St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
A Pretty Bit Of Romance That
Has Recently Been Brought
to Light.
Father Stanley DiscourseS on
Mission Work Among Ne
groes and Indians.
Summary Of the DoingS of
One Day Gathered From
All Sources.
THE CITY'S POLICE.
The st. Paul Department as Com
pared in Size With Other Cit

The st. Paul Department as Conn
pared in Size With other Cit
les.
The cry of municipal extravaganza
has been again raised by the organ of
high license and Republicanism pub
lished on Third street, and, as usual,
the police department is made the par
ticular object of attack. Because Chief
Clark in his annual report saw fit to
recommend the addition of fifty patrol
men 10 the force the city government is
accused of using this means to increase
its influence at the coming election.
Chief Clark said yesterday that he had
not asked for an increase in the force
until after the election, although the
force. as compared with those of
other large cities, is away below
the average in numbers. The Pho
neer Press puts the total number
of men in the police department at 1854.
This figure includes pOundmaSterS,
bailitfs for the municipal court, jailerS
and drivers of patrol wagons. There
are i'm reality but l23 patrolmen, who
are required To cover an area larger
than New York city, and protect pop
ulation which the Pioneer Press has
estimated at 10000.
Mai. W. !. Loader, superintendent
of the Northwestern department of
Pinkerton'S detective agency, and who
has made lifetime study of all
methods of police protection, is author
ity for the statement that one patrol
man for every 1000 inhabitants is the
least possibly consistent with sufficient
protection, and in a cosmopolitan city
like 81. Paul. with its population con-
" inc N nv
tiOn. he Is of the opinion that there
should be patrOlman to every 800 pop
ulatiOn. Brooklyn, the most ultra-m0ral
city
on THE CONTINENT,
free from SlumS and diSreputable re-
sorts. employs al policemen for pop
ulation of a., 0G0. Chicago has patrol
man To every 600 citizens, ST. Louis for
every 100, and in San Francisco there is
a patrolman for every 500 inhabitants
Chief Clark said to GLOBE reporter:
81 have asked for the increase not only
because | considered the present force
insufficient. but because the people de-
maGd it. With the present force the
outskirts of the city cannot be guarded,
and we have hardly men enough to
properly guard the business districts.
There should be policeman on every
corner of Seventh street from WabaSha
10 Broadway. and that entire distance
is now covered by four men. This is
the only city in the country
where the fire department is larger than
the police department. There are fifty
more firemen than policemen. and the
expense of maintaining the fire depart
ment is twice the cost of the police de-
partment, which has been nearly self
sustaining. The licenses and fines col
lected by the police last year came
within about 900 of being enough to
pay all expenses of operating the de-
partment. A thing which renders the
commission of crime more easy, and de-
lection or prevention much harder, is
the close proximity of Minneapolis. A
crime can be committed i'll either place
and the perpetrators can go into hiding
in the other city in less than half an
hour"
1t is admitted that st. Paul, under the
present administration, has been re-
markably free from crime of all kinds,
while other cities throughout the coun-
try have suffered from a sort of cpl
demic. But lightning never strikes
twice in tine same place.