The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-19
POLICE BOARD MEETING.
ANNUAL REPORTS WERE SUBMIT
 TED LAST NICHE.

Important Suggestions Made by Chic
 yyrinn-The Work of the Department
 Commended-Intero Statistics iI
 Clerk SOuthworth's Report-Order foI
 White Caps for Officers Repealed. l The police board at it's regular meet l ing last night occupied nearly the
 whole time of the session in listening | to and discussing the annual reports of | Chief Wrinn and Clerk SouthWorth. | The only other business transacted was
 to repeal the rule which requires offi- | cers of the department to wear white
 caps during the summer and that su- pernumeraries must wear numbered
 badges, the numbers beginning at 300.
 The order for white caps, which went
 into effect last summer, was not relish
 ed by the officers and it's repeal will be very welcome to them.
 The annual reports of Chief Wrlnn and Clerk SouthWorth were presented | last night. The chief reports that the police force now consists of 175 mem
 bers, including five captains, seventeen
 sergeants, seven detectives and 1l9 pa-
 trolmen. In addition to these there are
 fifty-eight supernumeraries not on reg
 ular duty, but subject to call by the de-
 partment as occasion may require.
 There are also thirteen men on the re-
 tired list receiving pensions.
 The chief repeats his former sugges-
 tions that cells be built at station No. 5,
 and that citizens who are about to va
 cate their residences during the sum-
 mer, or at any other time for short
 period leave notice to that effect at po-
 lice headquarters in order that their
 property may receive special care dur
 ing their absence. He states that in his opinion the city is clearer of gambling at the present time than at any other time during his experience. He says that the closing of saloons on Sundays has been and will be vigorously enforc- ed by the police, and that very few Sunday liquor law violations are taking place here now.
 During the year ending December 31, 1901. 5,229 arrests were made by the New Haven police. The reports states that never in it's history have the members of this police department been so severely tried by deaths, sick ness and by extraordinary efforts to maintain it's good reputation as they have been in the year 1901. Among the extraordinary efforts which the de- partment has been called upon to per form he mentions especially the efforts required by the Yale-Princeton football game, the Yale bicentennia1 and the Consolidated road strike.
 ' After speaking in the highest terms of the work of every officer and man in the department, the chief states in the report that an increase of ten more men to the department would greatly add to it's efficiency.
 He speaks in praiseworthy terms or the work of the detective bureau and of every member of the bureau person. ally. He speaks especially of the work of the bureau during the bicentennial and of the intelligence shown by the members in arresting large number of suspicious characters upon their ar rival in the city and in sending them to iail on charges of idleness, as it subse- uuently proved that all of them were men who had bad police records. He thinks that the prompt arrest of those men saved citizens and guests during the bicentennial from serious danger to them and their property.
 The report states that the Policemen's | Relief Fund amounted on December 31, 1901 to s47,20O12 Of the clerical work | of the department the chief says: "The i work of the department, clerical and | 1, fe ct a,of1 et n gives me great pleasure to reiterate what I have said on all former occa sions-that the clerical portion of it un- der the very able management of our | present efficient clerk, Frank A. South worth is in all its details a model of perfection and reflects credit on him self and on the whole department"
 Of Electrician Kittredge he says: The condition of the signal service has very much during the year. Owing to the liberal amount given him ast year by the honorable board of finance our electrician was enabled to purchase considerable wire for under round work and succeeded In laying r ,350 feet of underground wire in addi- ion to what was already laid. The re- port of Austin L. w. Kittredge, our
 
 electrician and lineman, will show the arge amount of work done in this branch of the service. I am pleased to ay that our electrician is a very pains- aking man, works faithfully to keep he system up to it's present good stan lard and is always ready to perform my duty assigned him"
 The chief suggests that an effort be made to purchase three new bicycles to nabIe him to place three more bicycle nen in such portions of the city during he summer as they may be needed.
 The report of Clerk Southworth con- aims interesting statistics concerning he department, and is as follows:
 I herewith submit my annual report f the department of police service overing It's fiscal year from January
 1901, to and including December 31, poi. Tn accordance with the custom of revious years the report includes a tatement of the finances of the depart lent for the fiscal year ending Decem- CT 91, 1901, the condition of the police len's relief fund and the general sta stics of the work in tabulated form, by the department dur lg the year just closed. T During the year the total running Spenses of the department have been