The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1920, Page 18

Sa a ec ee _ ~-HANPERED IN HER POLICE WORK : (Continued From First Page.) | to the papers. Last mpring, when tie ~ _ department was being pounded, | my ed because they persuaded wrote a letter to The World they @ to reconsizer.” and I told) There were petty ann: ng the year that followed—from jing. ‘The next time I saw the Com- vif to 1919—and she was not given | missioner he said to me, ‘You know ull credit for her work in the 1919 ‘1 happen to you!’ yolice report. But it was on New ‘He can’t seem to iP ratouwe tite Year's Day, 1920, that matters reached | person who goes honestly through life, | not ing oh anybody's toes, not climax through the publication of |r wh anybody. 1 wouldn't dream story already told in The Evening of helping myself out by criticising forld—the story of the alleged ocher_ members of the department, 7 The Commissioner sent me an order ich stated that I was not supposed to comment on the policy of he department. 1 wrote back that, 8 I did not know the policy, outside my own office, naturally I comment on It. “RUBBER STAMP” WO HAD NO TROUBLE. “If I had been willing to sit down and sign papers blindly I'd be all right. But my motto 1 life has al- ways been, ‘Right thou feelest, a to do.’ I rushed to do too much, worked too hard to suit them. And H fever have been a rubber samp. ‘Never since I have been in the bas Commissioner En- office to see what ree times my offices have been moved, 1, and I wasn't even told of it in advance. When I went to #ee the Commissioner about any matter I had to stand in his door like | Sent some one up to see me orepted arrest of a man in an apart- ent near Riverside Drive on charges t attacking a young girl. According the printed account, Mrs. O'Grady Somplained to Mayor Hylan, and later me secretary resigned from the de- rtment. RIGHTS KICK BECAUSE SHE WROTE TO WORLD. never even knew the story was Printea until a friend called me Up nd told me about it,” said Mrs. Grady, “and wherever the reporter t the information it was not from je. Oh, yes, it was a true tory! But the publication Commissioner t has completely ignored me dng conducting of my own depart-| nt ttripalhe‘aeer if down. never was & ‘Must before New Year's Day It en the councils except those held, Just "been 4 to let one of two clerks) after my ex of the moving picture m: Lyery Ph ‘Naturally, I was to| situation, although as a Deputy Com- Bice Gitweon thas) C Wnde my! Treen! Den eres wraia come “Any y_for mot is I would co! felection—and came into my office on| into my oMce and find that one or ter the publication |More of the twenty-two women con- +S oad maha woeedst olprte | Rocked Witt my dé iciet py nad bean o s J nad decided to drop, while the clerk | relietr 1 never was y Bh Informed wanted to keep was gone. of such a detail in advance; the order “The newspapers always have been| Wht he apliseee Raed fair to me. And just because I wasn't tion assignments for last summe! pounded, like some other department | they were shifted around completely Officers, -he Commissioner has takon from overhead. I had nothing to esy the ground that I was ‘keeping’ next’ “7 ha e had to use an old, broken- of the city. and leisurely. mas Day. A small FIVEPIECE MAHOGANY FINISHED BREAK- FAST ROOM OR SUN PARLOR SUITE, consist- ing of Gate Leg Table and four Windsor Side Chairs $86.75, 116.75, 128.50 Smokers and Humidors at SMOKER'S STAND, finished in Mahogany, with heavy glass top, PRISCILLA SEWING TABLE, in solid ma- inch THREE-PIECE QUEEN ANNE “UPHOLYSTLED” LIVING BOOM SUITE, ar sisting of Sofe, Arm Chair and Wing Chair; upholstered in Tapestry. The s spring front construction ot we the loose cushion seats tefited with Marshall Cony $359. 50 TEA WAGON, finished in Mahogany with rubber-tired wheels and removable COMFORTERS SPECIAL RAO Be 2 286,75 TENPIECE QUEEN ANNE DI DINING ROOM SUITE, finished obean Gold & Oak, consisting of 54-inch Buffet, 45-inch Dining Table, with 6-t. poets Chine Closet. forefoot” and 5 Side Chairs, upholstered in $266. 25 TWO oe ” SPEAR & COMPANY ances dur- | of the things my depastment was do-| schools, and asked him | be permitted :|than a year previously i actually broke down on down car-t the street while I was in it, TF asked the Commissioner for a new one and val we é couldn't have it, The e fine cars—the are ald to be attached to the Detece tive Bureau, but they're really the deputies’ cars |OBJECTED TO PUBLIC TALKS TO GIRLS AND MOTHERS. “LT have had to ask permission to accept invitations to speak at mi Sven when I wrote and told that [ was being » give warnings to sire in’ the publi parochial 1 might not accede to answer w always to these requests—his separately.’ 1 made application for four, @ of absence last summer t of iliness—and I had a} Commissioner En- right it, ‘Absence without pay.’ Even the subordinates in my department had absence with pay when they were ill, yet when [ called attention to thie an order was issued that they should refund to the de- partment the money so received more! I protested | that outrageous order, of cours 1 tried to ignore these things, to nd | did not notice them, But! the morale of my department was| tely broken--how oould it not I have been treated shamefully and horribly.” ‘Then Mrs. O'Grady told the story of what sho called “the last straws.” One “straw” has been described pretty fully—the arrival in her office, rday morning, Mrs. Mary Hamilton of the Bureau of Missal Persons, with the plump announce- ment that the Commissioner had told her to take “any two policewomen you want" to help with the drive for the Police Hospital Fund. Mayor Hylan declared in a published letter he would permit no uniformed member of the force to be diverted from duty for work for the Police Hospital 1 want Mrs. Sullivan and Mr. Mc- Mrs, Hamilton remarked, POLICEWOMEN WORKING ON POLICE HOSPITAL DRIVE. herself is working for the * Mrs. O'Grady told me, “and yet people come to me almost every day with cases which women al tached to the Bureau of Missing Per- sons ought to handle—and do not The four Women on this bureau and the two attached to the Vico Squad were not under my jurisdiction, ‘Each case must be submitted to me|for any object some will always give though they should have been. There is no obligation to buy. We will make deliveries any time before Christ- any article until you notify us. remember: You may pay for any purchases on Spear’s Liberal Credit Terms—in spite of the fact that you pay less. LIBRARY TABLE, finished in Mahogany, full depth drawer; 26x42 § ‘A man came into my office a month ago and told me that his wife Give Dainty, Useful Articles as Gifts IME. to either of Spear’s two large stores. Leave behind you the hustle and noise You can shop comfortably deposit made now will hold And _ please in Decided Price $49.75) 55... $4. SPINNET DESK, finished tuted Lied atte $46.50 Concessions ; SMOKER, finished in THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 Seer 1 I was missing dnd had Jett him with lon the side of leniency in making ar-| I love my work,” she sald earn-| anything | But he's the bos 4 five childven, No woman was sent|rests in the motion. pleture houses, estly. ‘I'm able t Hog to dy HT have nover scen any graft in the rest are the puppets.” » out on this case; one should have |not for the sake of the men that run] it. {pr my de {since [war there, | "Why didn't you appeal to Mayor been. Another man told me tha! his|them, but for the sak ment watched over every- nobody has ever dared | Hylan?” tasked sister had been missing three mow hs. “Nevertheless, thing 1 haven't bee any money, As to the “Oh, that’s another story,” she res, 4 1 went to the bureau to investigate comebacks or Juve <1 think that ts | plied, ‘wearily and found no woman had been de- delinaifency has steadily | largely r-tne-war a It'is @ story she will pot tell, and tailed~as she should have been—to |and twenty-tw since I was made Deputy Commis- tions, re|the first story seemed to be done, So 4 this case, 1 inquired, ‘Why not?’ ment. It isn’t their fob to wa sioner. ‘Thousands and thousands of should be a school for detectives, and | I rose to say goodby t "We only have four women,’ was | motion picture houses, any more than, cases we haye kept out,df court alto-| thay no detective should be sent out! “Would you return to the depa ‘and it’s the Jolxof any other policeman op | gether, for our work js protection | to arrest a mah unless he is keen| ment if you were invited to do so one is rick, one on vacation and, one on the hospital drive.’ Then the bi had not done azed as they | time she had own Wrongs said, “should NEVER be in drives—not even for LAberty bonds. For they have power, and when they ask poople for money | |because they are afraid to do other- wise. The New York police are fine followe—there ought to be some one to do the square thing by every one of them, But our men have been made spectacles, by all this asking for con- tributions, They hate it, They should be policemen pure and simple, not beggars! “And see how it works out on an- other side. One of my men told me that when he went to make an ar- reat In a moving. picture house the jother day, the man sald, ‘Look he jnow, I can show you a receipt for my contribution to the Police Hospital fund!’ ‘And speaking of mov second f the ‘straws’ Mrs, O'Grady’s back—or, her “break” herself. If cident were put on the screen, an ap- propriate aub-title would be, “is Cohen ing to run the Police Department?” “Acting Capt. Ammon,” related Mrs, O'Grady, called this morning to Commissioner Enright’s office. There, he told me, sitting beside the Com- missioner, were two movie men, the Commissioner, ‘You tell Mrs, O'Grady that her women must not be so strenuous about making ar- rests in the moving picture houses If they find anything very flagrant let them tell the Captain of the pre- cirfct, He'll speak to Mr. Cohen, here, about it, and Mr, Cohen will see that, the matter is corrected.’ ‘apt. Ammon,” Mrs, O'Grady con- tinued, “suggested that Mr. Cohen and his friend be brought to my of- fice. ‘To this suggestion Commission- er Enright made no reply. So Capt. Ammon brought me the message. And I said to Capt. Ammon: “Ig Cohen going to run the Police Department?” “The absurdity of it!” she exclaimed | indignantly. “Sf the law is being | violated every minute, tell the Cap- | tain of the precinct, and let him talk | to Cohen! And we've always bogn| led to the | broke ather, made his Little in- Cash va MAHOGANY FLOOR LAMPS two sockets, with wiring and or oka $24.75 complete... 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I'm on leav. over my head and given orders to mé| absence from the Probation Depart- through my subordinates. I simply| ment and I suppose I can go back couldn't stand it any longer. I walked| there if I wish. But I didn't want to {ato his office and said, ‘Here's my| give up my work asCommissioner, for badge. I'm through with the Pollce| [ know how much it ts needed, Department.’ My life has been one continuo “and what did he say?” I asked struggio for. months, Night after “He said, ‘Wha*?’—and I didn’t wait) night I. would come home and tell | to hear him say anything else,” she] my daughters, ‘I'm going to give it angwered up. I'm not going back.’ They have 1 to my people, ‘I don't | and prevention, rather than of this awful thing. If! ment, unless that is absolutely our level best it| sary, Only last summer we pened.’ So, since | 28 girls at Coney, who wer duty, But guiltle we'd all been doini would not have ha then, they have m: to see that the | minors without @ be enforced “But that was the end,” “When Broke” Call on “Uncle Ben” BENJAMIN FOX RELIABLE PAWNBROKER: 72 8th Ave., Near 14th St. Established 1876, 3 pranse at Above Ad dress EXCELLENT "BARGAINS IN ate pers tings in variety of | All mounted in new and modern: larg She leaned forward bit from where| urged me to stop. But I’ve tried to |] [At&t Amortment of Hracele: warehen she sat beside the reading table in the fight it out. I can't, any longer, for I rartcpina, clocks, ornaments little cozy corner between the living! am” so hampered that I cannot do Call and what I should do. 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