The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-04

AFTER the. Chief TO asi him to change an assign.
ment a. IL win Be TO run after the Commission
The department IL confronted with many
i Ssw G ISs p. htissy s are hard 70 :, s 81 q, ,s and ID i y VIII A.
mon sense. We do not want mon detailed to
pose OF discovering designation houses. We
hold that TO be no business of the department.
But we want such houses broken up wherever
1--WE want you to DO courteous to citizens,
and at the Same time to prevent all violations
selling included. Tho Impression has gone out
that the change to this new board means an
city GiEy" means. but tt there " N WHY Be- 6e' no Won" open on city SpS as
the same line be libcrally and broadly enforced.
when discovered, alert in hunting down the
"We want to do what is right. We intend
to do just what we believe to be right, and, be.
neving TINT, viii do II regardless Of what tho
opinion Of others may be. II you help us in
permanent here; we are merely transient. But
while So are hero we want to do oil we Gun for
sISon only, for, merit; fav'orfitism has passed;
of persecution In tho force there is an end. Il
carrying out this PROGRAMME give US your ear;
stand by you in everything that is right"
Then the POLICEMEN came up and shook
introduced his m n, and Chief McCullagh his
men. Then came the shoulder.strap episode
amid cheers and handclappinE. After # was
New York men to exhibit their shoulder-strap
trophies in the hall to Interested friends.
Of the Police Board and a small shake:up in
Mulberry street. Tho meeting was. brief and
mitted only at the last moment. There will be
no more open sessions of tho Police Board. Tho
Commissioner are evidently. of the opinion
tial result of the meeting was n series of reso-
lutions, Of which the following Is a sample.
hereby directed 10 assign such number OF In.
spcctors or other officers as he may deem nee
essary for the purpose of making n thorough in.
vcstigation as to the status of persons claiming
to he members Of the police departments with
In the borough OF Queens. and that he also in
property belonging or claimed to belong to the
police departments OF said borough. and, that
the Acting Chief he directed to assign such Off
GERS and men as he may deem necessary for the
similar resolutions were made to apply to the
explained that the charter allowed to New York
only 6.2s2p policemen and that the suburban au-
ss"f fheir h poiiso lost dep pa tlmS filing TS Sp city, shs rf II L
have several hundred more policemen on hand
,"Wo may, not need, so many" said MI. York,
but we will police the county districts, never
Chief McCullagh formally ordered Inspector
Rhodes to take charge of the borough Of Queens
under the resolution.
until q stage has been reached in tho process of
noanced. All the headquarters clerks had
audience with the board in the afternoon and
somewhere apparently suggested tho shake-up
to the Chief. The Captain, being young and
Is q hard place, and moved Capt. Titus, who has
held 1t long and satisfactorily, up to West
Forty-seventh street, where the responsibility
is greater and the annoynnccS fewer. Capt.
Schmittberger was. banished, to the oat dis
trict for cause. He cannot be reasonably OK.
since the Lexow inquiry at which he confessed
all, For the other transfers there are equally
good reasons. Smith is an engineer and an old
earned the brovet rank Of General during the
is the list Of the transfers made by the Chief:
Capt. Stephenson to tho EldrIdge street staff N.
Capt George +. Titus from the EIdridgo street to
Capt: Max +. schmittberger from tho West Forty
'e csps. s sdIsga e R sss af iSer fpem s,a ,he rremon. to the
East Twenty second street station.
stree STATION to the Harbor squad.
Capt: William Schultz from the Harbor squad to the
Capt William F. Hogan from the Union Market to
the Macdougal street station.
station to the Central ONCE. to act as Drill Captain.
ca Tas a't bIske Chief ot tS Sls0 ,d 5ps II d f RlsS.
mond police to suspend from duty Ser.
geants Stephen Harmon. Hugh Conlon. and
James Cook. Roundsmen Joseph Devlin and
John 7. Smith. and Patroimen William
pending a decision as to the legality OF their APP
pointment. The Sergeants were promoted from
roundsmcn on Friday, the roundsmen from
patrolmen, and the patrolmen put on the force
on that day.
Amid all the serious preparations for tho
change to a metropolitan police some things
provoked a smile. There was an entry on the
the effect that a burglar had attempted to break
into Gilles's Hotel, and when dr. ven away by
the hired man left behind a stepladder and a
three-cornered file. Burglars with stepladders
were something now to Capt. McClusky's men.
and seemed funny to them. Their manner of
recording a telephone despatch with the an
swer had sometimes q very curious effect. as
when Sergeant Cobb Of tho borough of Rich
mond. Station 2. entered on his report for Sat
urday:
Received by telephone this message:
ITO ALL: BY action Of the Board of Police
at a meeting held this day, John McCullagh was
made Acting Chief until further orders:
"'SiR. John McCULLAGH, Acting Chief
'Answered: All right, sir. COBB"