Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-02
POLICE PROTECTION.
THE CITY 10 HAVE A FORCE OF
TWENTY-SIX MEN.
Yesterdays Election of Policemen
The Mayor Votes for Only
Fifteen officers.

The Mayor Votes for Only
Fifteen officers.
The Board of Police Commissioners, COM
posed of Mayor Gregory, Chief of Police
Lee and Police Judge Buckley, met yester-
day afternoon for the purpose of electing
police officers for the ensuing year. For
weeks past this event had been the all
absorbing topic in political and semi-politi-
cal circles, and applications for positions
on the force poured in from all quarters, to
the number of sixty-six, including the old
force of sixteen members.
Those aspiring to serve the people as
guardians Of the city, at the very &C.
ceptble salary of 500 per month, belong to
various walks in life but large proportion
were mechanics, for whom the handsome
pay possessed greater attraction than the
monotony of the workshop with its pay of
from 81 90 to 81 per day. Many of the
names were previously unknown in po-
lice circles, although each applicant was
backed by a list of the names of old and
substantial citizens.
All the members of the old force appear
to have been pleased with their past ex-
periences, as each and every one of them
had in an application for reappointment
They are as follows: NJ. Karcher (Oaptain),
w. Arlington, A. Agner, r. w. Ash NJ.
Coffey, John Campbell. n. J. Carroll, NJ. G.
Eldred, L. Farrell, E. Franks, R. S. Frazee,
w. NJ. Lowell, VIM. Mclaughlin, Frank
Rider, G. Rowland, w. Scanlan.
The list of new applicants showed the
following names: G. W. Armstrong, J. NJ.
Brown, G. W. Buchanan, P. Brannigan; J.
J. Carroll, G. V. Churchman, r. Cunning
ham, A. G. Cox, Hugh Coleman, w. F.
Coker, 7. T. Crump, B. ]. Chambers, E.
Dolan, A. A. Dassonville, r. w. Dunleavy,
n. G. Eldred. r. c. Goods, S. Z. Harvey, o.
Harvey, J. II. Harris P. f. Heringa, b.
]. V. Kenney, A. ]. Mccormick, NJ. T.
Morelli, P. Mcdowell, 3. Maletesta, f.
Mold, George Olive, l. NJ. Pritchard, f. II.
Rhoads, Nathan Ray, R. II. Stafford, w. NJ.
Sheridan, f. 6. Shook, l. ]. Simmons, B.
B. Scott, W. II. Strader, A. Schevendick,
A. R. Shellars. l.. Wagner, R. P. Wingate,
|. Wallace, W. F. Waller, Major D. r.
Wells G. II. Wheeler, H. S. White, F. C.
Wager.
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS.
At las the members of the Board ap-
peared in the Police Courtroom, which was
already filled with anxious and expectant
applicants and their friends. Mayor
Gregory presided, as President of the Board,
and ex-Chief of Police Dillman, in the alb
sence of the Court Clerk, acted as Secretary.
At o'clock the meeting was called to
order, and the Secretary read the minutes
of the last annual meeting, which were APP
proved.
Mayor Gregory stated that the present
meeting was called for the purpose of elect
ing police officers for the ensuing year, and
directed the Secretary to read the list of
applicants, with the names OF citizens in
dorsing the same.
This somewhat unnecessary Formally
consumed upward of half an hour of the
time of the session. The members of the
Board became somewhat uneasy during
this tedious procedure, as it seemed to be
a needless prolongation of the torture to
which they had been subjected for many
long weeks and months by seekers after
positions and their armies of persistent
friends. Before the Secretary had con-
cluded the reading of the list the room had
become crowded to overlooking, and the
Railways and adjoining rooms were filled
with anx1ous-looking men.
THE NUMBER TO BE ELECTED.
At the conclusion of the reading of the
list Chief Lee moved that the Board pro-
coed to elect force of twenty-three men.
Judge Buckley said he favored the mo-
ton, and was even in favor of making the
number twenty-five, exclusive of the Cap
tain. He believed the bill recently passed,
authorizing the election of thirty men, was
a necessity, owing to the rapid growth of
the city. In the outskirts of the city the
people had for some time past complained
bitterly of inadequate police protection,
which was necessary result of the present
limited force. Even with the proposed in
crease, the force would be less, in proper
ton to population, Than that of any city in
this or any other State of the Union. The
additional outlay entailed would in his
opinion, be more than compensated for by
the better protection afforded citizens in
their persons and property. He moved to
amend the motion of Chief Lee by making
the number to be elected twenty-five.
Chief Lee-"I accept the amendment"
Mayor Gregory said that it was at his
personal solicitation the Governor signed
the bill, but it was not understood at the
time that it was such a dire necessity. He
did not deny that the city needed the pro-
posed increase in the number OF policemen,
but the city tax had been levied prior to
the passage of the bill referred to, and he
did not believe it would be legal to elect
j..
and would confine himself to balloting for
that number only.
Judge Buckleys amendment to the mo-
ton of Chief Lee was then submitted and
carried. the Mayor voting no, and the
other Commissioners voting in the afirma-
tive.
THE ELECTION.
The Mayor said the next thing in order
was nalloting for officers, and each of the
Commissioners set to work preparing his
Ballot for twenty-five candidates. Follow
| ingis the result of the balloting, two or more
votes being necessary to elect:
Matt Karcher (Captain) 2, Robert Ash .,
| NJ. Coffey 2, Robert Stafford 2 Ed. Dolan
8, l. J. Simmons . R. Cunningham 3, W.
| NJ. Lowell ., NJ. II. Morelli 2, F. G. Shook
5, T. T. Crump2, ]. H. Harris ., B. w.
| Higgins 3, Frank Rider ,, John Campbell
.. H. Carroll 2, c. Rowland 2, NJ. d. Eldred
>, William Seaman 2. 4. Agner 2. L. w.
Farrell 2, r. S. Frazee 2, William McLaugh-
| lin 2, Z. Franks 2, William Arlington =, 0.
Harvey 2.
| The above-named constitute the force
under the new order of things. They in
clude all of the members of the old force.
! The following-named received one vote
each: J.J. Carroll, A. Schevendick, B. B.
| Scott, f. Mold, j NJ. Brown, A. r. Shellsrs,
F. c. wager 3. J. Chambers, P. f. Heringa,
r. p. Wingate, J. Y. Kenrey and Hugh
| Coleman.
There being no further business, the
Board adjourned, and the newly-elected
officers-who go on duty at once-proceeded
| to the Office of the Chief to receive their in
structions.