New-York tribune., 1908-02-28
NOR E MONEY FOR W ATER
BO1RD WANTS s20, 900 900.
To Gire Work to Unemployed
Wotershcd Police Organizing.

The Board of Water Supply at the meeting OF
the Board OF Estimate and Apportionment next
week will request S20O00,C00 appropriation, so thdI
several more contracts for the Catsi( water supply
may be let before summer. Mayor Mcclellan mas
talked with John \. Bensel, president of the board
about what could be done toward furnishing WORK
for the unemployed by pushing the work on 'ile
Catskili watershed. If the board gets the money
1t wants it hopes have from fifteen hundred 10
two thousand at work by summer
TIE board to-day will start the organization OF
the police force with which it is TO guard the
watershed by the appointment of superintendent
and a captain. Both are former officers III the
regular army, only recently retired Inc man 10
be made superintendent held the rank OF captain
in the Filipino constabulary and for five years was
a governor of one of the provinces in the fhlip-
pines and is believed to be eminentiy auaiiieu
for the organization of a police force such d7 VIII
be needed the watershed
The place of captain is to be filed by man
who retired from the army with the rank OF cap
tain of artillery He was graduated three year
ago from West Point. Both men will be mounted
and the superintendent will get $3.50 a year anu
the captain 5000 1t is purposed to organize iIle
force as closely may be TO the lines OF the
metropolitan police with uniforms near like the
blue of New York's finest as Police Commits
sioner Bingham will permit The idea is that most
Of the men who will probably be employed on the
works will be familiar with the power of the New
York force and have a wholesome respect Tor tle
blue uniform.
The two places of superintendent and captain
have been placed in the exempt list by the State
Civil Service Commission. which has also approved
the temporary appointment of fifty Policemen
until Civil Service list has been made up after
examination. Such an examination will be held on
March s. for which there two thousand applf-
cants.
AS soon as the big contracts we'll under way
the board expects to have large force of men on
patrol One-half of it will be- mounted Although
the board has not yet decided the question Presi-
dent Bensels idea is to build barracks and maintain
A conlnssary department for the police force This
will enable the men be kept in reserve in case OF
strikes, riots other emergencies. If the men
provide their food they will get s1e0 a month,
but if a commissary department and barracks are
furnished they will get only SIS a month.
There need be no hysteria over our request for
the issuance of S20,000.COO of water bonds,' said
President Rensel yesterday, They will not be
counted in the debt limit and the expenditure Of
this money will be spread over four or five years.
But we must make a start at Unless some
thing done right away there will come time
when the water in this city Will not rise above
the cellar anywhere
While the Ashokan dam will not be completed
in four years we hope have enough of it done so
that if we can have the aqueducts ready can
deliver water to the Hillview reservoir near Yonk
and take 1t from there into the city dstrib-
uting system. In time expect to rearranse
that system, but that is not pressing need.
Speaking of the prevalence of typhoid in Peeks-
kill. President Bensel said that the Board of
Water Supply would probably have to build a
small dam in Hunters BROOK back of that city and
that Peekskiu might make arrangements to
set pure water supply from that source.