The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-11

mayor and aldermen and ascertain If they will allow an additional expense of Installing a police telephone system in that part of the city.
 Said phones to be kept in iron water proof boxes to be put in and kept up by the company without extra expense to the city.
 Boxes to be placed at the following places:
 Southside.
 Eleventh avenue and Twelfth street. Eleventh avenue and Sixteenth street. Eleventh avenue and Twentieth street. Highland avenue and Sycamore street. Highland avenue and Twenty-fourth street.
 Highland avenue and Hickory street. Highland avenue and Thirtieth stret. Sixteenth street and Twentieth street. Avenue G and Twenty-seventh street. Avenue b and Twenty-seventh street. Avenue G and Twenty-fourth street. Avenue I and 1wenty-third street. Avenue H and Twenty-second street. Avenue I and Twenty-seventh street. Avenue H and Fifteenth street. Richmond Place.
 Avenue F and Eighth street.
 Avenue c and Twelfth street
 Avenue F and Twelfth street.
 Avenue and Sixteenth street.
 Between avenues c and H and Twen- tieth street.
 Avenue B and Twenty-third street. Avenue R and Twentieth street. Avenue H and Twenty-1fth street. Avenue E and Fourteenth street.
 Northsde.
 First avenue and Eighth street.
 First avenue and Fourteenth street. a nd ct Second avenue and Sixteenth street. Fifth avenue and Twelth street.
 Fifth avenue and Fifteenth street. Eighth avenue and Fourteenth street. Eleventh avenue and Thirteenth street. Eighth avenue and Eighteenth street Twelfth avenue and Twelfth street Ware avenue and Seventeenth street. Rush avenue and Allen street. Huntsville avenue and Twentieth street. Twelfth avenue and Twenty-fourth street.
 Eighth avenue and Twenty-fourth street
 TeIth avenue and Twenty-fifth street. Seventh avenue and Twenty-sixth street. Fifth avenue and Twenty-third street. Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street. Eleventh avenue and Twenty-second street.
 Eleventh avenue and Sixteenth street. First avenue and Thirtieth streeth. Second avenue and Twenty-sixth Street. First avenue and Twenty. fourth street With this distribution an officer can pc required to report from different parts )f lis beat as often as every hour, which would guarantee efficient work on the outside territory, besides, they would be accessible to call the patrol wagon, or 70 use in case of emergency, whereas he officers now have to depend upon phones in private residences or absent themselves from their beats at late hours ,f the night
 l am sure this would greatly add to he efficiency of the police department. md l am informed that it can be put in md operated for about the amount of me policemans salary
 Respectfully. W. S. WEIR,
 Chief of Police Chairman Parker in discussing the re- said:
 T have had conference with Chief Wier about this matter and we have gone over the ground carefully I think his the most important recommendation hat has been made by the department in ! long time and 1t will cost comparative y little, at the same time greatly in- lhe ehicieHcy Ol the uepart- nent"
 Deceased Policemen. Commissioner Rudolph reported that he had appeared before the mayor and board # aldermen. and that they had agreed o place the names of Policeman Walton md Policeman Mullin, who were killed n discharge of their duty, on the pay oils of the city for three months after heir deaths The committee was dis continued, and the report received. The charges which have been pending Or months against Policeman Joe Cum lingham were dismissed, as the evidence vas lacking. The policeman made a lit le speech thanking the commission and that in future he would not lppear before 1t as many times as he had n the past. He was charged with com luct unbecoming an officer. The petition of Policeman Hawkins to 'e allowed full pay for the time he was awaiting the investigation of ] charge against him was not allowed IS he was acquitted on request of the in a letter stating that they bought the policeman was sufficiently by the time he was laid off. The report of Detectives Bodeker, Ham, lton and Patton showed that in the past month they recovered sSe52 25 of stolen property. which is the largest amount yer received by the detective depart- nent in a similar time.
 Chiefs Report. The report of Chief Wier for the past nonth was as follows:
 Fines and fees collected s3553 15s Stolen property recovered, $40745O. Arrests for burglary and grand lar eny, A.
 Bound over to Criminal court, 19. Calls answered by morning mounted nan. 93.
 Calls answered by evening mounted nan, z10.
 Calls of the morning patrol driver, 257 Calls iof the evening patrol driver, 29i Total arrests for the month, 11si.