Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-28

SAN JUAN. PORTO RICO. March L.?
The crowded traffic In the narrow
streets OF this city Is sorted out at tho
corners and scUt upon it's way by nro,
Young Porto I;icans in gray uniforms
with military CAPS and puttces. The,
are II fine set of men physically. little
ana slender. never showing the heavy
rluihsincSs of the typical American po-
iiccniah. Their manners. too. are
strange to New Yorker. for they
are worry quiet. polite ana dcfcronti:tl,
even III making :,n arrest.
TO into the country. ana these same
ihouel miuioUs of the law arc to hc
seen in every village. ana along H."
highways If there ~ a strike. YOU
may lind two OF three Of them. with
Drawn reNolvcrs. confronting NIFTY en-
RACED workincn armed with machc. cs
IL murder has been committed YOU
VIII see II mounted posse OF them fol.
towing some trail into the mountains
TOT 'hcSc arc tho insular police. and
thc! perform every police lob on thu,
island. municipal and rural They are
generally regarded as Il rodci tropical
constabulary.
ihcre arc just two white NOR in
connection with this force, Colonel &;
u. Shanfon. the chief, and C;cor:. War.
"ur'oh Lewis. his assistant and head
OF, tho detective bureau These two
men bcI"hS to a most interesting typc
round throughout our island posscs
sions and in such outpostS of American
authority as lanama and Santo DO.
minEo. They arc men of courage with
ioNc oil adventure. for whom tho civ.
lived ways OF business have no appcrl
Ihey are of exactly the same breed
that pushed tho Western frontier from;
inc -\llcEhan'cS to Californiu-aud into
the RACINE so TO speak. There is moth
ing LEFT on tho continental United
states that interests them Tho ,roplcs
q ,,if.t
mantle a. the West Of Buffalo EiIl
now draws them with an irrcsistibl,
lure.
Colonel stanton, is perfect example
OF the tyDc. and hi story is orc of
almost inci cdiblc romance and va
ricty. He began life AS Montana
cowboy, and At the age Of twenty
seven WAS working q range hand
at 500 a month. and making some
money on the side by breaking bron-
chos at )" apiece He got hi. first
glimpse of larger world VIXEN he
won a thousand dollar prize for ropinr
and tying q steer i'll record time at the
-. Louis Worlds Fair. lie then Joined
Hutfalo's EillS Wild West show. and
held the position Of king OF the COW
boys TOR three years. lie hal Il lift
for the spectacular and dramatic and
took TO the show business naturally,
When owen Visitors "Virginian' was
dramatiZcd Stanton was paid IL larr g
salary 10 convert tho actors into REAL
Is;ic-lookiuS COW boys. He sent brck
TO Montana for :, lot of old rcvolvers
holsters. belts. ohaparejos and other
partphcrnalia. and made The cast look
AS though II had jus, arrived or :,
stock train. Colonel Snanton stsll con
stdcrs that about the easiest money
lie ever made.
Caught Roosc,cits Eye.
When the Spanish American War
iTl
list. and led Company g. Of the Rough
riders. This brought hi!u under the
discerning and dcstiny-makiug eye OF
T. Roosevelt stanton il phvsicallv a
giant, blond and Sray-cycd. direct as
{" punch from the shoulder loving en-
citcment and as nearly devoid OF fear
as the human animal ever gets 4
more perfect embodiment Of IN. Eoosc-
Welt ideal never walked. When III.
war was over stanton was made chief
of police in Havana. and he IT was who
nrst planted in that city the American
idea Of Law and order.
When STANTON had been a few years
in Havana. the United States purchased
the RICH, TO dig canal through "a
mountain range in Central America
infested with malaria. yellow fever
bandits. smusElers, sraftcrs. revolu-
tionists and professional homic;des
one OF the FIRST things TO be done in
Panama Was TO remove some OF these
latter gentry and make the place liv-
able for honest men. stanton, who had
demonstrated that he was "a natural
cleancr-up Of unciv!izcd places was