The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-15
STUNTS DONE ny THE sLEUTHs,
They shift From swallow Tails to Sweat crs
and Shlyer on Roufs,

The police arrangements for protecting
President Roosevelt as he went 10 and
from the Hungarian Republican Club din
ner at Little Hungary last night were very
different in many ways from those of the
night before, when he was a the Waldorf
Astoria and later at the Hotel Aston. Al
these last named places Capt Steve O'Brien
Of tina Detective Bureau had his gang Of
seuths in evening clothes The President
recognized some of the detectives then
whom he wouldn't have been able to dis
unguish last night.
There we're two reasons for this. One
was due to the fact that Capt, O'Eren deemed
it best to have his men CARRIED in the dress
Of the Bowery. The same batch that had
shown so re~plendent in evening clothes
the night before we're last night rugged up
in blue shirts and big black sweaters with
caps pulled down over their eyes. O'Bren.
who has always liked to zee his men dressed
in this fashion, walked along the route
and beamed upon them with evident pride
a. they peered down from a hou-ctop or
out from behind a barrel stuck on tcne-
ment fire escape
Detective-Sorgeant John McCauley was
O'BrieE's special aide-de-camp m super
intending the sieuth division. McCau.ey
Was on guard at lUe ItCLpIJ tlllI dlICt " TIC
Church Of the Hoy Communion, at sixth
avenue and Twentieth street. when Prcsl-
dent Roosevelt was held up by a crank who
got by the guards at the funeral of James
X Oracle. so he had hai practice.
Some time before the President and the
police cavalry reached Houston street
OBrien gave a mysterious signal and the
fifty unoouth hawkshaws made for the roofs
a ong the way The police had imagined
that "a soon as the Presidential party ar
rived in Houston street and turned east
there would be rush to the hausetops on
the part of the residents But {. q residents
preferred 10 take chances Of viewing tn
President from side street rather than
brave the arctic weather on the roofs
A. a result oil TINS decision on t1clT part,
the only occupants Of the roofs IN the Little
Hun gary neil hborhood were O'Brien 4 blue
shrted brigade O'Bren had given his
mysterious signal somewhat rremaiurely,
and the sleuths atop OF the ter ements had
a long. Geld wait Many Of them peered
down from time 10 time and questioned the
men in uniform on the street below If the
President had been sighted. When told
that IL would probably be some time before
the PARTY arrived, r. me Of the easy gong
sleuths slipped 10 tho street and sought
the warmth offered IN adjacent stores and
saloons.
When the President and his escort did
finally loom up in the distance there was
scurrying Of sleuths TO the housetops. As
the party progressed along the street so
did the -leIlths across the roofs. Some If
them had hard time Of u, a. no particular
rule as to the height Of buildings holds IN
East Houston street. As it was necessary
10 20 from a six story tenement 10 ono Of
five floors 1t can be readily seen what kind
of a task the detectives we're up against
But no one knocked of brick or care
lessly kicked a bit Of cornice loose when
the President passed, and Capt O'Br!en
complimented his men highly when the
whole affn- VS. ended.
The detectives pcked,up eleven crooks
all Of whose pictures adon the rogles'
gallery.