Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1914 — Now Policemen Will Take Their Meals at Home [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Now Policemen Will Take Their Meals at Home

tv ETROIT^MICH. —The Supreme court has ruled that fruit stands in De1/ triot must go. This is a severe blow to the proprietors of these deciduous and picturesque institutions. It is also a severe blow to Invading excursion-

ists, ferry boat patrons, newsboys and poUoemen. Tears ago, the street fruit stand was considered the policeman’s chief friend and ally. Art lßt * o° the comic papers used'to draw funny pictures of fat officers purloining fruit from the corner stands. That was considered part of the graft It flourished in Detroit until one day a policeman with an acute penchant for peanuts, got shot In the vest by a zealous Sicilian, who was trying to save

money to bring his folks over from the old country. This sort of discouraged free and unlimited patronage of corner stands by those in authority and many policemen began taking their meals at home. i A year ago the board of health, the common council and the police .department started a vigorous campaign against fruit stands and since then there has been a lot of legal work done about the matter. Some of the proprietors folded up their stands and quietly stole sway, but a good many of them had a lot of fruit still on hand and decided to fight It out Justice Steere handed down a formal statement the other day and this seems to end all dispute. The Judge minces no words. He not only calls • fruit stand a public nuisance, but he adds that It is a public offense.