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"Treat 'em rough," the slogan of the marine Corps, appears also to be that of their Brigadier-General, Smedley
Darlington Butler, who dons a policeman's uniform as Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia, and tells the newspapers it may be necessary to discharge the entire police force. However, the new director's pugnacity is no surprise. The Marines call him "the Fighting Quaker," and we read that it was for his willingness to "treat 'em rough" that Philadelphia's new mayor, W. Preeland Kendrick, induced President Coolidge to grant him a year's furlough. That the City of Brotherly Love requires rough treat-•ment, a Philadelphia paper implies when it observes, "Vice is rather well intrenched in this town," and adds that the city is a "wet burg," where "the morale of the police force is low," and where General Butler will have "the open and secret opposition of many politicians." "I'm expecting a hard time on this job," said the General, when interviewed for the Philadelphia Inquirer; "the Department of Public Safety is going to open up with all six guns on the criminal and the vicious. The casualties will be heavy, but they will delight Philadelphians who want to see their City rid of evil-doers.'' Then he said:
T don't care whether the State laws or City ordinances are right or wrong. That question is not one with which I am empowered to deal. But I do know that all of these laws and ordinances are going to be enforced here as they were never enforced before.
I know the police force is tainted, but I also know that somewhere in this country I can get hold of 4,200 honest men. A bluecoat doesn't have t® be a Philadelphian. I'll get them from Los Angeles, Houston, New Orleans, and other points, if necessity forces me to take such action. Just for a starter, I have fifty applications from former marines. I know they'll do what they are told, and there are plenty more like them.
"The trouble in a police department is usually one of bread and butter. The best guaranty I can offer is that my bread and butter is in no danger if I lose this job. I'm losing pay and chances of promotion in coming up here.
"Grafting on the force is the real root of the police corruption evil. If policemen can get $150 or $200 a month from law breakers in return for closing their eyes to what is going on and with no fear of dismissal, it is small wonder that they stoop to graft."
General Butler intends to "remold the department throughout," and declares, "When I get through with it the criminals and the vicious element will scurry to cover whenever they see a bluecoat. I'm going to make my men feel proud of their jobs and proud of their own honesty and immunity to corruption." That, he thinks, is "the foundation of a fine police force." Outlining his plans further, he said:
"My first official act will be to call all the City's policemen into a place big enough to hold the half off-duty at a time, and then I'll tell them just what I demand that they shall do. The public likes a circus, but this circus won't stop because the public happens to get tired of it. They may kid me for wearing a police uniform, but that will be the least of my worries.
"There probably won't be any anxiety manifested anywhere to keep me here after my year's leave-of-absence is up—and I may not be here a year.
"The cop who leaves the force is the one with a sideline that pays him from $150 to $200 a month. He may not be a bad fellow. But we won't stand for that sort of a fellow. Where there is closing up to be done, I'll be there in person. That means that
there will be no ignoring orders."
To a reporter from the Philadelphia Bulletin, General Butler said:
"The thing I crave is action, and plenty of it. I told Mr. Kendrick I wasn't going to brook any political interference. The minute that happens, I go out. They won't know I've gone. I'll leave the key on my desk, take the first train to Washington, and wire back that the director's job is vacant. First, last, and all the time, I am a soldier, and I expect to be so for the rest of my life. This is only another responsibility that comes in a soldier's life; that's how I regard it."
General Butler's qualities are thus described in a statement issued to the press by the Navy Department:
"Soldier, engineer, camp-builder, holder of two Congressional Medals of Honor, the record of Brig.-Gen. Smedley D. Butler, fighting man extraordinary of the Marine Corps, stamps him as one of the most brilliant soldiers of the United States.
"Descendant of an ancient Quaker family which settled in Pennsylvania in the time of William Penn, General Butler? enlisted in the Marine Corps before reaching the age of seventeen, and won a commission when he was still two months short of his seventeenth birthday.
"The record of his life since that time reads like the pages of a story of adventure. Before his nineteenth birthday he was commended by the allied high command for his gallantry under fire on the historic march for the relief of Peking in the Boxer campaign and promoted by brevet from lieutenant to captain for bravery.
"From China he went to the Philippine Islands, where he took part in the campaign which ended in the pacification of those islands. Since that time he has served in Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Mexico, Haiti, San Domingo, France, and ashore and afloat in every quarter of the globe, accumulating a record of having served in fourteen campaigns and expeditions in twenty-four years of service.
"During his service General Butler has won commendations and decorations such as rarely fall to the lot of a soldier. For personal bravery in action1 against the enemy he received the coveted brevet promotion and two Congressional Medals of Honor, the highest decoration within the gift of the nation. Before the World War only three soldiers besides General Butler had received more than one of these medals. In addition he received the Distinguished Service Medal for his services in the World War, and other decorations from the Allied Powers."
A BRIDGE TO RESIST HURRICANES.
The .worst "twisters" that the Gulf of Mexico can product will be powerless to budge the new Rigolets Bridge on the main line of the Louisville & Nashville Railway, about thirty miles East of New Orleans, if the expectation of the builders are fulfilled. The railroad here crosses a tidal pass connecting Lake Borgue and Lake Pontchartrain. For many
miles on each side it traverses a salt marsh along the Gulf coast and is subject to violent hurricanes which at times have caused severe damage. During storms of 1909 and 1915 several of the plate girder spans were carried away by the combined action of wind, waves and current.
Tropical hurricanes originating at the Eastern end of the Carribbean Sea and blowing through the Gulf have a diameter of about 250 miles, with a rotary velocity as high as 1^5 miles per hour. It is
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this rotary velocity which does the damage. The maximum) velocity due to hurricanes has never been determined, since men can not stay on the bridge during these storms, and registering instruments could not be used under such conditions. The present bridge at the Rigolets was reconstructed in 1902, but the storm of 1909 destroyed eight of the deck girder spans. A temparory timber trestle was built to close the gap, and in 1911 seven 60-foot girder spans were built. The hurricane of 1915 destroyed sixteen of the girder spans, and these have never been replaced, since the, railway company had intended to build an entirely new bridge when financial conditions permitted. For this reason temporary trestles in place of these sixteen spans have been maintained since the storm mentioned.
In its present state, therefore, the bridge consists mainly of two groups of steel girder spans, separated by a stretch of creosoted pile trestle.
In the new bridge, which is intended to be substantial enough to withstand any hurricane likely to occur on the Gulf'coast, there will be eight riveted spans, with a swing span, giving a total length of 3,097 feet. Special provision will be made for anchoring the spans to resist the force of hurricanes. Ten concrete cylinder piers will support the spans, but the cylindrical pivot pier will be filled solid.
Long timber trestles will form the approaches, as the marshes over which the line is located are too soft to sustain the road-bed. The greater part of the trestling will be filled, and owing to the soft ground there will be more material below the marsh level than above it. Since the placing and compacting of the fill will thus extend over considerable time, the trestles will be constructed of ample strength to carry trains for several years, thus allowing ample time for the embankment to settle and also providing for placing additional material as settlement occurs.
Special interest centers in the design of the substructure, with piers sunk in loose material, standing in deep water, and exposed to heavy storm waves. After careful consideration of these violent lateral forces it was decided to adopt piers of annular or cylindrical form, of re-enforced concrete. It is expected that the piers will be sunk to depths of 78 to 113 feet from mean sea-level.
Concrete will be placed by means of buckets handled by derricks, as the specifications require a mix too dry for chut-ing. Steel reinforcement will consist of plain round bars of medium steel, and it is provided that these must be well pro-, tected from moisture on the"' storage dock before use.
As there is no solid ground in the vicinity of the bridge, it was necessary to build docks for storage of materials and for camp buildings and other temporary structures. All these docks are on piles 50 to 60 feet long.
For the construction of the bridge piers, twenty barges have been provided, eighteen of which were built new. The power barge is provided with three boilers, two air-compressors, a lighting plant, pumps, air receivers, and other equipment. One of the compressors can furnish air at 100-pound pressure for operating pneumatic hammers.
The concrete barge is equipped with a sand and gravel bin, concrete-mixer, two derricks, two hoisting-engines, a boiler for furnishing steam for all engines, a lighting plant, water and fuel tanks.
There are a number of pumps, including two for operating jets while sinking the cylinders, and also two hydraulic excavators. There are also air-locks, air-receivers, feed-water heaters, riveting-hamm.ers, calking-hammers,
pipe-threading machines, and the necessary blocks, lines, and other small equipment. A diving outfit has been provided in case it may be required in overcoming obstacl^ in sinking. \
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