The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
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application for 1000 more policemen
whom he declares are necessary to
properly patrol the city.
Another portion of the same exhibit
has been designed to illustrate graph.
ically the methods OF the police In
identifying suspected criminals A
number OF portraits from the Rogue's
Gallery have been placed on exhibt
ton and detectives are always pres
ent to explain to those interested the
details of the system. Capt. Joseph
Fauret, chief of the Bureau of Identi-
fication, also shows the interesting
collection Of finger prints which have
been accumulated at police headquar-
tiers since the Bertillion system was
adopted there Among these are the
original finger prints in the Crispo
case, the first in the criminal history
of the United States in which a burg
lar, who had made his escape with
out leaving any clue but his finger
prints on a pane Of glass, was con-
victed without other evidence to con.
meet him with the crime. In connec-
ton with this portion OF the exhibit
is also section showing the work
ing Of the portrait parlant," the
newest device of the detectives to
identity criminal on sight
Adjacent to this is reproduction
OF the police training school for
horses which are to be used by the
mounted cops Here are numerous
photographs Of green horses being
put through the PAGES, sent over the
Jumps, making the acquaintance O.
horns, ticklers and other merry
making" devices which they will
have to face on election nights and
New Years ewes, and otherwise ia
miliarize themselves with the differ
ent kinds of work which police
mans horse must know. When a
horse leaves this training school it is
thoroughly broken and will obey the
whispered word OF its mount, whetn-
er the command be to stop suddenly
or to go at top speed to oyertake
runaway horse.
exhibition OF some of the remarkabie
letters which are received at head
quarters every day-written in almost
every known tongue. This exhibit is
in charge of Sergeant George Ii.
Quackenbos, head of the Bureau of
Information, former professor of
languages whose boast Is that no let
ter, il 1T really has meaning, ever
gets by him without being under
stood by him. The system by which
the police department, operating its
own printing plant, transmits every
day to each station in the city list
and description of persons missing,
and property. and also the orders OF
the department officials, is part OF
this section.
The final division is given over to
description-mo mostly pictorial-of
the manifold duties of the police de.
partment. Here one may see that the
officials have to buy great variety OF
things to supply the men under them
Among the articles SO purchased are
oats, horseshoes, telegraph instru.
ments, photograph films, letter heads,
automobile supplies and many other
things not ordinarily connected with
the general conception of policeman
or his work. Here one may see the
outfit of an individual policeman. The
purpose of this is to show the people
that the commissioner plan 20 raise
the patrolman's wages from $500 to
$1,000 year is entirely reasonable.
The new patrolman must buy his en-
tire outfit which takes s12is3 out of
his first years pay and it Is this high
cost of his uniform and equipment,
coupled with the high cost of living,
which Commissioner Waldo considers
responsible for SO many policemen
falling into the hands of loan sharks.
Passing from the police exhibit one
comes almost Immediately upon that
prepared by the flremen as illustrative
of their work and activities. The
piece de resistance here is Brent
wood, the Oldest horse in the service
who stands next to the departments
newest fire lighting apparatus-a
huge automobile truck. Around Brent.
woods neck is garland of flowers,
while over his head swings a sign,
The Passing OF the Horse" Brent
wood is "a years old
Complete exhibitions of every
branch of the firemens work-the
truck, the water towers, the new sig
mailing apparatus, the latest nozzle for
protection from smoke and countless
other devices are included in the ex-
hibition and one also sees space re-
served for the preyenticI of fire exhi-
bition. This consists OF model con-
crete house, equipped with every mod
ern device for the prevention Of f1re
and its instant extinguishing should
it occur. Automatic sprinklers, such
as will be required when the fire law
goes into effect, will be shown along
with automatic fire alarms, fire-proof
metal furniture, approved fire es-
capes, fire buckets, axes. hooks and
all,the paraphernalia which could pos
sihly be needed to prevent or to fight
the flames. The INFORMATION of the