The Washington critic., 1888-03-17

must deal with the eminent official and
the organ grinder the liquor dealer
and the Woman's Temperance UFnionj re-
lieve the poor and transport the pauper,
dispose of hundreds of complaints daily
and offend no one, and finally administer
laws inconsistent laws without penalties
attached, the combined ordinances of the
District, Georgetown and the United
States; to do all this and more for the sum
of $1,000 per annum. New YORK pays
$1,000, Chicago 81 500, Boston $500, st.
Louis, $500, Milwaukee 5000. There
is but one assistant to the superintendent,
who, in case of the latter's absence, per-
forms all his duties. He is required to in
spect the men and the precincts, to report
all discrepancies and provide remedy
select uniforms, hats, insignia Of Office,
etc, and for this Congress allows 81, 800
year. New York gives $500, Brooklyn
$1,000 and Baltimore 5000 to this officer,
and New York maintains three such
officials and Boston four.
The Eight Precincts.
The District is divided into eight pre-
cincts, in New York called districts, and
including precincts, each in command of
a lieutenant, who performs all the duties
incident to a captains position in New
York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago,
other cities, and who are paid every year
s., 800, while in the cities named the same
official receives, respectively $3.50,
s., 500, $1,000 81, $50, $1,000, Sl,SO0, 81 500
and 81 500. The intermediate grade be-
tween the superintendent and sergeants,
it is thought, should be titled captain,
and an increase of pay 60 with IL.
There are twenty sergeants of police,
the number specified in the organic act Of
upa xrl N N ra fant
Ten priyates have been acting as SER
gdants for the past several years, de-
mandcd by the increase of men and labor.
While acting in this capacity they have
not received, as they have repeatedly
asked, sergeant,s Compensation. The
sergeant in New York is paid 81, 600 an
nually; in Brooklyn, 81 800, and in Chi
cago, st. Louis and Kansas City 81, 200.
The Washington policemen of the highest
grade receives 1,0S0 each year, while his
brother in New York, Boston and San
Francisco is paid 81 200.
Two station clerks are employed at each
of the eight station houses, who relieve
one another every twelve hours five hours
more service being required from each of
them, than from o Government clerk
They have charge of the property, rec
ords, police patrol instruments and are
held responsible for all the clerical work
| required at their respective stations.
| Their pay is $50 o month, next to the
Superintendent the poorest paid men in
the department
The police surgeons on the second
Wednesday of each month examine can
| didates for the police and fire depart-
ments, and their duties also require their
attendance upon the sick and injured of
both. Forty dollars q month is the mag
nificent salary paid these gentlemen, as
against So, $50 per annum paid eighteen
| of their profession in New York.
Eighteen hundred dollars year is APP
| propriated for chief clerk, who must
give bond and also fill the position of
| property clerk. He is clerk to the super
intendent and is responsible for all cleri-
cal work in the department. With but
one assistant and stenographer, this
branch of the service in order to dispose
| OF the daily and routine business, is COM
| PEELED to keep open office after business
hours through the week and to break the
Sabbath mornings. The chief clerk OF
the New York departments is compensated
| at the rate of 5000, with twenty-six as
sistants, receiving salaries ranging from
| $1,000 to 81 200, the property clerk dis.
tnct official. receiving 81, 500 year.
| The Police Pension Fund
in the past five years has by judicious
management almost doubled, but it i;
now weighed down to its full capacity
with eleven pensioners. Each officer o
the force contributes from his pay 81 each
month for the maintenance of the fund
and wouldsCongress appropriate an equal
amount each month the department
might soon be enabled to retire score o.
veterans who have grown gray in the ser
vice. These men are too infirm for active
service, and are now detailed at ligh
duty.
To give an idea how the labor of the
police has increased, six years ago thu
force comprised 232 men, and they made
the following record, beginning with July
!, 1882, and ending with June 30 each yea
thereafter: