Show CAPTAIN PIPERS VIEWS new york and london police contrasted captain piper the deputy police commissioner of new york who is in london studying the police system was need of a acet from his arduous labors york and the head new 0 o the mayor of of the police department sent him upon his present mission he is a boyish looking man sleeve as the rc who carries an empty bult of his service in the cuban war and whose record in new york municipal administration has been ft brilliant one in some things your police system is in others the reverse better than ours holds was his reply when questioned one tiling which ha on alic subject delighted me in london is the absence of the hosts of street vendors the man with the barrel we call him individually we have about three hundred of them in new york for every one you have in london we license and of these fellows every year to clog up our streets they are largely made up of undesirable foreigners who have bc arcely got their feet warm on our side of the atlantic before they interfering with rights of the citizens AND THE LAW the london method of opening the public houses on sunday during certain hours alo commends itself to captain piper new york closes all such lacea until five monday morning consequently the working man lays a supply of drink for sunday and spend four times as much as if he wont to the bar for each drink in handling jhc thc traffic in london continues the captain the police are greatly assisted by the law which keeps the streets free from building material the man who is constructing a building in new york has one third the width of the street for ilis material and practically the whole of the sidewalk twill he is obliged to brides the walk but people generally go on the other side in preference in london the builder haq from eighteen inched to two feet of the walk and nothing of he street when you remember that I 1 new york puts up about two thousand six hundred buildings every year you will see that our difficulties of traffic are largely on account of the builder tah is the subject I 1 intend to hammer at when I 1 get home THE OFFENDING CABMAN but the far famed politeness of the london policeman capt piper thinks is no better than that of the american in london it is thank you after each sentence in paris it is thank you with the addition of a bow in bew york we have neither but we are just a polite it ie a matter of national custom merely new york policemen help people across alie more frequently than I 1 have seen it in london and in america all persons upon tha street are equal whether on the walk or iu the middle road in lon den the cahnman own the road and pedestrian have no right there in america if you arc run over is tha cabenian who jakc i the blame it s on a train and breaks his leg the brakhman is arrested ns responsible if you ran in front of a car and avero killed we would arrest the motorman thing it hakea them more careful policemen of new york are nn athe corrupt force they are some painted and 1 I speak from personal knowledge of them they have preat political it is true for they control about votes and may perhaps turn an election if they concluded they wanted a tammany regime they could probably get it yes irish and the reasons many of them are are manifold the irishman naturally takes to politic and lie is a pretty good tah last doea not make him a bad policeman in new york for the captain became mildly sarcastic you cant take sunday school teacher for policemen sirs ella widow of capt F ranshaw was buried on thursday in the cemetery at portsmouth va benido alie grave of her husband by epenial permit from the government she was the first woman in 50 year to be juried there with a naval parade and salute |