The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-15
POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS.


An Important Message to Coua ellis Navor
Fox Recommends Material Changes in These
Depnrtmenis-AnI Increase in the Police Force
Asked.
after the summer vacation, Mayor Fox presented
the following message, in which he recommends
increase in the police force and change in the pre-
sent manner OF electng engineers OF the Fire De-
partment
To the Select and Common Councils City Phila
delphaG Gentlemen The Consolidation act makes it the
Mayors duty recommend the adoption of all such
cleanliness Improvement and welfare of the city and
% IN the m 9n 81 @ 19g 80 wb ten
tyely require your prompt % action o.,ou 49,,
is TO s anG seFe r & be I'm
fore and beyond any other ourtaxes levied aud paid
in this CONNECTION even health cleanliness comfort
Our city has n S Te o PsST n1t % due O
aon increasing in exceedingly rapid ratio much
to require during the past year nearly 5000
but $40 mem Of which S embrace hesuperior officers and
watch and less than $50 the largest number duty
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ton 6 TSnd az again s ask Your % the S at
whilst i vt the gsoS SSs
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night beats, Fourth district, DAY beats
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et day beats s. SQUARES night beats II sSuapa us
Eighth district day beats 50 squaIes night beats 23
beats % squares Tenth district, day beats 30 Squares
SQUARES night beats 81 Squares Tweifth District aS
f. e Beas st Sa
dstG miles Etesnh
trict day beats 81 squares night beats Il squares s6t
eenth district, day BEATS 80 squares night BEATS Is
Thus it is manifest that such force is wholly
lance o our czens it Would have served To-
Of p eS n The the
such measures for their action discipline and efficiency
should be lost maturing this important measure The
has e @ Ga e os IS when
It is in the winter time particularly that the idle and
active in preying upon the community added to whom
emgaton hee be BAD Of dsu
70 % Of BEING dhs oo we
in their countries seek our shore to alic by their
of these will be increased by the termination of the
These other like features front of us, and we
should be prepared to meet them. Unboted yard gates
S 1
through
protection than they have for long time past In short
public peace to give increased protection life aud
property and to bring to summary and eondgn punish
sanction and cooperation.
already d91e that there Change the mode oSS
eeStng the SngneeIs OF the lTe a1 1t Is
whose duties prescribed by law who subject only
shall be elected by the members OF private ASSOCIATIONS
ptf o 5 en h
representatives OF those who elect them and on whom
ehsngs alone win effect much good The
italy used, aud when their governing officers
BY the ~ & the the
and which regret to say have occurred r since yOp last
the Fire Department can, be an eicient auxiliary
the Roe 9 bs nss if nD s Ct.
partment into requisition These things, gentlemen,
Ry and Gy
and the safety and oOmGr % of its and have
after the summer vacation viii be marked by your CON
doing all that is necessary for our peoples prosperity and
D"p''''' Very respectfully, DANIEL NJ. FOX,
| A SoN-IN-LAw CHARGED WITH ARsoN.-This after
| noon Samuel Spence will have a hearing before
Alderman Kerr, charged on the oath or his father
| in-law, John NJ. Barras, with arson Mr.. Barras
resides on Vine street, above Twenty-third. About
| o'clock on the morning of the 9th OF November
| last, his house was broken into and quantity OF
clothing which lay on settee in the Kitchen was
| fired. Mr.. Barras was aroused by the smoke, and,
fortunately for him. he reached the Kitchen before
| the flames had made much headway, and eXtn-
| gushed the fire. on the night previous Spence
attended the ball of the Good VIII Hose and it is
alleged he left the ballroom about three-quarters OF
| an hour before the discovery of the fire. He was
also seen in the neighborhood of the dwelling ten
| minutes before the alarm was sounded. Defendant
It is alleged, threatened his father-n-aw on several
occasions and l-treated his wife. The day after the
fire he enlisted in the navy, and Sunday last he
| was arrested in Fairmount Park for some impro-
priety and taken to the stationhouse and there
locked up. At the police station he identified as
the party for whom Mr. Barras had issued warrant
| charging him with arson.
FOURTEENTH WARD DEMOCRATIC TICK KET.-The
| Fourteenth Ward Democratic Convention met last
| evening and nominated the following ticket
| Select Council-Sylvester ]. Megargee.
Common Council-Thomas B. Hahn.
School Directors-Fred. q. Kraft, John II. Mems
! William j, BrOlley, and Peter Armbruster
Constable-George W. Grear.
SNEAK THIEF-Yesterday a black man named
James Young slipped into the residence OF Mr.. Ca
win, No. 2229 Green street, aud helped himself TO
mahogany umbrella stand which stood in the vesti
| bule AS he walking out OF the house with the
property in his possession, he was taken into Gus
| tody. The prisoner had hearing before Alderman
! Pancoast, and was held in 5000 bail to answer.
FisHED OUT OF THE soHuYLKILL.-James Buck
ley aged forty-hve years, tumbled into the Schuyl
| Kill at Arch street wharf about O'Clock this morn
ing. His cries brought to his assistance boats crew
NO. 4, anu JaineS was hsned out or the water Ht
was taken 10 his home at Fortyhrst sGreet and Ian
caster avenue.
| THE writer OF a communication sig led "P y which
has been received by us, will confer favor by call
ing this office or furnishing his address, as ther,
are some points ia his note about which we woult
| like TO make further inquiry. Any interview h,
may have with us Will OF course be strictly private
| and confidential.
REoPENING OF THE DIVINITY SCHooL.-On tn,
occasion OF the reopening OF the Divinity School
which takes place this afternoon at O'Clock, in tn
Church OF our Saviour, Rev. DR.. Goodwin, dean
will deliver address to the students OF the school
The friends OF the institution are invited to b
present.