The New York herald., 1874-12-05
POLICE BUSINESS.

The Hours for Street Cleaning Fixed
How Pati oimeu Should Work for Pro.
motion.
At the meeting OF the Police Commissioners
held yesterday the most important topic discussed
was tnat or the hours in which the streets should
be cleaned and ashes ana garbage taken from the
houses ana stores. Commissioner Disbecker re-
ported from the Committee on Street Cleaning o
resolution in favor Of having such work done dur
ing the daytime ater Monday, December I.
Commissioner voorhis opposed this resolution,
and introduced one to eave to the discretion Of the
superintendent or the street Cleaning Department
the selection Of the hours for his employees to
labor in. There wss then q lively passage at
oratory between the two Commissioners. the
first named ofhcial vented some practical ideas
upon the preservation OF ash barrels ana garbage
boxes from the proving seeker-by-night for fire.
wood, and dashed his remarks with the expression
A SENTIMENTAL DESIRE
that the a5hmen and street cleaners should only
work in the warmer hours OF the day, when their
hands and feet would bs safe from the nipplng
frOst. His opposing colleague was equally prac.
tical only IN reference to protecting the good
the air currents by street cleaners and ash re.
movers. He had. however. stronger senti-
becker. he conceived that many OF the
street sweepers are men who have fallen
from high estates and he urged that they
who now honestly earn bread for themselves ana
families by lab0rfng hard on the streets at night
when darkness shrOuds them from recognition,
should not be forced to leave their labor. They
care less for the cold, said Mr.. yoorhis, than Tor
the Ou RACES to which their pride would be con.
tinualy subjected II they shooId work In the
streets during the daytime. Some OF them would
rather starve than be butts for the
sCORN OF FORMER ACQUAINTANCEs
who have remained prosperous. HIS pathetic
Illustrations did not move his colleagues, ior they
W hen the time Tor their labor had been fixed upon
the rates OF pay OF the street workers settled
at 81 per day j0r eangmen and twenty cents per
Thc Board then passed resolution calling upon
the Corporation Counsel to inform IL OF the steps
that have been taken TO procure the vacation OF
the injuncttons that now restrain the police from
closing certain places OF amusement on Sunday
Captain Mcdonnell OF the Eighth precinct, hav-
ing been offered $50 BY Bradbury Brothers as re-
dress, which was stolen from q messenger OF the
firm, the Board decided to have superintendent
Wa,ling report whether the Captain did any thing
outside OF his duty to merit extra recOmpense.
One or two ambitious patr0man, having asked
to be made roundsmen, Commissioner DIsbecker
remarked that they did wrong In addressing the
Boarn that the proper way Tor them to procure
promotion would be to first form the acquaintance
OF a Commissioner and work through him.
The Board dismissed from the police force Pa
trolmen ID. d. Cummius or the Nineteenth pre-
clnct; Denis Lynch, oI the same district, and
The first named officer had bad record and was
found guilty OF being absent from hts post. The
second was guIlty OF intOxicati0n and indecent
behavior toward lady. The third was convicted
OF intoxication.
The Board appointed the following named men
as members OF the force James X. Price, Thomas
J. Carter, Mlcnael Foley, DanielJ. Mucany Patrick
Brennan, James Leech an1 Ferdinand Jurgens,
and cited three others to appear before 1t premi-
nary TO appointment.