The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-06

SPECIAL Correspondent of The Washington Healt
New York. April 5.-Chief Police In
spcctor SchmittberGer, who once defed
the system and told his story to the
1eNow committee, has turned author and
has written a book about his forty
years of service in the New York
police department.
He began work as ''hattie" or patrol
man down around Fulton street. He
knows the inside of police history in New
York better than any other man. for he
spent many sleeplsss nights when he
bucked the powerful combination and felt
the crushing heel of system.
However. Schmittberser before he start
ed to write his personal memoirs must
have been reading the daring stuff that
is being sent out just now from the base
ball training camps. In a lecture to the
cops he informed them that they ought
never let a mob gain Roadway. That is
almost as startling as the flash from
Marlin the other day by a baseball ex-
pert that the players are working hard. -
Will Payne, the writer of short stories.
wouldn't last long on the copy desk OF
a New York newspaper-if a recent short
story from his pen Is a sample of his
regard for the law of libel.
The hero of the story is arrested on .
charge Of murder. In a newspaper the
next morning there is picture OF the
heroine with lines under it reading:
Miss Jane Ingraham, librarian Of the
Cereal National Bank. the murderer's
friend, who was with him at the time of
his arrest"
IL Mr.. Payne would take a correspond
ence course in journalism he would learn
men arrested on murder charges are not
murderes until found guilty. In the story
the murderer is subsequently found not
guilty. The story suggests that writer's
h. 81,
into their stories should frivol away
few months In the newspaper office and
learn just a slight mixing of the business.
The newspaper yarns retail the expla-
nations given out one time by the be-
loved Editor Dana. of the Sun. to his
repertorial staff. He cautioned them that
all business men were not "promi-
nent:" that a child who gets in front
OF runaway team is not necessarily
tiny tot" and that there were a
few apartment houses not elegant"
and a few five-dollar bills not crisp"
Mrs. Viz has won her license. In
vain have the rich and great pro-
tested. Unavailing have been the OBJ
jections of the clergy. Residents with
representative ears will have to wear
mufflers. For the Ferris wheel will
spin and the carrousel will carouse
this summer in the chaste neighbor-
hood of Spuyten Duyvil Parkway.
The big cop at 242d street and |
Broadway is kind of glad, for Mrs |
ViN is a pretty lady. She comes every |
day to her Ferris wheel and brings !
her S-year-old boy. who plays around !
while she works the motor that turns |
tho wheel.
The license has been almost as hard |
to capture as Permysl. Trouble be-
gan brewing way back in McClellan's
time. He refused a license and the
Riddles were sad. But along came
Gaynor. firm believer in personal
liberty. and he gave Mrs. Vix a license
Tor five years. The neighborhood has
been protesting ever since, but Mayor
Mitchell seems to think a Ferris wheelt
harmless-and IL will spin all summer
When Mrs. Wild Bill Donovan sued
for a divorce from her husband. a
New York paper suggested that she
was requesting waivers, and 1t was