The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-02
CT. MURPHY TO HELP The NINE
W moo WILL TALK WITH THEN
iBOCT P0LICE TO-Dil.
Mayor Hints That COMMISSIONER Plans
are Radicalr--Conimlttcc Gets busy
The surgeons Report on Inspectors
''SsilIactor,"--siN Captains Next

l-fAQfF NNlIIee II. MURPHY OF lAutlAdnE
! Hall said last night that he was glad that
movement had been formed by influential
citi2ers 20 do something TO better police
! conditions.
-There is no doubt tina, those men are
! sincere, he said, -and that whatever they
) 30 or try 20 90 viii be for the best interests
Z OF the city Any proposition they work
ont which will DE for the good of the city
( will have all the support can give II. and
! nfact will ur glad togivetot the committee
! any help in my power
J Mr.. Murphy said he was not able to talk
I intelli gently about the suggestions ma de
! by Commissioner McAdoo for the reorgani-
! cation Of tho Police Department, for the
reason that he had not been able al yet
: to read Mr. McAdoo's recommendations.
Mayor Mcclellan had tall, yesterday
/ afternoon with Austen G.. Fox, chairman
| Of the committee of nine which was ap-
pointed under a resolution OF the Chamber
OF Commerce meeting 10 study the police
problem. The Mayor gave to Sir. Fox q
copy OF Police Commissioner MoAdoo's
proposed bills for submission to tho COM
mttee
The Mayor said afterward that he and Mr..
Fox bad discussed Commissioner McAdoo's
plans and that Mr.. Fox had outlined what
he thought the committee should do in
regard TO them and what he thought the
committees probable action on them would
be. What Mr.. Fox's views are. the Mayor
declined TO say.
The Mayor was also unwilling 10 discuss
Mr. McAdoo's plans. He declared that
nothing would he done by the city admins
tration, and he himself would have no views
70 offer on tho plans of the Commissioner
until after the committee OF nine had re-
ported on them The Mayor did say that
he thought Mr.. McAdoo's suggestions vera
somewhat radical
The committee Of nine held ns first
meeting later IN the afternoon in the Office
Of Isaac y. SolgInan. in the Mills Building
Three Of the members Of the committee,
Jacob II. Sohif, Elhu Foot and James
Nick cen. were not present. Commissioner
NoAdoo's plans were discussed and tho
scope Of the corlmitees work WAS talked
over. Mr.. Fox waa elected permanent
Chairman and William Church Osborn
temporary secretary.
1t was announced after the meeting.
which consumed two hours, that little
except organization had been accomplished.
Mr.. Fox said that the committee had asked
Commissioner McAdoo to meet them at
l230 O'Clock to-day in Mr. SeligmRn's Office
and that the Commissioner had consented.
The committee. Mr.. Fox said had been
assured that the Mayor and Commissioner
hcAdoo would do even ythlng In their power
to cooperate with the committee.
II Is understood that "A number of other
persons will be asked TO meet tie COM
IT.
bilty, however. according to Mr. Fox,
that the committee will be enlarged by tho
appointment of new members.
Commissioner McAdoo has decided not
TO mike public the findings of tho board Of
police surgeons who examined FIVE in
spectors on Tuesday with reference 10 their
fitness for active duty.
Il will make no decision to-day" he eaid
and maybe not for several days. possibly
not until the entire list is completed. You
can say, though, that the work Of the board
Of surgeons vas entirely satisfactory
Considerable importance was attached
to this remark, a. the views Of the Com
missioner as to what would be --atsfac-
tory" work by the surgeons and those OF
the inspectors themselves are likely to b.
Numerically opposite.
Six captains will appear before the sur
gcon5 to-day They are Michael A.
Mcnamara OF the Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
precinct forty-one years in the service.
a member of the old Brooklyn Park Depart
ment police. John T. Gardin1r. recently
made commander of the new precinct on
the Williamsburg Bridge; Edward j. KEN
ney OF the Atlantic avenue precinct Brook
lyn, thirty-tve years on the force and one
OF the nineteen captains made ~ 1890:
Francis j. Kear of the Elizabeth street
precinct twenty-sir years on tho force,
also made one Of the nineteen captains
after long service as an acting captain in 4
the West SiXty-eghth street station James !
i, Naly Of the West Tooth street precinct.
twenty-nine years on the force William
Hogan Of West New Brighton. twentv-six !
years on the force
Speaking OF the work of the police sur !
geons. the Commissioner snid:
Il will not answer quest ions about these
matters, nor, indeed, about any cases on 4
trial here. exercise judicial funct 'ons
IN the matter Of trials and Investigations I
and il Is eminently improper that / should ,
discuss matters other than in judicial /
way.
absolutely not one word TO add to what
l have already said. Legal, police or other I
to the propositions | have made 1
can lie whipped out in another forum much /
better than here, II those Interested can
show that these propositions are uncon-
stitutional or otherwise defective, and have
others to propose, | shall he only too glad
to see better ones adopted
The trial Of Inspector Titus went over
10y agreement 20 Tuesday next. Il l. hoped
that Capt. Tighe's trial viii have been com
pieted by that time. Ii it is not. TIT
may be postponed again.
Detective Sergeant Edward J. Hughes.
who was transferred from the Manhattan
Detective Bureau 10 Brooklyn on Saturday,
The day O'Brien took charge, ct his own
request, was hack on duty at his old post
Nothing was given out as 10
tho cause Of bis coming back. Hughes
was brought into the Detective Bureau
by O'Brien.
CITY HALL CLOCK NEW AGAIN.