Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1911 — Odd News From Big Cities [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Odd News From Big Cities

Stories of Strange Happenings in the Metropolitan Towns

Police Sergeant’s Belt Breaks Strike

VE&SEY CITY. N. J.—Using his belt J «a a “pants duster,” Police Sergeant Wolfe brought an inglorious fln-. iah to a glorious Idea of liberty, shorter hours and an Immediate transfer to a fine new school house. The strike leaders were boasting that not a pupil would return to the classrooms in the old school house. Their principal grievance was that other pupils were being transferred to the new building and they feared their places would be taken. Hence the strike was called. Just to make sore there would be no trouble Sergeant Wolfe was sent to the school house. quiet The girls were coming In sedately and the primary boys were sneaking up the stairs with scared faces. Out in float stood the big. grim Sergeant Wolfe, father of six well-behaved boys, with his weather eye open for trouble Prsseatly half a dozen bqys came along, stopped on the corner and began talking excitedly. Sergeant Wolfe frowned and walked over to them. "Teacher’s waitin'. Beat it!” said Wolfe.

“We’re out on strike,” retorted a bold leader. “So?" said Wolfe, fingering the buckle on his belt “Y-y-y-yea," replied the bold leader. With a capable hand? Wolfe reached for the Juvenile agitator and lifted him about six inches from the pavement The big. thick belt was dangling from the other hand, and, while the strike leader kicked and struggled in the air, the belt came round with swish after swish until the dost came out in cloeds. “00-ee! Ouch!” wailed the youth, as the belt stung again and again. When Sergeant Wolfe finally dropped him the strike leader darted like a bare for the school house door. Nor did his bold companions Unger long on his trail as the whistling belt reached for their nether garments. Then came other groups of valiant strikers, who stopped to harangue one another on the glories of freedom and liberty, and toward each group Sergeant Wolfe sanntered with his belt concealed behind bis back. By the time the nine o’clock beU rang Wolfe was able to report: ‘Tve dusted 30 pairs of breeches and I guess the strike's over. The teachers will need to provide a few cushions, for this bit of leather has got a nip to it. If the teachers had used a ruler In the first place there wouldn’t have been any strike. It wasn’t my orders to give ’em a belting, but I guess they won’t bring me up on charges.”