Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-29

leutenants and thirteen class three pri-
Yates are made sergeants. It was here that
the defect discovered.
The police reorganization bill In provid-
ing for the lieutenants TO have charge
sof the police stations al night and for the
sergeants made an actual increase OF thlr-
teen men i'll the department Because only
Az men in ali his department were elegi-
BILE to class Major Sylvester last night
faced the serious situation of having thir-
teen vacancies in his department that
could not be filled until other men under
him attained a sufficient age in the serv-
ice to be advanced to the highest class
as privates. In the emergency he pre-
pared and hurried to the Senate with the
amendment which was read into the def1c-
iency bill at Senator Gallinger's request.
1t recites
whenever vacancies occur in class or
In the metropolitan police force of the
District of Columbia promotions may be
made thereto from the next lower grade
for meritorius service: Provided, The num-
Der of privates in said classes shall not
be in excess of the number appropriated for
by Congress"
1t is believed the District records will
not show another case where a bill was
conceived. prepared, presented to Congress
and passed within the space of one hour.
List of Promotions.
The list of promotions as announced to-
day include the following
To be assistant superintendent of police
with rank of inspector Capt. r. H. Board
man, chief of detectives
To be inspectors, Capts. John A. Swim
dels, Frincis E. Cross and Harry l.. Cess
ford Inspector Cross to be mounted and to
receive allowance of $240 for that pur-
pose in addition to his increase in salary
To be promoted from rank of lieutenants
to captains-George H. Williams, first pre-
cinct; Daniel Sullivan second precinct;
Richard B. Boyle. third precinct William
H. Mathews fourth precinct; Francis ID.
McCathran. fifth precinct; Michael Byrnes,
sixth precinct; Henry Schneider, seventh
precinct; Robert f. Doyle, eight precinct;
John c. Daley. ninth precinct. and Henry
B. Elliott, tenth precinct; Capts. Schneider,
Daley, Elliott ard McCathran to be mount
ed and to receive an additional allowance
of S240 to maintain their horses. Lieut.. ].
r. Sutton will continue in that rank and
will remain in charge OF the harbor pre-
cinct Russell Dean will become sergeant
under him at the same compensation al
lowed sergeants of other precincts
To be Heutenants-J. E. Mulhall, Yulee
Hodges, James HartleyS w. F. Falvey,
Daniel Slattery, E. J. Keefe. w. T. Ander-
son and ]. L. Sprinkle Detective Sergt.
Charles Peck and Thos. Judge
The list of new sergeants had not been
officially announced when this report was
written.
Rank With Desk Sergeants
To be privates of class 2, acting in the
same capacity as the present desk ser
,geants:
James Bingham, F. H. Case Nils Chal-
mars, G. K. Carroll, S. B. Chaffee, c. S.
Creel, A. Eckloff, James Frank J. F.
Garner, Samuel Goodman, ]. o. B. Gray,
A W. He'll, F. P. Holmes, A. R. Hester, e.
l.. Johnson, J. 7. Money, T. B. Miskimon.
J. T. Rolf, L. B. Ray, G. w. Sellers Frank
Virnstein, W. ]. Wagner, ]. E. Thompson.
Privates of Glass Three.
To be privates of the new class 8:
A. o. Allen, ]. F. Amos, w. w. Andrews,
]. H. Arendes, l.. B. Anderson. J. B. Ais,
Edward Anderson. Z. Archambault, e. S.
Allan, ]. r. Ashton, G. G. Auguste, W. H.
Adams, Joseph Acton, J. F, Bradley. John
Brennan, G. w. Boyd, n. A. Beans, E. S.
Bradshaw. c. G. Baston, Philip Browne,
E c. Blake j. w. Bailey. j. S. Bergman,
c. NJ. Birkigt. Frank Burrows E. w.
Brown, r. E. Brawner, ]. F. Beauregard,
T. B. Brown, j. ], Brown. c. S. Baum.
J. C. Berman. D. w. Dyer, J. T. Bassford.
Frank Baur. G. e. Burlingame H. Backen-
heimer ]. E. Barnes, G. B. Belts, w. J.
Barbee, S. c. Burrows, w w. Bateman,
w s. Brady, ]. r. Buckley. B. p. Batson,
Archie Baker, j. r. Bennett, W. H. Buck
ingham j. c. Bum, L. n. Burgess, John
Boland, J. S. Bryan, T. r. Bean, j. E.