Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-29 | Page 1 | Policeman Will be Missed

UJ P0LIC1MAN WILL JI" MISSED Chicago, July 29. Patrons of grand opera, as well as many of the noted stars of the operatic stage, will miss John Ennis, policeman, who for fifteen fif-teen years has been detailed at tho Auditorium theater. In the recent shakeup of the department de-partment Chief McWeeny transferred Ennis to the Twouty-second street station, where he will travel a heat The Do Reszkes, Edouard and Jean, Caruso, McCormlck, Pnttl, Melba, Calve, -Nordlca and other celebrated artists of the operatic stage visited Ennis at his modest home In Aldlne Square and ate corn beef and cabbage cab-bage at the Ennis table "I have no complaint to offer," said Ennis. "A good soldier does as he is told. Chief McWeeny Is the boss " Ennis, who sometimes Is called the "scholnr of the department," has been a patrolman nineteen years Ho was one of the organizers of the Irish Music cluib of Chicago and has bee" active in perpetuating the music of Erin. He also has written several songs, one of which, "The Shady Road to Clano," la well known in Irish Ir-ish music circles.