New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-09
POLICE CHANGE FRONT.
ORDERED NOT TO BOUNCE.
Told to Arrest 4ssaulters of Cm
Passengers Elected an Brooklyn.

There will be a change OF front the part Of the
police at the points the Brooklyn Rapid Trans
1t and the Coney Island ard Brooklyn railroads
where there has been trouble over the double fare.
81 the orders OF Deputy Commissioner Lindsey are
obeyed. Yesterday, after conference with his
inspectors he issued orders that additional police
should be duty the points where trouble
IS expected. but that they should eject pas
sengers who refused pay the double fare from
the cars leaving the bouncing TO the street rail-
way employees. II, however. these used undue
force in ejectng passengers, they were to be ar
rested and likewise If elected passengers assaulted
the electors they TO be arrested. This action
ts somewhat Of a turnabOut from Mr.. Lindsey s
previously expressed opinion that the only COM
plant that could be made against the police was
that they were not the spot when wanted. In
spector Brooks will be directly responsible for the
action of the police to-day and tomorrow.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit yesterday showed
g;ts teeth the police. but quickly covered them
with apology. c. D. Meneeley. secretary and
treasurer. sent letter TO Commissioner McAdoo
who is in 81. Louis. saying that he directed
by the management 10 notify you that hereafter,
until further notice. pass books will be issued
renewed the lines of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company detective sergeants and pre-
cinct detectives"
This naturally taken mean that the Brook
1yn Rapid Transit retaliating the investiga-
don that is being made into the conduct of the po
lice in acting bouncers for railroad company.
president Winter of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
however, heard of this order. and lost time in
getting TO a telephone calling up Acting Police
Commissioner Farrell and telling him that order
had been issued without his knowledge and that he
1escinded it at once. a ''rnstak had been made
somewhere. he said.
The police might not be overzeaIous in aiding the
bouncers If they had 10 pay their fare The
Brooklyn Rapid Transit.
Commissioner Lindsey went 10 Brooklyn yes
terday with Chief Inspector Cortright and Borough
Inspector Brooks and the three held a conference
sn the Brooklyn Police Headquarters with Borough
Inspector Mclaughlin. OF Brooklyn, and Captains
aAnderman. Short and Dooley, in whose precincts
the double fare trouble occurred.
Inspector Brooks instructed 10 see that
were placed at all points where extra fare is
collected, and all points where the lines OF the
old Brooklyn City Railroad and the Nassau Rail-
road intersect. and where transfers are being de-
snanded
Acting Commissioner Farrell received a letter
from Acting Corporation Counsel Connolly. calling
bis attention TO the requirements OF Section E23
of the Penal Code, subsection s. relating to Use
of Force or Violence" This says that passengers
who refuse 10 obey prescribed rules may be elected
'ff the force violence used is not more than
sufficient to expel the offending passenger. with
reasonable regard TO his personal safety"
The letter stated that the police must act IN &C
cordance with this section
Mr.. Lindsey asked If he interpreted this
section as meaning that the police must keep their
hands off the passengers. while they We're on the
cars or about be elected. and he replied:
The company must do the ejecting. It is the
nuty Of the police TO that there is rioting and
Fhat peace is preserved
Inspector Mclaughlin IS under orders TO increase
the police force a different points Of trouble
Between Coney Island and the city proper. These
points viii be efficiently poLced tomorrow and
Sunday. No disturbance will be tolerated II the
officers see railroad assault passengers, they
must arrest them. and If the passengers assault
The railroad men the rule will apply. II any
officer neglects his duty charges will be preferred
The possibility of trouble to-day and tomorrow
is due not only to the fact that the crowds going
TO Coney Island viii be larger than during the
week. but also because the Coney Island and
Brooklyn Railroad Company, whose right to exact
q 10-cent fare does not seem TO be so good that
of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, charges
the double rate only on Saturdays, Sundays and
holidays.
usual, and declare that nobody will be allowed
so travel TO and from COney Island for a cent
less They will have large forces OF inspectors on
hand at the points where the second fare is eX-
acted, and all persons refusing 10 pay it will be
elected.
AT the police conference in Brooklyn the charges
that the police did not properly perform their duty
during the trouble second fares
sidered. Commissioner Lindsey refused to go into
details. but declared that there was no disposition
20 Thitewash anybody
''If it is shown that any officer. matter who he
may be. has been derelict in his duty: said the
DEPUTY Commissioner, he will be punished The
evidence Viii be submitted Commissioner Nc
Adoo when he returns. My report on the affair
sgill also be submitted TO him
Magistrate Tighe in the Butler-st- court yester-
day issued warrants for the arrest Of Charles
Reagan, conductor; John LolShlin. motorman, and
with the assault Mrs Mary Kirw1n on Wednes-
day night She thrown off a car at Thlrd-aVe.
and Fffty-eighth-st. for refusing TO pay an extra
fare for a ride from Coney Island me men VIII
he arraigned probably to-day. Mrs kirwln has
been removed TO her home from the Norwegian
Hospital.