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in the same batch of promotions from sergeant to 

 captain there was a Protestant to whom our atten 

 tion had been drawn by the earnest praise of Fathers 

 Casserly and Doyle, and a Catholic who had first 

 been brought to our notice by the advocacy of Bishop 

 Potter. 



There were other ways in which clergymen 

 helped our Police Board. We wanted at one time 

 to get plenty of strong, honest young men for the 

 police force, and did not want to draw them from 

 among the ordinary types of ward heeler. Two fer 

 tile recruiting-grounds proved to be, one a Catholic 

 church and the other a Methodist church. The rec 

 tor of the former, Dr. Wall, had a temperance ly- 

 ceum for the young men of his parish; the pastor 

 of the latter had a congregation made out of a bit 

 of old native America suddenly overlapped by the 

 growth of the city, and his wheelwrights, ship-car 

 penters, baymen, and coasting-sailors gave us the 

 same good type of. officer that we got from among 

 the mechanics, motormen, and blacksmiths who came 

 from Dr. Wall's lyceum. Among our other close 

 friends was another Methodist preacher, who had 

 once been a reporter, but who had felt stirred by an 

 irresistible impulse to leave his profession and de 

 vote his life to the East Side, where he ministered 

 to the wants of those who would not go to the fash 

 ionable churches, and for whom no other church was 



