Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-11-30
REPORTS OF SUBORDINATES
Statements Made to Superintendent of Police
for Past Fiscal Year,

| Accompanying the annual report of Major
Sylvester, superintendent of the police de-
partment, which has @lready been pub
| ished in The Star, were a number of re-
ports of subordinate officials, which were
| for the first time made public today
! Mr.. j. A Kemp, chief clerk. and also
property clerk of the department, stated
that the estimate ted value of the lost, stolen
and abandoned property turned into his
office during the fiscal year amounted to
| SiG0 1899, of which there were delivered to
| claimants. upon proper proof, and sold as
| unclaimed articles, amounting in value to
| $43 ,3o4 81. That on hand is valued at
S2,716.0S. In 1897 the value of the property
| so received was So, 1898, or $13,S OF less
| than in 1875.
There Were 2ss bicycles reported lost or
stolen and of these 254 were recovered by
the police department.
In reference to this matter Mr.. Kemp
says:
MANY of these bicycles are not claimed
for weeks or are held as evidence in cases
pending before the courts. Trunks, furni-
ture, baby carriages, etc, also accumu-
late rapidly. and in such bulk as to abso-
lutely prevent the proper storage of the
articles of value l am required by law to
care for. l fear this condition of affairs
will lead to complaint from citizens by rea-
son of their property being broken. or de-
faced while in my charge"
During the year there was paid as insur-
ance from police relief fund 5000 on the
following deceased officers: Charles w
ONeill, Joseph Cook, Jefferson D. Rodgers,
George w. Biandford, John N Salkeld
Thomas Britt. John Mel Bull Richard p
Mcdaniel John d. Sutton and James NJ
Edwards. OF II
PoIicei'surgeons.
The report of the board of police sur
geons made by Dr.. Clinton MayfieId, sec
rotary, was, in part, as follows: Officers
reported sick s64 number of visits made to
sick, 2,723; Office jG4nsui tations held. 1894;
jected, 80. wi u.
The Sanitary Office.
The report of Sanitary Officer Frank was
in part as follows.s -
"Cranks and dertented persons continue
to visit our city, endeavoring to have right
ed their imaginary wrongs. Twelve of s,,cb
persons We're returned whence they came
during the year just closed.
''Tramps and imposters come here In larsa
numbers seeking the aid intended only for
the worthy destitute. 1t requires the ut
most care to prevent the dispensing of such
assistance to those who do not merit if.
During the fiscal year 1898 $50 persons
were furnished with transportation to their
homes, their way thereto an in
crease Of fifteen persons over the fiscal
year 1897. The amount expended for this
purpose in 1893 was 81. 74803. The number
thus provided with transportation NAV be
classified as follows: Males. SO: females,
265; white. 1853; eoiored, 172; native born
7S9; foreign born. 146.
1.-THE most distressing cases with which
this Office has to deal are the men from the
oyster fields of the Chesapeake bay and
lower Potomac river. Forty-one of these
oyster dredgefs were provided with trans
portation during the year. being an in
crease of eleven over the preceding year.
Thirty-nine women who had been