Show IN DESPERATION f. f FOR INSPIRATION Heart Searching Prevailed In Gotham Police Station Over Esperanto I SLEUTHS WERE PUZZLED t. t New Language a Cinch Alongside Alongside Alongside Along Along- side Assorted Tongues of All AU Little Balkans The traveler on tho jingling hor horse c e car pa pacing the Madison street police station tAtion e. e observing Its modest colored buff-colored brick front and the plain Iron railing leading lotho to lo tor r tho the arched entrance would never su suspect the turmoil and hearts searching heart which i for r the last few tew weeks have prevailed within those precinct walls Yet ever since the renaissance ance of or culture amon among Ithe the police south at of Canal street the he men menor of or the Madison str street t police station ha have ha e been en agitated In their minds as os to what ono one thing they should contribute to th movement It Jt Is very well to talk of or taking talc talc- i ing up some one of or the fine jno arts an and hayr hav- hav r r Ing all tho the men become specialists In that says the New York Sun hut but what ar arS an- an S vou GU going to do when right Around the corner cornEl IH is the Educational alliance dispensing dis- dis free every very accomplishment known own r on the face tace of oC the earth At least so IO I 1 argued Captain Patrick I II H. Bowes Dawes and hl his bluecoats n agreed reed with him The Tho opposition of or the educational alliance alli alliance alli- alli I ance anee which keeps keep a sort of or open shop lm-I lm In worried CapLain Captain Cap Cap- every branch of or culture I tain Lain Bones owes terribly Tr Try as ho would h he I. I couldn't think of or anything in the way 3 o of oC I. I refinement which wasn't taught therAs there ther As time went by a Im I'm small all voice seemed t to repeat t Youre next and the captains captain's f. f heart rt sank I I Captain IJo Ho c c i Idea I The sergeants and ever every I. I one of or the patrolmen the captains captain's feelings and soon Joan the whole precinct was L. L in iii such desperation for OC an Inspiration a as 35 almost chol choked ort oft respiration This state o ol affairs affair could not last Jast and the denouement lenoue- lenoue 1 ment long deterred deferred arrived the other nl night hl In the sha shape shapo c of an un Idea so overpowering o ering that for or some time Captain Rowes owes reu refused ed to believe It was his own The Tho captain was talking the situation over with Lieutenants Charles McCarthy and anu John levers If U theres there's anything we should pra pray for above all nil else remarked Lieutenant levers Its Ils the tho gift of tongues s. s I J dont know lenow how man many languages dialects ard aid I sub dialects we have ha to handle In this precinct It would be le astonishing astonishing- If It wasn't appalling Capt Bowes Dowes puffed at a cigar ar thoughtfully Most of it Is Yi Yiddish he lie observed cd and nd most of the men can speak that with peculiar fluency and such grace as the lingo lends Jends Itself to to The Greek I colon colony with Its coffee corfee coffeehouse coffeehouse house and anti hotel at the tho foot of or Madison street Is IR just j out of or our boundaries In the tho Fifth precInct Still Stilt we yc have a plenty a-plenty pl nty to contend conten with with with- ri t t 1 wonder wonder- vO tr eI d of C. C tn to 0 as he bolt bolted il froni fron the thew w S desk Into his private room He I shortly In his hand a l copy of or the North Korth American Review his finger cr marking therein and his features workIng working work worl ing Ing- excitedly excited I Shades of ot Myra ryra K Kelly he lie exclaimed as he hastily opened the magazine mag Just look at It this lie pointed a trembling finger linger to an article headed Esperanto to that Inquired c Lieutenant McCarthy Innocently Innocenti Capt Bowes flowes cleared his throat Esperanto he began legan I Is a n. new uni o. o versal language f It tal takes es no time to l learn arn to speak It it The Idea of ot It is that If it everybody will learn It we can converse converse converse con con- verse easil easily with o one ono e another whether we we meet on Greenland's Ic Icy mountains or or Indias India's coral strand or on East a Broadway Yes sold said McCarthy Int Interrogatively If U we ve all learn to speak Esperanto here the captain explained tho the men will be able to taUt talk with an any of oC the J precincts precinct's population And w will they be able ablo to talk b back cl McCarthy In Inquired flU Ired I suppose so the captain replied tho 1 though h let us hope they will use some d discretion about It and not drown us In tn a flood of or words Anyhow it its it's s a great greut scheme Besides If we adopt it Il as RS a study th there re wont won't h b bo an any of or the precincts will have anything on us 1 t Lets look 1001 at I it It to said Lieu Mc- Mc Carty Corty He lie took tool tho the magazine mC lId and ex examined cx- cx I ex-I tho the E Esperanto le lesson leon on critically Ever Every other word seems to end In Sn J. J he observed I wonder what this means En ph belaj Ge Gee that's thal worse wOrl vorse e than Lithuanian Cheer up bO boys cried Capt Bowes llowes It mn may bo ho a bitof a bitter pill pili but hut Its It's soon swallowed cu and remember Its It's all alt for tho the best It will be he a a. cinch alongside alongside along along- side Ride of or RUS Rus-M- Rus n and the tilt a assorted tongues of or the little lithe Balkans And h ho lii pressed the button for roll call I i. i |