The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-05
Around the
dice Station

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| For two and a half hours yesterday
afternoon the police station was the
oretically without a head. This was
during the interim between noon and
2:30 o clock, while the new Board of
Supervisors and the Mayor were argu-
| ing over the organization of the new
| board. At the station the officers sat
around dumbly and only the most per-
| functory work was performed.
The rumor spread that if any ar
rests were made before the new Sher
if and Deputy Sheriff qualified for
Office before the new board, that at
torneys were prepared to take the mat
| ter up with results which might be
expensive to the arresting officers.
There was considerable relief, there
fore, when Sheriff Jarrett and Deputy
| Sheriff Rose appeared at the police
station, both smiling. Their presence
at headquarters changed the situation
Immediately and everybody got busy.
| Chief Clerk Asch brought out a
stack of new commissions already
signed up, the commissions being
identical with the list of appointee.,
published several days ago. The po
lice officers were called to the Sher-
ifs Office and given their commits
sions, and at 3 clock the second
watch went out on duty, composed
partly Of old officers and partly of new
appointees.
Chinese on the Watch.
A crowd of men hung about the vi
entity of the police station all day,
many of them waiting, but for what
they themselves could not tell, but
many in the hope that the new Sher
if would take it intdahis mind and call
them and put them on the payroll
Former Sheriff Iaukea saw the crowd
and finally induced the new Sheriff
to go to the entrance and say
"Aloha'' Colonel Iaukea spoke to
the crowd, introducing his successor,
and asked them to give him support
during his administration. He then
called for three cheers, which were
given with will.
In the crowd were a large number
of Cinnamon, and many were old
|
lively watched the officers, sizing up
the new ones 1t is an old habit of
the gambling fraternity to be
with the police officers, so that they
may make no mistakes as to identities
when their games are being investi-
gated.
Changes at Station
Sheriff Jarrett stated yesterday af-
ternoon that if the Board of Super
visors continued to grant the same
amount for incidentals as the depart
ment received during Iaukea S admin
istration, he planned to make several
changes in the station. Out of the in
cidental fund of $1,000 which pays fol-
all office and general expenses, feed
ing of prisoners, feedstuffs for patrol
wagon horses, stationery, detective ex
penses, railroad and livery expense, he
proposes to use considerable part to-
ward repairs and Improvements in
the station.
He proposes to remove the detec
tive bureau from it's present office
next to the Sheriff's private office, to
the dormitory above the stable. A
partition will be run across the dormi
! tory and subdivided giving the chief
private Office and a lounging- room
for the detectives. With the detective
! bureau upstairs, all prisoners confined
! in the cells who are required to be
brought before the chief are taken
through the receiving station, SO that
the captain of the watch keeps con
tinual tab on prisoners.
Sheriff Jarrett has learned from ex
perience that the detective bureau, III
its present location, gives almost nc
privacy to the Sheriff, and the corri
doris are generally overrun with pris
oners, witnesses and interceding
friends or attorneys.
! Turrill Got %.
Fred Turrill, who is reappointed tc
the police force as property clerk, was
in a quandary after he emerged from
the Sheriff IS Office with his new com
mission. just look at that!' ht
said, and pointed to the number 1923
stamped on the margin. "That looks
bad for me to start with. -
More Police Boxes.
In a few days Sheriff Jarrett viii
consider the question of locations fol
additional police boxes. He wants &
put a couple in Manoa, on account OF
the increasing population there.
He is in hopes that the new detec
tive bicycle patrol for the resid snct
districts will add materially to the re
duction of petty thievery. The mount
ed force is now cut down to four men
The bicycle patrol is composed of si1
men. They will be assigned to regu
lar beats by districts. For instance
| Makiki and Punahou will be termed
the Punahou district and will be pa
trolled nightly by two officers, WHIT
will turn in box reports like the mount
ed police.
| The advancement of hours for tht