Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-18
MAyOR-ELECT mitchell
DOGGY Man TO CLERKS
Employees of City Government Of
New York Now Showing Much
Vim in Work.
Extra-Legal Methods Found to Give
Satisfaction in Tanning Wit
ness-Bullying Lawyers.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

NEW YORK. December ri, 1918
The clerk from one OF the city depart
ments stretched his arms and yawned.
Ten O'clock said he. Goods bye.
boys. Me for the very large pile OF hay
and the dreamless smmber.''
Every one else i'm the uptown saloon
sneered Usually this clerk goes out
when the lights do. Long after the bar
tender has caught his ear this clerk il
standing about on the corner taking i'm
portant politics with old cronies-
DO not pass through Central Park on
the way home" said every one in concert,
because the squirrels might get you"
The c'crk said he couldn't help himself
He hadn't got home while his wife was
awake in four years. But just now he
isn't taking any chances.
And neither is any one else that's
working for the city. he added They
tell me Mayor-elect Mitchell is a terror.
lie wants guy TO get down 10 the o0ics
at O'Clock every morning with all eye as
bright as a shoe button. And he's got
TO stay there until he gets the green light
At . O'Clock. You ought To sec tho way
the bunch Is working IN our Office You'd
think a DOGGY man WAS after en-.
So that nowadays when YOU enter "A city
office an alert clerk is apt TO spring for
ward to greet YOU. Another will bring a
chair. The third acts as though he wants
to pull OFF your rubber overshoes and
nope he secs YOU VIC l. IL is almost en-
barrassng.
Frantic in His Grief.
Joe Nauyhton went To wake the other
night. The bereaved husband was fran
tic in his grief. Histories were agoniz-
ing. He tore his hair. AS the weeping
neighbogs gathered around the bier the
suffering man tried To leap into the open
coffin lie was restrained by force.
.'Shc was buried OF n Monday. said
Naughton. Tuesday I met the widower
walking down I'D street, ! stopped to
offer my condolences
~ was AT the wake. | said, but
don't suppose YOU saw me. 4 never ictt
so sorry for man before. You seemed
fairly crazed by your loss
The husband locked up AT me.
All says he, AN were ye AT the
cimitiry Nondah?
No said I.
That's a pity says he. We ought
TO have seen the way ! cut up
How Lawyer Was Tanned.
Too many New York lavyers-espccisl-
~ of the CHEAP. engine-turned breed Ger
tficated by the thousand iately~lik to
bulidoze and browbcat witnesses. Too
many New York judges fatly crafty
them in this liking. II never seems 10
occur TO the man on the bench that the
man in the witness chair is entitled 10
protection
..The other day." said Tommy kcn-
nedy. "a man of high professional stand
ing was being clustered At by hard
faced lawyer. The witness appealed 10
the court for protection and was re-
fused. At the noon recess The witness
r..f.s .I..taa ali an "A
friends. and when the lawyer left his
office to 20 TO court a tall. well dressed
violent man stepped on his feet.
yuh're eettin' gay wit frena mine,
see, said the tall person. You open
your zip AZ that guy in the witness chair
again. and I'll take an lay your head
open SOS the bones W.T. fail out
Mr. Kennedy does not approve Of en-
ploying sunmen Tor protection asalns.
lawyers He remarks. however. that
extra-legal methods sometimes give COM
piete satisfaction.
Yes, Murphy Understood.
Murphy isn't his name. but he is che
of the awkward squad at police head
quarters. He toes-in mentally az well as
physically His instructor knows that
by the time he has hammered given
fact into Murphy's. consciousness tie
other men in the class could play II on
their French horns. In the middle o. the
drill ha,l is lamp post, to which is hung
4 police telephone.
when there is an unimportant hap
pening on your beat. said the Instructor
To the class, you must report TO the
lieutenant. He may consider il important
and tell you 10 come in 10 the station
house
The men nodded.
Murphy, said the instructor, I'VE II
suppose there has Geen a small IRE on
your beat. Let's see now yod would re-
Tort it to the Eeuuenant.
Murphy was sore. But he walked 10
the telephone and took down the hook.
rs thish you. lootenintg' he asked.
pause followed.
There's been a little tire on me beat
lootenint' said Murphy. lie paused
again. Then he hung up the receiver
and returned TO his place in the ranks.
On his way he spoke TO the instructor:
The lootenint." said Murphy. says for
me to come TO the station house.
Walking along the bubble read between
pr,ansyriciS and kaoNNiiie. Nd. Monday