The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-27
SHERIFF LIES ON his ARMS
ENTHUSIASTIC ARRANGEMENTS
To HELP $500 POLICE.

II II Had Only Been Necessary He Would
Have Manned the Polls with Specials
and Extra Specials. Some Of Them
Paid BY the County and Some Who
Have . Dollar or Two Laid by.
Between four and five hundred special
deputy sheriffs. a goodly part of whom
never before had been called upon to
serve the county. were summoned by
telegraph yesterday morning to report
at the Sheriff's Office at 200 Broadway
at S o'clock yesterday. afternoon. The
sudden call was the result OF the Sheriff's
enthusiasm over the telegram sent to
him by Gov. Dix ordering him to man
the polls and holding him responsible for
any disorder
The Sheriff has on his staff fifteen
deputy sheriffs and fifteen assistant deputy
sherfs. and as Mr.. Shea remarked yes
tcrday. you can't do such a big lot of
manning with thirty men, He appointed
fifty special deputies for the occasion at
the expense Of the county; and Stree the
employment Of enough special deputies
to take the job OF the police OF their hands
altogether threatened to dest roy the
popularity of the tax rate he bethought
himself of the long list OF ornamental
special deputies who work for glory or
convenience aud are under bond.
About 0;45 o'clock yesterday morning
some 800 kilograms We're sent out from the
SheriH's office to the special deputies
About half of the 500 specials are men
employed by railroad companies and
banks as special officers. The other half
are business men, bankers and men in
the downtown district generally who have
found il convenience to carry the badge
of deputy sheriff. Some OF the men on
the list are John Jacob Astor. Harry Payne
Whitney, Payne Whitney. George W. Per
kins. Alfred l.. Selignan. William H.
Tat, Ill. Henry p. Dawson Of j. ?.
| Morgan 4 Co, Walter Content, James B.
| Cleaning Commissioner Edwards and
Joseph W. Stern.
| In the afternoon replies began coming
| in to the Sheriff's Office. The Whitneye
were out Of town. So was John Jacob
Astor. So was George W, Perkins and
| Henry p. Dawson Proprietor RCgan
was pretty busy but would come if needed
Senator George b. Agnew ditto. Walter
Content offered to send son as substitute
Lloyd Griscom said he would run right
over if needed
! At 5 o'clock came a crowd in person
| mere were 20 many oil tnem ana they
were in such hurry to get in that some
body put his elbow through the glass
panel in the door of the Office Of the secre-
tary to the Sheriff. At just about the
same hour Police Commissioner Waldo
called up the Sheriff and told him thai n
| Sunday quiet prevailed and that the Q, SEQ
police on the job felt equal to il. Tho
sheriff Already had his thirty regular
deputies and assistant deputies out in
he districts. The fifty specials he had
sworn in for the occasion ne was holding
in reserve in his Office with stack OF
Sandwiches and an urn of coffee for COM
/ fort
! Mr. Shea waited few monutes until
| he had received reports from his deputies
in various parts of the town to the effect
that there was no trouble in progress or
in prospect. Then he told the special
deputies that they could go home II they
vented to. Some Of them hung about
on the chance that there might be some
thing doing later Besides the men who
came in person and those who reported
by telegraph, telephone and messenger,
three or four offered the use OF their
automobiles