Evening journal., 1914-04-09


citizens in any particular section of
the city, not one man having to be
withdrawn from a beat
Mounted Policemen.
THE largest beats under this sys-
TEN are those in the outlying sections
and these are designated for the SER
vice Of mounted policemen. I cannot
urge too strongly the recommendation
to provide mounted patrolmen. The
sections in which they will be de-
tailed are now virtually without DO
lice service. There IS a police district
which includes those sections and
upon which are two patrolmen at
night and one man i'm day time. Con-
sidering the hours Of service and the
territory to be covered this service
amounts TO nothing, because of the
impossibility of its being rendered in
any way suggestive OF value 10 the
citizens who are depending upon it.
/ That there has not been more serious
depredations by the criminally in
clined in these sections under your
present police system has been due
to a lack Of energy on the part OF the
I criminal class rather than to any
service that the police could have REM
/ dered under the present system.
/ "A single mounted policeman Is as
efficient as five ordinary foot patrol
men and renders services superior and
Of more efficiency than such num-
ber of patrolmen could.
Traffic Policemen.
Regarding traffic policemen Mr.
Taylor says:
81 recommend that traffic police
men be detailed at Fourth, Sixth,
/ Seventh and Market streets. would
also advise that consideration as re-
CARDS the service of traffic policemen
be given to the intersections at
/ Eighth, Ninth. Tenth and Eleventh
and Market streets. The first three
/ intersections are those which should
be Immediately covered by traffic
patrolmen.
81 caused a record 10 be made of the
number of passing pedestrians and We
hicles of all kinds. including wagons,
automobiles and trolley cars An hour
was selected at random to make an es-
innate At the intersection OF Fourth
and Market streets. between the hours
of 7.25 a. M. and S.25 a. M, 34S7 pedes
trians and AIS vehicles passed; in other
words. every five minutes at this par
ticular corner 300 pedestrians and 80
vehicles passed in various directions
the vehicles following their own judg
ment as to their course and subjected
90 no traffic regulations requiring We
hicles TO keep to the right and stop at
crossings. So far as the pedestrians
were concerned, the drivers of vehicles
appeared to be conscious only Of their
own interest.
Upon one occasion a policeman who
happened to be on this corner for few
minutes took no more interest in the
pedestrians or their safety than the
drivers of the vehicles. The conduct of
this patrolman evidenced the necessity
for the service Of traffic policemen who
are drilled in regulating traffic.
"At Sixth and Market streets
found that between the hours of 1886
a. M and 1886 a. m. $3.50
pedestrians. or 300 pedestrians
every five minutes. passed to and
from at this corner, and that 25 We
hicles also passed this point within
five minutes, subject to no regula.
tions.
"At Seventh and Market streets B..
$50 pedestrians passed between the
hours Of $40 a. m. and 10.40 a. m, an
average of 80 persons every five min
utes, and there we're 20 vehicles tray
cling around this intersection within
FIVE minutes.
AT Eighth and Market streets be
tween 11.45 a. m. and 1915 p. m, 3.7OC
pedestrians passed. an average of 30S
every five minutes, and at the same
i corner within the five minutes % We
hicles passed.
] Physique should be considered in
the selection of traffic policemen
They should be not less than six feet
tall, not more than 245 pounds nor
less than 215 pounds in weight. AS
a detail Of their uniform would sug-
gest white gloves"