Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-06
BOARD OF PUBLIC sAFETY
City Will Pay One-Half for Wall Near ScovilI Street Engine House.


 Commissioner Knox filled the post of honor at last nights meeting of the board of public safety, the office of chairman pro tenn. in the absence of Mayor Kilduff. The first business done was the reading of a communica- ton from William E. Quigley. inviting the city to a half ownership in wall he proposes building between his prop erty and the Scovill street engine house. and the attendant expenses of building the wall s122.73. This mat ter was referred to the committee which has been Investigating Mir Quigley's bill against the city for the use of few longitudinal feet back of his shop for the past few years Com missioner Kleinecke asked a number of questions relating to the alleged necessity of the wall or fence which showed that either one or the other was all right whereupon the matter was extracted from the hands of the committee and it was decided to share with 1rIQuigley.
 Robert Wolff. fireman at the ScO- will street engine house. broke a leg some time ago and asked that he be compensated for the consequent fifteen weeks he was laid up- He claimed to have been on duty at the time he was hurt but the board and Chief Snagg held otherwise and it was voted to dis pose Of the matter by calling in Mr Wolff at the next meeting and hear his verbal statement.
 Henry F. Merendaz. callman at the Burton street engine house, ten dered his resignation and asked that he be allowed to retain his badge. His resignation was accepted. but lie was not allowed to keep his badge. the board not favOring the idea of allow ing public property, and particularly fire badges. in the hands of everybody who happened to have it. Commis- sioner F. Foley differed to some extent from his colleagues in that he claimed if q fireman lost his badge he was charged S2, and therefore to that ex- tent he considered it the individual property of the fireman.
 Fireman Reilly who hurt his right foot a few weeks ago by jabbing it with d hayAfork. was allowed full pay. The motion to grant him pr- was made by Commissioner Daniel Foley. Reil- ly was off eleven days.
 Chief Snagg's annual report was accepted and filed by vote.
 Chief Egan requested private meeting of the board to discuss private instructions to the policemen and other matters of q private nature and it was decided to meet next Friday even- ing. The payrolls of the fire and po- lice departments were then read and approved.
 Chief Egan's monthly report is as follows: Whole number of arrests 99, whole number of cases 131. males 122. females 9. Cause of arrest: Assault 9. breach of the peace 15, burglary ?. intoxication Al. neglect to support family l, resistance of officer ?, theft 9. vagrancy 4, violation of license law 39. violation of city ordinance 3. Dis position of arrested: Appealed to dis trict court 10. bound oyer to superior court 3, committed to county jail 2S. to wOrkhouse 1, discharged by chief of police IS, not guilty 1, nolled by pros ecuting attorney 10, paid fines and costs 40 sentence suspended 10 died in lookup ]. Nativity of arrested: United States, white 70, Ireland 34. England ?, Germany 1. Canada 8. It ally :, Sweden l. Switzerland l. Rus Sia l. Iithuania 3. Time lost by reg ular force 52 hours, special duty per formed, I6 hours: stores and offices found open 27. lodgers 1S4, electric lights out of order 4, expense to take prisoners to jail S19, expense to make arrests 50 cents, expense to take prs- oners to almshouse S1.5O, total $S1..