Grey Riders the Story of the New York State Troopers
Grey Riders the Story of the New York State Troopers
Frederic Franklyn Van De Water
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"If they say quit, we quit. " There was no public protest from the men of the young service. They had been taught to bear punishment, close-mouthed. Faced with dissolution, their officers redoubled rather than slackened their efforts. "Let's make it good while it lasts, anyway, " was the word that was passed through the de- partment, and the grey riders on patrol carried that determination with them all through months of uncertainty. They sought neither sympathy nor succor. They knew little of ...how the rural population as a whole regarded the organization. It was the Governor and the members of the Assembly and Senate who were first made aware of a strange thing that had come to pass among the people of the countryside. Vox Populi 113 Fifteen months before, not one in a thousand of these folk had ever seen or even heard of the State Troopers. Eight months earlier, rural papers and grocery stores had been filled with skeptical comment on the work of these new- fangled police, and wails at the extravagance of keeping them.
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