The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-04
POL LlGEMEN
 OF THE PAST Or the Oddities of Our Of fcers In Other
 Days
 BEAT THREE
BEAT THREE
AtRy ARTHUR w. FRENcH)

4 ve,rs when .syyakes' wells was police Echief. If he eyer had his memoirs sII II written up, l.sWebsters on-a-br1dge sI honest would have nothing on said sI recount. One of the memoirs must f suffice. Just here, is is to say, that s1 Joh1ls aside from This police duties, ] always kept ssa nose for news, as fine other day scrfbes can testffy and ! sHcouldrl.t s.sive ups, sornethfngs but it sl be ssreu1iescat in pace Tradition has Fit or somebody said, that he was the T first traffic officer that put up the < fstunt Of fighting things at the Inter- J section of Main avenue and Fairfield street. on Dave Reads corner orr sl This is how it has been told. The
 omcer was there one spring forenoon S1 doIled up in scitizen's clothes, but his 1 a pay was golngson the same. A circus
 i was in town. It had been parading on the east side, and coming over Tommy
 I Vyyattss or lower bridge, the .sGo1den 'l galaxy of glfttering gorgeousness"
 was negotiating fairfield avenue s sf passa ge. Of course there was a. jam, l a slam and a crush Of teams and peo-a lRle at Main street and all along. John
 l got out light in the middle of the road
 I and began to ssho.1 things. Next went
 alarm from Bull Head and the front
 horses of the circus band wagon, at
 Middle street. The officer waved si hat and arms and stopped the parade
 v TO- a 1eIIeL i5 H<1lIs ID F 1EQLLs OIs ADes
 xeils s just Steamer No. went s bys T. bent for ,1ection's and nobody I hurt Then, scared to death by things
 "a horse attached to an empty iron
 KcoaI cart made a. Marathon runaway
 from Elm street to Wall, sidewalk and sEa1l, with the narrow escape of mixing
 lin wi tn the circus and the band work .slE ing for 1all 1t was worth on "A Hot
 I Time in the Old and so forth. and fhezt tr affic went on. So did the officers
 
 $ rel, onec the genfa1ity and ! leabi1-
 ftyI of the sout n erl d specially down z at Henry and At1antie streets and anf ord vi lle, When h e had become Z al husky grown up, he worked for as mum Der of year asa driver of an Ad - -sf arhs Express CosS1ocal delivery Wagon,
 and he was Ia lite a Ina dler of horses Ise1f -starters or met, Some on the lift ssI One very hot summers day after lleading and q elivering 2 big lot ofi fbaggage. Barney stopped long enough ! to rest on aEtruck and say: < Jabb beres z thitn sarah-toga trunks are the worst ]. e1er.s I've boosted a dozen Cor more ]. ltoday and I'll bet livery wan of thirns < had an anvil in it.'' But Barney lived ] Ito have longfngs to get on the police, I lIforee, and hea did The writer who 5 lived in Barney badliwick. once suT-s E on a time, used to often meet him on ,llnnys street and have to get in
 3theE laugh W gon for it. When the oil 5 IaF<tefer ture factory burned down : : in the Biggest fire of other days, Bar ney on duty was there to preserve or
 der and sso forth There was also a;
 4 big crowd of volunteer furniture say- s ers who were busy getting H7ished l articles dut of the stock bHildi ng, be- ] fore the fire got there Things came : out of the biz door in a. hurry. Pretty. { Isoon or sooner. Barney got his eye on E a mutt who was tumB1ing $S2 per bureaus, out the second story doors 5 failing to the ground, kersrnash then 2 carrying bed slats in his arms flown
 Estafrs. This was too much and Barney . showed the fellow off the job. telling ; him he was good mind fo arrest him for breach of the pieces, be- ]. ing batty iii the bean. Breaking up oalse keeping stunts and ssBeat 1t out
 or thiss1
 - J De Murray, also under Ghief WeIls, as all in this article = 2 oeyss
 had some burglar dope; once, this s iI1g, passing house where h he knew 2 Il the faIni lyasveres away, he saw a. dim s light and a moving hgIires in the sceI-
 lar Then he cautiously sfderstepped
 burglar to come out He did The 2 officer grabbed his victim right there ; and a struggle ensued. Also had fish
 hook tear his hand and a fish pole
 nearIy peneetrate his solar plexus. ! Ashes, fish line and cobWebs got mixed 2 up while he night air Overheard this.
 sfAdein Goft int HimmeI, I don t vas
 sorne burglars PerIce Dis vas rrlein
 sons house. He vas vent away. I coon
 here to ged some fishing dfngs to go s py de Gut. in my poat dis rnorgen. --sl Lou make vot tam pig mistake. Ochi z buts tells MT. Wells about i'd 7, Pish T and. Michael Dempsey. If the slang Il phrase had arrived in those other # days, you mi ght have often heard N through Golden Valley back 70, tfls & Hill something that sounded like; Fl . For the love of Mike..s It was in B the days when the dogs on LevertS N Estreet would run out and bark at any imam passing by wearing a plug hat V l We'll, Officer Dempsy, one night or " duty, got as far far north as to where 2 2 tnEtoew now stands Eckart's brewery Dowr 5$ lthe railroad track came running IT '# to him a young man, who caught hi. # wind long enough to say: ssMister- M mister officer. The ice house is or N fire Blow the gas house whistle. See., i& l. stGi'v van. g wan Wfd you said the off H tcer- Who's ever heard of an ice houst # getting afre. Chase yourself home ant 4 tell your mother she wants you G,wal - now few minutes later as the off g cer turned. he saw a. brilliant light il # the north, which he though was tn, Fl Aurora Borealis, or northern lights Fl But 1t wasn't The ice house burnet # to the ground in spite of someone els @ tfblowfng the gashouse whistle,
 # In the flickerin passing of t1les # moving pictures of the past anent tn H Wells regime memory recalls som names of patro1men as follows: vii zs liam Copeland. Charles B. Nichols - Sherwood Thorpe, Albert Wakeman a Will Banks. John Stevens, Henr- E Lockwood. Edward < Jones Mino E Hayes, James Calender, Charles Mills # Charley Nichols went back to tn & land three decades ago and is stil 8 alive and a prosperous farmer twelv # miles, as the crow flies or the Lon # Hill trolley tries to run, north of thi Fl city, at Upper Stepney
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