The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-10-26
new HEADQUARTERS
The Building for the Police
Department is Nearly
Ready for Them.
THE PLEASURE AND PAIN OF IT.
Comfortable Quarters for Officers
and Men and Strong
Cells for Prisoners.

1AS muCA-sa4ked OF ana l0pR-needeQ
police building is at last reality, and
Contractor Joseph II. Catley says that it
viii be really for occupancy Ia a few
weeks. Everything is comr7eEed now
but the painting, and the cells and this
work is being pushed as rapidly as pos
sible. Its general architectural features
were described at length in TIE JERSEY
CRY NEWS at the time the plans were
prepared aud the contract was given out.
1t occupies the site of the old First
Precinct Station House at Gregory street
and Cooper alley. and is Of dressed brick,
trimmed with brown stone. The general
design OF the building is pleasing one.
the chief feature of which is . pictur-
esque tower at the corner.
short flight Of brown stone steps leads
from Gregory street to the tiled Yestibul e
on the first floor To the right Of the
vestibule Is the large Office which will be
used as the First precinct station, while
81 the lett across the vestibule is the coy
little room which will be the private office
Of Captain Farrier. on OF the Captains
ONCE Is another smaller ROOM which will
be used BY the Captain for sleeping
apartment. To this is attached q bath
room with lavatoFy and other toilet acces-
sories Of the latest and most improved
patterns. The Captains quarters are
literally supplied With closets. in IN. which
he can keep his uniforms and that coilec-
ton Of relics aud curiosities which makes
his Office so attractive
THE sEE6EANgs' QUARTERS.
The sergeAnts are equally as well sup
piled with elegant quarters, which adjoin
the precinct office. These are fitted up with
layatories and closets, but no bath room
No one below the rank of captain can ar
tain TO the dignity ami luxury Of q private
bath in the Jersey City Police Depart
ment. The stairway leading 20 the floors
above divides The captains private room
from the large airy room where johnny
Clos, Bob Pierson. Billy Dalton and the
other detectives Of the force will spend
their leisure hours devising those plaus
which have made their names terror to
the evil doors Of three cities. These gen
tlemen will have large apartment and
everything VIII be done for their comfort
A hallway leading from the station
house Office past these rooms ends in q
large room which viii be occupied by the
officers who are always kept on reserve at
the station house for any emergency
which may arise. From this room access
is gained 70 the cell room. This is in the
extreme inside corner Of the building and
is hfgn and dry. Though well ventilated
By barred windows well up toward the
NrtAlt4Ar ttf@ ENAttA III ~ A1EM Will NAllIEf
( into this apartment VIII not cause any
weak Keyed prisoner any serious amount
OF annoyance.
There are twelve cells, feet g inches
wide by feet long and about seven feet
high They are built OF steel IN two rows
OF SIX one shove the other. they are a
great Improvement over the cells IN the
Old station house. which we've 50 faf
under ground thar frequently they were
covered with water to q depth of from six
to eight inches. Next to the cells toward
the street is the kitchen, where City
Prison Keeper Watson VIII compound
that fragrant coffee and savory stew, for
three days many an old roander has COM
mitted some breach Of the peace.
THE HOME OF BENsoS's PRIDE.
Next TO the kitchen still coming toward
the street IS a small room which the
driver of the patrol wagon will occupy
Running from Cooper Place back TO the
cells is large open space in which the
van will back up and deliver and take
away prisoners. Large, stout doors will
shut out from the gaze Of the morbidly
curious this transfer process and thus
the daily spectacle of the city's disgrace
will be shut ont from the public view.
1t is proposed 10 keep ''Benson's Pride"
in this space during the day and night,
ready to respond to any call.
Next to the entrance to this space is a
broad doorway which opens upon fight
of stairs leading TO the court room on the
second floor. This is large room. 50 By
25 feet. with plenty of light and air. To
the right of the raised dias from which
Justice Stilsing will lay down the law
with the erudition which characterizes
all his rulings, is small apartment with
all the modern toilet appliances. where
the Justice can retire and rumsnate upon
the mutability OF human affairs. Next
to this comes the prisoners pen strongly
guarded with iron bars aud steel lined
doors. On this floor will be located Police
Headquarters The corner room with the
tower will be Chief Murphy's private
room with two entrances so that he can
receive and dismiss his company without
their presence being known to those
whom it may not concern. The chief,
too, has his sleeping apartment with bath
and other luxuries adjoining his Office on
the Gregory street side of the building
Next to the chiefs Office, on the Cooper
Place side, is the public Office in which
any one having business with head
quarters Will be received by the gallant
old soldier, Colonel Robinson, the pol
ished and urbane Inspector or the genial
Isiah Hutton
Adjoining this Office will be the tele-
phone room, which will be miniature
central Office. But no pert miss who
shuts you up with a bang if you dare to
ask for a phone without a numDer will
preside over that Office On the contrary
IL will be stern preserver Of the peace
and all business through it will be trans
acted with precision and dispath. Next
to the telephone room is the room in
which Inspector LANCE will rest himself
when freed from the cares of his RESPONSE
Bile post The inspectors room is supplied
with Iuxuries like that of the Chief. and
there he may take his ease as did In his
lifetime the famous monarch he so closely
resembles.
THE REPORTERS PROVIDED FOR
Next to the Inspectors rooms is the
Office OF the Lamp Inspector. Building
Inspector. Health Inspector and any
other Inspector this much governed city
may have and not otherwise provided
for. Across the hall directly opposite
Inspector Lange's door is the room which
is to be used By the reporters and next to
the Chiefs private room is the room OF
the Police Commissioners The top floor
is divided into four dormitOries, each
capable Of containing ten beds, which
will be occupied by the off platoon, as
tue reserves are called. These rooms are
well lighted and ventilated and are fitted
up with lockers and other conveniences
to disnrove Gilbert's assertion that a
policeman's lot is not happy one.
There are also on this floor closets.
layatorics and baths. The tubs are
rather small and when either Luystcr or
Harvey gets into one Of them il looks as
though there WAS not going to
be much room left for the water.
A noticeable feature of the building