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The San Francisco call., 1907-03-03
OLD METROPClITAf
ROLICE HEADOIIAR TEE


steadily increasing in the metropolis.
Perhaps the courts and attorneys are
kept buster today than. they were ono
or two generations ago, but the law
breakingis done more and more by tho
upper rather than lower classes. When
] first came on the force. for instance.
my post for some time was near Roose-
welt and Water streets. 1t was only a
hundred feet long, or thereabouts.
owing 10 the prevalence OF crime in
the neighborhood, and several other
patrolmen had equally short beats. You
find nothing like that today because
OF the greater police efficiency and the
use OF electrical appliances for mobil-
izing men in very few minutes.
Within my recollection It was COM
mon occurrence for gangs to waylay
the unwary and literally hold them up
by the heels while their money and
valuables poured out OF their pockets.
Then, again, there was the old brew
cry. with the sliding panel in the pave
ment which so frequently opened un-
derfoot and silently closed over tho
heads OF pedestrians, of whom fire.
quently nothing more was heard.
First and foremost. however, among
the memories which throng about the
venerable building were the draft riots.
Occurring they did soon after head
quarters was transferred to Mulberry
street, they constituted a very fiery
baptism for the structure. During that
red week there was never a moment
but that the building was threatened
with the torch. and was only preserved
by the sleepless vigilance and hand to
hand bravery OF its defenders. Be-
tween 1000 and 5000 persons were in
Jured all over the city. and 14e0 were
slain. or more than fell on all the
firing lines during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war. Over fifty buildings were
burned. including the orphan asylum.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-03
FaE5ENT>PolIcE HEAD0uAETEEs AT 500 NvlsEE5Ey ST

have befallen the city and country.
Similar riotous proceedings would cer-
tainly have followed in other leading
Northern cities. and thus the drafting
would have abruptly ended with the
Confederate army almost within cannon
shot of the capital
Beginning with an unbroken line of
defeats at the hands OF the mob, the
finest ponce force In existence today
was really born OF the desperate rally
made by the police against the draft
rioters on July IS. 1868. kilograms had
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-03
BY Inspector Nicholas Brooks

MO. 500 Mulberry street, New York
1" -an address which fer forty
" four years has been feared and
famous IN two hem1spheres-
will soon be out Of memory Its days
sn striking contrast 10 the bewildering
array OF crimes and criminals associ-
sted with &. arc already being num-
bered in hours. following the announce
ment that police headquarters will soon
be removed to the imposing Center
street building, between Broome ana
Grand streets. now swiftly approaching
completion. BY or before September
the old Mulberry street structure-tne
House OF a Million sorrows-win be
abandoned.
Than Scotland Yard there IS no ad-
dress in the directory OF crime and its
detection so familiar as No 800 Null
berry street, and now that Il is passing
prophecies are being made that the new
headouarters will be known as Center
Market in remembrance OF the, market
which occupied the Center street site
until recently.
Glance st pictures OF the new police
Headquarters and compare them with
the old. There is no comparison archi-
tecturaly. just as there was none be-
tween No. zI3A Broome street and the
Mulberry street building in 1853. Ante
dating the old Broome street days, as
the older residents remember, the head
quarters was IN 10. ss White street,
prior 70 which sli the policing OF the
city was directed from the city hall.
As my connection with the Police De-
psrtment began 5ust forty years ago.
when 10. 200 was beginning TO make
n name for itself, our careers have
naturally been closely associated. For
that reason the great Center street
building, with its armory, drill room,
gymnasium. wide tunnel entrance, CON-
parstively luxurious cells, handsome
.paneling and ideal general arrange
ment. all representing an outlay Of
three quarters OF a million dollars. can
scarce replace the older structure IN
ny mind. It may be of with the old
and on with the new, but old no. 800
MLIDtIIJ tAltrN AN1|tf' q c~~AAN R-~-~~
in the respect as well as the archives
OF the metropolis in that .t was really
the birthplace OF the metropolitan po-
lice force OF Greater New York az the
world now knows IT,
Memorable Personalities
Prior TO the removal OF headQuar-
tcrs from Broome to Mulberry street
there had been more or less demorsli-
zation !n the force, and one OF the FIRST
achievements OF superintendent John
A Kennedy. then head of the depart
ment. was 20 bring order out OF chaos
by completely reorganizing the force
Following his iron rule the old head
quarters has witnessed and westhcred
the regimes OF such men as Jour6an
Kelso. Matsell, Walling, Murray
Byrnes. conlin. Mccuilagh and Devery
as superintendents and chiefs: OF The.
odore Roosevelt as president OF thu
board and Partridge. Greene. McAdoc
and General Bingham as commission
ers.
A very large volume would be re.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-03

two police stations and three provost
marshal's offices. Never before or since
has an American city been caught so
firmly between the millstones OF terror
and iismay. The whole island was In
convulsion, with riot and robbery
sweeping in red fury from the Battery
to the Bronx. Indeed. the very exis-
tence of the Republic was jeopardized.
Had the rioters prevailed over the po-
lice and gained possession of the city
but for one hour there is no calculat-
ing what irreparable calamities might
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-03

CURED 10 recite adequately all that has
transpireo since the days OF Superi1-
tenoent Kennedy at 500 Mulberry
street There 1t was that he was
nursed back TO health after his encoun-
ter with the draft rioters. Shockingly
disfgured for the time being, il was
not for many months that the traces
OF his thff1ing fight for life and the
maintenance OF law and order disap-
peared from his face and staiwart
frame. From its doors Inspector DAN
iel Carpenter and Commissioner Acton
marched TO meet and suppress the same
historic rioters.
Eight years subsequently and four
years after my advent on the force
into a combined arsenal and hospital
st the time OF the memorable Orange
riots, when, for tho FIRST time, police
clubs were found to be more trust
worthy than bullets. From there also,
in 1877, while the country was con-
vulsed with the great railroad striker
OF that period leading to desperate en-
counters between rioters and soldiaEs,
was issued = mandatory order which
electrified the country in the form OF
the following notice in the New York
herald:
New York Says Stop,-The thorough
preparations made ny the National
Guard OF the First Division and the
New York police have checked the
threatened disorder in this city at the
outset and left nothing whereon to
hang today any fear or expectation OF
outbreak here"
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-03
Historic Prisoners

No. 800 saw Inspector Byrnes rise to
distinction, his Rogues Gallery 10 per-
fection and his third degree ordeal to
debatable success. The walls OF tho
old building have listened TO confes-
sions, pitiful or defiant or morose, OF
every sort and degree or crime. Deeds
beyond the ability OF human imagina-
tion and invention TO picture forth:
depths OF dcprsvsty to which fictitious
characters never descend and heights
OF moral greatness 10 which they rarely
ascend in literature. have there been
recorded and forgotten. Prisoners fs
nous or notorious. like Boss Tweed,
Jacob Sharp. Ferdinand Ward and 9TH
ers from the time OF James d. Fish TO
young Harry Thaw, have been taken
10 Mulberry street, photographed and
passed on in a procession which num-
bers a majority OF the supreme crinip
ais OF two generations in America The
Charley Ross kidnapping mystery and
the A 7. Stewart grave robbery had
their suspects there. In its Museum
OF Crime and Record Department are
sledge hammers, drills. sectional jim
mics. masks and powder TASKS used in
the great Manhattan bank robbery OF
1873 and prior ones, besides some sew
enty thousand individual photographs.
There was placed the first gold brick
ever made-a relic OF the notorious
Nat White. There also is the once ia
nous eighteen chambered revolver
taken from Mike Shanahan. Besides
these curios of crime are the lock Curl
osities OF Langdon w. Moore, who
knew how to open combination locks
by studying their emitted sounds. Bo-
gus bonds and counterfeiting para
phernslia, by which means hundreds OF
thousands of dollars have been harvest
ed from the puplic; pipes, peanut oil,
lamps. LIQUID raw opium-alI are there
reminders of forty years of criminal
cieverness. cupidity and passion. OF
sneak thievery and murder. OF gam
bling and OF plain swindling.
Forty years have seen many changes
both in the ways OF transgressors and
those OF detection, but IL IS extremely
doubtful whether the metropolis is
any better poiiced today. taking every
thing into consideration. than IL was
thirty or forty years ago. OF course,
the mental requirements-the educa-
tional standard-of candidates for the
force are more severe in the civil SER
vice present than in the more direct
and simple past. Whereas formerly a
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-03

n 10 500 Mulberry street. New York
M -an address which fer forty
" four years has been feared and
famous IN two hemlspheres--
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
SAMbO GR|CE To
SERVE 70
YEARS
Negro Who Assaulted Little
White Girl Given EX-
= IRENE Penalty.

SambO Grice, the negro who about
ten days ago criminally assaulted the
ten-year-old daughter of c. NJ. King,
residing at the corner of Hayne and
Strong streets, was yesterday SEN
fenced by Judge Beggs to serve a
term of twenty years in the peniten-
tiary. The sentence is the extreme
penalty that can be imposed for a
crime of this nature.
The sentencing of the negro fol-
lowed the denying of a motion made
several days since by the attorney rep
resenting the negro, for an arrest Of
judgement. AS soon as the motion
for an arrest of judgement was denied
Grice was taken before the court and
sentenced to serve the next twenty
years of his existence as a convict in
the convict camps of the state.
Other Gases.
Among the other cases disposed OF
in the court, yesterday were those
of Willie Ray, Doc Johnson, and
Sonny Howell, charged with gam
bling. They pleaded guilty and Ray
and Howell were sentenced to pay a
fine of SO and costs each or serve IS
days, while Johnson was sentenced to
pay a fine of SIS and costs or serve
so days
Kelly Lee, charged with petit lar
ceny, entered plea OF guilty and was
fined SIS and costs or serve so days.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
Congressman Lamar Made
Broad Assertion in His
Speech Yesterday
DURING CRITICISM
OF HEPBURN BILL
New High Record in the Pas
sage of Private Pen
sion Bills.
SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY
FIVE DISPOSED oFIN ONE HOUR
AND A HALF-APPRoPRTATIoN
BILLS CONSIDERED IN SENATE
MILAN BILL PASSED.
~ Associated Press.

Washington, Feb. S.-A new high
record in the passage of private pen
sion bills was made by the house TO-
day when seven hundred and twenty
Eve were passed in an hour and a
half.
The naval appropriation bill, carry
ing ninety-five million dollars, was
taken up and speeches were made by
Mr.. Lamar, of Florida, on the railroad
rate bill and Mr. Mondell, of Wyo-
ming, on limitation of federal author
ity.
Mr.. Lamar made a scathing criti-
cism of the socalled Hepburn bill, re-
lating to the interstate commerce
commission. He said there should be
written into the Hepburn bill a pro-
vision empowering the commission to
take the initiative in righting wrong
railroad rates.
Reviewing the recent impeachment
trial of Judge Chas. Swayne by the
senate Mr.. Lamar said that, notwith-
standing his acquittal, Eve have,
nevertheless, rascally judges in Flor
ida"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
Badges Arrive
AUTHORS MATINEE
FOR FISHER HOME
Special to The journal.

New York, Feb. S.-An Authors
Matinee" for the benefit Of the Mary
Fisher Home for Superannuated
Braihworkers was held in the Astor
gallery of the Waldorf today. 1t is an
annual affair, consisting chiefly OF
original readings by well known
writer's. The Mary Fisher Home has
won fame as a haven of rest for worn
out literary folk, teachers and others.
who live by the work of their brains
Hundreds OF such are supported in
comfort, amid congeniaI surroundings
in the two branches of the home at
Tenafly, y. J., and Mount Vernon, y.
Y. The Authors Matinee has be-
come notable feature in the New
York literary season and today all the
best known members of the profes-
sion were in attendance.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
VIEW Of HARbOR
Presented To
BREMEN
By the Chamber of Com
merce, Through Secre-
tary w. c. Jones.

One of the large views of Pensacola
harbOr, taken at the time the entire
North Atlantic fleet and large num-
Der of merchant vessels were at
anchor in the bay, was presented to
the officers of the German cruiser
Bremen the day before the departure
of that vessel for Tampa
The presentation was by the Cham
Der of Commerce through Secretary
Jones. It occurred at the reception
given to the officers of the ship
Wednesday night at the Concordia
Club. the executive officer of the ship
accepting the handsome harbor view
and responding in well worded
speech.
The view. which is about three feet
in length and the best ever taken of
the harbor. will be placed by the Off
GERS in the ward room, and viii be
seen by persons in various ports OF
the world. where the vessel visits.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
CREEK ENTERED
4 PLEA Of
GUILTY
For Violating Oyster Law.
Four More Arrested
Yesterday.

V. Kattisch, the Greek who was ar
rested Thursasy. upon the charge of
violating the game and fish laws of
the state by taking for profit oysters
over per cent of which measured
less than three inches in length, went
before Judge Beggs in the Criminal
Court yesterday and entered a plea
of guilty to the charge
1t was the first case of this charac-
ter before the court since the passage
of the law for the protection of game
and fish. Judge Beggs sentenced the
man to pay a fine of SO and costs or
serve As days at hard labor. In pass
ing sentence the court stated that the
fine had been made light on account
of the fact that the enforcement of
the law had just been commenced,
but that in future the game and fish
warden of the county would enforce
the laws, and that the court would
severely punish those who were con-
victed OF the charge.
Four More Arrests.
Yesterday morning four oystermen
were arrested upon complaint of depu-
ties of the game warden. All were
Greeks and it is charged that more
than three per cent. of the oysters
brought to market were not as large
in size as required by law.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
TO COMMENCE
IMPROVEMENTS
S. r. CREtODER, CHIEF ELEC-
TRICIAN OF WESTERN
UNION is HERE.

S. r. Crowder. chief electrician of
the Western Union Telegraph Co.,
with headquarters in New York, is in
the city on business connected with
the installation of the new equipment.
or that company. and has a force of
men here TO make the necessary al
terations in the Office
1t was stated last night that when
the new equipment is installed the Of
fee will compare with those of Jack
sonville, Montgomery and Birming-
ham. and instead of the old blue stone
batteries now in use the power here
after will be furnished by the Pensa-
cola Electric Company
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
APPROPRIATION BILLS
CONSIDERED BY SENATE

Washington. Feb. S-The senate
to-day passed the Indian appropriation
bill which has been under considera-
ton all the week.
Senator Frazier maze an address
on states rights, after which the
army appropriation bill, carrying to-
tai of eighty-one million dollars, was
taken up. This measure was receiv-
ing amendments at time adjournment
was in sight but was prolonged by
considerable debate on the amend
ment permitting employees of the
government and army to receive re-
Guced rates of transportation over
railroads
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
Four More Arrests.
FOUR KILLED In
CROSS COLLISION
BY Associated Press.

Birmingham, Feb S.-Four men are
known TO be dead as the result of a
wreck on the East Lake Electric line
tonight.
A wild string of freight cars struck
the trailer of an electric car at
Twenty-Seyenth street crossing with
terrific force. thereby piling up in a
heap the cars OF the two trains by
cross collision.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
EUEL wv NESBIIT TIA w
CONTINUES LIFE .STORT
BELIEVES WAR IN CENTRAL
AMERICA is INEVITABLE
Consul Adler Stationed at Tegucgapa Expresses Op-
ion-Presdent Diaz of Mexico Takes Action at
Request of President Roosevelt

department advises that President
Diaz, acting on the direct suggestion
of President Roosevelt, has sent a
note to the governments of Costa
RIGA, Salvador and Guatemala, ask
ing them to use every effort to prevent
and armed clash between Nicaragua
and Honduras, with the intimation
that past treaties must be observed
and that their disputes must be re-
ferred TO ap arbitration board.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
UNABLE TO GET CARS TO
HANDLE THE ICE CROP
SoeciaI TO The Journal.

Madison, wis, Feb. S-Though the
ice harvest is capital one this year
dealers are unable to get cars tC
transport ii and a grave situation pre-
sents itself, for the car shortage is
sure to cause an ice famine in this
section next summer. On the Missis-
sippi river between La Crosse and
Lake Pepin, millions are tons of ice
are harvested each winter to supply
han a dozen northwestern and middle
states, and the car shortage at the
present time is sure TO have far reach,
ing effects The attention of the In
terStatee Commerce Commission has
been called to the matter.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
CHIEF CLERK Of
THE NAVY IS
HERE
B. F. Peters Is In the City
on a Visit, and Was At
Yard Yesterday.

B. F. Peters, chief clerk in the navy
department, is in the isety IN a short
visit, and yesterday he paid a-visit
to the navy yard where he called upon
the officers of the station.
Mr.. Peters arrived in the city Thurs
day afternoon, and will remain here
for few days. Yesterday morning
he went to the navy yard, where he
remained for some time, returning to
the city in the afternoon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
LIQUOR TAX ON
EXPRESS co.'s
Nv Associated Press.

Austin, Texas, Feb. S.-The senate
to-day passed the bill providing for a
special tax OF five thousand dollars.
to be assessed against every expires
Office in the state handling shipments
of liquor The bill has already
passed the house and now goes to the
governor for his signature
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
Sy Associated Press.

Washington, Feb. S.-After a CON
sultation with the president, Secretary
Taft cabled Governor Magoon. at Ha-
vaIa, authority 10 suspend. for the
time being the execution of the re-
Gently proposed measure providing
for an increase OF rom six thousand
TO twelve thousand in the rural guards
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
FIRE DAMAGE
At M|Ll|GAN
Building and Merchandise
Stock and Box Cars
Burned Thursday.
BY Associated Press.

Milligan, Fla, Feb. Sire last
night destroyed the building owned by
l. B. LOvelace, valued at $500, mer-
chandise owned by William Garrett
valued at ABOUT $4,000 and two L. &
n box cars, one containing cross ties
and the other a bale of hides. Garrett
had about $4,000 insurance. BY heroic
work of the citizens four box cars
were saved from the fire The cause
of the fire is unknown.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
COOK COUNTY CLUB
IN NEW ORLEANS
Rv Associated Press.

New Orleans, Feb S--The great
annual carnival event was Argument
ed to-day by the arrival of the "a
nous Cook County Democratic Club,
of Chicago. which was tonight ten
dered q reception by the mayor
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
BY Associated Press

Miami, Fla, Feb. S.-The motor
boat regatta opened today and, as at
Lake Worth, Dixie proved the winner
of all events. Measuring endurance
and speed her record in the twenty
one mile test was sloXsx tAAA the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
Dixie Again the Winner
In the MOfOrbOaf Races

Lake Worth average.
The nsne knots sailing race was
won by Una.
An eight knot special match race
between the working launches TFuant,
Uncle Sam and Cocoon was captured
by the former.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
a CraS PesaCFm and G Fast and Furious Monday and Tuesday, Feb Ill
RASCALLY JUDGES
ON FLORIDA BENCH?
,>>%>>%><~~~%><~<
NINE MEN BURNED TO
DEATH INSTANTLY IN
FRENCH TORPEDO BOAT
By Associated Press.

by HSSoCidIco FreSS.
Lorient, Frapce,-Feb. S.-As
the result OIL an explosion on
Torpedo Boat No. 339, of the
French navy this morning, nine.
men are dead and two injured.
The boat was launched a short
time ago and was undergoing
repairs at the time of the &C
cident and a technical naval
committee was on board.
A safety tube, forming part
of the evaporation apparatus,
burst and mass of flames
was forced into the stoke hole,
where the engineer and eight
stokers were instantly burned
to death.
The reason for the accident
was the failure of an automatic
door to work.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
. ASSori=ted Press

Washington, Feb. S.-That war be-
tween the Central American REPUBLICS
is believed to be inevitable is the opin-
ion of Consul William Alder, station
ed at Tegucigaipa, Honduras, stated in
telegram to minister Combes, in
Guatmala.
MEXICO TAKES ACTION
AT RooSEVELT'S REQUEST
Mexico City, Feb. S-The state
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
WlNAMAkER LOSES
MILLION BY FIRE
SI Associated Press.

Philadelphia, Feb. S-Lyndhurst.
the country home of John Wanamaker
at Jenkintown, near here, was de-
stroyed by fire tonight. The loss is
approximately one million dollars.