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Best Washington friend of the B. E. F. last week was Pelham Glassford, Superintendent of Police, onetime Army brigadier. He supplied the camp with food during its first hard days, later managed the money and supplies donated for its subsistence. He bought or borrowed tents, arranged for quarters in condemned Government buildings. He supplied trucks to take all who wanted to leave 50 miles from the Capitol. When no appreciable number accepted his free transportation offer, he dug in to make the B. E. F. as comfortable as possible. His kindness brought rumors that President Hoover, displeased, might summarily dismiss...
Also by the end of the week General Pelham Glassford, chief of District of Columbia police, had almost exhausted his funds for feeding the B. E. F. General Glassford announced that after a benefit athletic show by Washington's police this week, the B. E. F. would be transported on trucks to points 50 mi. from the city. Meanwhile the march on Washington continued to swell in all parts of the land...
Meantime General Pelham Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia's police, was concerned as to how he was to handle an invasion of jobless veterans. From San Francisco, Sacramento, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Evansville, Ind. came reports that independent contingents had set out for the capital. A detachment of 30 passed through Chicago from Utah. General Glassford had heard that from 70,000 to a million veterans would be in Washington by June 6. Together with Daniel Willard Jr., son of B. & O.'s kindly president, General Glassford called on Secretary of War Hurley to decide...
About the Capitol machine guns were nested in high nooks and corners. Policemen carried rifles and tear bombs. An ambulance stood ready in the background. Washington's Superintendent of Police Glassford, smoking a long pipe, dashed about on a motorcycle. When the marchers reached the Capitol plaza they were encircled by police. Except for these jeers and songs, all was peace and order. A committee led by Herbert Benjamin was permitted to enter the Capitol. Benjamin started to push into the Senate chamber. Sergeant-at-Arms Barry blocked...
...standard of "middle class morality." As this avowed champion of virtue, Alice Fischer made the wife of the inventor of "McKnight's pneumatic garter" thoroughly detestable. Bill Pratt, orderly, nurse and friend; Doctor Gregory and James Barlow, devoted comrades of Northcote, were ably portrayed by Harold Vermilyee, David Glassford and Frederic Burt...