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Show filEE ; SIDEWALKS of NEWORK iWhere, Each Man Fighting Alone Against an Unknown Enemy, "New York's Finest" Carries on a War That Never Ends. Junglo-tbs law of claw and fang makes short work of the rule of "sweetness and light ' dreamed of by the philosopher. It la due to men like Patrolman 4960 Patrolman Patrol-man Longhran of the 40th Precinct that the Jungle law does not gain free rcla and make New York and all our other cities places of terror ter-ror by night to our peaceful citizens. citi-zens. Unsung Heroes The average citizen, according to Jj Police Commissioner Enrlght of New York City, Is Inclined to take d tit iast side, west side " The grinding of the "ipi hurdy-gurdy, over to-afcjftyil to-afcjftyil wards the avenue, ends suddenly to the Bharp report re-port of a jristol shot. Excited Toices are pitched high in fear lories for help. Then the sound ef running feet and a man dashes cast on 164th Strart, tnrns north on Aqueduct Avesmv and heads for the Harlem River Speedway. Close behind him, gaining with steady strides, comes another myf Patrolman 4960 and behind ths fttCrotrnan follows the proprietor tf tho Jewelry store which the first man has attempted to loot. It Ob as dark as Erebus in the clump t trees above the Speedway. The few arc-lights only serve to make the shadows the blacker. And DEWALKS of NE WORIpif That Never Ends. fj ,Ji A , Q','(t?Wi "V " SSSTtrStM:. A, y? sweetness and light- dreamed of U V5 by the philosopher It is due to ffr - r ? xj 58 fern fe-rn en like Patrolman 4960 Patrol- -A ( lf JT gM'iMi' h .wJiiU-wg?' S5sST -fes?S nmaLocghnm of the 40tH Precinct J f - TlTit hat the JungIe law does not gain j & Wj, lxJiZfJ ifA roby night to our peaceful cit, T if , x L AWfegLj- M Unsung Heroes x5l.fl Mfc I - 4Vf S fffi The average c.Uzen, according to 4?yi.f& 1 L J , W , A l , -zYUfL Police Commissioner Enrlght of -'f IL J -f Sl X ' 4! JT ' WM New York City, is IncUned to take 3, jfv s ttfl ? At ff ' t aigs.x NEW YORK'S "FINEST" ON PARADE. . - - ' " ; Building In downtown New York inal element, and because of this . s - - tiTQ towc tablets. At the top of constant Influx the Police Depart- I i i I, nn i nn I, ' M hiiiiii- J each tablet stand the words "The ment faces a more difficult situa- iw bi.j.-.-o bo, Names of Those Who Died in the tlon than that which confronts the AWARDING THE "ORDim OF MHRrr" TO A PATROLMAN FOR COURAGEOUS ACTION IN Performance of Their Duty." The Police Department of any other CAPTURING AN ARMED BANDIT AFTER A DESPERATE BATTLE. ' story back of each of the names on city. Now York City covers an are a of 315 square miles. There are ; 4,300 miles of streets and 579 miles l of water front. Day and nlgM every yard of the 4,300 mllee of i; streets must be patrolled by a man .x, on foot, a man out a bicycle, a man on a horse, or a man on a motor , cycle. Day and night every yard of the water front must be patrolled ' , by the men of the marine force la . ( their speedy launches. J"' 650 to t. "No other world metropolis oper- ' ates with" so small a force aa doa New York," Bays Commissioner E j.r right. "I have been in most of tie large cities in Europe, studyiitf police conditions. In Rome one patrolman protects 129 citizens; t r London one patrolman protects 5M i 1 citizens; in New York one pau'l man is responsible for the safety of 550 citizens. London, with police problems far less difficult than ours, j has 24,000 policenearly twice u many as we have. "In spite of the Bmalmess oi onf jJlg force, the efficiency of our men, to- W gether with their courage nd B; loyalty, has enabksd ns to keen ;:i crime in New York well nnder con-j troL There are fonr crimes In tne; :f criminal pnicnrtnr which are known' j as crimes of violence murder,,. felonious assault, assault Bnd rob- ., bery, and burglary. In 1916 there,. f were 15,835 crimes that fell under those four headings. By 1921 fll4;..j number of such crimes had Wh" to 10,436. For the last three yeri the figures are as follows: lSJi -' 3,147; 1923, 8,768; 1924, 8,548.' ( The Thin Blue Line i i Four thousand and more miles of ' Btreets. five hundred and seren--- nine miles of water frontl . A .t line nearly five thousand mil" long! Armed with a baton and h pistol and with a flashlight rout darkness, the ally of crin-each crin-each man of the force that hold" t" . batUe line fights alone ag"'"5' " ,, unknown enemy. Alone in the da streets, in cellars black as, the l -' fernal pit, along the gloomy , , front, In noisome places of eWl, j men of this thin blue line guard " Hi lives and fortunes of nearly e million people and the ' ! , ten billions of storcd-up wealth"-1" na property in the city of New Yorl Not only in New York, W : u Chicago, In San Francisco, In city of the land, stands just u ' r blue lino. The aiinhls of these mj Vs are glorious with tho m -t heroes, but their names are berod only by tholr comrades. ( warks against tho thief, the t and the bandit the roost sin'' of all tho pestilences that t nltiht theirs is a war that ni ; ends. For them there Bin I. . llnal triumph. When tlu-y ( UTM Is no time for pageantry. , onomy sllll thuudors at t c The war must go on. ij somewhere In those shadows lurks the bandit. The forefinger of the patrolman's right hand is upon the trigger of his pistol; the thumb of his left hand presses the button of his flashlight. A long beam of light stabs through the blackness of the shadows and falls full upon the criminal crouching in the lee of a clump of fuchsia, An automatic barks. The bandit's aim Is good. The bullet goes straight to where the policeman's heart would have been had he held the flashlight in front of him. But Patrolman 4D60 has held it well out to the side and the bullet thuds into a tree over to the left. Again the bandit fires, and again he misses by a hair's breadth this time. And then before the cornered criminal can fire again the patrolman is upon him. His arms are pinned to his side by a vice-like grip. The handcuffs snap about his wrists. For a long term of years the peaceful peace-ful citizens of New York will have nothing to fear from "Piggy" Con-j Con-j ley, yeggman and bandit. I The Law of the Jungle Three thousand and more years ago the psalmist wrote of "the pestilence pesti-lence that walketh In darkness," while history and the records of crime are filled with the acts of thieves, bandits, cuLthroats, and marauders of various stripe who under cover of darkness have prowled to and fro in the world, ioing what evil it lay in their ower to accomplish. According to the authorities, the roportton of criminals to population popula-tion changes little from century to 03Dtury. Tiie world over this proportion pro-portion Is about two per cent. And it is as true today as it was three thousand years ago that with the discern of night upon the streets of our great cities the law of the Vl.--j Building In downtown New York Inal element, and because of this are four tablets. At the top of constant Influx the Police Depart- each tablet stand the words "The ment faces a more difficult situa- Namea of Those Who Died In the tion than that which confronts the Performance of Their Duty." The Police Department of any other story bade of each of the names on city. the long list is much the same as To keep tnls criminal population the story back of the death of in chock and so safeguard the lives , Patrolman Rosenfeld. Each man aad property of the citizens, the gave up his life to protect the lifo p0iiCo Department has 13,300 men. or property of another. A Dig force Dut Commis8ioner En- The Mecca of the World right explains that more than half New YoTk occupies a unique posi- of these men are members of the; tion among American cities, from Traffic Division, of the Detective i a police standpoint, not only be- Division, of various special dlvi-j cause of its size, but also because sions, and pf the administrative I of the cosmopolitan character of Its staff. Leas than Ave thousand men inhabitants; and, too, because of are left for regular patrol duty, the fact that the fame of New York Under the existing law, a shift of haa so spread throughout the world oight hours is a day's work for a that it has become tthe mecca of patrolman; so this force of less thousands of the weaker, more im- than live thousand men has to be moral, and more unfortunate pco- split into three equal parts, giving pie of many foreign lands. Among about 1G00 men as tho maximum these peoplo there arc bound lo be for service during any hour of tbe many representatives of the crim- day or night. the policeman and the protection the policeman affords him as a matter mat-ter of course. He seldom sees the policeman in those crises which test the courage of the stoutest hearted, and if he is fortunate he can go through life witnout ever having to call upon the police for help. As Mr. Average Citizen drinks his morning coffee with his paper propped before him he may read of the heroism of some individual patrolman, but for the guardian of law and order there Is no blare of trumpets, no waving of banners, no national pantheon. And so by the citizen the heroic deed and the very name of tiie hero are soou forgotten; forgot-ten; the hero himself goes quietly back to his beat if he is lucky enough to be able to go back. Dead on the Field of Battle But not all are able to go back to their beats. Patrolman Rosenfeld never went hack after that night when he found a door standing half way open and went in to investigate. investi-gate. The sight that met him was a startling one. A dozen members of the Twenty-first Assembly Republican Re-publican Club sat with their hands held high in the air. Covering them with an ugly looking automatic stood a masked man. Another man, also .masked, was going through their pockets. The patrolman's sudden entrance sent the two thugs Hying towards the rear of the building. He followed fol-lowed them, picking his way by flashlight, through a narrow, ink-black ink-black halL "Warned by the light ray just in time to avoid a violent plunge down a steep flight of stairs, Rosenfeld caught up with the men as they struggled to open the heavy shutters of a window that looked upon the alley in the rear. The trapped men turned, apparently ap-parently to surrender. Rut on the instant, before the policemen could bring his own weapon Into play, one of them rired from the pocket of his coat. Patrolman Rosenfeld full with a bullet in his heat. On the walls of the main entrance en-trance of the Police Headquarters |