New-York tribune., 1901-11-24
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH.

After costly and unsatisfactory experiment in
attempting to adapt the needs Of the Brooklyn
Police Headquarters a building rented for po-
ltcal reasons, the barnlike structure WILL it Is
said be abandoned next May. The through
whose influence the quarters at No 10 Smth-st
were rented for the Police Department has lost
his pull. and the Willoughbv Street leaders had
desided before Election to abandon the building
should the Democratic leaders remain in power
more certain that the unsuitable headquarters will
99aef9d Fee qR IN the rat m fTap in smthst are de
lighted at the prospect of a change. What is in
they will be quartcred after May /, 1902
Two years ago next May the building at No IS
Snith-st rented by the Police Commissioners
and the Brooklyn headquarters moved there from
the Municipal Building Bernard J. York. the Will
loughby Street leader. was president Of the Police
Board at the time. 1t alleged in justification
OF the move that the police needed more room and
greater privacy than could be obtained IN the
Municipal Building After several thousand dollars
had been spent the old structure. the police
moved in. and found themselves more huddled UP
than thev had been in the Municipal Building.
It ned been SAID in argnng Tor the me ehahge en- & 1s tns
Of the building. thus saving the rent OF the quar-
ters then used by that department The Bureau
OF Elections was crowded onto one of the floors
but in the time 1t remained there found the faciii-
venience The Bureau of Elections is now occupy,
ing rocmy and expensive quarters In the Municipal
Building.
The present Police Headquarters building is one
OF the oldest in that part OF the borough. 1t was
built in 1S49 by ex-Mayor Smith and at that time
the most pretentious home in the city, being
brownstone front. four stories in height. In the
of time the building became the property of
the NewYork and New-Jersey Telephone Com
pany. and used by it a main office and
central station. When, several years ago, it be-
came inadequate building was put up at
Willoughby and Jay sts and the old one was
pany's hands: but Thomas F. Nevins. one of the
leading stockholders in the company; happened to
hp al q IC nj
other Democratic leaders. Then it was discovered
signed for the old telephone building and the city
rental of $500.
In the Municipal Building the Police Department
had for years used the choicest They were
light and airy and large. In fact. the Municipal
Building projected primarily for the Police De-
partment. The headquarters there convenient
and its location was known to everybody. There
elevator service up midnight In spite of all
the alterations. the quarters in Smth-st were
cramped. stufy and inconvenient. The telegraph
get nforma ton, is on the top floor. at the end
of P an IS no
the building Once on the top floor. finds the
dows OF which the end and near the top Of
the wall. In summer the place is .veritable
'sweatboX.' All OF the other branches of the
vice badly served.
In addition to the inconvenient arrangement of
the building it is ramshackle old affair
Thomas F. Nevins is longer in favor with
Hugh Mclaughlin and the Willoughby Street lead
ers. and it has been decided to give up the building
leased from the New-York and New-Jersey Tele-
phone Company when the lease expired May.
The failure of the Graft -Nevins brokerage firm
which brought out dispute between Mr.. Nevins
and James Shevlin and ex-senator John McCarty
Willoughby Street leaders, over the existence of
blind pool contract caused the bitterest feeling
formerly been welcomed
There is much speculation to where the police
find suitable headquarters. 1t will be impossi-
bic for them to go back into the Municipal Build
ing, the rooms formerly occupied by them have
been given to the Second Brigade. N. G. N. Y:
the Water Bureau and other municipal depart
ments. The police officials would like to get quar-
ters in the new and handsome Temple Bar Building
Court and Joraemon sts but 1T is doubtful if the
owners of that property would to have the
Police Department for tenant. The basement
and perhaps two upstairs in the Bor-
ough Hall would admirably answer the purposes
of the Police Department, but these quarters
occupied by number of organizations by spe-
cial permission granted many A
fremens organization. the Executive and Me-
c the Var Veterans and Sons Sssocia6n af snG
several other veteran organizations have headquar-
ters or meeting places in the Borough Hall 1t has
been said that these organizations in reality have
right to city property and should be obliged to
little probability, however, that the organizations
could be removed without considerable friction and
seems. therefore. to be suitable place which is
available for the Police Department, and the ques-
ton of finding headquarters will pe a no
small task for the incoming administration.
FEARED HIS BOILER WOULD BLOW UP
Because he feared that the boiler which he oper-
ated would blow up and kill many people,
John Moerely, an engineer, ffty-sx years old. of
No. 46 South Sixth-st., Brooklyn, attempted sui
eide hv cuttiU I'M hea with