The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-07
ali trade between Richmond and that


prosperous section is cut off,
Tho counties of Nfiddlesey. Mathews
and Gloucester produce extremely val
liable crops In truck, and also large
amounts OF fish. oysters and crabs.
All this trade, with return purchases,
goes direct to Baltimore. Yet Urbanna
| Is but flfty-nlne miles from Rich
mond. If a trolley line were built
from West Point to urbapna. 1t would
only involve a construction OF cigll-
teen miles. This trolley line could
cross the Mattaponi Mt Walkerton or
Ayletts, and IL 1t Is too expensive to
do otherwise, the river could be fer
ried at West Point. M
AS soon as such development Is made
a large and prosperous business would
spring UP between Richmond and this
rich section, which at present is as far
removed from the Industrial and COM
mercial life Of this city as IL it were
beyond the Rocky Mountains. and the
reason IS simply because no trans
portation facilities for trade with Rich
mord exist. Like everything else.
trade follows the line of the least re-
sistance. The open water courses to
Baltimore have furnished cheap and
reflective means of intercommunication
for the last 500 years. but with the
~. IA
enormous development which the Rich
mond and Chesapeake Bay Railroad
has in view, there seems every reason
to hope that the rich and growing see
tion i'll which Grbanna Is located Will
prove sufficiently attractive TO secure
at. least electric communications via
West Point with Richmond.
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POLICE AND THE GOLDEN RULE.
After years of study and experience,
Chief Koehler, of the Cleveland police,
decided that common sense and the
golden rule. administered by, intelli-
gent policemen were better means for
decreasing crime than fine and im-
DIlSullIlltHl u run tllc lldius " ~ JhN't,s'
who. "as rule, showed little sense of
CHARACTER. a less knowledge Of habits
and environment of the offender
Chief Koehler expressed his ideas in a
remarkable confession before a con-
vention OF the chiefs of police at De-
troit. He described the misery and the
humiliation which were inflicted upon
defenseless mothers and children when
a father or son was arrested, and he
came 4 to the conclusion that, most of
this suffering was avodable, and.
ithereforc wrong.
The problem was, however. now to
keep down crime without applying tho
heavy hand of the law. ana Chief
l.Koehler finally hit upon the IDEA that
| the officers should be instructed to eX"
ereise the discretion which the courts
I'only too often utterly fail TO employ.
| In the first place, the officers were in
| structed never to carry a child to po-
Lice station or TO Jail. Every Juvenile
offender was to be taken home and
| kept under the surveillance of the pa
rent. Intoxicated persons were not to
be dubbed or locked UP unless they
were dangerous to themselves or to
i the community, and the whole force
of the Cleveland police were taught to
do as they would be done by, and to
deal with offenders on the spot by per-
eli va fail nd
1.-The Judge only as a last resort.
AS a result. said Chief Soehicr, "thc
arrests for the first four months OF
l19oS, compared with 1907. We're oil to
2.15s for January. $40 to 2.257 Tor Feb
Iruary. oSo to 3,7ll for March. and 900
Ito 2.434 for April. In May there were
SIS arrests. 81 decrease of 80 per cent.
These figures show how arrests have
decreased. Reports and complaints have
diminished tat a corresponding rate,
and officers. detectives ana patroImcn
are able to devote moro time TO the
/ purs,,it of tile llabitual criminal anu
crimes of serious nature. This IN
Turn has resulted in driving from our
city practically all of these vultures, ane
4 those that remain are under sucn close
! surveillance that it Is almost impos-
Isible for them to operate successfully.
!. Thus from the mouth of one WAC
knows by long experience comes CON
4 frmatlon strong as proof OF Holy VII
of the value Of human Kindness II
dealing with human beings Perhap'
1.-THE Chief Of Police and the Police Jus
tice. of Richmond might gather some
lining Of value from the experience Il
ICleveland,
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4 ,rIrE GROWTH OF THE SOuTHERE
: HARDWARE INDUSTRY.
One of the factors leading TO IN
r belief that the present business dc
t preston is to be OF short duration 4
r compared with those of former periods
Y is the accumulation OF wealth an
$ capital In the West and South, whlc
: So ,ljfferentiateS the present time lrof