Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-17
EVENING CHKT


business of an officer of the law, es-
pecially that of detective. has Ior
a good many people and the lengths
they will go. to get named as an up
holder of the public peace. Governors
judges and mayors are continually In
receipt of letters from men asking TO
be made detectives and some OF the
writer's unwittingly show that they are
not only crassly ignorant OF what Is
demanded of a detective in the IN
terest of the public, but indicate tnat
they are being duped. Not long ago
a couple of men made appilcation; ~
the Mayor to be licensed as detectives
and were told how to go about 1t, the
law requiring an advertisement or IN
tention to ask the court for license
and an application in open court. III
is not uncommon for the judges 10
receive applications from men VINO ask
that they be created detectives right
off the reel, apparently ignorant or
the fact that the law Is very careful
about procedure for licensing OF such
officers. But the Governor gets more
letters on the subject than anyone
else. Evidently there is confusion IN
the minds of many people about the
State policemen, because nine-tentns
of the letters received at the Capltol
ask for licenses as State detectives,
and when they are informed that the
State has no such officers, the only
policemen with which the Common
wealth is directly concerned being the
State police and the special police
men. they come back and ask to be
enrolled in either body. Everyone here
knows that the corporations getting
special policemen are under obligations
for them and that the State police Is
Of "a orno+aSf hnlias nf the Kind
in the world. Yet men whose letters
show defects In education and but
little realization of the Responsiveness
weighing upon an officer of the law
ask to he given permission to root out
crime and apprehend criminals. The
agits tion against liquor which is so
general all over the State has caused
multitude or embryo Sherlocks,
Vidocqs and their sort to desire the
privileges of an officer. And the worst
of it is that In some parts of the
country there are establishments which
are teaching" men to become de-
tectives by mail. Just why their
graduates" are not recognized with
parchment with the State arms or a
certificate with court or city seal, the
aforesaid applicants cannot compre-
hend.
"Well, / see Dan Hastings is still
standing up as we'll as ever and SOS
Amos Mylin and David Martin" said
a man as he walked through Capitol
Park yesterday afternoon and watched
the tree men taking down old trees
and patching up others. II remember
when we named those trees. 1t was
back in the days of the Hastings adj
ministration and the trees We're set out
on an arbor day. The Governor was
deeply interested and planted the big
poplar at the lower corner of the
museum building, almost opposite the
Spanish cannon. He took a pride in
the tree, which was Immediately given
his name. He was so interested that
he got other State officials to plant
trees and 1 think every big officer has
a tree named for him"
"If the Susquehanna river would
only go down I think there would be a
brisk business in canoes" said a man
who deals in such things yesterday.
"Tve had lot of people in here look
ing at canoes lately and some of them
said that they were only waiting until
the river went down to buy. ] asked
why they did not buy before and what
do you think they told me? They
said that when they bought a boat
they liked to sut it into the water
right away"
Among visitors to the city yesterday
was j. V. Cunningham, prominent
lawyer of New Castle. He was here
to attend a meeting of the State Board
of Pardons and asked about military
affairs. Mr.. Cunningham was instru-
mental In organizing Troop F of the
National Guard cavalry at his home
town. "l
Major F. D. Beary, deputy adjutant
general, and Dr.. Harry M. Slime are
old Spanish War comrades. and yes
terday got together to talk it over
They were not quite sure whether they
would see service again together, but
the Major pulled out some photo
graphs of scenes in Porto Rico taken
by DR.. Stine and they went over the
campaign again.
Four men stood in the corridor of
the temporary Post Office this morn
ing and tried and tried to get open
their post office boxes. They We're OBJ
served by many people and finally
some one asked what was the trouble.
Then they got the advice to ask at the
window AT the window this is what
they got: Pay your box rent"
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE