Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-02
SPECIAL COP SQUADS
ORGANIZATIONS in the Police De-
partment of New York.
FORCETOSQUEtCH Washers
How Offensive Young Men Operate
in the Metropolis.
COUSIN CHARLIE" EPISODE
Fresh Youngster Made Mistake
When He Attempted to Carry On
the Athletic Western Girl.
COUSIN CHARLIE" EPISODE
'pecisl Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK, March 1. 1907.
They're still going forward with the crea-
ton Of special cops squads In this town.
First there was the famed Broadway squad
| to regulate traffic along that great artery
and to assist confused and timid women
through the clogs Of vehicles at crossings.
Then came the vice squad. to attempt the
extirpation of evils written ana preacneo
about by the curiously omnipotent Dr.
Parkhurst. After that, the gambling squad
formed to hammer the faro banks-wnicn
endure q sight Of han1merins with nary
| finch, let alone an abandonment OF the
business-and as a sort of subsauad Of the
gambling squad the poolroom squad. as
sembled with the wistful hope that it might
be able to put the shutters up on the Man
haitian pool rooms-vain hope! Following
that came the owl squad, organized for the
purpose of curbing the activities of skrted
persons with the night-promenading habit
Soon followed the .truant squad, which be
came the terror OF youngsters adolcteo 10
the hookey-playins habit. Then appeared
the probation squad, formed TO keep
saturnine eye on misdemeanants given their
liberty by police magistrates and put on
probation. Presently appeared the Deggars
squad, brought together with the iaea OF
removing the phony indigents cluttering
the New York streets. A year or so ago
was organized the Dago squad. a pictur-
esque group of chance-taking Italian cops
who were put on the perilous job or going
| after the Black Hand operators of their
own nativity. Then came the aXmen
squad, valiant gang of hardy sappers, or
ganiZed for the purpose OF chopplng their
way through the front and rear doors OF
such establishments as District Attorney
Jerome didn't approve of. Besides these
enumerated there have been other special
| squads, most of them Ineffective and evan
escent.
Now there's a brand-new one. It's
the Washers squad.
This SQUAD really belongs" 1t fills
genuine want and need. New York Is
the chief habitat of the masher species
! in North America.
An Old-Time Boast.
Old-fashioned American writers. in
commenting upon urban manners in the
United States, still make the boast-and
not consciously in the Pfckwickian sense,
either-that a girl or woman is safe
from the annoyance of ogling men in any
city Of the United States" Only little
while ago no less writing gentleman
than William Dean HowelIs made a
statement of that general essence. But
SEVENTEEN milestone, is a persistent OPP
timist and he is still examining the
| world through the eyes of his youth.
Students of these matters maintain that
York, the male cut-up scrupulously re-
Trains from pressing his attentions upon
the unaecompanied female pedestrian until
he has received the office" until, that
means to say. the female person. by GER
tain aiaiable grimaces and movements of
the eyeballs, indicates that she is not only
not averse to it, but wholly willing to be
flrted with. This, we are informed by ear
nest students of these esoteric phenomena,
is called giving the eye" and when the
pursuitful male clip gets the eye he is
supposed to be quite absolved from any
buttnski intention when he addresses the
| larkish-skirted person by saying Look
who's here.' or "'Tweet." or "Peach!' or
anything of that general sort and intention.
Well, anyhow, this isn't the code in Little
Old Moo Yawk. If the New York masher
| likes the looks of any skirted person whom
| he may pick out in the progress of his
peregrinations, he simply walks up in front
| of her, intercepting her progress, and says,
| Hello. Mag" or Just taking little walk.
Brighteyes?" or You're on your way, Sun
| ny Tresses, and I'm with you" or some
| thing else of that light, airy, persiflage-like
sort.
If she objects to it, that doesn't matter.
! He likes 'em when they're OF the ob1ecting
kind. What's the good of bounding one OF
| them who Is willing to be Hello Magged!
If she objects strenuously, the New York
masher will even grab hold Of her, In his
| enthusiasm over her manifestation of dig
| nified dissent. and attempt TO drag her TO
a cab or hallway or the ladies entrance"
| to O. groggery or something. II she makes
| real, sure-enough fuss about. ana there
| Is a cop near who looks as II he really
| cares why the masher lets her go, feeling
| that a person so utterly lacking in magma
I ton, as well as in susceptibility to his
| charms, cannot, after all, be really worth
| while.
A Washer Smashed.
| Not very long ago a masher VINO dlc MS
| lowering at the railroad ferries lost quite
| a considerable portion of his facial pelt In
| a most unexpected way. A tall, sinuous,
| rather bewildered- seeming girl, carrying
| bag, stepped from the Pennsylvania ferry
at 23d street. The masher caught sight OF
| her as she stepped into the ladies' waiting
| room. 1t was plain that she had expected
| to be met by somebody and that that some
body hadn't shown up. The masher was
| talking with another of his species when lie
espied the puzzled-looking girl.
ooh, pomegranates! mangoes" he said
| to his friend and then he waltZed over to
the tall. sinuous girl and tipped his hat
| "Oh. you are Cousin Charlie?" exclaimed
| the girl delightedly
yep" he replied. And so you're the
pleasant trip? Come on and he led the
| way to carriage, the girl following, all
! unsuspicious. She was from Omaha, and
she had expected to be met at the 23d street
ferry by her young cousin in New York. for
| she was to visit her well-to-do uncle here.
/ She had never been the cousin, nor. by
| some curious mischance, any portrait of
| him. So she got into the carriage with the
masher.
| People passing the corner of sth avenue
| and 23d street about five minutes later
| heard a great crashing of glass in the
\ roadway and, looking, they beheld a large,
over dressed young man in the act of scram-
/ bling out of the carriage being drawn up
| to the curb by the astonished Jehu.
The young man looked as If he'd been
| trying to pull the whiskers of couple of
panther cubs from Zambesiland. His face
resembled the before taking part of one of
those eczema Advertisements. He appeared
to be a peripatetic hamburger steak. One
of his eyes was quite bulged from it's
socket Little rivulets OF the sanguinary
fluid were chasing themselves down his
countenance to his shirt and outer cloth
ing And he appeared to be in a very great
hurry to get away from there.
But he didn't get far. The Jehu, for
one was interested in OBTAINING him, for
the hackman hadn't been paid Then, too.
there was a cop on the street who didn't
happen to be asleep. And, also the young
woman from Omaha, who promptly climbed
out of the carriage, looking a bit mussed
UP, but in no other wise damaged. had
something to say about the mashers de-
sire to convey himself elsewhither. The
rnasher was pinched
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