The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-12
STATE CONSTABULARy
TO Be URGED IN BILL
Committee Appointed at Colon,
Club to Draft Measure
for Assembly.
FOR RURAL PROTECTION
Richard Harding Davis Tells
Need Of Greater Suburhan
Police Force.

Measures for the estab,ishrl..' .
State constabulary were discuss .t..-.
day afternoon In a meeting at tl. .of...
Club. A committee of nine vas a.ya.. ..,.
to draft bill providing FOR eurn . ..I.,
and to have 1t introduced ia the l..t-,,
ture.
The chairman OF this COMMITTEE . y,
Lewis X. Morris. The other metub.r. ...
w. c. LIE Gendre, Il. X. Chambers ue,r,
Marquand. Katherine Il. Davis, Con.1i!s.
sioner OF Correction, Col. william Ja-
oswald G. Willard. William Sloane al
Elliot Bacon.
The meeting was practically uua,..
mously in favor OF establishing q star.
rather than county constabuldry, afte,
a thorough discussion of both suggestion.
The meeting was held In Response 20
call gent out by Seth Low Frederick
Allen, l.. @. Merrill. Prof. Henry Fair.
field Osborn and others.
One OF the speakers was Major John
G. Groome. superintendent of the Penn.
syivania State police force. He said there
was mistaken impression that his mer
were held for special duty In the event
of riots. The men. he said. are constantly
on duty.
'"rhe labor agtators still insist" n,
said. that the men on tho force are
really employees OF corporations and ar.
used only to intimldate the labor!rg
classes, but our records disprove tha,
charge. In 1912 ONLY ten arrests were
made for rioting out Of total o. La
arrests for eighty different crimes L.
1918 not a single arrest vas made 10.
rio.ing, while forty arrests were made
for murder. The effectiveness OF the force
is shown by the fact that 90 per cen.
OF our arrests result In convictions
in Pennsylvania and other States" re-
continued, there are thousands OF acre.
OF farming land where a uniformed on
Ger OF the law Ia never seen. Likewise
there are hundreds OF miles of unps trolled
roads. In these days Of automobiles and
good roads the unprotected property In
the rural districts Ia almost at the mercy
of the professional burglar.
George r. Shrady. superintendent " TIE
Aqueduct police force. said that with ne
completion Of the aqueduc; the coll.
force will go out OF existence ana .na'
thereafter there will be no force to starD
between the c.tizens OF Mestcheste.
county and lhe law breakers except tae
town police and constableS. whose service
heretofore has been OF doubtful worth o.
the outlying sections.
Richard Harding Davis spoko % ne
necessity OF having rural police in N,s;
chester county There are twenty nv,
square miles In our town " North CAS-
tie" he said. and we have no police. y.
leave the burglar to tahe care 90 H.
house while We are getting the cons'c be.
y man on my farm got drunk the o;n.
day and stood with an axe In front - q,
telephone booth, vowing he would LEI J.
body telephone for u policeman. u -o,.
Mrs. Davis two hours before 80, -
ceeded In getting mo the booth.
Police Commissioner Mckay Ma p-ts
ent. but DID mot sneak. Mrs Jan.
Roosevelt. Col. and Mrs. w X. lroa4-e
Theodore pouslas Robinson and M-s
4. Schirmtr were q; the meeting
Letters approving the purpose %.
meeting and promising support We, -,..
from Or. Lawrence Abbott bt the O,'Y,-
William Barnes. Robert ". de tnI's
Jacob Gould Schurman, president o. Co.
neil University; Brig Gen George
Dyer. y. q. y. Y. Jesse !. Straus sai
Prof. Henry NJ. Howe Of Columbia IT,.
verslty.