Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-23
MANY SUPERNUMARIES

Appointed by the Police Commits
s1oners-Two Appointments to the
Regular Force-Dr. Chesley's Conn
mun1cat1on.
Mayor Sargent presided at the special
meeting of the police commissioners last
night and every member of the commits
sion was present. When the meeting was
called to order, Commissioner Clancy
asked for recess of five minutes. This
was granted, and the three democratic
commissioners, Clancy, Dillon and An
drews, retired to consult over their action
during the meeting upon the appointment
of supernumaries.
When the three commissioners returned
applications for appointment to the super
numary force were received from John
keenan, and Felix H. Bradley, and the these
candidates were examined.
The commissioners then went into an
executive session, which lasted for an hour
and half When the doors were opened
at the close of this session it was an
| nounced that Supernumaries John ]. Flynn
and John Allan had been appointed to the
regular force, and that the following TWEEN
| ty-four applicants had been appointed to
the supernumary force:
| William WEIGH, Henry J. Donnelly,
Thamas Powers, jr., Thomas E. Fender,
Edward A. Lawton, Cornelius J. Eagan,
John II. Coonan, Bartholomew Daley
Thomas H. Colwell, Michael J. Coffey,
Patrick J. Blake, William P. Daley,
George L. Rowley, Charles F. Putney,
Hugh McKeon, Adolph Kleiber, William
G.. Doherty, Richard L. Hayden, James P.
Ward, Frederick Kaber, Daniel H. Linds-
ley, John keenan,, Stephen Russell, M. j..
Hayes
Townsend for appointment as police sur
geon in the Ninth ward district was placed
on file
Old doctor" Chesley, who has been a
frequent interlocutsf of the board upon
the subject of personal protection, is in a
very feeble condition at his home on Wash
ington street. 1t is feared that this may
be his last illness, but he appeared before
the commissioners in spirit through the
following communication:
To the Honorable Mayor of the City of New
1 take this method of presenting to your at
tention the abuses to which I have been sub
during tho past b1
pelted with missiles of almost every variety and
such as stones, clubs, vegetables snow balls and
Ra sSy besides Being insulted and abused in
most shameful manner. Not only myself and
assaSlteG and u peted With dangerous mus
sss but house is ,rc continually sng tbe
house house anu othefwiss nDO damaged 'I T have
had :aftytwo pansss Of a,,n glass, most st
years: It has become insufferable and now
humbly beg your honor to devise and put into
be able to pass my way through the streets in
| the city and to remain in my own house in peace,
" reported to the board Of police commissioners
the day and date and place of many cases of as
sault, but up to this time there has been no ces-
Most respectfully submitted to His Honor May
or Sargent. j. c. CHEsLEY.
This letter was placed on file.
English Religious Culture.
Rev. E. G. Towne begins on Sunday
evening next, January 25, in the Church
of the Messiah, on Orange street, near Elm,
a special course of four lectures on "The
Origins and History of English Religious
Culture in England and in New England"
The several topics will be: January 25,
to John Wiclif's Opening of the English
Bible;" February 1, puritan Culture Be-
fore the Pilgrim Fathers" February 8,
"Pilgrim Culture in England and Hol-
land" February Is, "The Planting of New
England, Pilgrim and Puritan" In these
lectures Mr.. Towne particularly brings out
the great features of progress which reveal
God in history and connect thousand
years in one line of divinely ordered ad-
vance. The story of this progress is a
great one, profoundly significant and of
fascinating interest. The comment of the
Washington Republic on one of Mr..
Towne's lectures was: cable, scholarly
and eloquent to the last degree"