The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1901, Page 8

THE MONARCH OF MULBERRY ERS HAS CHA COTAMOOOVOOGDIORNG OODEOSS) Thinks that Madison | Square Garde®\ Is the: Logical Police Head- quarters Where There Would Be Plenty of OOO COO D On! Room for Drill and for Assembling the Men in Times of Trouble. | iH was with some diffidence that the artist approached the room’’ in the Police Headquarters Building, where Deputy Commis: stoner William S. Devery sits and| qorks and keeps an eye on every man in his department. But the greeting he received was a kindly one, and the ‘‘Chief’’—for no one calls him anything else—talked in a serious vein of many things that) interested him. And as he talked he worked, gave orders, listened to| reports, dictated messages until it) was plain to the interviewer that no one who did not have his wonder- fal constitution could sland the strain for long. By T. E. Powers. Having more or less brutally lam- basted William S. Devery with my ready Pen for many moons, 1 was not partt ularly enthusiastic when I went to tel it over with hie. From what I had read of Devery !t would have caused me no extraordinary surprise had he thrown “There have been a lot of these philanthropists who have been putting a lot ° of hurdles in the way of the Police Department, but we manage to jump them al ty signature t ‘al papers while a document—he stgned 1 waa there—the him: “What,” I querted, “do you think of ) {0} nen he used placed on the desk | the Marcont system?” Me down at first sight and executed #) ogactly in ttn vthe signature waa | "The what?” asked the Chiet, Pas seul on my aMrighted visage. carefully DL and the document was| “The Marconi nyatem,” aald I. ‘The On the contrary he gave me & sad | carefully inal over before it was] ayatem of whrelean telegraphy, you hand as big asa foot. called me “Pow | yanded to the messenger, Devery'a | know." era” right off the reel and succeeded in| samp of order 1a very loped SGN tLe Khowae a US thing Arabeut init waking me think he was glad to #0 nous shoulders, but 1s] Powers.” confessed the Chief cheer- me. “He recalled some of the tlercest y do not look ab- not # bi 4 thing.’ cartoons I have made of him, and hristlan Sclentint he paused and made an almost laughed real heartily over tiem. ‘The nA. M.—Anl- [imperceptible motion co a young man In Chief-was undoubtedly a surprise party | mal Magnetist, He has a surplus of! police uniform who had been playing a to! me. masnetiam, and 1 wae not aurpriaed/ thinking part In the room. The young Thatend of a burly “dem, dose anddey" | when told that even his enemlos think | policeman took a seat behind the Chief, Tirta stas Que ATE" cop, I met a natty, well-gromed man after they have met and | pulled out a pad and a pencil and made 7a GARDIN with a kindly face and a ready smil Devery is big, but he carries himself with him hatr is quite gray, and the regula- stenogtaphic notes, Het aught, “1 am in for tt. well. There is nothing phantine n'a thatch on his upper ip me kte ely . jo lve me ths thirty-third about! him. He ts a healthy, optimiatic| is streaked with gray hair. Hin nose 19 x man, a good, genial companion, 1 oim-| straight and his chin is strong Had he 1 looked out Into rain-awe, 5 o aln-awept Mulberry agine, and certainly a loyal friend. Ab not be he ha treat anew lvbeabalwast netiey taller ' —— & favor done for Devery would never be been hoy who was skipping gayly on his = 9 a favor wasted. ch thre Dian’ stomach through a length of gas pipe, The Orderly Omce. a I wasn't ready to tell the story of my, 2 — What, particularly imprensed me was | inind 1) Uke : N Fe the crderly apenrance of his office and) jn a sort of telephone exchange with a As to the Marcon! System, S97 deak. The desk alone is worthy of | comment. It is as dig asa billiard tabi =a fine desk for a man accustomed to | sleeping In the office. It was as neat as / the desk of an army officer. Every pen- his ear and a transmitter shouting tps top re they také a suckers money on horse races. Aw a matter of fact there waa not a aingle telephone in the room, receiver to ut N- om eS What Devery might do with Diana if the Garden w, Powers,” broke In the volco of the Chief, “from what I can understand this Marcon! business ts an experiment. What we want In the Police Department is something sure, and our telegraph his. mouth holder, every blotter, every plece of desk | not even a desk telephone. This dis-| bureau tn all right. We have a é even a ¢ elephone, s i good should be turned into dquarters. furniture was tn piace. covery was a distinct shock and] system of telephones and I want to tell . LS GEOEE ROO I noticed that every time he affixed] prompted the first question I asked | you right here, touching on this matter, (200000 00000000 0000000 that the telephones appertaining to this department are only used for oMcial Intended to ask him If he thought Frank Farrell had a good voice to talk over a telephone with, but thero we glitter in his blue eye that bade me refrain. So 1 jumped to another sub- Sect. “Chief.” 1 sald, “I'd like to get your {deas about a new building for Poltce Headquarters.” 1 didn't know it, but I had touched his hobby, He almont gave the astenog- rapher writer's cramp for a time. “In all my reports," he sald, enthusl- astically, “since I've had this job, I've recommended a new headquarters bulld- {ng for the department. Touching on thin question and appertaining to the matter I can say that I've given It a Jot af thought. . quarters Too 5 “This building ain't the re. tts. too small, and its only a question of time when we'll be forced out.” “Where do you think the department should be located?” I asked, wondering If my recent suggestion that a head- quarters with a roof garden be built on Fifth avenue had impreraed the Chief. “Madison Square Garden, just ax she was the response. “I've had my eye on that place for a long time, It's central and {t's handy “STREET IN THE INNER ROOM. POOEGQODOSGOOQODOSSGHOOSGDOOSGGODDIOGOOSPDOGGOOQOSOSOOSOGOOSO) @ {0} for all the boroughs. It comes pretty near being the centre of Greater New York, and ft certainly In the police centri “But It would cut out the French Nall.” J protested, “and then what would Inspector Thompson do? He would dle of ennul.” Devery smiled and then became sert- ous and enthuatastie again. “Say.” he went on, as though he had not noticed the Interruption, “the peo- ple of New York never atop to think that there are nearly 4,000.00 people for the Police Department to look after, and you can do a lot of good to bring this matter up. We've got 30) square miles of territory to patrol and only ) men to do It, day and nig Need More Pollcemen. N “We need 1.30 more men. want, 3 more In the Bronx; Queens ought to | have a couple of hundred In the country districts out there, where a man has to pretty nqar be a six-day champlon to his beat, Brooklyn needa a blz h, too, and we could e of a few hundred right here in Manhattan. “This town ain't standing still, Pow- era, I'm growing every minute, and | the people don't wal forget It. | Now, !f we had that Madiaon Square | Garden we could use the ring to drill | our men, and there I¥ enough room fc the offices. We could ke: W our WITH “CHIEF” DEVERY. The Deputy Commis- sioner Declares that Moss and Other Phk lanthropists Are Sim- ply Placing (Hurdles for the Policemen to Jump Over — and They Are Taking Them, Too, He Says. horses in the basement and in the time of strikes or rlota we could have all our reserves in the bullding, horaes and all. “Why shouldn't we have a big bullé- ing Ike that? Look at the armortes. ‘There's not more than a thousand mem In a regiment and look at the bulldl they have, covering blocks You mi remember that we are a quasi-military organization.” “Excuse me, Chief," sald I, “but will: you aay that again 7 “I sald,” continued the Chief, “thag we are a quael-military organization in ourselven. We're 7,500 strong and we ought to have a chance ta drill, just Ike the militia, Madison Square Garden ts the place for us, just an it stands, It wouldn't take much alteration to Mt it out in first-class Bhape. rdly Geta Chance for Lune! Powers (confidentially), the people don't know what a big department this is. I scarcely ever get a chance to get away to lunch, I querjeg “Don't you eat lunch?" looking at his ampte form. u ‘Oh, yes,’ he replied, with a smile, “but I've got to be here all the time.” He then detalled to me his multifart ous duties and I was astonished. Ne man without his constitution could stand the work. “You. seem to have the whole departs ment photographed in your brain," 3° suggested. “Well,” he sald, with some satisface tion tn ‘his vi I know where e man in the d rtment is pl if you don't think tt ke ching t Cops yor “Do you ihink the force could end the war?” T anked. » a minute,” replied the Ohlet prompt! “finish tt on either side, I'm, erlously, too.” ¥ Speaking of Mo 0 After this Urifted into a discup ot Frank 3 iief, with a judictal of philanthropists are bullding hurdles rtment to Jump over, yut us over the hure talking hey bulld ‘emp nt_dolng the got enough te hurdles."* oni seem to think but Ty town an: Y do without jumpin “Platt and Oded) much of Moxs, responded | tht Jed gentlemen They They're not putting up any hurdles for us to Jumg over, y Know that the handling 9s in city of nearly 4, people Isa mighty sertous busines! The tal< had been long and. pleasant and through It all the Chief went right mn with hie work. kave me-a warm grip in parting. told me if 1 eve wot Into trouble to let him know, ant out T went Into the rain where the lttle Ital yw progres«ing through the gas-plpe on bu stomach, WON'T JOIN IN ISTHMIANS HERE SENOR VICANA ANY REVOLUTION SAFE FROM WAR OF CHILL DEAD. NICARAGUA LOOKS TO UNITED | coLOMBIAN CHARGE’S FAMILY | WAR MINISTER OF CHILI AT, STATES ASHER PROTECTOR. | AMONG THEM. | WASHINGTON CITY. = | | SAW CARNEGIE AT OLD SKIO IRVING BACHELLER. THE AU- THOR. TELLS OF VISIT. NEXT OF KIN HAD NO CLAIM. UNCLE LOST SUIT FOR CUSTODY OF LITTLE GIRL. Consul Donaldson says that she [Cot Shaler, of the Panama Malle) pad en tlt at nta Showed They Cared lo for Several WIL Make No Detrie * The Millionaire In = a De-: eit ae | road, nnd Other Notables Weehka—Was One of South for Her from Infancy, and . chtful Time at Mietoric H con Ath America's Stateame: Gat Po Old Place. TOTEETSE | SAN FRAN Aug. 3) Chester he gers who arrived to- crating fee Donaldson, U. 3. Managua 4 iegeAmerican Atlas | gig PRAIA). NOY. Aug, 20—Senor C.] Justice Stover, in the Supreme Court.| After six weeks spent pleasantly in Nicaragua, has arrive 1 tw 4 : i Moria Vicana, the Chillin Minister, who | Brooklyn, to: ecided that the foster: |touring Scotland and Ireland, Irving months’ leave of absence, Ath frome had been th at his riments In this parents of a child even though adoption | Hacheller, author of “Eten Holden, hekwilifivisitenlectermersno New w ne family of for several weeks, died this morn-| Papers have not been sicawn up, havelarrived (ila afternoon on the Minne- | York. Speaking of affairs on the Isth- | Herran, Chargest'at- rights which the next of kin cannot set} haha, In health and apirita. | mun he said SMUICeR CE AWaahinatGi The State | aside. Mra. Bachi accompanied the author. “1 do not believe thar Nicaragua wil” ‘ y telegraph of | The point involved came un in al White in Seotland Mr. Bacheller was Jol h Venezucla Tt rived et) Pe a Cay Senor Don Carlon Moria Vi-| habeas corpus action brought by John the guest of Andrew Carnegic at Skibo eahiakerlncecchandiliie p hiiwere! Mra, Leatira) E a, Minister from Chill to the United | J. Reed, of No, 16) East One Hundred! castte and apent ten days with the steel spirit has died out alt Preal:| ae Manentera Which occurred at Buffalo this} and ‘Third street, Manhattan, whol magnate, wandering about the histori- dent Zelaya rules wtth i Rafact i sought the custody of his niece, Mary jgrcunds of that Immens: catute and en- and haw become ver nor Miewna was one the best) Ellen Reed, six years oid, held by Mr.| Joying himself with the mnster of the| not allow Nicaragua to become tnvo! everrin ‘ Known South American statesmen and Mra. Alexander Milne, living at{domain. Mr. Bacheller first went to in the troubles of the South Am ther passengers on the same stéam- eg ese ie pave street, West Brighton, | Glasgow and made phe delightful tour Btates. ‘orto Colombia were John 4 | Statea Istand. up the Caledonia Canal to ‘Inverness, “In his last mensage to the Nicuraguan Fe PYM CEREEP PLOTS) SUBMARINE BOAT LAUNCHED. The Milnes testifed that they had {before visiting Mr. Carnegie at Skibo, Congress President a . non nadie cared for the Ittle xirl since her In-jwhich {ts located at Southerlandshire, clded stand in tavor Mig tolmen was’ 8 x for athe Navy. fancy, her father, Patrick J. Reed, hav-|near Dornoca. U milan Canal constructed Five Torpedo Tubes, ing pald them a atated sum weekly.| In speaking of the pleasant hours that States, That ts a popular se © Panama Rattroad|. TRE second of the new submarine | Since the latter's death, a year ago.|he spent aa the guest of Mr. Carnegie, “The Influence of the Unite datived today |20tts for the Navy was launched at the they treated the child ax their own, re-| Mr, Bacheller anid: atronger in Nicaragua than t A | [Crescent ehipyant, Ellzabethport, NJ, |cetving 0 compensation, ‘They de-) “It gave me infinite pleasure to wan- jpother country. Prealde vhs No Shaler and }today, The vessel was christened by |tired to keep her, they said, although! der through the ancient castle which ten said to me thi sto r who te the | Miss Grace Day, of Virginia, slster-in- they had not formally adopted her. Mr. Carnegie (s now thoroughly repair- law of Senator Martin, of that State. The plaintiff held that veins next of United States as the NERVE FAILS HIM: HE SEEKS DEATH PATHETIC END OF A VAIN HUNT FOR WORK. i Courage Deserta Him When Goel Reach and He! Cuts Wie ‘Thront tn the Park. orge Spaulding, forty years old, at- upted to commit sulelde to yin ntral Park near the Ramble, by cute ung his throat. He was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, It in sald that he came here from “Lexington, Ky., about two months a Spau ding was a chman, and his efforts to get work were without avail. About a month ago his money gave out, and since then has slept in the Park or wherever else he could find a place. In the course of his walks In Central Park he met Patrolman Edward O'Loughlin and told him his story, O'Loughlin took pity on the poor fellow and tried to get him work. He spqke to a atable-keeper at No. 128 Thint avenue, and rent Spaulding there with a card, on which he had written: “This is the man I spoke to you about.” When Saulding was picked up after his attempt at self-destruction he still had this card tn his possession, and on ing. There are about 300 men engaged in renovating it, but you would hardly. know .there was a workman about. It ua beautiful spot, situated in the heart of a primeval forest, with its downs and its lochs that have remained undis- curbed ‘for centuries. “The estate comprises about 25,000 acres, and Mr. Carnegie takes particular delight in nuperviving everything about the estate. He tm active and vivactuum as a boy. enjoying the fishing ad on ma The Mo. ayein is 63 feet 4 Inches long, inches beam and haa a 16)-! ower engine for travelling on the surf he water and a 70-horse- er dyna! rding under water, | ted to have a speed of eight elling on the surface. ‘ve Whitehead torpedo "an be seen above the ing t kin the little girl muat Intrusted to him. To this the Milnes answered that Reed had declined to take the child when offered to him by his brother a few years ago. Justice Stover decided that the Milnes were proper guardians and could keep Uttle Misa Reed. The child showed a preference for the Milnes, and when che man and his wife * emall republics, and necessarily be would look first t told me not long axo make a treaty with might be detrimental to t: | the United States.” | | in case thi sistant Supert — SHIPPING NEWS. of —$—$—_- "GREAT RAILROAD TUNNEL. uhing In the H. Harriman Plany to Go Success in every | Wept over the Court's decleion she also) seven salmon lochs and going to the cried well turned golf links an often as hie aap eoat tes We ———— Reed's rr eat tor eiee hie niace fares a ea peilitper sulte . - SCO, Aug 3 i nied by the couple. who js Health is excellent, and the life i eetiongsnt ia PLEA FOR “BLIND PEDDLER.” with the little qiri. work which is now interesting his hours the United States » pie y ae eel ives, fim only’ the Kernen detent, tne t of superfious wealth. He the Sierra Nevada Wite Wants street character Re-| MOTHER CUT OFF SON. | knows what great wood it in doing and PORT OF NEW YORK. AHMIVED. enjoye it. ‘Of course there ts yachting and driv- ing that while away many happy hours. leased from Annte Berkovitz, the Workho the wife of Charles fornia, if the plans \ aro carried out All Her Minnte Dyer Left The tunnel pros Py helemuen ia Uremen | Berkovitz, a blind peddler, twenty-six Property to a Woman Friend. Tesi arcade: offup early in the morning, mpl he boring of a no a] anpeared before Supt. Hair, of thelbate in the Surrogate'’s office to-day,| hear: and is invigorating. The early feet in length through the h Sayaniite | Outdoor Poor Department, to-day and| Mrs. Minnie Dyer cuts off her only aon| Morning tou: bout the estate are what | Blerras, Besides saving a climb of Antwerp} asked that her husband be released/and hetr, Edward Dyer, with a bequest | Mj Gorncniy mowt enjoys, 4 feet tho tunnel will shorten the Southern = from the Workhouse, where he haslof #1. : ail tho British Toles, and there ie Hele Pacific line about seven miles. Se served (wo months and six days of six months’ sentence imponed for va- wonder that Mr. Carnegie Is glad to reat ‘The value of the estate is not given, | Won tne turmoil of che. business. life Lana, birem Tellman, Guadelo wrancy. nor ia there any reavon assigned for thel {hat kept him wo active al Y Carina to Visit France, Aller, Napl Monmouthshire. Herkovits Is known to the police ag|diainheriting of the son. Sutah alears ni temember sare cieitaie <OPAnIB, A ‘he G ‘ Cleridae, Draatl, ‘a. croix. | the “bind peddler.” He hme been are|. ‘The will, which beats the da Skibo. i P. Aug. 20.—The Gaulo's asserts oom reated, jt is sald, seven times. Som last. la short and simp! Mr. Bacheller will begin at once (tbat the Russian Ambassador In Parix RUA Pa time ago a charitable organization. in that the testatrix's new’ book on American country life Ree Uiiters\gaest' Delenusel the Freeh SCOMINGI STAD . Yeatlnaied his cane and teported tha including all personal property,| which he has already outlined, Minlater, that the’ Ceurina Will | cratnerge, anteiee ee : Berkovita had a bank account. eal estate, insurance money or moneys| Mr. Baoheller’s new book, “iri and I,” any the Czar during his visit to! gueie Livermel” — Gramear nae Rimouts ott the sci, ry faxe tendo Mee Diver's, Bd ib] Tecaey With a free ediiion in beak rote Spam Uiligien, Gibreitar, —-Xenta, Copenhagen. three children. appointed Wncmior er these The cpiee ee form cna It he had written: : “Mr. O'Loughiin—1 hadn't the nerve to go there—a stranger.” —————_ PHYSICIAN ARRESTED. Dr. Zipser Taken im Custody by the East Sixty-neventh Street Police, The police of the East Sixty-seventh street station to-day arrested Dr. Jacques E, Zipser, twenty-aeven years old, of No. 46 East Elghty-fourth street. He was taken at once to Yorkvillo Court. ‘3 The’ arrest was made in connection with the case of Annie Boesick, twenty- five years old, who Js in the Presbyter- fan Hospital ‘suffering from an alleged Mlegal operation. The woman, who ls a cook, was removed to the hospital yes- terday. —=———_- DRIVER NOT TO BLAME. Discharged im Court After Kunsing Over Little Girl. Abraham 6. Rittof, a driver, of No. 38 1-2 Stanton street, charged with run- ning over, Fannie Zopper, seven years old, of No. 334 Madison street, who was laying ni er home, was discharged fh the Keoen erate Court to-di Geveral testified WITH SWALL-POK | ASSISTANT U. 8. DISTRICT ATE | | TORNEY IN QUARANTINE: Mr, Haker Left City Worn Oat and} Dixeane Developed at | Country Home. I Information was received at the United States District-Attorney’s oMce In this clty to-day that Assistant Dis: | trict-Attorney Charles D, Baker Ia at, present quarantined at his summer; home In Schenevus, Otrego County, — | The Albany State Board of Heatth, it; waa stated, had declared him suffering from a ght attack of small-pox. Mr. Baker left this clty on Aug, 1. He complained of feeling worn, but ave no sign of the illness he later de- veloped. ! When he arrived with his wife and | | three chiidren at his summer place he \had not improved. A physician treated him until laat Saturday, when the health officers were called in, and they diagnosed the case | as small-pox. | It fe thoughe that he will recover. Mr. Baker in forty-four years old. He! has held the present office two yearn. Previous to that he was an Assembly- man from Steuben County. He haw been quite active in politica since taking up his residence in this city, —__- OLD ROUNDSMAN STRICKEN. McGuire Taken with Heart Disei on Going to Court. Roundsman Patrick McGuire, attached to the West Side Court, fell to the Moor shen hs entered court to-day. Police Surgeon Nesbitt, who lives at No. 212 West Forty-fifth street, was summoned, and he sald McGuire was suffering from heart dl . ‘The round n was re- Vived and then placed In a cob and sent home. As he was\assined into the cab a marked: Moppnls is: probably the last time I will leave tha court ea ixty-soven i McGuire 1s H aoe adcan 200 ‘Ninth mve- id and lives at No. Tlie. He In said to be the oldest rounds- man in the Police Department. ——=>___- WALDORF WAITER DEAD. George Hepper' Prove Fatal {i George Hopper, twenty-nine years old, the Waldorf-Astoria waiter who was found stabbed. in the room of Marie | PROSECUTOR ILL INCENDIARY FIRE WIPEDOUTTOWN FOUR THOUSAND HOMELESS I” FRENCH WEST INDIES. ¥ undred Houses Harned and froi ST. LOUIS, French Weat Indfes, ‘Aug, 20.—The fire which nearly deatroyed Grand Bourg, the principal town of this Island, having a population of about 15,00) persona, in now under control. All the pubile bul dings, except the ohurch, Prison and headquarters of the gendar- merle, were destroyed, as were some five hundred houses, The fre was of Inceiary origin, Four thousand persons are withou shelter and suffering from want or food, The Governor of Guadeloupe has ‘sent tho steamer Horton with the first rellef supplies of food and/money. The Gow ernor of Guadeloupe h,.nself will lea Béase-Terre, capita! of that Island, day for Grand Bourg, where he will af rive Wednesday. Public subscriptions are being orgatt ized at Guadeloupe. The loss sustained in estimated at over $300,000, Telephonic communication between Grand Bourg and St. Louts, the station of the French cable on thls island; is interrupted and a news service by mes- sénger has been organized. —————_—_—_—_—_—_— SUIT DEP'T. 3rd Floor. 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