The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-19
WORRY FOR PORTSMOUTH COP.
CROWD TO SEE PEACE ENJOYS
DISTURBSHISPEAC LIFE.

Hut He Remains Polite Through II All
-sayes siEhtseers From Paying Hon.
age to Travelling Tooth Puliers In Mis-
take for the Russian Representatives.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.. Aug. ls.-James
Widgey Pelham, patrolman OF the Ports
mouth force, has many troubles In these
days Of peace that Is not. Patrolman
Pelham Is an educated, Bostonese. New
England cop He wears a dignified little
wasset or something or other on the top
OF his helmet, and his whlskers are number
sevens.
When he pulls drunk he says: BEG
pawdon, sir. but you are under arrest.
Would you prefer to walk or to take the
wagon?" His beat 10 In front Of the Con-
gregational church Before Portsmouth
became the capital OF the world his only
duties consisted in keeping the boys away
from the town pump. warning the town
drunkards and seeing that Tony Cassidy,
the towns bad boy, did not play hockey.
In these bewildering days Of fame. how
ever, there is great deal Of life and action
on Patrolman Pelham's beat. The ENJOYS
on their way to the navy yard every morning
Q or thereabout. This does not make
a great deal of difference TO Portsmouth.
but the report of 1t has run to Rye Beach
and York and Islington and summer people
have taken to coming down in automobiles
and piling up in front OF the Congregational
church to watch the show.
The astute Mr.. PIERCE, Third Assistant
Secretary OF State. is in charge Of the ar
rangements for delivering the ENJOYS at
the navy yard and returning them safely
home. To keep off possible cranks he varies
the route. This morning he decided not
to pass through Portsmouth at all, but to
make belt line course about the edge OF
the town. Portsmouth wasn't informed
OF this. 1t would have made no differences
TO the town il It had been. Work goes on
as ever in Petts's general store and the
publ library and Saunders's -dyeing and
cleansing establishment" Please notice
the cleansing.
The auto parties began to arrive at o
O'Clock, however, and to draw up against
the curb before the Congregational Church.
Spectators on foot and on bicycles made a
grand stand OF the church steps. Family
parties In traps and buckboards found places
on the other side Of the street. They be-
gan to hinder traffic and to worry the
motormen of the Rye Beach cars.
Now kindly maintain a thoroughfare,
said Patrolman Pelham. Remember the
rights OF others, my dear sir. The front
wheels Of your auto protrude at least foot
further than the law allows. Thank you
kindly. Madam, it is violation of the city
ordinance to cast envelopes and other
refuse on the pavement. Garbage repos-
tories are provided for the purpose.
1t was half past now, and the main circus
had not yet appeared. Patrolman Pelham
was away down at the north end Of the line,
warning a piker against walking on the
city's official fringe OF grass. An auto hove
in sight from the south.
There they GOMEZ cried the crowd.
craning their necks. 'Oh, they are going
to stop!'
In fact the auto carried two gentlemen
in tall hats. Their auto drew up by the
right Of way Of the beach car. and the taller
and elder of the men arose. held up his hand
for silence and began:
We are glad to be this morning In your
beautiful little city and to see 80 many Of
the tlite Of Portsmouth gathered to vel
come US. Seldom do gentlemen Of our pro-
course Of our professional work. meet so
this morning"
Patroman Pelham stood beside the auto,
raising the prohibiting hand which he
learned at Kittery.
"Oh," said a girl in the nearest auto,
she is arresting Mr.. Witte."
"You mistake. madam" said Patrolman
Pelham, "these are mere oharlatans.'
ARREST me, but spare that thrust at our
profession" said the man in the tall hat
I'VE are Saunders d Saunders, world
famed as the original painless dentists Of
Brooklyn"
He got no further. Under the glove Of
velvet Patrolman Pelham oonceals the
hand Of steel.
The Wentworth as q rubberneok attrao-
ton is just beginning to dawn on the beach
resorts about Portsmouth. The native
does not really care. He asks wanderers
from the hotel how they are getting on
making peace and il 1t Ia really true that the
Russians drink great deal of rum.
The typical Mary Wilkins women, riding
into town with you on the buses, ask il
President Roosevelt can't get the Russians
and Japanese to make it up. In the bus
this morning one guest Of the hotel re-
marked casually to another that the price
OF even plain drinks had gone up to rs
cents. A nice old lady leaned across from
the other seat, patted him on the knee and
said:
Don't you think that's . very good
thing?"
The summer tourist, however, is frankly
II politely, curious and he is coming in
droves. Tonight at dinner fifty persons
had to wait for places. Seats near Komura
would have sold at IS premium. The visi-
tors walk through the hotel like an upstate
party in Chinatown, staring cautiously at
the foreign and domestic orders in certain
buttonholes, turning around to look at the
back OF some Japanese delegate, viewing
reverently the front OF the annex where
Mr.. Witte is quartered.
They see as much Of White these days
as do the regular guests. Since Monday
he has not left his room except to go to
the navy yard or to dinner. Baron Rosen
Is always with us In his hours Of ease, but
White refuses to mix. There is light in
his window. however. at all hours Of the
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