of
young and coltish look.
y sized them up to be a couple Of chorus
girls OF Broadway. and guess was pretty
near right, for all OF sudden one Of them
heaved a bit O. candy at me from q box
they had between them. Then the other
tried her hand at it.
.'What's the fun back thereT asks the
chap at the wheel.
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