Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-10

| they may think advisable.
| communication was received from james
| A. Smith of Cherry Valley, asking 500 from
the city as pay for water pumped out of his res
ervoir for use by the city; referred to the COM
mittee on water. A bill for work on North
| pond, submitted by Stephen Salisbury, went to
the same committee
An order came up from the common council
for Il joint convention one week from last eve
ming, to elect the several Off to be so chosen
city clerk, treasurer, etc.--but it was tabled in
the board of aldermen. An order was sent
from the board of aldermen for an immediate
convention of the two bodies, to elect city
clerk, city treasurer and city physician; this
was laid on the table in the common council,
as was also an order sent down, authorizing the
committee on city printing to have printed 1900
copies of the city document for 1871.
Aldermen Kelley and Sprague and Councilmen
Ross, Melaven and Ames, were appointed a joint
special committee to take into consideration the
subject of a hospital, in accordance with the
recommendation of the city physician.
The following annual reports were read and
accepted;
CITY MARsHAL's REPORT.
The following facts appear in the annual re-
port of the city marshal:
The whole number of arrests for the year
| 1870, not including 400 made by the state con-
stables, and i'll many cases assisted by our local
force, 22S2; males, 21OT; females, IT'S; Ameri-
cans, 739; foreigners, 1913; residents, 167S nom
| residents, GOA minors, 422; adults, 1860; num-
Der committed to Jail, Sol.
! The nativity of the criminals was as follows
~ Il. n
| rs Eng iSh, "a Scotch, 16 colored, 16 Germans,
ID Nova Scotians, 4 French, Welsh, Bel
| gians, Swiss and Swede.
| Whole number of complaints made by the
marshal and assistants during the year, 2197
| Discharged from custody without complaint
| 146. Forty-six of the prisoners were under ten
| years of age, 376 were between 10 and 20, S67
! between 20 and 80, $40 between 80 and 49, 800
| between 40 and so, los between so and 60, 26
between 90 and TO- and 9 between 10 and 80.
| The whole number of dodgers accommodated
| at the station house during the year was 1856 ;
males, 2422; females, 1874; Americans, 97S; for
| eiguers 1878; minors, 542; adults, 2014.
| The offences for which the arrests have been
| made were; for drunkenness, 114S; assault and
| battery, 217 disturbance Of the peace, 141; Sec
ond offense of drunkenness, 127; larceny, lis;
| violation of city ordinance, So; vagrancy, 80 ;
| truancy, 2S assault with dangerous weapon
| &c; insane persons, 81; trespass, 20; larceny
| from building, 10; breaking glass IS; common
| drunkards, II; being present at game on Lords
day, IL adultery, IS; forncation, IA; driving
away teams, IA neglect of family, IA; threat
en.ng personal injury, 10; malicious mischief,
II; burglary, H.; evading railroad fare, II !;
| keeping open shop on Lords day, 10; sport
ing on Lords day, 10; cruelty to animals, g.;
| assault on officer, Q; larceny from person, s.;
| stubborn and disobedent children, s.; PLAYING
| cards on Lords day, 6; suspicious persons, g.;
false pretcnse, 6; run away from home, s.; car
| rying dangerous weapon, 5; keeping liquor, s.;
loating about theatre, 4; escaped pris-
oners, a; murder, 4; bastardy, A.;
common nuisance, 4; run away from
| truant school, 4; contempt of court, 4; attempt
to commit larceny, 81; attempt to break and
| enter 81 liquor nuisance, s. lewdness, s.; en-
| bezzlement g.; receiving stolen goods, 3; dis
| orderly conduct, 3; lewd and lascivious cohab-
tation, 2; fast driving, 2; indecent exposure of
| person, 2; run away from reform school, q;
| swindling, 2; selling liquor 2; iniurng build
| ing, ?; keeping disorderly house, 2; disturbing
| religious meeting, 2; horse thief, 1 attempt to
| commit suicide, l. peddng without license, 1 !;
| aiding escape, l; soliciting insurance without
| license, 1 common seller of LIQUOR I using in
| decent language in the street, 1 !; Transporting
! liquor, l; common loafer, 1 arson, +; keeping
| gaming house, 1 bigamy, 1 ; disturbing public
school, Il assault with intent TO ravish, 1 inter
ferng with officer, 1 common railer an brawlcr,
| l; detrauding United States government, 1.
Nearly every trade and several of the profess
| sions were represented by the prisoners, the
| largest number of them were common laborers
| $780, 287 were boot and shoe makers; 173 were
| students, 154 housekeepers, 81 machinists, 76
| farmers, Ga moulders, Sc iron and wire workers
Sc painters, SO carpenters, so teamsters, 40 ma
| sons, 30 weavers, 30 taiors q spinners, 25
blacksmiths, q peddlerS, q hostlers, 20 stone
| cutters, Is marble workers, Is loafers; eighty
| nine occupations, other than those above named,
were represented by small number of offenders
| for each.
| Numbpr of criminals rnnortnd married. ooe
| single, 1886.
| The resources of the department have been
Appropriation of city council. S240 900 90
Fees on warrants served by assistant mar
sn;Is' 1900 ,.............. Ala 90
| Witness fees of policemen at municipal
Collected for extra duties OF oticers.... 25S %
| From overseers of poor, for dodgers. 106 SO
| On warrants for use of city teams .....,. $40 90
Total receipts. $50, 728 O5
| The expenses of the department have been:
Pay roll of police officers. ...........S 25 102 60
| Salary of arshal and assistants. 3,S49 81
| Special police, July ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 95 90
Special police, at regatta. .............. 456 Al
incidental expenses. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $50 10
Cost of horse hire for the year ..,...... 1465 90
Total expenses. .....................s 81, 7l9 ii
Deductng amount of earnings. .,........ 6,722 %
Net cost of department. ..........,.... S25027 O6
Or, S1j1.49 less than the net expenses last year
The condition of the police department at the
| present time is good; the discipline is good, and
the conduct of all the members of the force is
! excellent.
The duties performed have been of general
| specific, varied and arduOus nature. More work
| has BEEN done than ever before in one wear by
| the department; 302 more prisoners were arrest
| ed by the same number of officers than last
| year; 325 more dodgers were taken care of; but
| only portion of the miscellaneous duties per-
| formed can be made mention of in this report
| The number of disturbances suppressed has been
| 70; intoxicated persons conducted home III:
buildings found open and secured, IT'S; notices
served, 200; stray teams picked ND and cared
for "a; lost children restored to parents %; de-
fective sidewalks reported, 35; detective streets
10; fire ala rms given s. fires extinguished with
out alarm, 3; stores found broken open, 5.
The amount of fines imposed in the municipal
court in cases within the department has been
SI951; amount of money taken from prisoners
and returned, SS541 81.
Number of delinquent scholars visited by the
tuant officer, 2441; number returned to school,
1880; sent to truant school, 1s; taken before
Judge of probate, 3S.
In the way of comment and suggestion the
marshal says:
The peace, quiet and good order of the city
has been maintained on all occasions; the ordi-
nanCes of the city have been promptly enforced
except those in relation to obstructing the travel
over the public streets in the very heart and
business portion of the city by railroad trains
and, as the city council have this matter under
advisement, it is hoped that this great nuisance
and cause of complaint will be abated soon, in
some satisfactory manner.
In my report of last year l suggested that we
should have branch station house at the north
and south ends of the city, in order to afford
proper police facilities to those rapidly increas-
ing and already thiclly populated districts. 1t
is now considered absolutely necessary that Off
GERS should at least patrol those districts at night
| can only refer those citizens who have petit
toned, and complained so much of those outer To-
calites, to their ward representatives in the city
council. Our population is mainly settled with
in an area of three miles, making a little more
than seven square miles of territory that should
come under the supervision of the officers The
largest number of officers on duty in the night
time is twenty, or less than three to a square
mile. There are, besides, the villages of Quin-
slganOnds New Worcester, GAINESVILLE, Tatnuck
Worthwhile, Quinsigamond lake, and other out
skirts, 10 be properly looked after by the police
force. of course the force has to be concentrate
ed near Main street and the business part of
the city, and many square miles of territory
must 70 with no patrol whatever.
One of the most important questions that
comes before an officer is how to manage and
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