The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-18
COPS GIVE CHEERFULLY
 THOUGH OFTEN STUNG
Experiences of Local Peace Guardians Not Dissimilar From Their Fellows
 Elsewhere
Sympathetic "Touches'' That Never Bring Promised Requirement.
 Some Local Instances.

Charity is dispensed from various and unexpected sources but one of the least expected places where the aver age citizen or down1and-outer would turn is a police station. It is, how ever, within the portals of just such most worthy though least appreciat- ed help Is extended to those unfortun- ate men and women, and children whose exigencies are pressing, and the tenor of whose whole existence might itherwise be changed for the worse were it not rendered. Yet, strange as peais resulting in donations for sus- tenance, lodging, or railroad fare, are the first to be ignored and returns sel- dom made, while 8 clever class of pam handler, Knowing as he well does the hurt he Is doing truly needy people following in his wake, goes so far as even to prey upon . the & generous a,,,- na- and who are thereby doubly warranted in refusing the actually needy.
 Sergeant Frederick W. Webb. of the local department the other night was led to remark in conversation that in his score of years service on the po- lice, he had dispensed along with oth- CTS many hundreds of dollars in the false belitf that applicants were wor- thy. He is not alone as many large purses have been made up among the officers to help defray the expenses of someone to distant city.
 Sergeant Webb's experience has been particularly bitter one as from the. vast amount dribbIed in small sums, he can recall but one thankful beneficiary: that one a woman who drifting in late one night from a nearby factory town, iea.ei' here. she had "a lost lost he her funds and was unknown. The next day a let ter enclosing the amount with suff1- returned s by special delivery ~ mali. stating the husband was but poor working man. but was greatly thank fui for the assistancs which had aid treasured by it's recipient.
 OAsetting this one instance of sap- preciatton nunberless stories of inter est are related showing that as soon as the acceptor of railroad fare reached home all sense of former predicament had been forgotten. A particularly fragrant incident is related of a we'll to-do sport of Providence who enter Ing the station long after midnight, in a pitfful condition. assured his au-I that he was we'll connected in the jew elry city and would immediately re- turn the $2.e0 necessary to get home.
 ief ef leSsure % moneo aS so to tos ths e avsrags asker, the money was loaned and the Providence man went away protesting his undying gratitude and a promise to return 1t at once upon arrival. It never came, but some years later, a man walked into the station-house locking for similar asis.anSe. a He e.s+,na was CTS of Proyidence and he was looking for his brother. It was the same man who had been there before.
 Again a sum of $2.6o was collected at i1eaduuarterss to defray the expense1 of a poor man to his home and fam fly in Wilmington, Del He was just port. and his family were in need Of his protection. The sympat thies Of all were enlisted. The next day an ar tic1e appeared in a Brooklyn paper stating that game had been worked there.
 Such is the example which has been shown the policemen of almost every Bridgeport, it is rarely that g police man appealed to on the street or in the station, will not gladly deprive himself of some little pleasure to ad- vance a sum He knows will never be returned.