New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-10
MADOO'S BIG CLEARANCE.
RETTRES 81 OFFICERS.
T5co Inspectors and Ten Captains
4mOng Police Pensioners.

Never in the history of the police force of this
city were SO many of its members retired from
active service in a single day as yesterday
when ifty-seven veterans Of the department
were placed on the pension roll by Commissioners
McAdoo. To make the cleaning out more re-
markable all the retired were officers, in
cluding two inspectors. ten captains and forty
FIVE sergeants. All the men, too, were retired
on the report of the surgeons that they were
physically unified for further active service.
The inspectors and captains retired were the
following
THOMAS L. DRUHAN Flatbush district Brooklyn
ELBERT o. SMITH, Harlem district.
CAPTAINS
MICHAEL. NINAAlARA. Prospect Park station. Brook
yn.
EDWARD J. KENNY Atiantie-ave. station Brooklyn
MICHAEL c. GoR0IAN. College Point.
RICHARD T. HICKMAN. Jamaica
MICHAEL E. FoODY. Kingsb-dge.
JAMES c; REYNOLDS 5th-ave station Brooklyn
JOSEPH = GEHEGAN, Macdougal-st station
DENNIS DRISCOI.IA Butler-st. station Brooklyn
JoE1N RTCHANAN Gates-ave. station. BROOKLYN.
NATHANIEL y. SHIRE. East 35th-st station
Among the sergeants retired were Joseph A.
Saul who was in charge of the information bu-
reau at Police Headquarters for years previous
to consolidation; Charles l.. SchauwecKer' one
of the giants OF the force, who was at the
head of the school of instruction several years;
Robert Halfpenny who had long service in a
clerical position at headquarters, and John Ham
ilton who was one of the oldest of the sergeants
in Manhattan in point of service
Insnector Elbert O. Smith has been regarded
for wears as mentally one of the abest officers
of the department, and at the same time one
of the handsomest men il the force. He be-
came a patrolman in 1872, captain in 1888 and
an inspector in 1903. He has been known In
the department as "the admiral" on account
of his long service as a captain in command of
the steamboat patrol. AS a young man ne
served in the American navy in the Civil War,
and later was in the merchant marine service
as an assistant engineer. Still later he was in
the Peruvian navy. and after quitting that ser
vice became a New-York policeman.
The service of Inspector Thomas L. Druhan
was entirely in Brooklyn He became a pa
trolman in 1870, captain in 1885 and an inspec-
tor in 1900.
Captain German had a remarkable record as
a nfesaver. In General Greene's adninistra-
ton he was ordered on trial before Captain
Piper for alleged neglect of duty, and he drew
from his pocket thirty lifesaVing medals and
deposited them on table in front of the trial
commissioner. Captain Piper who was not
aware of the veteran police captains record,
asked what this meant. and it explained to
him by Captain German himself who found
not guilty of the charges
In explaining yesterday that he had retired
ffty-seVen officers of the force on the report of
the Board of Surgeons, Police Commissioner
McAdOo said: Il do not deem it necessary or
proper to make public the results of these ex-
aninations, Ii being sufficient to state that the
surgeons have certified to me that the officers
retired are permanently unfit for duty. The
vacancies thus made will be temporarily filed
to-day under the direction of the chief inspec-
tor Later on will make acting assignments TO
the various grades from the rank below