Show in high gear when president travels I 1 secret service must anticipate every danger washington in the face of 0 world violence secret service men are taking no chances in protecting the president from cranks and fanatics their authority Is greater than that of admirals generals and contributors to campaign funds according to herbert corey and george holmes two washington political writers who describe in the cosmopolitan each step these officers take to safeguard the president when the president Is in the white house houie they explain the secret service system works so smoothly it Is automatic when he leaves the white house the men go into high gear and when he leaves washington on a long trip an advance campaign that anticipates every possible danger Is mapped out by dick jervis chief of the white house detail take evry every precaution when jervis gets the news that a presidential tour Is in contemplation they state he calls in col cc 1 ld ed starling a rawboned kentuckian Kentuck lan handy bandy with a gun starting starling Is given a schedule ot of the route v nith ith the stops and times tentatively defined lie ile then gets in touch with the police chief in each city and tells him when and where the president ident will be and arrangements range ments are made sometimes two hundred or three hundred policemen are needed at the station elation perhaps more A lane Is policed from the door of the private car to the automobile waiting with its engine running every man in every one of the cars that are to follow has been inspected and passed by starling before he be gets his green ticket plain clothes men are scattered through the waiting crowd A man who mutters to himself or Is unpleasantly excited or seems to have a large lump in his coat pocket Is investigated nothing Is permitted to get into the gears ot of the machine when the train has backed slowly into tile the station the crowd has been as neatly packed as though the scene were on a hollywood lot the only movement possible Is of the facial muscles some one catches a glimpse of a well known figure starling has his men so banked that several thousand tons of human biesh are held back during the moments occupied by the inevitable hand shaking and beaming the president walks towards his car through a corridor of blue clothes and shouting men secret service men are in front of him and behind him and at each side ready to provide effective interference if necessary police help out along the line of march policemen have been stationed by the hundreds it if necessary reinforcements have been called in from other cities secret service men dogtrot by the side of the presidential car and behind it their eyes fastened on the men and women packed solidly against tile the curb the president Is always in the first car of the line just as he Is always in the last car of the train dick jervis jenis sits at the right hand of the driver it if the vice president Is a member of the party he follows in the second car otherwise the second car is always that of the secret service cars are never permitted to stop it if one enthusiast broke through the line to shake hands with the president he might be followed by ten thousand at the hotel a special entrance has been arranged which Is guarded by other police and plainclothes men in case of doubt the writers conclude the rule Is to act first and investigate vesti esti gate afterwards |