Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1923, Page 16

SCOTLAND YARD LEADER | BRITISH EMBASSY GUEST SirWilliamHorwood in U. S. for Police Conference. Won FameasOfficer in British Army in War. By FREDERICK CUNLIFFE-OW! ¢ B. E. Gen. Sir William Horwood, who is =pending the week end in Washing- ton with his old triend, Sir Auckland (ieddes, the ambassador of the Brit-| iah empire, and who has come to America to attend, in behalf of the Rritish government, the International police conference, which opens in New York Tuesday morning. is the presiding genius and moving spirit of Seotland Yard—a name which enjoys Werld-wide fame_ In everything relat- fng to the policd on younder side of the ocean. Close Co-Operation Aim. The aim of the international police congrecs. organized in which led to s gathering of leading pollee experts from all corners of the globe last year in New York, is o obtaln a closer and more intimate co-operation hetween the great police departments here and abroad to com- bat crime. Varfous mathods were discussed at ths meeting in New York last sum- mer. Many useful proposals were dedated and some were adopted. here was a free exchange of views and ldeas among delegates. Steps were decided upon for the union of efforts. and an era of understanding and of good will between the great ywlice departments of the world was Vrought into existenc Tast vear the British government was represented at the congress by Ter Inspector general of constabula j. Gen. Atcherley, C. M. G., and so mich struck was the Downing street zovernment by his reports that this Jear it has sent as its representative en. Sir William Horwood, the chief What Is known us the metropolitan time when his presence needed in London The government is convinced that nothing but good can result in his meeting here with the police chiefs from all parts of the world. Each ©f them will have something new, nd probably useful, to communcate, born of experience in dealing with rime. especially in_its international aspects. while Sir William Horwood will likewise be able to give the ben- ¢t of all that is best, most up-to dite and ingenfous of the great de- partment over which he rules. New Type of Chief. Sir William Horwood represents a new type of commander-in-chief at Keotland Yard 1In its inception, the london police was intensely and ex- sxgeratedly civilian. The publio still lived in the memories of the Napo- leonie wars, which had kept all iurope und a portion of Asia in a turmoil of strife and in a welter of Liood for more than smo decades. Armies were recrulte forced drafts and by press gangzs, and repre- ted in the eyes of the masses a em of sia To such an extent s this the case that In Great Brit- the sizht of military uniforms % S0 huted that the Waterloo Duke f Weilington, then commander-in- ef, dirccted that officers should yestrict themselves as far as possible to oivilian clothes in the cities. Consequently, when Sir Robert Peal, | S | ! : i as premier, first created the London police force, he refrained from every- thing that could convey in the slight- est degree the suggestion of anything {military. The men who used to be | known as “peelers” and “bobbies” in {honor of his name, were garbed in the most preposterous fashion; com- pelled to wear enormous hats of the stovepipe order, but made of some ack glazed material, and long blue coats. They were allowed to {earry, concealed from view, a small wooden truncheon, their only means of defense. Everything indeed was done to re- lieve the government of the charge of endeavoring to enslave the people by means of a new standing army. rayed as civilians, but organized, it was alleged at the time, to * } roughshod over peaceable [ He placed at the h I metropolitan police {Henry Maine. who managed matter I'so well that the prejudice originall jexisting against the police began to! disappear. i The better element, indeed, began | to co-operate with the police instead | of opposing them. Sir Henry Mai regime was a protracted one. served to completely cile the population of London ts police torce. In the sixties and seventies a wave of popular disturbances spread all over Lurope and Great Britain. The mob in lLondon—a very brutal and dangerous mob—began to show signs of unruliness, and it was found neces- sary not only to impart a more mili- ta spirit of discipline into the metropolitan police. but also to equip them to render them more capable of quelling isorder and ofenforcing law. And thus it came that the London police assumed more military and less ridiculous aspect. That in turn necessitated men of a different stamp to that of Sir Henry Malne at its head, and the experiment was tried of bringing the most able and re- ourceful officials of that corps d'elite, the Indian civil service, to London for the purpose. They were all men who had stood-at the very [ magistrate, Sir | to itrusted to another soldier by profes- ! police THE SUNDA pinnacle of the police aaministration of the Indian empire. There were almost a dozen of them who succeeded one.another at the head of Scotland Yard. Thelr reign was known as that of “the sahibs.” In some things they were very successful. They were alive to those ingenuities of crime which prevail ;among the ori- eptals but which are beyond the denser brain of the British and Eu- ropean felon. Failed in Ome Respect. They failed, however, to appreciate the difference which exists between the management and control of dusky natlves and of white men. The resuit of this was that in 1918, at the most critical time of the war, there was a strike on the part of the London po- lice of srfficient .importance to bring abont the resignation of the last of the “sahibs,” Sir Edward Henry, and a very tactful Irish soldler, Gen. Sir Nevil Macready, adjutant general of the British army in France, was brought home in hot haste to assume charge of the police, and to restore the morale and the discipline of the force. In this, Sir Nevil Macready, who was born in New York, a son of the great actor, Willlam Charles Mac- ready, proved eminently successful. He possessed all the wit and humor and bonhommie of his race. and be- {fore he quitted the job to assume the chief command of the military forces in Ireland the metropolitan police had virtuaily obliterated the memory of their partial mutiny—a mutiny all the more serious because it was at the seat of the imperial government in- stead of on the battle front. When the Right Hon. Sir Nevil Macready went from London to Dub- 1in his post at Scotland Yard was en- sion, but > possessed, in addition thereto, o considerable amount of ‘eaperlence. Son of the lord of ono of those picturesque old manors which form the chief attrac- tion of the fair and pecullarly Eng- lish county of Sussex, Sir William won his_spurs as a captain of the dashing 5th Lancer Regiment, and re- tiring some time after the South Afri- can war, twenty-flve yvears ago, he ac- cepted an offer to take charge of the entire police system of the Great Ilastern railroad. one of the big trunk lines—perhaps the biggest—of the United Kingdom. This work, for which he developed not only a pronounced liking, but also intuition, won for him a consid- erable amount of police experience— not only in London. where the head- quarters and terminal of the Great Eastern railroad system are situated, but also in the great industrial and commercial centers. When the great war broke out, Willlam Horwood threw up his lucrative job without a moment’s hesitation, ‘rejoined his regiment, and sailed for France as part and parcel of the first British expeditionary force. There he took part in most of the early fighting, winning the distinguished service order, the French and Belgian croix de guerre, as well as the officers’ cross of the French Legion of Honor, befors someone at headquarters happened to recall the work that he had done as chief of the large police force of the Great Eastern railroad. Head of Army Police. The police service of the British army in France had been very unsat- isfactory in the earlier stages of the war; perhaps because 80 many men of criminal past had sought refuge from the police at home among the gallant and clean-lived lads who had answered the call of arms. At any rate, no time was lost in appointing Sir Willlam, first as deputy provost marshal, then as provost marshal of the entire British army in France, where his work was recognized on the restoration of peace by his ap- pointment to knighthood of the Order of the Bath and by the confirmation of his military rank as major general. He had won his way from the cap- taincy with which he joined on the outbreak of the war to the rank of brigadier general by hard fighting, as 1s shown by the fact that he re- celved no less than seven different mentions in the dispatches for gal- lantry and conspicuous bravery in actlon. Strictly speaking. the department over which Sir William Horwood pre- sides is known as New Scotland Yard, and ooccupies an imposing edifice on the Thames embankment. Old Scot- ST (AT “You Never Take as Much Ice” Runs the story of the iceman who served a whole row of customers with ice and found one whe did not buy near as much ice as the others, “Why,” said the happy housewife, “Mine is a Leonard Cleanable Refrigerator and it conserves ice better than the erdinary refrigerater.” j All styles of Leonards are en display here at Mayer’s. You can depend on them keeping costly foods sweet and pure at all times: There's a one-piece French gray porcelain-lined Leenard for $55, and ethers for less, too. Lifetime Furniture Is More Than A Name F Seventh Street HERT il Mayer & Co. LTI RN Hillisl i Lttt 1t Between D&E ASHINGTO! D. C, APRIL 29, 1923—PART 1 Model of Proposed W ashington Auditorium |Army Captain land Yard was situated In wmumu,} where the metropolitan police had its | headquarters from the time of its or- | sociations were further emphasized ganization over ninety years ago until| by the fact that it served as the home 1890. Scotland Yard got its name|of Margaret, daughter of Henry VII from its assignment as the residence | of England and sister of the blue- of the Scottish kings upon thelr visits | beard King Henry VIII, after tl to London to do homage for the flefs | death of her husband, King James 1V of Cumberland and Westmoreland or | of Scotland. Among subsequent resi- for other reasons. dents of Old Scotland Yurd were Mil- In conclusion, it may sir William tof the relgning famil ministers of. the oW of the immpey hands are of is and ~that concentrated of the vast British Empire. { +URNITUng It was thers that they held court|ton, the poet, and Vanbrugh and while in London, and its Scottish as- | Inigo Jones, the cclebrated achitects. be stated that Horwood's responsibili- ties include the protection of the king. the to 1 government—in s the direction of the destinies and policies | New Faces Trial in T heft of Funds W YORK, April 28 . | A. Whigesell of the United States ’ Army is under arrest at Fort Jay, | —Capt. C. Governors Island, awaiting a gen- eral court-martial for desertion and misappropriation of funds, oflicers of the island disclosed to- day Capt. Whitesell * is alleged to have disappeared, taking $10,000 of | government funds with him. HELD FOR PASSING COUNTERFEIT BILLS NORFOLK, Va.. April. 28—Frank tschwiski, who said his home was in Danzig, Poland. was held in /510,000 bond for the federal grand Jury after a hearing today before | United States Commissioner Brinkley e was a fireman on the Shippng Board steam- er Dallas, was traced here from Bal- timore, where he is said to have pur- d_several one and two dollar of the federal rescrve banks at York and Chcago. after they had been raised to twenties. INEW YORK HIPPODROME PERMANENTLY CLOSED By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, April 28.—The Hipp: drome, the home of big spectacles and | New York's greatest playhouse, closex its doors for good tonight and no |longer will its andiences, each repre | senting half the states in the Union, front to reach the surface. About 40,000,000 persons are com | puted to have entered the vast aud| torium during the eighteen vears of its existence.- One-third of the clier tele represents out of towners, The Hippodrome was erected on the site of the old 6th avenue car barn But property in the “roaring forties’ is too valuable to stand unused third of the vear, and so the great playhouse must make way for a bus ness structure of some kind, the na ture of which has not yet been de termined. —_— Almost Right. From Judge. | In a story being read in a country school, @ character was described as g “a dumpling sort of a woman In order to make ure that the pupi understood the meaning. the teache sald: “Descripe a ‘dumpling sort of an.’ " ouldn't she be and thin?" asked a pupil. “Why, no. The woman was sho and plump like a dumpling.” “Oh, ves! I was thinking of noodle!” rather ta L Getting the Home in June for the Year’s Happiest Season Springtime is that cheerful season when every thought is turned toward the home. 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