Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-22
BOARD OF SAFETY
Superintendent Beach Given Twelve
 Days to Attend Convention.

The board of public safety yesterday
 presented Superintendent Beach with
 q watch without movements, fgura. lively speaking. \ week ago yesterday l Superintendent Beach requested | twelve days off in order to attend a
 convention of heads of police depart-
 ments at Hot Springs, Ark, from April 9 to H. Nothing was said in the ap-
 plication about expense and the board ! took it that the city was to stand the bill. A committee was appointed to | inquire into the matter, and yesterday that body reported that the expense l would amount to $15. Commissioner
 Andrews, who, last week, dii not hesi- tate to decry the idea of placing a crippled fireman on the payroll, lost no time yesterday in moving that the SUI. perintendent be granted the twelve
 days and also the $75 for expenses.
 Commissioner Minor moved an amend-
 ment to the effect that the natter Of
 expense he omitted from the motion. He said in behalf of his amendment
 that it was nothing more than twelve
 days vacation for the superintendent,
 anyway, and, in fact, to make the most
 of it, 1t was mere junket and he was
 opposed to junkets. The very fact that the meeting or convention or
 whatever it is to be, was to be held at Hot Springs, showed it was nothing but mere junket.
 Still, Mayor Thoms favored paying the superintendent's way. It would surely cost him $75 anyway, and as he was going for the benefit of the city was it not only right that the city should pay for the trip? Surely some good would be derived from the super- intendents attending meeting of po- licemen that would at least constitute 100 men. There must be some new ideas in such a gathering.
 Commissioner Minor said that there was nothing said about expense ;n the application, and therefore why should the board consider such thing.
 Commissioner Griffin favored Com missioner Minors ideas and suggested that the superintendent could put in his bill after his return.
 Commissioner Minor remarked that Chief Egan never attended any such far-away gatherings of chiefs of po- lice.
 Commissioner Andrews, backed by Commissioner Margraff, held up the action of the board of education as an example of. the wisdom of his motion, remarking that Superintendent Tinker is permitted to attend conventions of school teachers and is allowed ex. penses of $6O.
 The vote on the matter permits the superintendent 10 attend the conyen- tiOn, but the matter of expense was voted down. That was the gold watch minus movements.
 Regarding the accident on West Main street Sunday afternoon in which n horse of the North Willow street house broke it's legs and had to be killed, Chief Snagg reported that no one was to blame. Commissioner Spain was appointed a committee to net with the comptroller and Chief Snagg to purchase two horses.
 Chief Snagg was requested to in- quire into the expense of building drill tower for firemen. The chief showed a cut of such q structure, and said that tower five stories high could. be built for $600. A drill tower is simple looking affair. It is like a building tower with a floor or plat form at regular distances, only that it has roof.
 The committee on free travel for firemen in uniform reported no prog ress. Surgeon O'Hara's report on his examination of the police force was not received, but City Clerk Sandland was requested to notify the doctor to have his report ready for the meeting to be held next Wednesday afternoon.
 On motion of Commissioner Minor police signal boxes will be placed at the corner of North Elm and Kings bury streets, and also at the corner of Silver and East Main streets. This was done at the instigation of Super Beach, who told Commission CT Minor that North Elm street is a that ought to be pa- troled and the only way of finding that 1t is patroled is by placing signal box on it. for then the officer on beat will have to ring from it at certain in- tervals.