Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 6, 1918, Page 10

Jeffers Succeeded as Acting Captain By Policeman Pinney— Government Had Not Demanded a Change—Work of Railroad Detectives — Workmen at Submarine - Base Threatened With Arrest While Boarding Cars in Yard| —Gross Lack of Courtesy. — (Special to The Bulletin.) t?db?hc?mo ewtlfl‘n. }mé he flltht;!u‘,t hbi: -~ old- e assoclate Jeffers ougl 0 uN; mm :Z:xu.l ‘r. olr' gd;: ei?ue;{ captain and that he was entitled to of common council of the city of New |the lieutenancy. The election of Pin- London that all the published staie- |NeY 28 goting captain will not neces- |, ‘ments of the mayor, the self-appointed [Sarily occasion any other changes in cltisens’ commnittee, and se- | the department. lected teer -piece, which e oo e o Faccnt had| It can be said right here and new, made demand that there be a changedespite the unfuunded assertion of the made in the personnel of the police mayer, and the bunch of hluffers, that department, including the remqval of(fOf the past thvee momibs at least, the Police Lieutenant Tom Jeffers, acting | efliclency o captain for the past three months,|® b under threat that this were not|and during done, a liquor prohibitive zone five|for that matt miles in area’ would be ex!wb?ls;mg in sailors and ¢ ame of puffed-up 2 a.um gln u:u‘.nd no(hll:lx more. | ed regular popuiation. Ths mayor has Alderman Murray proved this when |cried for more police .efciency, but he read a letter and a telegram from |neither he nor those who ‘are with him Congressman Freeman setiing forth|in the attack upon Lieutenant Jeffers, that the ifederal government never|have even hinted to thy necessary in- made any such demand, was not in- Crease in the number Tof policemen. terested in who was at the head of |The emall force, kept busy in the the police department or the men who [days when there were practically no composel the force, and had never |transients are now expectéd to cope serlonsly considered the establishment | With this greatly increased number of a prohibitive zone. The govern-|that are now here.. The officers Lave ment claimed, however, that sailors |Surely done their best to preserve were getting intoxicating drink in the|Peace and order and their success : ity by the bootlegging process and junder the circumstances is almost mar- | that there was urgent desire that it|velous. Still the mayor, and his close { should be stopped. In this particular |2dherents are not satisfled because| matter there has been marked im- | Jeffersy against whom fhey cannoti provement durinz the past threeMmustr Up a tenable charge after his months, or while Tom Jeffers was |long service, is an officer in thé de- acting captain of police, being ad- |partment. It's about time the bIuff vanced temporarily from the lieuten- | was called. ency —_— According to ::l'-d‘mnicn in rail- There is not an unprejudiced citizen | Way stations a in passenger ocars, to be found but appreciates the good | Courtesy is the watthword of the work accomplished during the past|New York, New Haven and Hartford three months. New London was never |railroad, and it is exacted of all who cleaner imorally than at the present|have business with the public, and time. So far as can be learned there|even the ticket agents have been or. is mot a bawdy house in the city,|dered to keep imiling. eo.as to send street-w2lking has been reduced to the|the passengers away in a pleasant minimom, d what boctlegging has |mood, and as an expression of raiircad been done d in arrest and But, based on late deveiop- proeecttion not known to the co-operated . Bulis, or railroad Jeffers ‘and deciined to seil package |speciul oficers. This:is guite notice- 1 Zoods only to persons known to them, |able of late when a new batch of| and who could not possibly be sus- |officers Bulls have been located. I the | pected of engaging in beotlegging, | local pasture. One dsy last week an But the mavor, ard the seif-appointed | 0}d gentieman, a life-long resident of ommitiee did not want Jeffers on the |the city, while seatsd “on the bench ‘orce in any capacity, and for reasons|nea the boot black stand in the station | t they have not had the courage to;recding a newspaper and enjoving a divulge. q smoke, while waiting to take! ! passage on a belated train was ac-; The bluffing bunch were determined |costed Ly one of those Bulls, who was to win, and they secured a majority | uot far removed from a bully, in this of the members of the couri of com- {rourteous way: ‘Say o'd man cut o€t mon couneil to make their schema stc- | that emoking. -and .right now or “of ceseful. They did win, in part for|you go to the police. station; do you the council by a party vote, 12 to 7,|hear me.” voted against Jeffers as acting captain e A d in hia stead chose Charles Pinney,| “Thers was nothing about the Bull act as captain to the end of the|to signify he was clothed with ‘au- fiscal year. In doing this the senior-,thsrity, and he had the appearance in le was ignored and he was and dress of the fraternity once haif the membe ows as tramps. Naturally the ‘oid| has |gentlemen felt just a littie ‘bit hurt, 7The|ond resented the manner in which he vig @ Surprise and fwas agcosted, and asked. the feilow it was clearly a case of the office seek-|{who he was and by what right ‘he ing the man. Naturally the £{made the demand to quit smokinz feature will not tend to cement i something that had been permitted in hat ought to exist in the |the station for years. .jle: received Still it is believed Acting |t reply: “No matter who I am; tain Pinney will receive the ear-den't give me anv guff or off You go. support of every man on the| krow that T am a de- This does not se he police | 0ad detective, ‘and, have v b city. is only tof n't let m il the financial h 3 8 here again, t the bluffing bunch U e the salary of! reased, and then [selecied as & railroad Getective m the outside tol B command | That seme of th raitre 1@ |lack intslligence and good i their|was demonstrateq at -|tion last Wednesday 3 just before the departure of the tr r the submarine base, & lona tral reste of the ci \ these growinz times After the electien of Mr. Pirney as acting captain, and in order to carry o cut the scheme of . thes bunch ‘of | b Mayor Rogers in his effort to [ on ' railrosd pr | the force. announcedliy that thev have not taken intd cus. I would proceed to the|tody all. who cross the: tracks-to the | tenant of police. Ttiferry or the municipal vler. or even at the mayor and his|the passengers who cross the tracks truck a snag that shatter- (o poard trains on tracks two, three pee, and created surprise|,ng four. By their act it wouid seem e members of the self-ap-lio pe twe intsroretatiof of orders by zens' committee. Alder-{came of thess jenorant Bulls who eer- chairman of the police dgmert, ang are -stran- cooly remarked that the Thig tr for the sub- iy had a police lientenant Ceaaea Devond ‘the n the person of Tom Jeffers and some of the work- was po vacan rty, and the wi : aepot p and that the [P0 0 G tha reilroad property cause, and that ~auce must he in the form bf charzes subom to the poice committee, ana after a hearing. had the mavor state that 20 or below the station. The fresh Bu'ls were onto their job, ey frSiand thought they saw a gelden op- but nene had mat: 1o | POrtunitv to make good with tite Bul o enomert ot e o %hat | higher up. Through their builheadness, | re was no vacancy, Alderman :Mur. |OF rather the act-of one of the Bulls, T e en omman Mirs |the same chap who insulted the old (o the status o |BCntleman in the station, deliberately siavus ofllocied the doors of the thres rear cars At scting captain, but (10 Velled ta the occupants that they : s i 4e | Were under arrest an s prison- B s e atanging. 28 The Eull then had the impudence eutenant, when another was elected |’ R o to order the conduetor to set off, the S i e R el e locked cars contatning the workmen 80 o Y ;. |that he intended to. transform into o S T enw) i old posi-| criminals. That Bull got his answer than thirty years, with no prospect of |Trom that conductor, and a call. down advancement go long as the mayor and |fOr interfering with the operation of his chosen followers have influence|the train.. Tie doors . were: unlocked sufficient to prevent, for these gentle- |20d the Workmen came out and: that Tmen have no rezard for the semiority |FArticular Bull disappeared, rule, all other conditions being eaual. T Thie move of the council shoved| Of course the workmen were indig- another faithful officer out of the|nant at such treatment from repre- chance for Isieutenancy after a great|Sentative of the railroad company many years of service, a man con- |they patronized daily, and: aserted ceded to be one of the most efficient | their right to be treated as Passéngers police officers that ever served the|and not be domineered over and class- city. Ben Beebe had no aspiration|ed as criminals by an raliroad Buil of low grade. The feel- ing of these men extended all th the long. train, and then and thete it was resolved they would ride no more to and from work on the train until they were assured of the saie ‘cour- teous treatment that the éompany promises to passengers ‘on more’ pre- tentlous trains. There were about twelve hundred we assembled, and when the train left for -the; sub- A marine base the only persoms aboard 9, a were the conductors and trainmen and t Nldlt a few eailors The act of that Bull not only caused serjous.financial’ joss It wears down your strength, racks | to the railroad company fn the opera-. i dence, to say nothing "Foley’s Honey and Tar [ment wore, ~ 0 oo BT A standard family medi The men finally went to work when gemsttanding foc la “P':‘:fl‘b;‘:nm the naval inspector at the bise. ad- P sl whéezy breding nd or Toms In pay, They 13 not g0 o 4n croup mm‘h.fi*fl“b by train, but crossed in the - the inflamed lining of the throat and aif |ry to Groton. in three tris, ana wer were H auto true . e Bull may have Foler's Honsy snd Toe rebeved e ot s |2 T el B ] road property, he o1 in- beulc cured my cough eatirely, telligence to know . that in:this partic- Lee & Osgood Co. ular ease these workmen were: not the train conditions, o |trespassers, under YOU WANT to put your bus. |2nd if he had the judgment of -an im-. betore. the pubitc.” thire s’ 1o becile he would not have caused the m In -zn tler than through the ad-|trouble. = Railroad eourtesy ought to columne of The Bulletin. apply to all embloves. even the Bulla The Buying Power of 150 Storesls his Advertisement Quite frequently we have been asked by pe?plerespondmg to our adveriisements how it was that in the face of rising costs of practically everything, wewerenbletomfinhinmnlmmtmrmdpr}aa@ndud.' 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