The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-22
SEES HOPE IN SCOTLAND YARD
pr. PtRkHT RST TEILS THE NINE
10 err IL WAN" iNiW HERE.
let HIM weed Out Police IN Detail and
II Hes Ideal Keep Him rtll He's Com
,lcicd Of NslfcaSancc Example Of the
co.., out Of sight some Honest Men.

II He's ideal Keep Him rtll He's Con-
,Ictctl Of Nislfcasancc Example of the
COZ out Of sight some Honest Wen
The Nine who are smelling out the police
lad Yesterday the testimony Of the Rev
pr Charles II Parkhurst. DR.. Parkhurst
vas. some ten years or 30 ago. the most
brilliant cxperientialist in the reform bust
ress He knew because he had seen. But
Yesterday he did not undertake to tell The
nine that he had really seen anything
startling He dealt in worldwide gem
eraliuc. He suggested that they get a
Caief of Police from Scotland Yard or from
some point even more remote. The re-
rroter the better. said DR.. Parkhurst.
SIX of The Nine were present TO hear DR..
parshur-t. even though it was understood
tha, he had not entered a heartily into
PERSONAL Investigations OF nasty, horrid
rcople as he did the last time he broke loose
on tho town at his full voltage The missing
thfec we're John G., Milburn. Austen G. Fox.
me cxpectant beneficiary, and the always
missing Elihu Root.
he Rev DR.. Parkhurst. after his session
with the committee, thus summarized his
talk
p
came to me and asked me TO recommend "A
man as Commissioner of Police Ispoke
# an officer Of the army who could have
done wonders with the police. Mayor
strong said that he had already appointed
Waring to the head OF the Street Cleaning
Department and that there had been such
8 howl over that that he could not think
# appointing another out Of town man.
Yet Waring was the best public servant
New York ever had. What Is needed * a
man. not makeshift.
hope that you gentlemen will accom-
pl,h "a much as the LeXow committee
nd That investigation. as did this one,
grew out of the Chamber of Commerce.
said at that time that the thing to do was
10 get a man. | have nothing 10 say about
the man YOU have now. he Is supposed to
I've doing the best he can. But | can say
that the reports have received for thirteen
wears show that the police force was never
In such demoralized condition "a it IL to-
dav / have been accused of being too Sc
we're on the men on the force. But | will
say that they are not all bad-there are
some sturdy. honest men among them
Dr. Parkhurst had by this time exposed
his Justly famed wind sifters 10 the winds
OF Forty-second street Along with the
hreeves there came the sounds of conflict
Three men IN drunken rough and tumble
fight came reeling down the street. The
doctor and his'inquisitors had TO walk in
single file to dodge the tumut Dr. Park
hurst looked up and down the street with
hist-I-sme- him-approachingT air, and,
finding that the policeman whose duty 1t
was to cover that block. "a well a ten others.
was not in sight, said "Of course, Of course
there is no policeman anywhere around
Then he continued.
We should emulate the Academy or Arts
In this matter we should go anywhere
for our police commissioner Go to Scot
land Yard. if necessary But GO man
competent 10 attend 10 police business"
How about Sir Conan Doye?- sug-
scsted one of the doctors interviewers
He doesn't think much of Scotland Yard.
bur he himself
Dr. Parkhurst ignored the il-tmed inter
iIpton and went on:
] said - the gentlemen that IL they
had big business OF their own they would
ineist on a man at The head OF il who under
stood that business. Get a man who will
60 through the police precinct by precinct
End man by man and weed out the honest
from the dishonest. Dismissal by the Com
missioner should he permanent Some
members of the committee said that pol;t-
zeal eXigencies would interfere with this
Then | said. If you are not 10 be free from
politics YOU might as well stop now |
suppose that this Committee Of Nine wants
10 get the best possible solution Of this
problem possible If the people do not
van, TO make any sacrifices TO get Il clean
police department. il will drift on To worse
conditions than those Of the present The
more local politics have to do with
roiicc conditions. the further the police
will 90 into the hole. Thank God. we can
not 70 much further into the hole"
Or. Parthursr snid that when the perfect
1oiice Commissioner was found he ought /
~ stay until he died or was convicted of |
in office. He thought that a |
State constabulary would help some to- |
ward getting rid Of local political infu- |
nnces m the Police Department.
EE-AssemhlYman Maher addressed the /
Nine IN behalf OF the three platoon system /
lie said that the reason the trial Of the /
-vs'em showed TOO few reserves was that I
Tho sergeant- were too free in exc using /
mon from reserve duty.