The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-01
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 In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York-You seldom hear anything about sea-going cops. Tourists don't see them, and fiction writers have ignored them., But more than 100 salty policemen are on the job, protecting the city's 580 miles of shore line.
 They're mentioned in dispatches, though, and number more be- medaled heroes than any other police division of comparable size. Mostly they're decorated for res cues, but they also have had some thrilling battles with river and harbor pirates. The marine police were organized three-quarters of a century ago to fight pirates. and they're still after them-men who steal cargoes, small boats and such. One group of villains was caught in the act of trying to explode a whole barge-load of dy- namite.
 There are ten patrol boats, most of them radio equipped, which get around wherever they are needed. I Drearfest cl1ore is taking dead bodies from the wa ss ter-about 400 of these each year. At this season there are turers who go down to the sea in everything from rafts to wash tubs. A little later the cops will be busy fishing out people who have fallen off yachts merry makers capsized by tidal waves of cocktails.
 Savings Account
 New York's champion rescuer isn't a policeman, but the dock master at the Battery sea wall. His name is Buck McNeil, and he doesn't know how many people he has pulled from the water. More than 200, anyway. He has lost track of his medals, too, but be- lieves there are about fifteen.
 McNeil is called upon to save a great many would-be suicides. He has gone in in all kinds of wealth. er-at night, during storms and with the temperature lowering near zero. He has his own meth- ods of life-saving: locks per If the rescued tries to fightS Me- Neil simply ducks him until he's willing to behave. "It's a funny thing" says Buck. They want to drown, but they just can't stand being tucked"
 Minute Matters
 Along the waterfront, you never hear clocks mentioned. They're chronometers. which is the proper name only for the extra a-delicate ime-keepers carried by all ships. As soon as a ship gets into port a messenger goes aboard to get the chronometers for checking. Most of the messengers are from the house of Negus, T. s. and J. D., which was founded by Great-grand- pa Negus about century ago.
 One of the master, chronome- ters used in the shop for checking other instruments was built by the old man in 1S43. It hasn't Admiral Peary took .Negus chro- nometer to the North Pole, end Admiral Byrd has just brought back another from the Antarctic. Down in Washington. and rum ming yet. is a Negus instrument that went on the ill-fated Hall Arctic expedition. It was dug out of the snow years later, and start ed right off when it was wound. Time Doesn't Fly ,s4
 The Neguses deal in all kinds of nautical instruments, but espe- cially cherish their chronometer trade, usually having from five to seven hundred in for testing. Their messengers walk between the shop and ships, for the jouncing of an automobile would ruin the delicate mechanisms. Only kind of oil used on the bearings is obtained from tiny sacs in the jaws of porpoises. The reason time is so important on shipboard, down to a tenth of a second, is it's use in determining a vessels position. A four-second error would put a ship a mile off its course. Prowling in a sub- basement of the Seamen's Church Institute, learned something of the secrets of the salty craftsmen who build those miniature ships inside bot ties. The first requirement.. Of course, is skill and patience. But there's also a trick to It.. The masfs are hinged so that they and the at tached yards and stays can be fold ed against the hull when it's put into the bottle. Then Q string IS pulled to bring the masts upright with everything taut. Tho strlnS is fastened to the jibboom. tho bot tic sealed. and she's ready to pc launched on somebody's mantle nlana