New-York tribune., 1912-03-24
arews Voev of Questions Finally Drew Broadde from Mr. Waldo
On Woman Detectives, Police Discipline, Dis
guises, Motorcycles, ETC.. He Spoke at Some
Length, but on Subjects Like Poetry and
Suffraqettes He Was Non. Committal.

no you think she will go into the field IN
case Of war?
How do you account for the recent or
ganization of uniformed company Of Chi
nese women for military service?
Do you believe in suffrage for women?
10 you think the violent tactics OF the
British women will win them recognition7
How do YOU account for their accurate
aim?
The commissioner What sre they aim
ing att" The sly" Commissioner.
MoNoLcGUE CONTINUED.
Is the New York public too censorious and
too impatient for quick results?
DO YOU ever use intuition in Judging an
officers character?
In what respect was Mrs Goodwin's work
clever?
DO YOU enjoy case Ike the taxi rob-
berry?
Did your Imagination as boy dwell on
the subject OF crime and it's detection?
Is it true that most of the tenement house
fires are caused by untidy dumbwaiters?
Should there be a compulsory fire drill In
the crowded tenement districts?
Has the Fire Department enough author
ity? Do we have sufficient protection? Are
there need of greater fire reforms?
Are there secret societies and political
cabals in the Fire Department?
Have you any ambition outside of your
present work?
Gesture of Negation.)
PuffsD
Doesn't the public Official dream Of what
he would like to do to improve the condi-
tons of life about him?
Wouldn't his life he dull II he hadn't
hope to spur him on?
Hope-is that another name for ambitionf
PuffsD
Is the self-made man an improvement On
the conventional type?
VIII the picturesque mounted police ever
use motor cars?
What becomes Of the police horses? Is II
hard to find good ones at present?
Is there still discomfort in the force about
the fixed post?
Are you fond of poetry?
Now your Aunt Kate is rather proud Of
that list Of questions. II you read them
over carefully you will note that they trail
him from the time when he went 20 the
Philippines through his Fire Department
days, his interIudes, to the present time.
But for any response they evoked they
might have been a duplicate OF the long
statistical report that was brought In and
o. I'D while / sat and sat.
He puffed for a moment II think. per-
haps, I will dictate my answers, IL you
don't mind"
| twisted in my chair. or course, I mind
ed To dictate answers means that all the
personal element is taken awsy-that 1t
becomes merely businesslike. Better a few
mistakes than many platitudes
He tapped a bell-t was the knell Of my
hopes. a stenographer came in and die
tation went on rapidly. The Police Com
missioner has peculiar voice, rather
throaty and staccato. He speaks RAPIDLY
has broad 4. but enunciates very clearly.
The stcnogrspher was the picture of pa
tience-he needs TO be-
When the pothooks and hangers were
gore We became quite friendly. There was
a looseninc up Of the rigid muscles Of pro-
testing fibre and the brain tissues expand
cd | tell YOU / was glad There IS Moth
ing that tires me like lack OF humor.
took advantage of the change i'm temper
ature to he outrageously personal
How old are your" I chirped. quite my
old self
well, ! had charge Of a town of forty
thousand inhabitants when | was twenty
one That was some sixteen years ago.
MY. you're kid.' / exclaimed I'm
older. Than Won arc