The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-30
SIDEWALK PENCILWGS
BOuuuetn for Police.

In recognition of the services Of the Montgomery Police Departmeln, l aasf es crooks and the prevention Of crime during the Fair Mayor Teague yester- day sent letter to Chief of Pollce w. H. Taylor, thanking him ana con graduating him upon the excellent ser- vice performed. .,,
 The letter from the Mayor Is ln 1olI
 Montgomery. Oct, 29. Captain W. II. Taylor. Chief of Police,
 Montgomery, Ala.
 Dear Sir
 I desire to congratulate you ana through you. the members or the Mont gomery Police Department upon the eX- cellent record made during the week of the State Fair. Our citlZens nave lice protection afforded the thousands of visitors to Montgomery; ana or the alert vigilence and sagacious precaa- tion which resulted in the prompt ap- 1crooks'' and suspicious characters as soon as they set foot in our city.
 Not a single attempt at house breaking, pocket picking,assau or ols- order of any kind was reported to the police with the exception of two rob- berries by money snatchers. two or whom were subsequently, arresterIne complimentary significance of this is accentuated by the fact that three large fairs closed at Atlanta, Louisville. and Birmingham, just prior to the opening of the exposition held in Montgomery under the direction of the Alabama Agricultural Association.
 Ut is record which uph olds the re- putation of our city as an orderly com munity and one which reflects great credit upon the members or the Mont gomery Police Department, individual ly and collectively ,,
 w, M Teagqe; .N ;or :,
 The sentiments expressed by w the mayor, have been shared by many cit izeps.
 Punch and Judy. the Perennial.
 T went to the side show today and the deepest impression l came away with was that human nature IS the same down through all the centuries" said a Montgomery lawyer yesterday to newspaper man.
 T got the impression because a simple little Punch and Judy show in a modern circus gave more genuine de- light and laughter than any other flea ture of the performance. It was a pret- ty good side show. There were really some astonishing freaks in it, ana A big audience was. in the tent and it enjoyed thoroughly the shideshow entertainment.
 But this entertainment wound up with an old time Punch and Judy show, and the audience became uproariously delighted. Nothing they had seen tickled them near so much as thls old per Tormance. Punch and Judy got more laughs and shouts out of the audience than all the other acts in the tent, and more interest than was paid the freaks I doubt if there was a single act in the big tent that pleased so well.
 II tried to remember how old this lunch and Judy business Is. But l was not enough of antiquarian to do it. know though that its history runs back into the middle ages through century after century. l recalled that the per formers used to make their way through France. Germany and early England on foot with their little fig ures and curtains carried in l basket eating when they could. and picking UT now and then a few pennies in the will lages add cities.
 sent, were put in the Vagrant class and they were practically without the pale of the law
 "But they gave pleasure to the peo. pie. Men and women crowded around their booths and little children laughed and shouted when Punchinello was do ing his funny work with the stick. 'I thought today how little dfferen is human nature of the twentieth cen tury from human nature of the four teenth and fifteenth centuries Because that audience today enjoyed Puncl quite as much as did the audiences O the Middle Ages. It is probably thu | oldest perofrmance now offered for thu entertainment of man, but vesterda! showed me that IL IS en1oN'u more tnal | any other.
 Big Week for FrR"tiUn Company. "rhe Montgomery Traction Compan. has certainly been playing in grea | luck the past ten days said Mont ! gumovy citizen yesterday. "'fhe Stat 1 Fair nHd not more than closed it's gate | than the circus came to town, adding | it's thousands of visitors. both after noon and evening. to the enormous tota l that was hdHdlcd by the company ol the Picket Springs line last week. some of tn" profits of these pros porous davs. l understand, is to be pu | into the improvements that have beel needed. and been promised, for so long on Jefferson Davis avenue. I certainl | hope the story that work is to com l mcuCe on that street at once is correc and that the Traction Company. tha l has been patronized so liberally D. Montgomery people and their guests will reciporate by carrying out tn | work It has planned."
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 Will Stick to Back-Stamping. T notice the Savannah postoffice l going to stop back-stamping letters. l said an official of the Montgomery pos office yesterday. This experiment | being tried now in a number of cltie' ! and if it does not prove sattsfactory . have no doubt that the postoff1ce Wi i return to the back-stamping method
 In Montgomery we are going | | continue to stamp letters on thel 1 backs, l don't think 1t would WQTk We