The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-11
POLICE PENSION PAY DAY.
,rTIRED BLUEo0ATS TO GET THEIR
DECEMBER MONET To-DAr.
r,,,. Martens Likely to ne Soon Restored 90
put,, ne tho New board Thinks He has
u,rn SIGNIFICANTLY Punished-The Holders
..anrt annnaN to Ne nhnLen Tin.

o.,,. Martens Likely to ne Soon Restored ia
nut,, ne tho New Hoard Thinks Fe HAS
u,rn Sufficiently puninhed-The Holders
ar ..sort snaps" to ne Shakes Up.
The Police Commissioners gave notice yes.
.,,aav that the 1887 pensioners of the depart
r,rnt will receive their December pensions to-
s.y There had been some delay, due to tho
s,cessary formality of the consolidation. Com.
al ,sioner Hamilton. who Is Treasurer, quail.
Ard on Friday, but IL wns not until yesterday
,hst nm account of tho funds was received
,rom Brooklyn and Richmond. Queens county
was not heard from.
brooklyn sent in S17. 151.71 as tho total cap
nal OF its pension fund, with 330 persons draw
ing pensions. Its showing contrasted strange
IL with that OF the borough of Richmond, which
With only seven pensioners had a fund amount
Ing to $40 9l. {. che old city has 1900 pen
,ioners on its roll. and q saved.up capital of
e.5s, sG6.ss; OF this amount $325,000 was In
vested in bonds of tho municipality. Ex.Com-
missioner Andrews came to Police H~eadquRr-
ters early yesterday and turned over tho bank
hooks TO his successor. Together they went
70 tho safe deposit company where the bonds
are kept and counted them over. Then Mr..
Andrews took q receipt for the whole amount,
and the transfer was made.
Inc fGuSlOu II uiu lhb oIhRIob buTCCD VI EON-
enue under tho charter. 1t receives, as be-
all the uncxpended balances of the department,
zines of policemen, sick pay. and lost timo,''
fees for masked balls and entertainments, for
pistol permits. and tho sale of unclaimed prop
erty, and, in addition, a 2 per cent. assessment
on policcmen's pay. To make sure that nothing
shall happen to 1t in any event, the charter pro-
yides that any deficiency shall DO ascertained
BIZ the board and made up by the Board Of EST.
mate and Apportionment each year.
The board sat long in secret session yester-
day. and among other things took up the case
Of Capt. Martens. who was, suspended for q
went out, for allowing policy gambling to pros
per in his precinct. Capt. Martens has haunt.
ed, Police headquarters since the new board
board by Commissioners Sexton. Who said
frankly that n good many persons had been to
zee, ,se him i'm about SSptai IT. S Snd b bea5 1t sismed e fS him
Commissioner Philips agreed with Mr.. Sex
ton. Every Captain was needed. and Martens
had already been sufficiently Inundated. He
asked that he DO restored TO duty.
Mr.. Hamilton said that he was reading tho
evidence and would like 1t laid over until to-
day. and, upon the advice OF President York,
thai was done.
Chief MecIlIagh's report on the Waldorf and
SfISoapi action byithe board. These clubs applied lied
for license to give boxing exhibitions. The
board was apparently not ready to act upon
their applications.
A was appointed consisting, Of
the Chief, Deputy Chief Mackellar, Inspector
to draft rules for the government of the joint
force. Tho rules differ now in all tho boroughs
except Manhattan and the Bronx. Two rules.
numbered 10 and 800 in the manual Of the old
New York force, were extended ut once by order
Of the board to cover the whole city. The first
charges the roundsmen with the responsibility
for their squads; the second is sthe familiar old
rule that has done woman 8 service In Oil lnV0S-
legations of the past. requiring precinct COM
manders to report quarterly all questionable re-
sorts to headquarters.
The business of the actual welding together
Of the five boroughs into one city spun itself out
slowly in n series of resolutions requiring the
Chief to report the number of officers and men
needed to patrol parks and bridges, to keep
force at their work until further orders, less
traffic be blocked, and;calling for O full list OF
%emigrant boarding houses and their runners.
The board ordered that all applications for ap-
pointment on the force or In the department
be filed with the chief clerk and kept In n book
specially prepared by him, tho applications to
be printed in the City Record on the following
The Chief was directed to transmit to tho
board the names Of all policemen who act rs de-
~tectives. with tho date of their appointment
and where they were taken from when detailed;
likewise the names of all policemen detailed on
special duty or to service in the court squads.
These arc the soft snaps Of the department.
Every new administration and Chief shakes the
The Police Civil Service Bureau having
lapsed, the examiners, Mr.. Dobbs and Mr.. Bell,
whom Mr.. Roosevelt brought to Mulberry street,
were discharged.