The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-29
WHAT MCULLAGH WANTS.
NEW POLICE HEADQUARTERS FoR
a STARTER.

Many New Poiice Stations Here and In Broek-
lyn-More PoIieemrn-'stntiosary Fostsn
Detective Bureaus sheuid Ne Reorennised
ana SHounted Policemen Taught 70 Ridei
The Police Commissioners made public yes
to-day q report on the needs Of the department,
in which Chief MoCullagh pleads for a new Gem
trail Office building. The present one, he SAYS,
ia wholly inadequate for an army OF 1900 men.
1t was built when the police force numbered
only 1000. He suggests that Il be rebuilt and
made to house a drin room and armory az we'll
as:the executive and the Commissioners offices.
In the new building the top floor would be do
voted to the telegraph service, which is now
In the basement In very poor quarters.
The station houses of tho old city are, with
few exceptions, unfit for use, according to the
Chief. He singles out those in Madison street,
Delaney street, West Twentieth, and East
Thirty-hfth streets as instances Of unntness and
in the Bronx. the Highbridge, Morrisania, Kings-
bridge. Westchester. and Wakefield stations.
New houses should take their place. In West
chester ffty-six new horses ara imperatively
needed for an increase Of the mounted squad.
Brooklyn needs 800 additional men after the
100 vacancies In the force are filed. and new
station houses In the Second, Fifth, Sixth,
Twenty-sixth. Twenty-seventh Twenty eighth,
Twenty.ninth. and Thirtieth precincts. Hun
er's roint also needs q new station house.
The six precinct stations in tho borough of
Queens tho Chief would locate at Astoria. Hunt.
er's Point. Newtown. Flushing. Jamaica, and Far
Rockaway, with sub-stations at woodside.
College. Point, milestone. Bayside, Douglas
ton sss,b hehhm nm man hi th;.m AFrw o . nnsas and q, R @sn,Sgy
troimen. and $50 horses. For Richmond he
men. and ia8 pstroimen in addition to the
hfty-seyen men who now do police duty there.
precinct pla GS with az four scrseants and On four
The station house in Washington street,
Is "SbsoIutciy UNIT Tor use. He found ndi seven in.
capacitated patrolmen on the bridge. force,
they be got rid Of promptly.
m enft Sra m %Snt Pars soIP 1 9hs Rron, chiefly hsSE. m nmS ahSl
%1tations in crotona and Pelham Bay Park rR0 The The
whole force is to wear blue and brass. The
sparroTlgray must 60.
wants 1t extended wherever It can be of use. OF
the mounted squad he says, probably to the sur;
men at the Horse Shows, that there arc but
few mounted men in the service who thoroughly
1rderstsnd how to ride or to take proper care
cause they have never been properly drilled and
instructed in their duties" He wants a school
The Chiefs plan for reorganizing the de-
tectiye force contemplates ousting the ward
biiity IN i Headauarters, Pitt Fifty d detec tiSe0 ser.
geants and as many plain detectives are to be
placed. there. and in each precinct three who
arc to be directed from Headquarters. Mr.. Nc
CCullagh makes a plea, for his pet scheme of
stationary posts"-sidewalk telephone boxes
effective signal system. Four hundred such
boxes on Manhattan Island would cost only
$3.50, 900, which IL about one-sixtb of the OK
pense Of any other signal system offered, and
would more effectively police the city.
The Broadway squad was dispersed by Conlin.
He broke up IFS separate organization and dis
tributed tho men among the precincts abutting
on their:Broadway posts; They are members
store their autonomy In a measure. They
are to have their own rOundsmen in future.
gests that six-footers are the proper thing for
dangerous crossings, and that 1t would be a
good thing to pick them for all such in every
borough, since there are enough big mon on the
force. To make sure of this he has sent out to
have all six-footers on the force report to him at
Onc0.