The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-12
MAYOR STARTS A
CLEANER CAIRO
Move With Instructions TO OF.
ficsrs Last Night
NEW MEN ARE ON DUTY
CHIEF EGAN PUTS HIS FORCE OF
POLICEMEN TO WORK.
ARE TOLD TO BE CON.
SENTATIVE.

Mayor George Parsons made the
first step toward a cleaner Cairo,
which was one of the campaign argu-
ments, in a talk to his new police
force at the city hall last evening,
when he instructed them to begin a
campaign against dirty streets and
yards.
Mayor Parsons told his men TO
make an effort to quietly induce the
property owners to clean up their
yards and the streets in front of their
homes and business places and to
keep their property and the streets
in cleaner and more sanitary condi
ton.
Mr. Parsons hopes that by everyone
| doing his share in the work, the city
win soon be free from dirt and rub
Dish and that cleaner and healthier
Cairo viii result.
In instructing his officers as tC
their general duty, Mr.. Parsons told
them TO be conservative and not Is
act in a radical manner, but to watcl
carefully for the city's best interests
and see taht the laws were enforced
especially as to observing order on
the streets.
Chief of Police Egan and all of his
men were present last evening whef
| addressed by Mr.. Parsons. Includine
Mr.. Egan, Sergeant Cowell an6
| tTaatsb nfRaar Cr- tbapa nra I I ,,,oY
on the force. From the chief down.
they are all good men and many o.
them have seen much service and ex
| perienee.
| Yesterday was the first time that
! the officers walked their beats under
the new administration and as a re
suit there were many new faces
around the city hall although many
of the new officers have been on thu
force before and reported for dnh
with their old uniforms, looking as
/. fresh as new.
4 Chief Egan yesterday assigned tbs
men to the different beats as follows
During the day, Uncle Abe" Hoag
i lin will do duty between Second am
7 Eighth streets John Glade viii wall
! the beat between Eighth and Twenti
eth streets, while Green Lipe will GOV
er the territory north Of Twentieth.
The men under night Sergeant Cow
, ell will work as follows: Mcnamara
and Nichols, from Second to Eight
streets. Whitcamp from Eighth Il
Twelfth street. Officers McCabe an
Higglin, have been assigned to wha
is known as the "tenderloin district
I and will cover the territory betwee
Twelfth and Twentieth streets Off
Ger Holheinz will be on duty betwee
Twentieth and REIMBURSEMENT
streets, while Officers Wade and BraC
ley will patrol north of Twenty Sc,
! enth street.
: Mr., NJ. Lutz yesterday took charg
|. OF the city bastle and has been bus
: cleaning up the police office and d
y ing his share Of the work towards
cleaner Cairo" Mr.. Lutz serve
many years on the force and wi
> prove a most valuable man to II
y service.
y Ex-Chief Ben Price yesterday morl
a ing turned over the arduous duties
preserving law and order and appr
hending evil-doers, to his successo
N Mr.. Egan. Mr.. Egan will no dcui
s. prove most efficient man and wi
" be creditable head to the police d
in partment of Greater Cairo and pro-
to to be a menace to law breakers.
Mr.. Pete" Fraser, last night WI
- on duty at police headquarters in Il
capacity Of night clerk, succeediI
2 Patrick Mccarthy. who retired wi
= the distinction of having been on du
every night for the past two years,
~ total Of 730 nights. Mr.. Mccarthy
y naturally quite proud Of his recol
and says he is the only man on Il
70 force, who from one reason or a
other has not been off duty.