Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-18
BOARD OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Ten Supernumeraries Added to Force
 Last Night.

4GA AOOcu tO 4 Ol "
 Last Might.
 At the meeting fthe board of pub- lie safety held last evening Commis- sioner Lahey presided and full board was present. Callman Thomas G. Woolton of Captain Dodds's company was fined $2 for absence from duty, and applications for appointments to the supernumerary police were recelv- ed from John H. Bowe and Thomas Lynch. Both applicants underwent the preliminary examination. Maurice Griffin, callman at the Scovill street engine house was cited to appear be- fore the board next Tuesday evening to answer charge of absence from duty and an application from the Colonial Trust company to connect their building with the police station by a burglar alarm was referred to a committee. An application from the Novelty Man ufacturing company for the services of one of the fire engines to pump out well was referred to a committee also. Fear of establishing precedent was considered an obstacle to the granting of the application.
 Policeman McEvoy was cited to ap- pear before the next meeting to under go an examination to fit him for pro- motion to the highest grade, c, he hav- ing served the usual term.
 The application of Chatfie1d & Chat field to handle explosives was refused and a recommendation to the board of aldermen to enact an ordinance pro- viding for the safe keeping of ex- p1osives within tax district No 2 was recommended.
 | For building thirty-foot addition to the Scovi1I street engine house the fol- lowing bids were received: Bergin & Sons, $590; Thompson Bros, $625; J. w. Gaffney & Company, $453. Carpenter work, Victor Bernier, $946. Carpen- l try and masonry, Chatfe1d &5 Chatfeld, 1 $1, ,52O; Tracy Bros, $1, ,110; John Mraz, SLIPS. These bids also included metal work and plumbing. The contracts were awarded to John w. Gaffney & Company and Victor Bernier, they be- l ing the lowest bidders
 F. ID. Mallory appeared before the board to ask why the sewer assess ment on his wife's property on Brew ster street was $1125O, when the neigh I boring property holders did not have tc ] pay so much. He was shown by the engineers map that he had received l the same exemption as the man across the street, seventy-ive feet, and that was all the power the board had in the premises.
 l Resolutions on the death of the latt Paul Mendelssohn, supernumerary DO I liceman. were received.
 l The following were appointed to the supernumerary police force: William Robilard, Hugh Flaherty. Thomas Kelly, 2d, Christopher Harmon, George ". Pfeffers. William Massicotte, Franl Lachance, Peter J. Meehan, Luke Dow 1 ling and Patrick Horan
 1 Chief Egan stated that there are now on daily duty forty y-three special police men. There are still ffty-three vacan cies on the supernumerary force. Considerable discussion over the sit uation of Eugene Sullivan, who could not perform police duty on account o1 1 his being a member of Company G While he is not regarded as a police man, yet his name is on the police rolls Still he has never done duty. He ha: received his discharge from the mili tary, and his appointment to the police force has never been revoked. The board did not know exactly what to d. in the matter whether to reappoin
 him, to have him put in another appli
 cation and be reappointed. The mat ter was finally disposed of by referrin:
 it to the city attorney. The board thel l adjoilrned