Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-03
POLICE PENsIONING.

New Haven Policemen May be Inter-
 eseed in che M0dus Operandi in
 Gotham - Busy Times at the New
 York Police Pension Omce on Pay
 Day Yesterday The Sixty Years
 Limit Of Service VIII Probably be
 Extended.
 Pension Commissioner McClave, of New York who is spending his vacation in New Haven, had busy time last week in signing checks for the police pensioners and having finished the work, carne here for a rest from the heat and work of his duties in the metro polls.
 Yesterday was police quarter day at Police
 headquarters in New York and as usual, the
 the ladies were first served. More than 300
 widows, some young and good-looking, some
 with furrowed cheeks and venerable white hair formed 8 procession that passed in sim gle file before the bookkeeper who with ever unfailing pleasant smile handed over the cheeks to the recipients of the city bounty and recognition of faithful service. To gether with the pay of the police
 men and the pension money Con- for twenty millions of dollars during his five years of service as treasurer of the police department. The treasurer's salary is 5000 year. The New York pension fund is giving out under the drain of the sixty
 years' limit of age that turns many men out
 of the service just when ripe experience has
 made them most valuable to it. Last even-
 ing's Now York Sun says 'the legislature
 that set the limit tried to mend matters by
 from the excise money, but the bill did not
 become a law; and in another year, unless
 every policeman lays himself liable to fines
 every day or two so as to provide revenue for
 it. the pension fund may have to 20 into
 bankruptcy. However, the pensioners can
 sue the city. with which their contract was
 made when they entered its service,
 aud the city's credit is good" Con- tinuing, the same paper says: "The man who counter this quarter is ex-Superintendent Walling, who is now way-back Jersey countryman, enjoying his hale old age on his farm at Newport. MT. Walling looked so much like a countryman when he was still the chief that two bunco steerers once picked him up on Broadway and locked arms with him like old friends. The super marched
 them into headquarters that way, very limp and discouraged steerers. They had found Walling draws $500 as his quarter pay. The man who draws the least, if he draws at all, is ex-Policeman Lemuel s. Slater, who was retired from the Tenth precinct in April, 1879, on cents year. He may come for his penny or he may not. There was one Henry Kievel, who was retired on AS cents @ year in Fl and came regularly for his 12 cents on every quarter day until sometime in '75, when he told MT. Gott that he was tired and that the department could keep | the rest. But four or five years later he came back with a claim for $2 It was not allowed, and he has never sued for it. Two pensioners, John Shea and George w. Winters, are down on the lists this quar- | ter for nickel each. They were retired on l like the absent minded Kievel and half a dozen $1 pensioners, who will collect enough ! for a couple of drinks and @ cigar. It is 1 seventeen or eighteen years since these pen sions were fixed, and the circumstances are only dimly remembered by @ few, but in most cases they were not creditable to the men who were retired. The question then was how to get rid of them decently. It was pity that way was found, for in every other respect the pension roll may justly pose as a roll of honor and of we'll earned | reward.
 Eighty-one widows of pensioners, most oi them now nearing the grave with totterine step, have the place of preference at the head of the line to-day. There are three widows of inspectors, three police surgeons widows and two captains widows. No less than eleven ex-captains and ffty-six ex-sergeantf will stand in the line tomorrow with Inspec. tor Dilks, the only officer of his rank now on the pension list.
 Mrs. Margaret Brennan, who received 6 check for $15O from Bookkeeper Qott, is the widow of Officer Brennan of the Twenty first precinct, who was killed by the thiei Handsome Harry year ago. She has been | fighting alone for her babies ever since and fighting well. Bright-looking Edith Dykmar
 is one of the wards of the department. There l arc three of them, Edith and her two broth
 CTS, children of Broadway policeman, whom the department looks after until they become
 of age. but they are scattered over the State
 in snch way that they cannot be presented
 in group.
 Something over $1OO,OOO will have been
 carried away from the Mulberry street build
 ing before tomorrow night by the army oi y,ousiopors