. History of the Chicago police from the settlement of the community to the present time, under authority of the mayor and superintendent of the force . bywhich American District Telegraph boys are called, regis-tering upon a narrow band of ribbon at the station an arbi-trary signal. Each box having a different signal it is easyto see that there is no difficulty for the operator in locatingthe box from which the call has been transmitted. In addi-tion to the public boxes on the street corners it was providedin 1881 that private boxes might be set up in any residenceor store on payment of $25,
. History of the Chicago police from the settlement of the community to the present time, under authority of the mayor and superintendent of the force . bywhich American District Telegraph boys are called, regis-tering upon a narrow band of ribbon at the station an arbi-trary signal. Each box having a different signal it is easyto see that there is no difficulty for the operator in locatingthe box from which the call has been transmitted. In addi-tion to the public boxes on the street corners it was providedin 1881 that private boxes might be set up in any residenceor store on payment of $25, and about four hundred ofthese boxes were set up in various parts of the city. Inspector Bonfield, then a Lieutenant at the West 404 THE CHICAGO POLICE. Twelfth street station, was called into service to assist inthe working out of the details of the system. While had provided everything pertaining to the electricalpart of the problem, there still remained much to be sort of wagons should be used? How should wagonsbe manned ? Where should they be kejDt ? What systemof reports would be the most effective ? and so on. It was. SIGNAL INSIDE BOX—OPEN. early determined that the system should provide for an am-bulance service, but it was desirable to avoid having a wagonand an ambulance in service, and so the question arose: Howcan we get a wagon that shall serve both as a conveyancefor officers to a scene of riot or murder, and at the sametime have it available for use as an ambulance in case itshould be required? There was not much money available THE PATROL SERVICE. 40f for the purposes of the projectors of the scheme, and what-ever they had must be iu the way of a wagon so simple thata supply wagon that had been used by the department couldbe easily converted to answer the purpose. This questionwas solved by a young newspaper man, John E. Wilkie, atthat time a police reporter on the Times. He drew plansfor a wagon and a simple stretcher arrangement that a
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