The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-17
Copyright 1908 BY Thomas h Mckee.

~ service examination and the otner nee
essary yards of red tape, he
signed to the West Sxty-eghth Street
station. His detail took in Sxty-hrst and Sixty
Second Streets between Amsterdam and West End
Avenues There are beats in the city but not
many.
Finertys beat was in the heart of San Juan Hill.
that sharp declivity running from Columbus Avenue
to the Hudson River and extending from Fifty
ninth Street to Sixty-ffth. When the Irish inhab-
tied the district 1t called Skinnersville, but
when the negroes drove the former out in their
march northward the name changed to Niger
HILL Then came race riots and its present his
toric title.
It is a recognized fact in San Juan Hill that the
negative colors, black and white do not blend well
and never will. At all events the district is known
in police circles as dangerous good place for
q peaceful citizen to forget
The police commissioner knew his business and
Captain Hogan his duty when Finerty assigned
his beat. Finerty only raw hand, but he was
far from being boy. God has seldom made such
man. Six feet four he stood in the buff and
moved the scales at 22o pounds. You could not
aaye pinched a thumbful of fat ounce of
those pounds Forty-eight inches would span
die with a thirty-inch line. Finerty built for
trouble.
The first day he stripped to the waist, upstairs
in the domitories. to wash, he caused great deal
of discussion and little bad feeling. Piimmer was
sitting on a cot, bulls wool sock with the usual
hole in the toe, in his hand. Plimmer was the
minimum height and weight exhibit of the force
q tight-faced, acid-tongued cockney 1.-The top spit
of Whitechapel,' he himself said with great vui-
garity and pride He was former welter-weight
champion OF the Metropolitan police London De-
spite his birth he good man, and his fellow
patrolmen did not hold his accent against him.
though it villainous as his face, for Plln-
mer could hit like the kick of a seige gun and run
like Filipino general. AS rule he was not en-
thusiastic but when he saw Finerty's naked should
srs and chest, eioquence caught him by the throat.
my eye." he exclaimed, excitedly wiping his
face with the bulls wool sock "Blime me, if e
amt TREMENDOUS. e looks like cleopatras Nee
de- Wot bloomin' 'eavy ed make. Ere, let
me feel O. your arm" He sprang of the cot and
laid experienced fingers Finertys huge BIZ
cops. At the command, Finerty grudgingy fexed
his muscles. He did not look gracious.
coz amt muscle-bound," cried Plmmer, if
mOtl6r-ln-laW
me what a show he'll make of the records at Sui
GERS Park next month. Els the very man we
wants."
"Yeh." nodded Craig spprovingly. "At tn ham,
mer an tn ffty-six pound weight. He'll fill
long empty hole. We never had a man good
enough f'r them"
IT threw the weight twenty-nine feet three and
Vne-half inches yes reminded Handsome
Schmidt from his corner. 'It last year.
'Ho yuss and come in bloomn' third
scoffed PImmer. I'VE remember. But ere" and
he tapped Ffnerty's wide chest, 1--WE ave the gen
ooine article If this precinct don't win the cham
pionship may die bloom Dutchman!" and he
looked at Schmidt.
Ffnerty spoke for the first time. His eyes were
the floor.
I'm goin' in games" he said doggedly.
Planners eyes opened and his mouth shut The
men stared. mo tranin' an records fr mine
finished Finerty heavily
Craig was the first to recover. Eyer TIL fttest
man." he said sourly II thing yer oughter FIR the
honor of tn house. It amt fair to have such a
build an give the go-by On m sacred Sam it
ain't.'
ION me bloomin' sacred Sam it amt" improved
Plimmer. "wot ave you got against it? That's
no way to do. Amt you got sportin' blood
Are you goin' to see your precinct licked by lot
of tykes?"
No. FIR I won't be at games," said Finerty
sulIenly. was determined.
MY eye,' all Plimmer could find to say
The rest of the disgustedly read the decision
in Finertys sullen face. Plimmer was piously
Shunderstruck. my eye, with all your bloomin
strength
BLOW m bloomn' strength" growled Finnerty
reaching for his coat.
my eye." said Plimmer again.