The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1904, Page 3

. .s *- BROOKLYN STREETS ARE NO BETTER PATROLLED AT NIGHT be THAN THE THOROUGHFARES IN THE BORO + BAOOKCIN POLICEMEN NSO FIL T PATROL Evening World’s Sixth Tour Takes in Thir-. teen Precincts of the Borough Across the Bridge, in All of Which Only Twenty-six’ Uniformed Men Were Seen. ) __THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1904 DIAGRAM SHOWING THE COURSE OF ONE es eee What has been proved true of Manhattan as the fallure of the police | “ ¢o patrol their posts is also true of Brooklyn. In a tour made by Evening World reporters this morning between the hours of 1 and 4 o'clock twenty- six policemen were seen, These twenty-six were found in thirteen police precincts, an average of two to a precinct. Not # roundsman or a sergeant was found in the territory covered by Tho Evening World automobiles, and of the twenty-six men but six were patrolling their posts. The others were either standing on corners, talking to citizens, or sitting. | The Evening World automobiles covered thirty-four miles of streets, No particular precinct was picked out to cover. The Heights, Brooklyn's exclusive residence section, was thoroughly covered, as were places where ® persons live who do not own their own home: ' | The business section of the borough traversed was found to be badly patrolled, No policemen were trying doors. Those discovered were doing patrol duty in a manner that made it apparent there was nothing to ve feared from a roundsman or sergeant, wity \ One patrolman was found trying his hat and belt on a friend outside ’ a saloon in Bond street at 2 A. M., and only ceased the amusement when he saw The Evening World automobile, | In the territory travelled a conservative estimate of the number of od policemen supposed to be on duty is 200, The precincts into which The Evening World reporters ventured this morning were: * Bergen street. Fulton street, | Classon avenue, Adams street. | Gates avenue. Butler street, | “‘¥ Grand avenue, Sixteenth street. | Hamburg avenue, Hamilton avenue. Atlantic avenue. Prospect Park. It naturally was expected that In view of the facts laid bare by The ‘ Byening World in regard to the condition of affairs in Manhattan that the Rrooklyn policemen would take warning and that the captains and inspec- tors would see to it that their men patrolled properly. The surprise at ¥,‘)" fnding the same conditions in Brooklyn as in New York was the greater because of these facts, With a desire to be fair beyond the question of a doubt The Evening ! World reporters even Included a patrol wagon found going to a police | Was seen at Lewis and Halsey. He was standing there when the persona in the the plaza, threugh Liberty street and thence through Clinton street, of thé fashionable sdéction of Columbia Heights, houses lined the route, yet had another of the frequent robberies taken ould nev / station In its list of twenty-six, The patrol was met In St. Mark's avenuo * near Nostrand, and credit was given for a policeman, —_——_+ $e --__ —_ MILES OF BROOKLYN STREETS WITHOUT POLICE PROTECTION All Sections of the City, Including the Fine Residential Sections, Discovered to Be Unpatrolled After Midnight. The two Evening World automobiles “crossed the bridge” at 1 o'clock this, morning. When the first automobile swung Into the bridge the policer.an at the New York | @mtrance smiled and waved his hand. The word was passed along that The Evening World evidently was going to make a tour of Brooklyn, At the ticket office of the bridge a policeman was standing and as the auto came along another crossed) over. Both “rubbered” to get the number of the machine. A car conductor evidently tipped off by a Wridge policeman laughed as the machine continued over the bridge as though the sight of an automobile crossing | the structure Was a humorous thing. At the Brooklyn end a policeman came down te get a good look at the occupants, He was the last policeman seen for miles The machine was sent up Liberty street at a leisurely gait, stopping at every corner, while the reporter scanned both sides of the street for a policeman, There Was none in sight. Liberty street to Clinton was followed and there Clinton street was followed o &chermerhorn, The side strects were looked over and at times the machine was headed down them that the occupants might haye the better opportunity to find a policeman, It not long after 1 o'clock, e men of the last tour bad not been on duty an hour, yet they were missing. The machine was sent up Schermerhorn street to Flatbush avenue, It Is in the rear of the great retail district of Brooklyn, where are many of the large de- partment stores, Not a policeman was to be seen, The watch was kept up down Flatbush to Fulton, and still no policeman. Up Fulton street the auto was sent to Fort Greene place, and there a pollce- man was sending In a call of some kind, reporting himself on duty, or something else. Having finished {t he moved off down the street, patrolling leisurely. He | was the first from the bridge. \ | FINE RESIDENTIAL SECTION, It is probably a mile and a half from Fort Greene place and Fulton street to Bedford and Willoughby avenues, The route was through one of Brooklyn's prize residential see\ions, where the rents are high and burglaries frequent. The course followed was up Groene avenue to Cumberland, over Cumberiand to| Willoughby avenue, Not a policeman was in sight, Bedford avenue was reached without a sign of a policeman, The auto was run down Bedford avenue, and in front of Hook and Lad-| der Company No, 52 the second policeman to be met since leaving the bridge was found talking to a fireman, A surprise tas in store, for a Ittle below, on the corner of Myrtle and Bed- ford avenues, another policeman stood twirling his club and looking at the moon, Having found two policemen, the automobile was sent up Myrtle avenue, through Bpencer street and back to Willoughby avenue, From Bedford avenue ty» Broadwey, up Willoughby, is a mile. Every effort was made to find a policeman. The auto was run slowly and the side streets were scanned, but there was none in sight. The best residence section of Brooklyn was @s Unprotected as a mining camp, so far as the police were concerned. A man) could have been held up, anything could have “come off,” to And there apparently was no vhe within a mile. At Broadway - nue another policeman was seen, He, too, was a ~gazer, The moon had an attraction for him and he remained on the corner. This was policerran No, 4 since leaving the Brooklyn Bridge. He was in the Eastern District There 1s a triangle where the streets converge, and the auto- mobile was sent along Bushwick avenue, a strecQof fine homes, For twenty-five Dlocks along this thoroughfare the public was unprotected. There was no sign of | @ policemac on any side street as far as the eye could see, In the bright moon- light, added to by the many street lamps, Al Covert street the automavile was turned back to Broadway and in this business section of the old town of Willlamsburg a policeman was found doing * Is duty, He was a gray-halred veteran with a bunch of stripes on his coat that ) told of years of service. He was patrolling Mroadway, trying doors and actually doing his work. He was trying the doors between Hancock and Weirfield street when the auto passed him. He glanced at it and went on with his work. NO POLICEMAN SEEN. j , The trip Continued down Broadway to Madison, thence through Madison to lage No policeman was seen, the distance heing,more than a mile. ture +o t= ~-o4m enamade and while going cfoastown avenue owner of Kansas City, was found de. j000 Ui ——h WW i000 0000 OND U MOI auto caught sight of him and he was there after it passed, The run from this point was through Lewis to Fulton into Troy, Troy to Herk!- mer to Albany streets. of them remained on the corner, the othr movd away and started to patrol as the Priva’ source that something was doing in Brooklyn, The residence section about St. Mark's avenue, where the auto turned weat, ta) one of the show places of Brooklyn, with its magnificent residences, bany avenue to Va(bush, down St. Mark’s, {s more than two miles, and for the| greater part of the way the houses compare favorably with those of any section| of the greater city. In this whole stretch no policeman was seen. The side streets | were inspected, but no such thing policeman was to be found; no patrolman, | no roundsman, no sergeant, Near Nostrand avenue the patrol wagon was met, evidently going to the Schenectady avenue station. It was thought certain when the Bergen street pre- cinet was reached that some policeman would be found In the neighborhood of the police station, but there was none. It was the same old sto elty prac: tically unguarded, sieeping in ignorance, believing that the police force was do- ing Its work, i] From St. Mark's and Flatbush avenue to Third avenue no policeman was met. ‘Then No. 10 was seen, He was standing by the fruit stand on the corner having | an early breakfast of peanuts, watching the proprietor rub the apples and listen. ing to the chirp of the peanut roaster. | The trip for observation purposes came to an end at Fulton and Flatbush avenue, The auto liad covered tifteon miles, backing and filling and going into! side streets. Jt had patrolled a half dozen precincts and had not found enough men to be considered a half of a platoon in one precinct. Most of the territory covered by the auto was through districts where bur- slaries have been frequenteand hold-upa are not unknown. | tection, park, street, | trees, 16 PATROLMEN SEEN IN 19 Residence Sections, Where Robberies Have Been Frequent, and Business Streets Left Unguarded During the Early Morning Hours. Nineteen miles were covered and sixteen patroimen seen by occupants of tho second automobile sent to Brooklyn this morning, Of the etxteen men found four Were patrolling, the others elther standing near saloons, against fences or chatting with citizens, ‘That the policemen did, not expect to be watched and put on record was ap- }arent, During the first two miles covered by the electric vehicle not a biuecout reached Tenth street was sighted. The trip continued from the Brooklyn end of the bridge across | The trip was continued to Carroll, to Fifth avenue. It !s downhill grade and EVENING WORLD AUTO IN Tee mT » x At Albany and Bergen two policemen were found, One} place the screams of anybody To the left and through State street the reporter sped, and right and left auto came up. He watched it, and It was easy to see he had the tip from some) stood flat-houses waiting in the darkness for the flat-house thief, with no pro nd Police Headquarters right on the stroet, just east of Smith street. Tho headquarters of th From Al-| descont lights, was as silent as a tomb In Greenwood Come: near the door, but his chin sunk deep and heavy on his chest, the door opened, but the door had to be opened, | rolled to Flatbush, which, next to Fulton, has more traMc than any other street | in South Brooklyn, It is crowded on both sides by residences and stores, and tho nolso of the "L” trains and five lines of troll for sneak thieves to ply their trade, pect Park was reached, It would not be wisdom to lét @ valuable plot of ground like the park go un- |} Protected overnight, even though the Park Slope has suffered from a scoro or | | more second-story men In the last fortnight, so two patrofmen were at the Union street entrance to the park. of the MacMennies statues, twirling nightsticks and earnestly conversing, prob- | ably about “Pat McCarren’s powerful hold on politics in Kings County. citizens were with the vluecoats just for the sake of argument. Along Prospect Park West the trip continued. From handsome private @ ings to tall apartment-houses the buildings on the west of the No protection was afforded the sleeping taxpayers, though three blocks southward # policeman was prowling around a one-story candy store at Third The automobile slowed up at this point, tilck In bis right hand jerked the doors and window coverings and circled the shanty and was inst seen :naking his way toward Eighth avenue among bial UGH OF MANHATTAN: (U) [ BROOKLYN DISTRICTS, ° the sontheaat corner and talking to a friend, a4 tho rattle of the auto awoke another bluecoat, which was the elghth one we ha@ |) secen In the six miles we had thus far traversed. He was resting against @ fence iat street Is this?’ asked the reporter, ‘Why-ah, this is Presi—no—no—Carroll atreet.” The automobile turned north into Fitth avenue, Elovated trains and tr evrs run through the street and the nolse from both Is as welcome in this neighe borhood as a thunderstorm. Only one patrolman wa | Park and Bond street, in a efreultoug route taken by th | At Warren street the auto turned west to Bond street, The locality ta and a peliceinan is treated as a joke whenever he is sean after sunset, On 4 street, at Douglass street, @ policeman was endeavoring to adjust his bett andi brush his helmet, No exerctse had made him corpulent and jolly, He hailed @ avtemobile and wanted to know whether it was an Evening World j When told tt was he asked to see the reporter alone and then sald he did neg have hia belt off and that he was only fooling with @ friend, | |NO PATROLMAN FOUND HERE, ‘ | Through Smith street to Hamilton avenue the clang of the electric machine — could be heard, and though the distance ts almost a mile no patrolman was seem at Athough we walted at the Junction of those streets for fully five minutes, Sewe py | persons passed, but no policemas, 1M ‘The auto then «ped along to Hamilton Ferry, where a policeman was found Standing In the shadow and talking to two men whose clothes were ragged an@ tern, The policeman held his club against the wall of the ferry-house and ti — this way supported himself, e From the ferry the auto went through Sackett street to Van Brunt street, te | Douglass street, At Hicks street another dillgent policeman was doing the bes®- be could to earn his sulury. Court and Douglass streets were well protected, a | bluecoat stpod gazing at a billboard showing the attraction at a native theatre With his lands behind his back, giving him the appearance of a suburbanite ing to town to see the sigh be ‘The auto went through Schermerhorn atreet to Smith, to Livingston, to street, and thence to Hamilton avenue, No policeman was seen until Aveaue Was reached, Across the avenue, sitting on the brass sign that surrounde | the bottom of the plate-glass windows of a saloon, was a policeman In full uate) } form, knocking his shoes with the night-stick, and as unconcerned as a Fifty” | avenue stage horse, 7 | |LONG SECTION UNGUARDED, CUnton was reached with no particular Incident,- save for the absence of pow |Hcemen, Then First place, Bmith street, back to Third place to Court street, te Hamilton avenue, to Fourteenth street, to Third avenue, and not a policeman wag seen, We had ‘elled about two miles since the last patrolman was noticed, ‘ Through Physicians’ Row, or Ninth street, we sped along the car tracks unti® — Seventh avenue was reached, thence to Berkeley place, to Prospect Park, These are the streets that are part of the Park Slope and where flat thieves have given the police more trouble than all other erlmes put together. Not @& policeman hted, and a trip through Prospect Park was suggested with ® the, hope that a policeman might be found, but the trip was a waste of time, and © The Evening World's auto returned to New York, THOUSANDS HAVE. KIDKEY’ 4 TROUBLE AND DON'T KNOW TF D a ae | WOOO | MID OOONOY HOODOO UT UO00000NL at ae leuths and The street was, ‘onesome and bleak until Fifteenth street was reached. 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