The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-03
MANHATTAN
err POLICEMEN sUBsTITUTED FOR
COUNTRY ST EUIBS.

In Only 1--WE Towns were There ouasi Poilce-
men nt the stations-At These the Local
Force surrendered After rrotest-Tho In.
VsdinE Array Comprised = Hundred MEN
The Police Board settled the question yoster.
day ne to how to police the borough Of Queens
without the $50 now policemen they had ex.
pocted to do 1t with. They took from the old
forces OF Manhattan and Brooklyn 100 men and
sent them out to take charge, a Sergeant being
everywhere loft In command where tho cur
tailed budget had contemplated a Captain. 1t
was expected that opposition would be cncoun-
tered from the old village constables, who con.
slider that they have q grievance. and to disarm
1t tho invasion was planned as a surprise. 1t
succeeded perfectly. At tho Same hour Of the
forenoon squads Of city policemen marched into
and took possession OF the old stations. In only
two places, College Point and whitostone, was
any formal protest offered. 1t was quietly dis.
regarded, and the old tenants put away their
uniforms and went out. Within an hour word
reached Mulberry street from each of the cap
tured villages that all was quiet and that the
work OF laying out patrol beats was under way.
The board had given the Chief orders on Tues
day evening to take Queens In hand at once. and
had approved a list Of detachments submitted by
was Wi%' mr1Gs s%S to 1eSMi' aifbor DseS Street Sts and told To
meet two squads OF ten men and two roundsmenn
picked from BroooSiyn' and mi's start rtV with them for
Jamaica and Richmond Hill an hour before
noon. Inspectors Rhodes, Brooks and Cross were
morning ct the East Thirty:ffth street station.
Six little companies, Of ten patrolmen. each
York force and somewhat doubtful about their
year. whstsver might be their hopes for the
summer. However, orders were orders, and ut
f fsa stFq insp oe IL tf Bro ia5sle w sP% 70 issd t%o for SQUADS sas
to Newtown and Flushing. Inspector Rhodese
squad under Sergeant Townsend on Rockaway
thing that could be construed as In any way
recognizing the constabulary forces in the
whonsoever they found there that they had no
standing. and proceed to lay out police work for
Inspector Brooks's force encountered no oppo-
town and Flushing entirely by surprise. Ser.
Reant Kear and his squad dropped off at New
own and lay in ambush, under the plan Of cam
paign. until the train had reached Flushing by
men to the place used as q station house at the
same time that Inspector Brooks went with
Flushing to the Town Hall. There were no
policemen there. and no one either to welcome
themselves at home and were soon installed in
Inspector Rhodes had dropped Sergeant Ohm
and his men ut College Point. and went on to
Whitestone himself with Sergeant. Hayes's
squad. They found uniformed men In charge
at both places. who surrendered after q formal
protest. Sergeant Hayes lodged his squad of
six men in the Whitestone Town Hall. Inspect
or Cross occupied Far Roekaway. and pushed
Sergeant Townsend's squad out upon the beach
last to report all quiet. but, by 1 o'clock, Chief
McCullagh knewithat the borough of Queens
had passed in fact as well as in name under his
jurisdiction.
The hundred men will have to run the borough
this year. and will servo as the nucleus of the
eventual police force Of the borough. which will
be largely made up of bicycle and mounted men.
This ID the force as now disposed:
JAMAICA.
Sergeant James P. White. Roundsmen Charles Mndi-
gan and George Bonner. Ten patrolmen.
HILL.
Sergeant John T. Gardner. Roundsmen Edward
Hayes and John Tallman. Ten patrolmen.
FLUSHING.
Sergeant John Cottrell. Roundsmen William a.
Lombard and Ernest X. Bingham. Ten patrolmen.
NEwTowN.
Sergeant Francis Kear. Roundsmen Patrick Farrell
and samuel Aiken. Ton p~atrolmen.
wHITEsToNE.
Sergeant Cornelius @. Hayes. Roundsmen Anthony
Panet and Michael Snyder. Six patrolmen.
COLLEGE POINT.
Sergeant Herman P. ohm. Roundsmen Patrick J.
Lynch and William J. Corey. Ten patrolmen.
FAR RoCKAwAY.
Sergeant Norman Westervelt. Roundsmen William
H.. Sullivan and George c. Farr. Ten patrolmen.
RoCKAwAY BEACH.
Sergeant John Townsend. Roundsmen Nathan
Hertz and John z. Shea. Ten patrolmen.