Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-30

trail bureau were at that moment con.
versing over their glasses. Drinking
patrolmen and even ofiicers Of higher
rank are the bane of the saloonkeep.
ers' existence.
In the first place too many Of them
have firmly rooted In them the police
habit Of believing that they should get
everything for nothing. They don't
want to pay for their own drinks or
those OF their friends, and even go so
far as to try to borrow money with
worthless tab as security. Woe to the
easy saloonkeeper who yields to such
treatment. 1t Is only question Of
time when he will be ruined either
by going broke or by hght In his "a.
loon on some occasion when drunken
policeman tries to show his authority
over some spunky citizen. In addi.
tion. they discourage the better class
Of trade. for the ordinary citizen shuns
the saloon where every time he comes
up to Its bar he is glowered at by
some detective whose eager ears are
open for every scrap Of conversation.
80 much for the drinking police.
man. He Is the worst Of bad actors.
There are other members Of the de.
partment who never come into "a.
loon except on business, and then
wouldn't think OF taking a drink or
cigar. But there are many who come
into saloon. take their drink. put
down their money for It and go out
again sober and about their own at.
fairs. Such an ofIicer Is welrome in
any saloon. But I'm with the chief in
tying the tin can to the human
sponges In the department who hook
an elbow on bar and q foot on the
brass rail and are planted for hours,
when they are supposed to be detect.
ing criminals or travelling BEATS"
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Property owners. taxpayers and
householders on the North Side are
talking Of organising vigilance com.
mittee.
When an important division OF the
city of Chicago like the North Side is
policed by members Of secret societies
1t is time that something was done.
%d>
Colonel Steward intends to divorce
the police force from the Boozers'
Union.
Every officer and patrolman in Chi.
cago's police department. from Assist.
ant Chief schuettler down. is to under.
60 yearly physical examination un.
der the direction of the Civil Service
Commission. This new order will 20
into effect within few days, the nee.
essary funds for its accomplishment
having been recommended by the
finance committee at Its last meeting
Elton Lower, president of the Civil
Service Commission, Is the originator
of the plan. and through 1t he hopes
to increase the usefulness OF a police
man ten years on the average. Mem.
hers OF the finance committee recon.
nended the appropriation Of $1,000
to pay two examiners who shall be EN-.
ployed daily In the work.
BY the plan physical promotional
examinations In the public department
will be eliminated. It also will he
more valuable than one obtained at a
promotioRal examination. for In one
OF these an entrant, knowing the date
of the examination, can condition him
self Immediately preceding. Under
the new plan men will be called from
different stations without more than
a few hours notice.
There are many men in the depart.
ment that are suffering from disease
that may prove fatal In q short time"
said Mr.. Lowers. ''and they believe
themselves In the best physical con.
dition II they were called before the
examiners this would be discovered
and they would be told what was
threatening them. The record would
be continuous one. II not, there Is
no use beginning Il.
There would be nothing like there