The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-17
POLICE SETTING CLASS
started In the TWenty-fourth Since Lieut..
Daily Jabbed Himself With a Needle.

, started In the Tw en%ty.fOurth Since Lieut.,
DAILY Jabbed Himself With a Needle.
A deep. brooding peace reigned over the
East Fffty-first street police station the
other night when Capt. job j. Lantry
sauntered in. The reserves were in the back
room. Lieut.. Dan DAILY was on the desk
Lieut.. Dan was not busy scribbling in the
blotter, however. He was sewing on but
tons, and telling himself he never knew
before there were so many buttons on a
single uniform.
Capt. Lantry is Of the opinion that he has
seen a few queer sights in his day, but his
eyes opened good and wide when he spotted
Lieut.. DAILY plying thread and needle.
Never too late to mend. eh, lieutenant"
he asked playfully, but honest, it's a shame
all right when things have come to such a
pass that a good, able bodied cop has to sew
all his buttons on and make a bum job OF il.
If we only had the ordinary number Of
buttons TO take care of it wouldn't be 80
bad, hut"
Capt. Lantry didn't get any further in his
remarks for just then Lieut.. Dan stabbed
his left thumb three times and a hurry
call had TO be sent to the Flower Hospital
for an ambulance. DR.. Young responded
and after he had dressed Lieut.. Days
lacerated wounds and the excitement had
subsidized Lieut.. Raynor put in a word or
two.
"This should he a lesson TO us all" he
observed, a il | nay make q suggestion,
captain, it seems TO me IL would be a good
idea TO start a sewing class in this precinct
right away TO prevent similar catastrophes
in the future. Down in Elizabeth street
! understand they go in strong for pictorial
art, and Old Slip has a Carnegie library, or
something just as good. II seems TO me,
though. that il the Twenty-fouTth started
a sewing class we'd ave 'em both skinned
seven ways from the ace"
Capt. Lantry was so struck with the idea
that he ordered Lieut.. Raynor 10 put hand
cuffs on IL before it got away. Ii was gen.
orally agreed that no more profitable method
of spending their time could he devised for
the reserves than TO join the sewing circle.
Detective Ed Conroy, who does the Fifth
avenue stroll, and Detective Pill Marion,
his mate, were just telling how embarrassing
1t was to walk along the avenue leaving an
open trail of buttons in your wake when
Sergt. Patsy Donovan came in with a self
conscious look in his face and a suit case
in his hand. He was Immediately asked 10
Join the sewing circle. He tried TO decline.
Az he did so he stammered. When asked
for his reasons he couldn't think of any.
il was a clear case. Sergt. Donovan, suit
case and all, had TO thread his way between
the double line OF cops who sang mo We'd
ding Bells For Me" in a fun throated chorus.
Yes. IL was only two days ago.
After this touching was over
Capt. Lantry got busy IN the problem OF
arranging the sewing circles so they
wouldn't conflict with the FIVE platoon
system. Each patrolman was ordered TO
provide himself with a thimble and a spool
Of thread. Sergt. George Human was ap-
pointed n committee of one 10 investigate
The merits Of the different brands OF sewing
machines.
Capt. Lantry is quite properly enthusiast
tic about the possibilities OF the idea. He
prophesies it will not be long before there
will he doilies on the lieutenant's desk.
with a large one under the blotter and sofa
pillows in the cells.