The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-01
 BRIDGEPORT As T WAS
L2o-YEARS AGO
(Taken the Files of The Evening Farner)
 

or the Dominican missionary fathers celebrated the high mass.
 e Rev. Father F7urmanic, pastor of St. Johns Slovenian R. c. church at Jane and Brooks street, who has just returned from abroad, is preparing a. course of lectures on the Father land, which he proposes to deliver at
 his church for the benefit of his people the coming winter.
 POLICE DEPARTMENT RECORD
 In an article intended to be face tious, the New Haven Palladium Monday morning indu1ged in a little rot concerning the relative capabiIi- ties of the police departments of the Elm and Park Cities. n the opinion of that paper, Git was an editorial ex- pression,) the New Haven "cops'= were head and shoulders above any other similar aggregation of blue coats around these parts.
 There is not a recognized authority on criminal matters in this part of the country who does not know that there is more brains to the square inch in the local police department than in any of her sister departments in the East. No less an authority than Thomas Byrnes, during his lat ter days as head of the New York police department, conceded that of his experience in this State the only department that he ever relied upon to assist him in the detection of the more noted and dangerous crooks was the Bridgeport one.
 Take for instance, the capture of McNally's famous green goods gang here, This band of conspirators had piled their handiwork in almost every city in the country, and suc- cessfully too. They had disposed of more than one job in New Haven, without, the authorities of that city "a around these parts. The whole of Byrnes' secret force had been on the trail of the gang and. yet were not successful. Here they met their Waterloo and disheartened and dis couraged they departed from here in remnants, their, leader crestfaIlen and penniless and his several suboFdinates in even a worse plight.
 The same success attended the eff forts of the department in breaking who had succeeded in defying the Jer- sey authorities for years. Reference is intended for the~gang of which Big Tom' Knse1Ia, who was shot to death. by local policeman while in the act of p1undering a citizens home was the leader. His two pals, who were captured with him., are now serving terms in state prison. Men ton may also be made of the dia- mond robbery which occurred at the Padific- Iron Works in broad daylight The 4company's offices were entered while the attaches were at dinner and the safe rifled of it's contents. Among the latter. was a diamond broch, an heirloom. Inside of 48 hours with out the slightest clue to work upon, the mystery was cleared up and theg perpetrators captured. They are now serving terms in States prison.
 There are innumerable1, other i'm stances where the work Of the. local police have been equally as meritori- oJis Not alone are Supt. Birning- ham, Detective Arnold, Capt. Hunt, Lieut.. Anderson, Sergts. Redgate and Otis entitled to. credit, butN to the splendid work /of the entire depart ment is it's success due.
 It would be well for the Palladium and the residents Of the New Haven if they had a department that com pare with ours. When it is remena- bered that New Haven, which has a few thousand more people than Bridgeport, has almost three times as many men on her police force, one would think that her papers would prefer to keep quiet, for the more the question is discussed, the more silly becomes. the<contention of the esteemed PAi1adiun. It is only a few weeks ago that while New Hayen Gin c1uding her police department) slept, a burglar visited the place and turn ed off a job which enriched him to the amount of $1,oOo. The police heard of the robbery the next day and-wen, the victim is wondering iff the authorities fully realize the inn port of the. crime. The chances are if it happened here, as on many other occasions, the malefactor would now be on his way to States Prison. d < If the Palladium would like any further light on sthis matter let it send one of her staff to Detective-Sergean Cowles of their own department and ask him to give .his frank opinion of the Bridgeport police force.