Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-12

Chlef OF Police
respect for it and with the knowledge
that the man who does is the one who
will benefit by 1t.
'I expect to make all promotions on
merit, and the man who makes good
report on his beat will be the man who
stands the best show. That spirit 1
want to inculcate in the entire force,
so it will be working together in har
mony, and will at the same time be
giving the city the finest of protection.
1--WE need more men; we haven't
nearly enough. But | don't see any
way Of getting them right now. We are
running very slightly ahead Of our ap-
preparation just at present. and that
seems to be all the city can afford.
No Gambling In the City
1--WE have to work our men pretty
hard now but 1t can't be helped. Los
Angeles is a very hard city to police,
not only because of it's changing popu
lation, as I said before, but because 1t
is so big and so scattered. 1t spreads
out over so much territory that we
have a hard time covering 1t at all.
But 1 want to inspire the men with
pride in the force, and with feeling
that they will benefit by their own good
to do a good turn by working couple
of hours overtime he will do 1t cheer
fully, feeling that in the end it will be
to his advantage"
won't the races make your work
harder? Won't they bring in a lot of
undesirables ?"
"Yes, no doubt of It; there is GER
tain class of race followers that are
pernicious. Now, 1 like good horse
race when 1t is run honestly and when
,, the best horse wins. 1 have only been
out there once or twice. Yes; we will
have that to handle. But we are ready
for that when it comes"
"How about gambling?'
"There isn't any in Los Angeles that
I can find. will take 1t as personal
favor If anyone will point out game
to me. I'd like to stop it. No, I don't
believe that there is any gaming in Los
Angeles now. Possibly some people
play in private; we can't help that, and
that isn't what we are looking for But
there is no gambling of the professional
sort. and there won't be any.
"Fantan?"
Nov let me tell you about fantan,
of which so much is said" spoke the
new chief, earnestly, as he leaned Ior
ward. "fantan is a Chinese game that
few understand. Not over five mem
bers-well, maybe six or seven-yes,
about seven-seVen members OF TINS
force can describe n game of fantan
so that a white man can understand
it, You see, when we raid game
we take the players into court, ana
they always demand jury trial. Then
we have to send out and get a jury.
One day last week $50 of our best
business men were dragged away from
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to come here for duty in fantan
game case. L had made the arrests
and had seen the game myself and
| understand 1t. Well, we finally got
jury-and it was hard work. The
lawyer would ask each man: Would
you believe a Chinese under oath as
soon as you would white man" And,
of course, nearly every man said he
wouldn't. But we got the jury and
the case went to trial. | described
the game to the jury and made it
plain There We're thirty-flve defend
ants and everyone of them swore 1T
wasn't fantan at all. There you were
thirty-five to one. The jury had to
give them the benefit of the doubt, of
course.
After Auto Speeders
"Chinese are born gamblers. They
would as soon not eat as not to gam
these other tempted gamblers. 1 had
a law passed that made it criminal
offense to be a locker on at q game
OF chance or where a gambling layout
was exposed If three or more were
there. This makes gambling impos-
sible, If materials are used-we catch
them looking on, and If the layout
do something and l thought out this
scheme, and l think 1t is going to
stop it. At least it will make it easier
for us to catch the men we may have
to go after
And the speed maniac?"
Eyes, we are after him, too. He Is a
hard proposition. We are waiting, In
way till we get our motorcycles;
then we can prove the speed on these
fellows. AS it is now, even when we
time them, they go into court and
swear that they were not running that
rapidly, and it is their words against
ours. But when we get our motor
cycles equipped. as they will be, with
speedometers, we will have them. Then,
we can ride along side of them. keep
Ing the same pace and have the evil
dence, which they can't deny. Wen
get them then, so that they can't get
away
but the trouble is that the man who
runs an auto is usually rich, and he
doesn't care anything about the fines
assessed against him. He pays, and
when he wants to run fast again he
takes another chance. What we must
have is a law making imprisonment
possible; then Mr.. Rich Man will re-
form; he won't care to spend a while
In a jail.
"I wish we had two dozen motor
cycles coming, instead of two. I'd like
to have that many of my men so
equipped. They are making those cy-
eles noiseless now, and they beat any