The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-29
THE FULLER TO THE RESCUE.
GOT RICH ON THE FORCE.
Policeman Hayes of Brooklyn to Retire
With a Fortune of $4,000.

Policeman Hayes of Brooklyn to Retire
With a Fortune of $4,000.
Shortly before noon tomorrow Policeman
William Hayes of the Fifth Precinct will
put on his uniform for the last time as
member Of the police department of Brook
Ign, says the New York Sun. He will lay
his shield on Captain Shorts desk in the
Bedford-avenue Station and will retire into
private life on pension Of $3.50 year, as
reward for his twenty years of service. His
time was up on June 9th, and on that day
he sent IN his resignation, to date from to-
morrow. His reason was in accord with
the thrifty policy that has governed his life
and N ade him to-day the wealthjest patrOl-
man in New York or Brooklyn. Policeman
Hayes possessions. at a moderate cOmputa-
ton, amount 10 more than $4,000 in real es-
tate. No one but himself knows the amount
of ready cash he has in the half dozen
banks with which he has an account He
has worked hard in his hours of leisure and
lived carefully and saved thriltily since he
first learned the value of dollar.
He was entitled to ten days leave OF alb
Sence and he took it before reSigning from
the force, employing it TO make trip tn the
upper part of the State to see his daughter
and her family.
Hayes was born in Limerick in the year
that Queen Victoria assembled the throne of
England, and came to New York twenty
seven years later. He had no trade but was
handy man with carpenters tools and
found all the work he could do. He saved
little money, and when he was appointed
policeman in 1871 he had about $500 to be-
gin housekeeping lie was assigned to
the Fourth Precinct, and did duty in Myrtle
avenue nearly five years. Then, at the re-
quest OF Captain WOglom Of the Fifth Pre-
cinct. with whom he was very friendly, he
was transferred to the Fifth, where he has
been ever since. With the exception of
seven weeks, during which he was only ff-
teen blocks away from his home, he had the
same p0St during the fifteen years he has
been in the BcdfOrd-ayenue squad. For the
past five years while Datroling the post he
has been within few hundred yards of MS
own property all the time. He was twice
married and is now wldOweT. -Four chill
dren by his first wife are now living.
Hayes had $3.50 when he went to the Fifth
Precinct. de bought on the installment
plan ten lots on North Tenth street. Father
Yodyzsus' CHURCH stands on four of them.
On the other lots he built houses, doing no
small part of the work himself during his
hours off duty He sold two of the houses
for cash and with the money paid off all the
Indebtedness on the other four.
He lived in one of them and rented the
others. He now owns nearly the whole
block Of f0ur-StOry, doube-fTame tenements
all rented to sugar-workers and bringing
him in comfortable income. All around,
from North Ninth street to North Eleventh,
between Bedford avenue and Berry street,
he has built tenements and more than $50
families call him landlord.
He is and always has been a Democrat
and member of the Fourteenth Ward AS
ISOLATION. He lives modeStly with his mar
ried daughter and her husband on the
ground floor of the tenement he owns at 142
North Eleventh street. He is a big, power
full, good -natured man, fav0rite with his
neghbors and well spoken of by his ten
ants.
When the Majestic steams from her dock
on Wednesday William Hayes will be on
board as passenger. He is going to visit
his birthplace and try ard find some rela-
tives he has not heard from in quarter of a
century.