Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-23
DIXON GOES TO
NEW DISTRICT
MODEL WORKH0USE WILL BE
UNDER HIS CHARGE
Building Has Been Erected at Cost of
$4,000 and Will Be Ready
for Occupancy Mo-
vember

The new city workhouse, erected al
a cost of $20,000 and to be furnished
and finished at a cost of several thou
sand more, will be opened November
Tor the reception of guests of the city.
The Workhouse, designed and erected
to relieve the crowded condition of the
city Jail, is a model institution of its
kind, and in every way is built on the
most up-to-date lines.
Nothing that experience has taught
penologists, sanitary and hygienic en-
gineers has been left undone to make
the new establishment healthful, com
Portable and in every way suitable for
its purpose.
At o'clock this morning the police
department will take formal charge of
the institution, Lieut.. Charles e. Dixon
having yesterday been designated by
Chief of Police Kern to command the
Workhouse and station. This will be
followed by the abolition of the present
east side SubstatiOn, and later by the
creation of an entirely new police divis-
ion on the same lines as that now es-
tablished in the University district.
The new station and workhouse will
be designated officially as substation
No. 2, and Lieut.. Dixon will have COM
mand of a district embracing all the
eAty territory north of College street to
fhe Los Angeles river and east of the
river to the present north line of the
University district, east of the river.
This will include all the Boyle
Heights district and the entire north
ern district of the city beyond the des-
ignated boundaries
When the division is fully organized
Lieut.. Dixon will have twenty-five pa
trolmen, three sergeants and three Jail
ers under his command, and two wag-
on drivers and two helpers.
At the present time Sergeant Nc
Keag and Acting Sergeant Woodward
will be his office assistants, and Pa
trolman John Shand has been selected
by Mayor Harper as head jailer. Jo-
seph Ballesteros, at present employed
us a chain gang guard, will be an as
sistant jailer, and one more man re-
mains to be selected by Chief Kern as
second assistant
Will Be in Full Charge
Lieut.. Dixon will be in complete
charge of the east side division, being
responsible and reporting to Chief
Kern. He will have the designation of
the beats and watches of the men un-
der him, and will be independent of
central or police headquarters in every
way except for his responsibility to
the chief of police.
Lieut.. Dixon was being congratulate
ed yesterday on his appointment to the
new COluHlduU Dy Il large humber Ol
his friends, but others seemed to see in
the order sending him these d move to
bury him where he could have no hand
in police department politics. for there
are police politics as in nearly all or
ganizations of the kind.
The lieutenant has not been popular
with the officials of the department, it
is said. and is not so with a number of
the men under him. Some say he is
TOO strict; that, in fact, he is a mar
tinet, and makes the men walk chalk
line with military precision and exact
ness.
Others say he is simply a good officer,
intent upon enforcing the rules of dis
cipline of the department according to
his best view of the same, and that the
men who do not like him are the ones
he has had to reprirnand for dereliction
of duty. AT all events, the men who
do not like Dixon are smiling behind
their hands at his removal to the east
side, and others who are his partisans
are gloomy, seeing in his removal to
the new station move that will ulti-
mately lead to their losing choice
berths at central station, while in
course of time they may have to follow
their chief into exile. 1t is said that a
number of sergeants and several pa
trolmen who have not been as loyal TO
the department in a political way as
they hight have been are boxed to go