The evening world., 1909-01-05
BINGHAM WANTS
! MORE SALARY AND
MORE POLICEMEN
Commissioners Report Shows,
Though, He Has 646 Less
Men Than Allowed.
BURGLARIES INCREASE.
Still, There Were A 900 More
Arrests and 10000 More
Convictions Last Year.
BURGLARIES INCREASE.

10 the Mayor was made public to-day
The Commissioner has for long time
said It would be very interesting.
The reports pleas for the future
range from n suggestion that the city
ought 20 build a policemans club some
where on the East side with accommo.
dations not only for the poor, hard
worked policemen, but for their women
1olk', 10 the old. old walls that every
Police Commissioner. beginning right
now, oush, 10 have salary OF $1,000 a
year and hold otflcc for ninc years o.
count emo.
Included among mere statements OF
fact Is the pleasing news that, while
the number Of burglaries in the city
have Increased, the value OF the prop.
erty stolen has also Increased even
, more markedly that while the city
needs hundreds more policemen to do
Its work properly, there are now SIC
less patrolnen on the roll than the law
allows; that, In accordance with the
honorable Commissioner honorable
doctrine that p0trolmen should patrol
and do nothing else, he has established
bureau Of police lawyers to appear
In court In competition with his dear
friend. the District Attorney.
Dead Men Only on Honor Roll.
ITp5ar hand - ,a,o.,,
the Commissioner devotes several Pages
OF comment on his troubles In which
he slows an unknd spirit toward the
Legislature. the law. the lawyers, the
members OF the force tthe Roll o. Honor
shis year has on Il the names Of lust
two men-thcy ara both dead, the
French residents OF New York and
everybody and everything else that has
irri,ated his dlgn!fed calm at No 3oo
Mulberry street. There Is no mention
OF the police dogs,
Commissioner Bingham begins by re-
niInding the Mayor that last year the
Mayor had his promise that this years
report might be handed in on a postal
card He hands In sample postal.
Then. possibly in Wow that little sup
Elementary Information may be OF
passing interest. he adds about sixty
pages Of printed matter.
The postal card merely shows how
many arrests were made and how con-
victions were obtained. There were
1900 more arrests last year than In
1901, and 1000 more convictions The
Commissioner wants an automatic In
crease OF the force, in proportion to the
population. OF ! to 40 lie points with
pride and two pages OF bookkeeping
that each policeman last year cost 10
cents less than he did the year before.
He deplores the condition OF the patrol
alarm system In Brooklyn and wants a
new one
Gen. Bingham bewails the inability
OF two city departments working In
brotherly harmony lsee reference to
legal bureau. and then says he wants
70 buy his own supplies. He announces
the glad fact that the good police ship
Patrol Is now in good repair" (exact
date, hour and minute OF inspection
not reccrdei.
Cavalry Won Syracuse Prize.
Tho Commissioner fairly glows with |
pride in the fact that n squad Of twenty |
five mounted patromen cthe duty OF a |
patrolman is to patrOl'D went to the |
Syracuse fair and won whole prize
flag. He says that the white slave trat /
a., la, I,,A f,r no kn
French. and women are like trick |
dogs" lie devOtes several pages to the |
fact that Two women Of this class In one |
year avoided deportation by marrying |
their masters
He pleads again for an Italian secret /
police to catch Bhck Handers incident /
ally saying that he and his men know all |
The members Of the Black Hand. who re- |
fuse to come in and he prosecuted He !
wants the enforcement of the Excise law |
taken out ot his department, because Il |
Is a nuisance there. lie wants new sun |
day Enforcement laws, excepting nom
Christians from its enforcement. He |
wants a police riding academy and |
wireless equipment to work between the |
new Headquarters and the good ship |
Patrol.
$4,000 for Furniture.
And last, but really first. $4,000 to
furnish the new headquarters, for. as
in there tomorrow | wouldn't have q
chair to sit on"
TOO many lawyers live by showing
people how to break the law safely.
How else are prize fights and gam
bling so difficult to suppress?
How else do these lawbreakers dare
fort!fy themselves behind iron doors.