Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
Every Wholesale and Retail Liquor
House in Allegheny Put Under
Police Surveillance.
DAILY REPORTS FROM SALOONS.
ALI the Interesting Facts to Be Embodied
in Book Which Will Be Given.
to the Judges.
TO HAVE MATRoNs AND MAGISTRATES.
Measures That Superintendent Muth win Push Before
Councils

pecially the Bureau of Police, will be the
first to ask for municipal legislation from
Allegheny Councils. Ordinances are being
drawn up to provid: for additional station
houses, q reconstruction of the police tele-
phone system and for the appointment of
police matrons. Police magistrates are also
on the list. The activity to which the force
have already been stirred has caused an un-
usually large number of arrests, and in con-
sequence the hearings are often drawn out
until IL o'clock. In justice TO the officers
who have to stay out all night. at least three
magistrates are needed to dispose of the
cases within a reasonable time. Mainly for
this reason police magistrates will be asked
for.
The Police Bureau will also undertake
the supervision of the liquor trade In Allie
gheny, together with a number of other mat
ters in the present wave of reform.
Fired at the Rate Of One Day.
Almost an average of one policeman q
day has lost his head in Allegheny since
the opening OF the month aud the install-
ment of Henry Muth as Superintendent of
the Bureau of Police Much of the deadwood
has been cut out of the force, but there are
still a number Of barnacles, glued to the city
force by political influence, that cannot be re-
moved at present. More changes are to be
made, however and it is believed that under
the police regulations which are to follow the
reorganization the influence" men will SO far
forget themselves as to become policemen or be
given long and much deserved rest. The era
of uniformed hustlers at polls under pay from
the city is past. They are expected and will be
compelled to become uniformed protectors of
peace and property. .....
Superintendent Muth is preparing a code Of
rules for the guidance of the force and is being
ably assisted in the matter by Assistant Super
intendent John Glenn. one of the most thor
ough and efficient detectives and police officials
in the country. The Superintendent has only in
part given out his plans and rules, but he guar
antees they will be sure cure for that dread
disease, ennui, which has so long weakened the
constitutions of Allegheny's supposed finest.
Police Wires Will BE Rcafranged.
Besides this patrol wagon men are to come
down to strict business and will even have to
descend SO far from their present position as to
ask permission from the head of the bureau
when they wish to take day OF. The tele-
phones in the patrol boxes will be put in order
as soon as the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Man.
Owing to the induction from light and electric
railway wires the boxes are useless except for
wagon calls, and it is useless to hang new wires
until they can be rendered free from outside
currents. This work is expected TO be COM
pieted during the summer, aud then the patrol
men will have to undergo the hardship of re-
porting through the boxes every hour or half
hour. Of course, many dream will be broken
and many story left untold, but then second
class city will demand at Least that much serv-
ice.
Chief Murphy is also heart and soul in the
reform movement, aud his first strike will be to
get two more station hoIses. The first one
will be in the Sixth ward, probably on Beaver
avenue. The site has not yet beon selected
After that he wants to establish another Sta
tion on Spring Garden avenue. In addition to
this an ordinance is being prepared and will
soon be presented to Council asking for the ap-
pointment of police mairons for each of the
not be for lack of ability or push on the part of
the Public Safety Department or the police
bureau. Superintendent Muth, though prac-
tically new man in Allegheny affairs, is a
IL to 16 hours day to his duties. He is quiet
and cool and not afraid to say anything he be-
lieves.
They Know Nothing About Discipline.
His present aim is to make the police force
of Allegheny the equal of any in the country.
and the other evening in speaking of the
future of his Bureau. he said:
The Allegheny policemen do not know any,
thing about rules. When know that the men
on the rolls are the ones that are to perma-
nently compose the force, will show them
what discipline is. My men must be as tidy as
West Point cadets on inspection and as
soldierly as members of the Queens Guard.
while they are at work. Then are to have
regular beaJs aud will be supposed to know
Of the people in the blocks which
they patrol. Accurate reports of everything
that should come under their SUPERVISION must
be turned in to their superior officers. Special
attention will also be paid to the licensed
houses. We must know how each man con-
ducts his place and We intend to know. This
Bureau will be able by the next term of court
to give the judges some interesting statistics
on the liquor trade in Allegheny. Speak-easies
will be put down and the licensed dealers will |
be held to the letter Of the law.
VIII Keep Tab on Every Saloon.
ave have no desire to stop good men from
getting licenses. but we wish to guard against
men securing right which they Will abuse.
Every boy that comes in here intoxicated will
be examined. and we will find where he got it.
We will do the same with known habitual |
Such persons may have gotten |
their liquor from a licensed house or from a |
man who does not have license, but who in |
intends to apply. We do not want to deal with |
that class of citizens. The report which we |
will publish will contain all these facts, and we
will see that they get into the hands of the |
court. Personally l do not believe there are |
enough saloons in Allegheny. There should be |
lS0, and then don't believe there would be |
much trouble with speak-easies. The small |
number this year will undoubtedly make more /
Illegal places but we intend to weed them out |
as fast as they are established"
From another source story Of one of the DIS |
charged men was told yesterday. Superintend- |
snt Muth had discharged one man for being in |
4 speak-easy. The man denied it, but the |
believed his information good |
enough to warrant him in making the dis |
charge. On Sunday the truth of information |
was made rather apparent, for in one of the |
raids the discharged officer rode to the station |
house as member of the gang