New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-25

md TINT tho Commissioners did not desire his
retirement nj this time II was asccrtancd that
no hint had been conveyed by the Police Com
missloners 10 chief Byrnes that his retirement
was desired. Just at present In fact. the retire
ment of Mr. Byrnes might cause trouble In the
department There is no deputy CHIEF because
the Legislature forgot or neglected to provide any
salary for such official and there Is left only
one Inspector u police on duty in the department.
Inspector Mclaughlin being on trial In the Court
Of oyer and Terminer and Inspector McAvoy hav-
lng retired some weeks ago. Before the Commits
sioners select a man to Ill Mr Byrness place. 1t
IL expected that they will make some promotions
of captains 10 the rank u inspector.
SURPRISE ALL AROUND.
Tn. rs,,,cmsnt Of inspector williams a
.urpr,se 10 near,y avery body In the department.
IL IL doubtful II the Commissioners expe tied
such a thing to happen when they had their
regular meeting about noon. II was nea'y
? n IN when the Commissioners beg IN their
executive session. Then Inspector Williams
went upstalrs from his Office and quietly
entered III. room where the Commissioners were
II was hardly minute before he LETT the r'om'
and In that time he had presented MS hpph'a-
tlon for retirement. Earlier In the day Williams
had talked In private with Commissioner h"oSe-
Welt When the executive session ~ the Com
m,s,loner- was over there was the simple am
nouncemcn, that williams had been retired. To
reporters who asked II there had been unnni-
nous vote upon the retirement of the Inspector
Commissioner Roosevelt said that the Commits
sioners had agrced not 10 make any statement on
the subject, The other Commissioners made SIM
liar replies. but they admitted that the applca-
ton for retirement had not been hled uh'ii
Yesterday. and Colonel Grant said that he under
wa
tary The Commissioners said that under the
,av as II stood they had been compelled to re-
tire williams on his own application. AZ ne had
served more than twenty-five years In the force
and there were no charges pending against hitn'
INSPECTOR wlLILAMss CAREER
Inspector williams was born In 1899 on the
Island Of Cape Breton y. \. lie came To New
York when a boy and learned the trade Of ship
carpent.r lie was aftcrward In the employ of
w H. Webb 4 Co. the weIknown ship-bulld-
,rs When n young man he visited Japan Mex
lc1 and other countries lie claims The d'sthr-
t,on of being the first white man who laid the
keel Of a ship In Japan. After MS return 10
America n. was In the employ OF the Govern
m.nt for u time. ana engaged In raising "
sunl,.n ship on the coast Of Key West. Fla. He
wos nppoln,cd n patrolman August 3. 1866 by
commissloncr Bergen, On the old metropolitan
force and his first assignment was 10 the FORTY
seventh Precinct, EropklNn li' I'"''l'u '"'''
untn iS6s and vas then trnnsi'rf'u 10 'h' b'o""-
way Squad IN Ncw-York
on July TO- 1871 he was made u roundsnan ana
| ON September ~ OF the same year n" was pro-
,not.i to Y.rgenntcy and placed In charge oi the
mounted squad which had Just been organzcd
| lie was app ,intcd IA captain on May H. S'z' ana
assigned TO duty In the Twenty-nrt Precinct. In
East Thirty-nfth-st. Later ne c1mmanaea ne 'ne
| Eighth Precinct and the Fourth Precinct before
| he was placed In charge Of the Tenderloin fre-
| cinct During his career In the latter pace ne
came IN he known as "Williams the cubber.
lie was then detailed as Superintendent OF the
| street Cleaning Department In 1879. ana remained
until June l5 fssi when he was sent back 10 the
| .'Tenderloin where ne remained until ne was
| made Inspector on August 2. 1887 lie mas since
| been i'm charge OF the First Inspection District.
which takes In all the precincts on the east SIDE OF
| the city from the battery to East One-hundrcd-
| and -fourth-st. ,,.,., A.,
| Williams was prominently mentioned before the
| I,exow Committee. and was directly accused OF re-
| cciying brlbes by Captain schmittberger' VINO was
a sergean mt under him while he was captain oil tne
| "TenderIoin" The Extraordinary Grand jury In.
vestIgated the charges against Wiiiiaihs' pu'
| failed to find an Indictment