The times., 1897-07-02
A SCORE OF new BLUEc0ATs
Twenty Additional Guardians Of
the City's Peace Sworn In.
"THE FINEST" NUMBER 545
List of the New wielders Of the
Baton aud the Precincts That VIII
Know TheuI-Some Changes in the
Beats and Some Surprises in
the Ranks.

Twenty new policemen took cath to as
sst in guarding the peace of Washington
yesterday morning before Captain Austin
at police headquarters, and were equipped
with liadge, baton, pistol and other re-
quiremcnts 10 enter upon their new duties.
This addition to the force Increases the NUM-
ber of men in the department to 545, Of
which 500 arepriyates, 500 in thefirst class
and 200 in tie second.
The new men anu their assignments to
the various precincts are as follows:
To the First precinct-John F. Chris
more, Charles BartcI, Robert II. Clark and
Jacob c. herman.
Second prec.pct-Edward Mudd.
Third plecinct-Calyin u. Tribby and
Lawrence j. Quill.
Fourth precinct-Charles S. Baum and
Zachanah II. Hawkins.
Fifth precinct-Thomas A. Lusby and
Charles +. osterman.
Sixth precinct-Albert W. Steventon.
Seventh precinct-John X. LintleI ano
McGiil Grove.
kignth precinct-Leonard E. Drager
James w. McCoii;.2"t enses q. O'Bnen
and Waiter iIxs-tsI.
Ninth precinct-Arthur Stahl and Ernest
l.. Lake.
In addition to these recruits there has
been slight shaking up of the men in a
number OF Instances and numerous trans
fers. In spite Of the fact that twenty
new m en- have been addedto the force, the
number of street men actually IN patrol
service in the two most important pre-
cincts, the First aud the Sixth, comprising
The down town district, has not been in
creased
or the four new men assigned to the
First precinc. two will fill vacancies Gre
ated by the transfer OF Policemen G. Z. f.
Fathers TO No. and S. L. HeTndon to
No. A, while the other two viii do pat-ol
duty in place OF Policemen Mellen and
Co.'s, WHO have been detailed TO the new
post which has been created at Ninth and
the Avenue. 1t is said that the ultimate
purpose of tile authorities is to create
special Avenue police service from the
Peace Monument 10 the Treasury, so that
there Will be an officer at every i'm
portant street CLOSING, and whose beats
will be on no other streets 1t is uutier-
stood that this action has been fayorilbly
recommended and S liable TO be realized
in the near future.
The greatest surprise was the transfer
of Policeman Father from the First to
the NINTH precinct He has been in the
service for nearly six years, ard more
than half of that time has been in the
First precinct. He was generally re
gar,led as one Of the most capable and
L. IN. 1aTagV NJ mo Tsa
and the fact that he has been trans
ferred from an important station to an
inferior one meets with general disap-
| prevail Another surprise is the transfer
of Policemen CTeagh and Kimmel from
No. C Nos and 8. In each OF
these cases, with a single exception, new
and entirely inexperienced men fill the
| places Of Old officers.
Notwithstanding The fact of the va rion'
changes and additions the actual working
force Of the police department is still
| crippled for two reasons. In the first
! place, it is said that there are upwards o
| fifty men in the service who are physically
| incapacitated for regular street duty, ano
it is believed to be the intention of tn,
| authorities to Weed these out gradu-
ally by placing them on the retired lis
and inject new material into the force.
Another reason is found I'm the fact that
a large number of men are detailed FOL
| special duty and clerical work, at police
headquarters and the police court, beside
the twentv-eight men who are detailed nj
the White House from the various pre-
cincts While these twenty-eight men
| guard only the grounds about the Exec,r
tive Mansion, a similar number look aftel
| the safety Of the whole northeast section
| of the city
The several changes have enabled the
department 70 make six promotions II
order of eligibility The fortunate one.
are Policemen Adam Stenhouse and Henry
Gilbert, OF the First precinct; Martin
o'Brien, OF the third; J. w Robertson
bicycle squad: Frank Baner of the Fourth
and r : Kelly, of the sixth
The various changes and alterations
went into effect yesterday morning