Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-23
POLICE WIN
NEW LAURtLS
FIESTA CROWDS HANDLED
WITH TACT AND SKILL
Full Force on Duty Long Hours Meets
Every Emeraeney--<eep Criminal
Element Checked and Guard
Against Accident

The big Fiesta crowds were handled
perfectly by the police.
Every detail was carefully planned in
advance under the direction Of Chief
Walter II. Auble and Capt. Broadhead.
The chief left all the assignments of
men and disposition of patrols to Capt.
Broadhead.
Beginning with Monday night, every
officer on the force was on double
tour of duty That meant at least six
teen hours Of active work out of the
twenty-four.
In the business district $50 officers
were on duty day and evening, while a
sufficient reserve was left at the central
police station for emergencies.
But there were few accidents no calls
for the reserves and the strenuous days
OF the Fiesta went off with less crime
and accidents than often happen on an
ordinary dull day.
Few Crimes Reported
There were few reports Of burglars
or pickpockets UP to last night and the
few accident cases treated at the re-
ceiving hospital were of minor i'm
rortance.
A number Of lost children were cared
for during Monday and yesterday by
Police Matron Gilbert, but the dis
tracted mothers were soon put in pos
session of their lost darlings.
All the patrol wagons and ambulances
were in commission, but fortunately
were not needed.
There were no fires to call for police
assistance and everything went off with
remarkable smoothness.
To careful work on the part of Chief
Auble, Capt. Broadhead, and the subor-
dinate officers is laid much of the seren-
ity of the Fiesta from a police stand
point.
Noted crooks were told to leave town
last week, all suspicious persons were
arrested on sight and "plain clothes"
officers patroled the crowded sections of
the city with an eye open to all crooked
work.
Orders We're Explicit
The patroling of Main. Spring and
Broadway was under the supervision
of Capt. Broadhead.
On Sunday he called his field SER
geants into his office and outlined the
plan of procedure, and on Monday had
yesterday gave out his instructions on
various points connected with the
handling of the crowds.
Sergts. Haupt, Butler, Craig, Walker,
McKeag and Lehnhausen were on
active duty, while other officers in the
parade were ready to leave the ranks
in case of riot or panic.
The sergeants gave instructions to
their men about patroling the various
streets on the line of march.
In case of emergency a reserve force
was on call at the central station and
men could have been drawn from the
sub-Stations if needed.
1t went off like clockwork. There
were no riots, little confusion and few
arrests.
Always Moving
The officers marched back and forth
in front of the long lines of guard wires
and performed various duties.
Women and children were escorted
across the stIeet, directions issued
about hitching horses on side streets
and the way cleared for the parades.
Many an act of heroism and cool
bravery was performed by officers that
that called for quick, clear Judgment on
the part of the police officers.
From the early morning until the last
loiterer had left the streets the men
with brass buttons paced back and
forth on their beats, giving what a
visiting official proclaimed to be "the
most orderly holiday crowd that he had
ever Witnessed
AS a city official remarked:
with the remembrance of this most
successful Fiesta there should be a
word for the Los Angeles police who
preserved such order and decorum that
the parades were unmarried by dis
turbance or accident"