Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04
SHORT CAREER IN ARMY
Son of the Wife of Admiral Lud-
low.
OTHER SELECTIONS IN DOUBT
Inspectors Warned That the Lid
Must Be Kept Down and
Gambling Prevented.
Special dispatch to The Star.

Special bispatcn TO The Star.
NEW YORK. July 3.-Fhe new police
commissioner made Frederick II. Bugher
first deputy today buts lie Is having
hard time finding a second and fourth
deputy. Mr.. Pratt of Brooklyn didn
want an appoin ment. tie veteran Cort-
right refused and several other men
Mayor Mcclellan and Commissioner
Baker were anxious TO get baked after
t hiking things over
Gen. Bingham sailed for Nova Scotia
today In high spiris 5, laughing at the
stories that he had ordered detectives to
shadow The mayor. Justice Gaynor, Con-
trolier Metz and other city officials. With
the general went Daniel G.. S!attery, who
carried bundle of photographs and
documents that will be useful, 1t Is
limited, as campaign ammunition next
fall.
The mayor had no sooner started on his
yaca ion than Commissioner Baker trans
ferred the new inspector-at-la &C. Thomas
]. Kelly. to the command OF the tWeltth
inspection district. Queens, where he was
when the mayor turned the police depart
ment upside down.
The Inspectors Warned.
Commissioner Baker gathered his IN
spectors around him this morning and In
formed hem that they would lose their
velvet cuffs If he caught them lifting the
lid The commissioner had heard rumors
from the big tenderloin and many little
tenderloins that tie good old days had
returned for gentlemen expert at he
wheel and the faro box, and tina. the easy
money will roll in from now until elec,
ton day. 1t was q prepos erouS .ic, SAID
Mr.. Baker. and warned the inspectors To
be good.
So FIR as the other appointments 10 be
made are concerned, Commissioner Baker
was reticent. He thought they would DC
announced next Tuesday. bat he was not
sure. He admitted that it had been dlt :
ficult job hunting men to make up MS
staff. Further inquiries as to the identity
of the Mr. Pr~tt of Brooklyn VINO was
mentioned both by the mayor and him
self Thursday the most probable selcc-
ton for first deputy, appeared TO annoy
Mr.. Baker. There had been miSundei-
standing about that. it VS. intimatea
and ANYWAY, the whole matter had been
dropped.
Capt. Bugher's Career.
The appointment OF Capt. EuS.lei
was announced the first thing this morn
ing. Capt. Bugher has been rather popular
with the rank and file, particularly OF the
traffic squad. where his work showed
r,ainest. He s the son OF the late y. II
Bugher and is thrty-three years old. fila
mother is Mrs. Ludlow, wife of Rear Ad-
miral Ludlow, L. S. y. He is nephew
of Mrs George Dewey and of John l..
Mclean. proprietor of the Cincinnati En-
uuirer and the Washington Post.
At the start OF the Spanish America
war tie was an assistant superintendent 81
the Washington Gas Light Company. u"
went into the army a. a captain of Nolui' =
teers and went 10 Cuba with Gen. SHAFT :
er's expedition. Capt Bugher fought at
FL Caney. On his way home he Wa
stricken with fever. When he got vel.
he was appointed post quartermastef al
Fort Hamilton. He left the army in 1S!r'
and went to California, where he stayed
= year