The Washington times., 1895-06-28
Police Sergeants Examined for
Promotion to Inspector.
PRACTICAL CIVIL SERVICE
Lieutenants Not Candidates for the
Position-Inspector VIII BE Named
Before July 1-Other appointments
E1pected-Mortuary Record-Penn-
syIvania Avenueto BeSwept Oftener.

District, and the police sergeants are the
! first to eXemplify the new dispeusation.
| The Commissioners have succeeded in per-
! fecting their system to the degree of making
| ii serviceable, and the new appointments
and the promotions authorized by the last
| appropriation bill Will be made in strict
accord With its provisions.
The board room at the District building
presented novel scene yesterday afternoon
| when fifteen stalwart sergeants We're pre-
sented as the Initiates of the new system.
! 1t was school room, for the time being,
| and the veterans were boys once more, as
they sat about the tables writing their
| prize essays. 1t was a good looking class,
! and the candidates Were attired in their
| commencement clothes
Every mans mustache had been neatly
waxed, his shoes We're given holiday
| shine; the brass in his buttons glittered
| like gold, and faultiessly white collar
adorned his neck. The candidates arrived
at the building about = O'Clock. They took
tlie elevator for the fifth floor aud dis
persed themselves about the corridors
awaiting the summons TO books. They
were kept waiting ten or fifteen minutes,
Col. TrueSdell, who was To serve as chief
examiner, being out at lunch. This brief
| time seemed ages, but the men occupied
II IN exchanging assurances that 1T was d
very commonplace affair.
THEY WERE NOT AFRAID.
The hobbies" Were not frightened
Every man said he wasn't, and each is
entitled To belief 1t was noted, however,
that they breathed rather laborously, and
that quick glances were apprehensiyely
cast now and then in the direction OF the
elevator. Whether any one of the class
meditated flight at such times, or whether
it was merely to get a first glimpse OF Col
Truesdell as he came up the elevator way,
will probably Geyer be told.
There are thirty-one active sergeauts
in the District, Tethauhalfthe number
declined to stand the test The fifteen
who took part We're: Sergeants Slattery,
Of the Eighth precinct; Byrnes, of the
Sixth; Bryan, OF the Ninth; Mulhail, of the
Fifth; Cross, of the Ninth; Burgess, of the
Fifth; Myers, OF the Third; Shilling, of the
FIRST; Montgomery, OF the Eighth, Ne
Taggart. of the Second: FaIvey, OF the
Sixth; Keefe, OF the Third; Kenny, of the
Eighth, and Daley, Of the Fourth
When they finally flied in before the
board, Major Moore by direction OF Com
missioner True dell, Informed them of " hat
was required in the exam" They were
each TO wIite a letter to the Commission
ers and tell what they could recall of the
duties, respectively, Of a fergeant, lieu
tenant, ana an Inspector.
That was all, and it seemed easy enough.
Doubtless il was. but one Of the candidates
said he could have handled a revolver or a
locust with mch greater facility than he
did his pen.
Il was up all last night" he explained,
''and have had no sleep to-day"
TINE AN ELEMENT.
They doubled mp over the desks, though,
nd nH-faI ff,f a. ~. 1al vy-sc
kept of the time consumed by each, and
that will be an element in computing the
points sergt slattery. of the Eighth pre-
cinct, was the first TO pass up his papers.
He passed under the wire in exactly thirty
three minutes after the gong sounded for
the start. He was followed by Byrnes,
OF the Sixth. ana then, in the order named,
by Bryan, MulhaIl, Cross, Burgess, Myers,
Shilling, Montgomery, MCTagEart, Fulvey,
Keefe, Kenny, ana Daley-"the fighting
| sergeant'-quitting even with Kenny, but
being last to give up his manuscript
One OF the Snrgcants examined wiz get
the inspectorship. Neither Of the lieusn-
ants aspires to the position, nor VIII either
be considered. al speculations 10 the con-
trary otwithsjanGng.
Three points are to be considered in
making the selection. These are Candi-
dates record as an officer, the recommen-
dations on file in his behalf, and the de-
gree OF correctness shown in the answers
given TO the questions propOGnGed. His
educational qualifications VIII be judged
by his handwriting, his skill in compost
ton, and his orthography, as shown in the
manuscript turned in at the examination.
PAPERS UNDER INSPECTION.
Commissioners Truesdell and Powell and
Major Moore We're present while the let
ters were being written, and when all were
completed the papers We're filed for the
inspection OF Col Trucsdell.
Several of those examined are not aspiring
to the inspectorship. and so stated. They
appeared before the board, they said, be-
/ casue they desired to show that they We're
not afraid OF the ordeal, and because they
! believed it was, III certain sense, their
duty 10 do so.
The appointment viii be announced with a
number of others before July l.
| Record OF deaths for the twenty-four
hours ending at l o'clock yesterday: White
! Arthur St Clair Denver, aged seventy years;
! Francis Mcintosh, aged fifty eight :
/ Mary Handy, aged forty-seven; Mary
! Oates, aged forty-five; Francis H. Brice,
aged thirty-two; Joshua g. Malcolm, aged
thirty-onc: John NJ Noah, aged thirty:
Mary +. Hughes, aged twenty-one;- Mabel
| Mack, aged one; Eva r. Blake, aged ten
months; Blanche E. Radcliffe, aged six
/
eighty years: Henry Jennifer. aged seventy,
James w. Banks, aged fifty; Mitchell
! Shorter, aged two and a half years; Marco
L. l. Anderson, aged two; Charles Queen,
| aged two.
PERMITS TO BUILD.
Building permits issued: L. C. Walsh
dwelling, Brookland, $4,000. B. B. Con-
nick, two frame dwellings, Bryan's sub
| division on Morris road, 81 500. John
Miller, private stable, Ivy street, $500.
| Gait & Davis, repairs to two stores, Nos.
| 404 and 406 Seventh street northwest,
! $500 Alfred Shaw, repairs to dwelling,
No. 210 T street northwest, $500.
1t was ordered yesterday that Penn
| sylvania avenue, from the Peace Eonu-
ment on First street to Rock Greek ridge,
be swept three times per week.
An order was issued yesterday requiring
that hereafter all applicants for permits
| for the erection of buildings shall be re-
quired to furnish and file with the inspector
of buildings, as a permanent record in his
| office, plat of the land upon which the
| building is to be erected, with the proposed
bujldiups or additions nrOuerly located