The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-11
C0MM|SSARY NOW
WORKS ONLY ONE
SHIFT EACH DAY
Reduction Of Danger and Number
to be Fed Causes Cut TO
Two Meals

While the authorities have not
permitted sense of security to re-
lax their vigilance the surplus sup
ply of filled sacks and other flood
lighting material and equipment is
so large and the condition of the
levees so perfect that constant work
is no longer required and 1t Is felt
that a rigid system Of patrol by bust
ness men volunteers, with various
gangs of laborers held In reserve, Is
ample protection under the present
improved conditions The patrol,
under Capt. w P, Greanay, as chair
man of the committee having that
important branch Of the relief work
in hand, is divided into ten districts,
as follows; Gas house to Fourth
street ON Ohio leyea, Fourth to
Eighth street. Eighth to Twelfth
street, Twelfth to Eighteenth street,
Eighteenth to Twenty street,
Twenty-eighth street to the inter-
section of Cross leyee, Ohio river
along the Cross levee 10 the subway.
Breaking at the last named point on
account Of the big bridge approach
the patrol is resumed at the end Of
Washington avenue, and the NEST
northerly Mississippi river district
extends from the bulkhead at this
post, to New Levee junction and
from thence the patrol districts run,
New Levee junction to Twenty-tirst
street and Mississippi levee, Twenty
first street TO Tenth street and from
Tenth to the point of beginning, the
las house at the foot of Washing
ton avenue,
Men Walk in Pairs.
There are fifty men, patrolling
constantly in pairs, day and night,
the groups or districts averaging
our or FIVE and being in command
of a captain of the watch who, as
well as the other patrolmen is
changed each day. There was a
wide diversity of occupations repre-
sented by the various captains Of
he watch in last nights patrol and
there was noticed a prominent law
yer and former state senator, a dry
goods prince, a Catholic priest, a
real estate man, lumberman, an
ice man, the local representative of
4 large collection agency, printer,
i grain man and a distiller.
In addition to the patrol there
are in the neighborhood of $50
laborers who are kept in readiness
day and night, convenient to the
surplus material, and well dis
tributed along the entire water
front The day and night forces,
| respectively, are lined up as follows:
Ohio leyee, below Fourteenth street,
| - to so; Fourteenth street to the
| Illinois Central Bridge, 80 day and
night; Subway, 10 and 20 Missis
sippi levee, which has so perfectly
stood the strain, 20 night.
Two Meals Day.
The expectation of foreign labor
| generally and the employment OF
local men, with homes here, to-
gether with a consequent reduction
in the number OF men employed SO
affected the output Of the Commits
sary that the Executive Committee
decided yesterday to limit the oper.
atoms of that department to sin.
gle shift and the serving of two
meals instead Of four The men
now generally employed are paid on
basis that contemplates their eat
ing all but their Midday or mid
night lunches at home, AS a result
the Commissary Is open for the dis.
tribution Of rations but a fewhours
a day and will serve only between
noon and Il o'clock in the after