Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-01 | Page 12 | Rang Riot Call to Get Son to Bed

Rang niol Call to Get Son to Bed ITow Yorker Adopts a Unique Motliod to Compel Son to Retire. N'E"W YORK, April 30. Patrolman Hawkins of the "West Forty-seventh street station, hurriedly re-nponded re-nponded to a riot call Oils evening from tho Strathmoro apartment-houee, at Fifty-second street and Broadway. "When ho arrived thero he did not find a riot, !ut a worried father who wanted help in putting his son to bed. He waa Dr. William II. Porter, a professor and demonstrator at , tho Post-Graduato Hospital college. Tho oon, Frederick Porter, lo 19 years old. The father said he could not mako him go to bed and that lfo must have assistance. "Why don't you go to bed when your father tells you to?" asked Hawkins. "Because I want to take a little walk down Broadway," replied the boy candidly. can-didly. Hawkins was the picture of righteous indignation. "What an idea," he exclaimed, ex-claimed, as though the thought appalled him. "And you only 10 years old. No wonder your .poor father sent In a riot call. Somo day ho will have to call out tho militia to keep you In check. Want to walk down Broadway, do you? Woll, It Is to the bed of yours, and you can't get there too quick to be uafe." Frederick went to bed and Hawkins went back much slower than ho had come. The visit of President Loubbt of Franco to the King of Jtaly has been made the occasion of many demonstrations demonstra-tions to show the strong bonds of amity which exist between the two leading nations.