The sun., 1902-11-10
HIGH POLICE PLACES VACANT
AND NINETEEN MORE CAPTAINS
NAY DE Reduced.



/le. There's q Lack Of 0O SerGeants
The New Eligible List Isn't Ready.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court will hand down a decision on Nov.
"a in the taxpayers suit to oust the nineteen
police captains whom the lork-SeAton
hoard appointed in December, 1900. and
February. 1901. and whose appointments
we're declared Illegal by the Municipal
Civil Service Commission. Everybody who
has paid attention to the matter seems To
think the decision will he unfavorable To
the captains
IL this should prove the case. tommis-
soner Partridge will be compelled to re-
woke their appointments at once. Another
result Of the decision would he to wipe out
the existing eligible list Of sergeants. The
Commissioner would thus be vented
from appointing any new captains until
the nineteen reduced men had been re-
graded and a new list made out.
The captains IN question are: Edward
j. Kenney. Jefferson Deevy. John Mara,
Michael German. Edward Walsh. Edward
j. Toole. James Cannon. John F.. Colgan,
Lawrence J Murphy. John Buchanan, John
Cooney. John r Flood. Michael f.. Foody,
Francis j. kear. Edward J. Gaus, John j.
Iantry, Charles G. Wendell. Francis 4.
Creamer and Michael Devaney.
The legal proceedings for their ousting
were begun in the latter part of 1910. when
J. Warren Green OF the civil Service Re
form Association brought taxpayers
suit in the supreme Court, making Gaus.
l.antry and Cannon defendants. Justice
lierrick handed down a decision against
the captains, who then appealed To the APP
pcllate Division.
On April II this year, Commissioner
Partridge was notified by the Municipal
Civil Service Commission that the appoint
ment Of those captains had been found
illegal and must be revoked They have
since then been drawing rergeants pay
only.
here are now -four vacant CaptalnC">.
Three more Will probably iecoine vacant
TINS week through the retirement of lapt-.
Timothy j tree!eu, Anthony =. Woods
and " j Buriold. he Two last mentioned
officers are to he examined To-day 10y IL"
Board Of Surgeons with regard 10 thtli
phy slcai cOndltiuu irccicil L. uidtf
charges tut has been examined toy toe
Board of Surgcuus and declared to be too
sick ever To perform duty again lh.S
leaves the Commissioner no other choice
than To retire him on pension ia splte ui
the charges.
The Commissioner told Sun reporter
yesterday that he did not ike To have ="
many commands filled hy acting captains,
| and that he had hope,l TO be able Ia III the
vacancies lefOi" tn" situation becomes
| still further complicated 10y the reduction
! Of nineteen NOR" captains What mas Kept
| him from making the appointments has
been IN" scarcity Of >ergeaut-
| I here are az present nearly sixty vaCanCi'~
| in that rank. and the stations IA 'hi- 'lN
that have flll complement Of io'ir sci X ants
| are very few. II l. now ny" or six Wrth-
! since he Commissioners Cal!ei ON thc MnhlC-
| ipal Civil Service Commission :or an eiISitir
! list If roundsIncn. The list II not yet ready
! and the commissioner said Yesterday that
ne feared It might not reach hlIn ueiore
Nov. IA
should the list not b.. ready before th"
| end Of this week. the Commissioning VIA
probably 20 ahead and pIuinot" suiiiCl'it
number II -crSraut- to il all "a" vacant
,aptaIuCi.S that then exist. IN" thite
vacant IusI.ctpIshIs will not he hl,u
fr some time to come.
The commission appointed ~ Mayor ~"
| jp suggest changes in the iuhc- Department
which consisted # former bIslT,t AltoI-
hey Eugene 4. fniiDIn. former lohc" Noih-
| missioner Avery -. Andrews and COIN
| missioner Partridge. has pracucalIy con-
| cluied its labor-. It- report II Eow beng
| drawn up and will probably rcdcn the
| Mayor early his week. All the report f..
| except that part which relates to the al 70
| rangcmcnt ut "A new time schedule for the
| men in place ut the present t"o-ilatoon
| system, haS been ready for some time ana
| the report would have been submitted some
| tine ago had not the members If the com
| mission found the platoon question 30 hard
| to solve.
II is known only that they have so far
| failed to agree uu "a substitute Tor the pres
| cnt twu-platoOn system. What they have
| N, - .iptt,lX that tha ~