Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
800 POLICE USED
|. DURING TAFT RITES
Mai. Henry G. Pratt Takes
Personal Command of
Officers on Duty.

More than 300 policemen, working
under the personal direction of Maj.
Henry G.. Pratt, superintendent OF po-
lice, assisted with the general details
and handled the flow of pedestrian and
vehicular trafic during the funeral Of
william H. Taft today.
Aided by Assist. Supts. William 8.
Shelby and Ernest w. Brown, Inspectors
A. J. Headley, w. H. Harrison and 7.
r. Bean and the captains Of the Is
precincts, Mai. Pratt took command Of
the policemen detailed to duty during
the funeral and accompanied the pro-
cesSion throughout, prepared to take
charge should any emergency arise.
The special detail of officers moved
into action sharply at 8 o'clock when
they halted all vehicular traffic on
Pennsylvania avenue, including buses,
until the procession had passed on its
was halted again at 1850 and kept in
check until the body had passed on its
way to the All Souls Church.
10 at Capitol Plaza.
The restrictions on vehicle trafic had
no bearing on street car movement,
however, and the cars continued their
regular schedules.
The largest unit of police was CEN
tered about the Capitol Plaza, where
70 officers In command Of Inspector
Headley were stationed to police the
Plaza and its approaches and to super
wise the passage Of the public across
the Plaza to the rotunda. Inspector
Headley was assisted by Capt. w. z.
Sanford of the nth precinct and Capt.
G. T. Peck Of the eleventh precinct.
The Capitol Grounds were closed to
all vehicular traffic at 8 O'Clock this
morning, except to vehicles oflcially
connected with the Government at the
Capitol. Those wishing to view the body
OF the former President and Chief JUS
tice were admitted four abreast to the
| rotunda through q lane constructed
across the Capitol Plaza through the
rotunda and passing out the west door
OF the Capitol Grounds.
Inspector Headley's unit exercised no
| jurisdiction within the Capitol itself,
leaving the handling of the crowd
within the Capitol to the Capitol police.
Other Captains on Duty.
| other details were stationed over the
route of the procession In charge of
Capts. Frank S. W. Burke, No. l pre-
cinct; Ogden T. Davis, No. 2; william
| G. Stott, No. 3; p. M. Cornwell, No. 4;
Martin Reilly, No. s; Maurice Collins,
No. z; Robert E. Doyle, No. 8; James
| E. Wilson, No. 9; Ira Sheetz, No. 10;
Caney L. Plemmons, No. IL; Charles
| p. M. Lord. No. Is, and Charles H.
| Bremmerman, No. IA.
Assisting their captains were the
| lieutenants of the precincts as follows:
J. S. Beckett, No. /; ]. w. Pierson, No.
| 2; w. E. Holmes, No. 8; F. M. Dent, No.
| 4; r. H. Mansfield, No. S; j. A. Sulli.
van, No. g.; H. K. Lehman, No. z; M. L.
Ready, No. 8; Gus Lauten, No. 9; j. M.
Walsh, No. 10; S. j. Marks, No. IL; j.
w. Mccormack, No. IL; j. z. Bowers,
No. 10; McGill Grove, No. IA, and Lieut..
E. T. Harvey, commander Of the har-
Dor precinct.
A special motor cycle escort, arranged
by Inspector Brown from the Traffic
Bureau, accompanied the procession
| from the home to the Capitol, from the
Capitol to the church and from the
| church to Arlington Cemetery. The
escort divided at the cemetery, half ac-
companying the Taft family to the
| home and the remainder accompanying
the President to the White House.
The detail also accompanied the Pres
ident from the White House to the
church.