Show HE HAS A BIG MUSTACHE The Handsome Giant of the New York Police Force The most picturesque policeman of New York city is Frederick West The Comte le Paris went even further than the above characterization and declared that he was the most remarkable = = I remark-able officer in existence ex-istence West is a giant of magnificent magnifi-cent proportions but his chiefest glory is a mus = tache that measures meas-ures twentysix inches from tip to tip The man is a nat eof Connecticut Connecti-cut and though FREDErICK WEST less than thirty years old has seen much of life He followed fol-lowed the sea for some time voyaged to China and spent a year in the arctics as a member of the Greely relief expedition Returning to the Atlantic coast he took up the business of a diver and abandoned that to become a model > r New York artists art-ists The sculptors and painters grew enthusiastic enthusi-astic over his splendid points and made him the central figure of many a now famous fa-mous production West probably appears to the best on a canvas where he is depicted de-picted as a Gallic chieftain defying the Roman Ro-man invaders A year ago he got on the jl force and at present is a dandy copper of the Broadway squad Noticeable anywhere any-where because of his inches he looms up superbly when adorned with the blue cloth and brass buttons of his official uniform it t i |