The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-01
THE POLICE COMMISSION FRS.
Business Transacted ut Their Meeting
 Last Night.


 Last Night.
 The board of police commissioners met last night, the meeting being pre- sided over by Mayor Farnsworth. The superintendent monthly report was accepted and ordered on file. In his report the superintendent commended highly Sergeant Dennehy of the detec- tive bureau for his good work in run ming down the perpetrators of the many burglaries recently in the west ern part of the city.
 A communication was received from the New Haven hospital thanking the department for the use of the police ambulance.
 Captain Brewer, Sergeant Doherty and Policeman Collett sent in a petition asking that they be allowed to spend their time off duty this summer at the shore. The petitions were referred to the superintendent with power to act.
 Two special constables sent in their resignations They were Louis Cole man and Alfred c. Monson.
 A communication was received from Captain Cowles turning over to the Pc lice Mutual Benefit Fund $50 which ne had received as reward for capturing Murty Savage not long ago.
 The board voted that each and every officer, patrolman and member of the department should appear when on the street in full uniform from the time that his period on duty is begun until it is ended, except he is especially ex- cused or is detailed for duty in citizens clothes.
 It was also voted to direct the clerk of the department to procure a full uni form to be approved by the board.
 The civil service committee reported the names of twenty-one men as eligi- ble for appointment. The following su pernumeraries were appointed: J. D. Deegan, K. J. Farrell, Alfred Hand, P. Flynn, F. A. Park, T. F. Holloran, M. A. Stowell, w. A. Clay, M. McGann, o. J. Prior, J. M. Fitzgerald, c. T. Holton, w. F. Clark, G. w. Freeman, Edward Turbert, J. F. Quinn, P. A. Merwin, c. P. Lane. G. A. Spencer, F. w. Lathrop and F. D. Barry.
 Six and one-half days pay was grant ed to Policeman John Allen for time lost because of injuries received in the discharge of his duty.
 It was voted to allow the formation of police baseball team to play a se- ries of three games on their own time, no tickets to be sold except on the grounds where the games are to be played.
 The clerk was directed to notify spe cial constables that they must secure their badges on or before July or their appointments will be revoked.
 The annual report of the department was read and accepted.
 The annual report of the police de pertinent to the mayor, as required by section 161 of the charter was gone over by the board of police commissioners at their meeting last night and transmit ted to Mayor FarnsWorth. The report of the clerk of the department, F. A. Southworth, contains some interesting general statistics of the work of the department during the year May 1, 1897 May 1, 1898, and also a statement of the finances of the department. MT. Southworth's report is in substance as follows:
 The expenses of the department from May 1, 1897, to May 1, 1898, amount to the total sum of $173, ,405.26 subdivided among the several items of appropria- tions as follows: For pay roll, $166,- 300.60; for police alarm, $2,0772S; for wagon and harness repairs, $407.33; for rent of reporting stations, $270; for spe- cial detective service, $24207; for for age, $1,35589 for sundries $1, 1,013.52; for horses, $120; for heating, $572.18; for lighting, $700.40; for maintaining and repairing buildings, $346.49.
 will ha an1ar11harnH that 011rnp the year 1897 in consequence of the fact that the board of finance did not ap propriate a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of the pay roll it became necessary to lay off thirty-two patrol men each and every week until the de- felt, about $1,500, had been made up. This together with the fact that the honorable board of police commission CTS early in the present year regarded the patrolmen, thus reducing the cur rent fixed expenses of the department by nearly $4000 accounts for the fact that the amount expended in the pay roll account is less than during pre- vious years.
 The amounts appropriated by the honorable board of finance for the cur rent expenses of the department of po- lice SeTViCG lTOIH DGCGIJDCI l, loJi, LO January 1, 1899 are as follows: Pay roll, $1S8,233. police alarm, $2,699.33; horses, $500; wagon and harness re- pairs, $400; special detective service, $500; sundries, $1,0O0; forage, $1,550; heating, $1,00O; lighting, $1,S00;; main- taining and repairing buildings, $1,000
 Of the above amounts there is at the present time remaining unexpended balances as follows: Pay roll, $11S,146.- H. police alarm, $1,94914; horses, $1S0; wagon and harness repairs, $29S60; spe- cial detective service, $27940; sundries, $74S.25; forage, $920.37; heating, $427S2; lighting, S1099.6O; maintaining and re- pairing buildings, $65351.
 There is at the present time under the control of the board of police com missioners, by the provisions of the new charter, property valued at ap- proximately $162 ,124.45, including the real estate, buildings thereon, and con- tents of the police building Court street, Grand avenue station, Howard avenue station, and DixwelI avenue station.
 The poIicemen's relief fund has at the present time on it's rolls ten former members of the department. This fund, made up, as it is, of per cent of the amount of license fees received by the county from liquor dealers, to-