| Show AWE STRICKEN POLICEMEN what effect theodore roosevelt has as rt a police commissioner there wied used to lie be laughter laugher among adiong 1110 tho merry accused men melt when tiny one of them said anything funny in ills his defense deanise today to 1 day little Is said that la Is meant to jc be funny and there is ia not the faintest inclination to laugh A 1011 edsman with freel freckles deg ind and a face aco ton funny for anything but the finest tulla how four men acciard by him were lying under their beds in the dormitory that would have been thought funny at a police trial once it is nut not thought at all funny now it if the common evory day new yorker could have sven seen those trials yesterday 11 its heart would have been warmed the common new yorker has been occasionally r dubbed lub bcd hp he has beert been constantly tit to tn move on he hda has felt that if he existed at it all it ans by th alii grace of 0 the gentlemen in him bill who kinf ily decided what he might do and might rint nt do in ili past p ial times any man in ili now new york would havo have incurred the wrath of four presidents of tile the united states rather thau than that of 0 one policeman now that 4 about to chat chai charig ig ge yester yesterday clay the life abt aage now aorl might havo have seen samples of 0 the finest wl who looked after through tile hands of the now new police commissioner commission as limp na as a shirt fietti fai sli from the blueing tub lie he might have seen policemen of 0 all shapes arid and z sizes standing like schoolboys before the awful man mail who does doea not know enough to respect fl pull these big policemen stood twirling their lingers fingers with nervousness and their knees under them not but literally in the ine ton ions room there were lvere more than men of oc the force livery every one of these studied the alic new mati man who has conic to worry arid and fitt unsettle ettle them their verdict concerning him was waa sad gloomy bloomy olevery one very gray old man said a cheerful thing lies not quite so fresh it seems to me as he was the first first time I 1 seen him that was the only cheerful i remark c of the day clay mr who Is going to make of oc our police force a businesslike business like disciplined cip lined body of public servants it if it can be done is calculated to m orry tiny any well weil regulated little boss ile he does not oven even know that the men before him look upon him as a dude sent to punish thern them for their sins lie he tries to be kind to them takes it for granted that lils his manners and education must embarrass them a little and talks to them as patronizingly as they have always talked to tile the public think what must inus be the poor police i mans feelings when lie ile comes up for trial before a man like roosevelt roosevelt speaks english accurately lie he does not say 1 I done it or it 1 I ticen keen it 11 lie ile talks much more like it a boston 1 man an or an englishman than like a new york police commissioner lit ile wears a little turndown turn down collar ho looks like a dude hardened but still like a dude according to police lules ills his cuffs are very long and they show jill all the time ile he hasi haq bis big gold buttons in them and he a diamond about him ills spectacles are of gold cold anti and the glasses classes are very big and lound they looked bigger and fiercer to the accused men yesterday than did the ilia wolfs eyes to little red riding I rood hood when he asks i a question mr roosevelt shoots it at the poor trembling policeman lice nian as he would shoot a bullet at a coyote even when lie asks a question lie he shows rl a set of teeth calculated to unnerve the bravest of the finest tile the teeth are very white while and almost rig as big as a colts coils teeth they are road broad teeth they form a perfectly straight line the lower teeth look like a row of dominoes dominges dom inoes they do riot not lap over or under each other as most teeth do but come together evenly lie he has a knack of showing them all at once when he speaks speak 1 quickly I and ana when lie he does that lie he s seems to say a tell the truth to your commissioner or hell bite your head off Rp remember member about mr air Roosevel ts teeth because they are arc the best thing about him but there are other things ilia his oar car tor for in instance tance deserves the careful study of all policemen it is probably the smallest ear on any full grown man mail in new york in a picture it is contrasted with the ear of commissioner grant son or oc the great grant you may see ee that it is only about half the normal size it a small ear a wonderfully small ear means anything sir mr Roosevel ts ear means a lot generally speaking this interesting commissioners face Is red ile he lias has lived a creat deal out of doors ana that accounts for it ills his hair is thick and short his hair is something like a emans hair lie he parts it on the left ide ant and above the life right hand corner of ills his forehead lie ho has a sort or of pun puff that might have been made by a lick from some cow cou or steer while lie he was ranching under ills his right ear lie he has a long sear scar it is the opinion of if all the policemen who have talked allied with him blin that lie he got that sear scar lighting fighting an indian out west it 11 is also their oiin luu lott that the indian is dead but sir Roosevel ts voice is thelio the po hardest trial it is un all exas li pedaling elating pel aling voice a i voice a clasping voice it is ti a voice that comes from the tips of 0 the teeth and seems seeing to say lit in its tones what do you amount to anyway in ill the good old days when the silver grill ran wide open apen when williams was a captain before parkhurst had made the tenderloin a sort of oe asbury park the owner of such a voice as Roosevel ts would have been clubbed on general principles now the br bravest ivest policeman must listen to that voice obey it and seem to like st it ile he must even try to imitate inilLa te it according to tn police tradition of policy although he can never succeed and lie must use lisa many thousands of brain cells trying to understand Us its queer correct pronunciation ot of words one thing our noble force may make up its mind to at once it ft must do as roosevelt says for fop it Is not likely that it will succeed in ili beating him from his round bullet head down to ills square toed boots lie he looks like a nian man of strength ills his jaws and chin ire arc powerful ilis his chest is bidad ills his lungs and liver arr are in fit good working ordet order his handa are strong and broad across the bade back tho the fingers Cu iscis taper more than Is ia usual with alth strong men melt but that does docs riot not matter new york world |
