Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-16
Also He Is in Disfavor With Police
Head But That Does Not Bother
Him Much.
COMMISSIONER FEARS TO
TRANSFER HIS INSPECTOR
Dwyer Plays No Favorites and Is Hated
and Feared by Everyone of
Underworld.
By Carlton Ten Eyck.
written for the United Press.)

/
New York, June 16.-Mingling with
the crowds on Broadway north of For
ty-second street every night is to be
seen thickset man of medium height,
with sandy hair and grizzled, close.
cropped mustache, who attracts the at.
tention of observers because he is most
always alone He is a Irregular
around FOrty-third and Forty fourth,
streets and the inhabitants of that dis.
trict have come to know him. He is
conspicuous among the hotel, restaur-
ants and theaters crowds because his
clothes are not bizarre, and he carries
no walking stick. With hands in jack
ct pockets and slouch hat pulled down
over his eyes, he strolls along, ap.
parently without aim, yet seeing every.
thing around him.
The man is Inspector Dwyer, of the
New York police department, who has
Jurisdiction over the "Upper Tender
loin and he is the most lonely man
on Broadway, for he can call no man
his friend. We are considering Dwyer,
the police officer, of course. The in
spector has his personal friends and his
home life, the same as other individ.
uals. But when he is on duty, his
position is a peculiar one, He has not
single friend among his superiors,
his subordinates or the associates who
surround him. There is not man in
terested in the police department or
the Tenderloin who would not be glad
to be rid of Inspector Dwyer, and
yet he is impregnable as the Gar
of Russia.
In the line of his duty as he sees
it, Inspector Dwyer unconsciously per-
haps but none the less effectively has
played both ends against the middle
until he is as solidly entrenched as
mortal man can be- The very forces
that would like to see Dwyer discred-
tied and transferred are at war with
each other and so each protects the
intrepid inspector against the other.
The thing works out in an amazing
manner. Rhinelander Waldo, police
commissioner of New York, who put
Inspector Dwyer where he is today, is
now the inspectors sworn enemy and
would gladly send him to Tottenvile
or even remove him altogether if he
dared to brave public opinion. But
Waldo is withheld from touching Dwyer
by the storm of criticism that he knows
the transfer of the inspector would
bring down upon his head.
The "Upper Tenderloin" does not
approve Of Dwyer little bit because
he is a "cleanup" man Of the most
vigorous type. So it is that this fear
less man who has done more to clean
up the town north Of Forty-secnond
than any Of his predecessors in years,
has turned his enemies upon each other
to his own advantage, He raids vice
wherever he finds it and gives his su.
periors nothing on which to hang a
charge against him. lie is no respector
Of persons in upholdng the law and
when ordered to enforce the a. m.
closing, he "put the lid on Church
as quickly as he closed the Green
Turtle, even though a Southern senator
was in the midst Of meal in the fash
ionabe restaurant. His failure to dis.
tinguish between the classes when II
comes to law.enforcement has embar.
rassed Commissioner Waldo and others
higher up to a degree, and that is why
they do not like the Inspector.
Another peculiar element entering in.
to the strange situation is the dislike
Of Dwyer's subordinates for their chief.
The inspector really has "ceaned up -
his district. He has played no favor.
lites, and this does not please the rank
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