patrol-posts

Updated: June 26, 2025

I laid out the route, covering ten or a dozen patrol-posts, and we met at 2 A.M. on the steps of the Union League Club, objects of suspicion on the part of two or three attendants and a watchman who shadowed us as night-prowlers till we were out of their bailiwick.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis - The Making of an American