Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-01
Chief BARLOW B IS
BACK WITH NJ. IDEAS !.
Police Department May See
Some New Methods Brought
Out Soon.
MEN. MAY BE GIVEN DILL
General Appearance of Force in De-
troit Conpinccs Him Of
Its Value.

Its Value.
After an absence of three weeks, DUR
| which he visited half a dozen of the
larger eastern cities and attended the
annual convention of the National AS
ISOLATION Of Chiefs OF Police " " I, l Isuf-
falo, a. ". CHIEF Of Police S. NJ. Bar
| low returned to his desk at head
quarters this morning.
Chief Barlow expressed himself as
having, had a thoroughly, entoyable
"trip, as well as one of-1iue.. through
I.5GomingS in contact with thea.Yisiting
| chic md the opporturrtty OF insp eet-
ing the rious systems of the eastern
| cities.
During his trip Chief Barlow visited
| Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Niagara
! Irall )! Buffa 10, New York. and Coiulrl-l
bus. and was afforded the opportunity
| to sinspect the police systems In each
of the cities. In speaking of his. trip
| Chief Barlow said to a Deseret News
reporter:
II had Il very pleasant trip, and one
pr both profit and pleasure BY an III a
| spectiOn of the systems i'll vogue in the
| different cities II visited, as vel Las
coming in contactswi the chiefs 81
| police at the convention,I gained many
| IDEAS. some of them which ! tnlnk
| can be introduced to advantage here.
II am free to confess, however. that
With the execution OF perhaps Detrols
our department.. taking everything re-
| latively, is as good If not better tha an
those Of the other cities | vislted.sln
| Detroit the police have the city re-
Sgulated almost to a nicely. 1t IS
clean city. the streets are free from
distinctions the saloons are we'll
handled, and in fact everything is
we'll regulated.
STREET TRAFFIC. CONTROL.
zone question i found though that
| they all have to deal with, and one
| which confronts us here Is the mat
| Ter of street traffic IN most of the
| eastern cities they are finding an ell
| fective solutionsof the problem BY max
\ ing what you would call tho Slow
moving vehicles, such as draSs and
wagons. keep to the extreme right OF
| the street, or close to the curb That
leaves the center of the streetfree for
4 the more rapid vehicles and autono-
| biles, and prevents n jam or blockade.
| II is 5working out so successfully in
| the east that / would ike to see that
| same provision made here. Il
4 Another idea that impressed me Is
what they call the .standup system In
i New York. Every morning at $3.50 all
! The prisoners taken in during the day
before and night. are brought into
i room and lined up on an elevated plat
Il form Then the entire detective force,
4 each man wearing a mask so that his
4 features are entirely hidden inspects
i the row of prisoners, while one Of the
4 iraptains cues lions them. cnhe purpose
of this system Is that the detectives
may become acquainted with the prtss--
oners without the latter ever being
! able to recognize the detective. we
| will probably introduce this idea here
i Another feature that l would like
4 to introduce is the daily drill Of the
i men. In Detroit each relief is drilled
4 before going on duty, and the results
In the general appearance of the. men
i commend the drill as being almost
necessary. The only trouble here Is
4 that we are handicapped by lack OF
i drillronm or ground"
In response to question regarding
4 the handling the social evil, and par
! ttcularly the class OF. people known as
i "street-w lkers.'' Chief Barlow said
i that aside from New York, the other
cities he had visited all maintained a
restricted district" where such women
4 we're confined under police regulations,
4 and that in most of the cities street
4 walking, was suppressed by the con-
4 slant arrest of that class of women
SALOON REGULATION
4 There is one thing In which we are
4 far ahead of any other city that |
!. visited" Chief Barlow continued, and
4 that is the regulation of the saloons.
Take Chicago, forinstance, last Sunday
the saloons We're wide open, and i un-
derstand it Is the same in practically
all the other cities on Sundays
.'All the eastern cities have larger
forces than we have. Columbus, Ohio,
only claiming a population of 100000
a has force Of gao men, while Salt
8 Lake, with 100000 inhabitants, only has
an entire department of so. Still /
A think our department will compare with
any of them, and the efficiency Of our
men Is not excelled anywhere.
4 t"The convention at Buffalo, attended
by about 800 chiefs from all over the
z country, was a. Very successful event,
q and through the interchange of ideas
was of benefit to every one present. In
+ New York / visited the Totnrhs and WAS
shown throughout the entire depart
ment, with the working of all its
branches explained. .
After crossing and reetossing the
continent Cllice Barlow met with his
u first accident almost at his own homo.
a and then 1t occurred In an automobile
breaking through Il bridge. Chief Bar
low was met at Ogden by Mrs. Bar
i. | low and their three children and Mrs.
Ere Thompson, who had driven in
E the latter's automobile for the purpose
of bringing Chief Barlow to Salt Lake.
While crossing a small bridge in the
& roadway n few miles outside of Os-
den, the bridges tirnhers gave way un-
der tho weight of the auto, and tht
machine dropped through. Fortnnately
none of the occupants of the ear was
hurt in any manner, but 1t required
two hours work before the machine
was pulled UP into the roadway and
the journey 10 Salt Lake resumed.