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Show PRESIDENT OBEYED THIS LAW. Orders Were for All Carriages to Move On, and He Moved. One of tho older sergeants on the local police force was talking over odd experiences he had had while In tho course of his duties. Among the stories which he told was one which Illustrated the democratic Ideas of President Grant. The sergeant, then a private, was on duty .V the Baltimore & Ohio station sta-tion one evening. Among his other duties he had to keep carriages from standing at the curb directly in front of the station entrauce. Preside.-'. Grant drove to the station sta-tion to meet one of tho Incoming trains. Whllo the officer was In another an-other place the carriage stopped In front of tho station. When tho officer returned ho noticed no-ticed tho president's r'g standing there, and waited for it to move along. When It did not movo and no ono nllghted, the officer supposed that the president had gone Into the station, "You know ns well as I do that you cannot stand there," said the officer to tho president's coachman. "Do you know whose carriage this Is?" was the only answer of tho man one the box. "That makes no difference. You nviBt movo." But there wns no move on tho part of the coachman to stir from the pluco. "Hawkins," came a voice from In-sldo, In-sldo, "did you hear what that officer said?" And tho head of tho president of the United Slates was poked out of the carriage window. Tho carriage moved. Washington Star. |