Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-04
MORE MONEY AND MORE MEN
Board Of Fire and Police Commission
ers Makes Request.
ASKS FOR THIRTY THOUSAND
Matter VIII he Put Up to city Coun-
ell, with Request for Forty
Additional Men for Police
Duty.

More money for men is the cali made
upon the city council by the Fire and
Police Board The sum of $4,000 IL asked
to increase the strength OF the department
by forty men and Commissioner Wap-
pich, in putting forward the resolution,
which was adopted by the board last
night referred to the demands OF the tax
payers for additional police protection in
various parts Of the city
1.-THE recent automobile fatalities" said
the commissioner, had also been respon-
sible for the complaint of the citizens that
Omaha had not a sufficiently large police
force. Then there are the coming fall fes-
tivities, when there will be such a large
influx Of visitors to the city and the pres
ent force is not sufficient to meet the de-
mands now being made upon it,"
In support OF this statement the commits
sioner referred to the recent aviation meet
and mentioned that the force for duty in
the city had to be depleted by the men
taken OF the beats for service there.
Policemen had to be sent there, he said for
IL there had been a stampede, which was
very likely, the chief and the board would
have been blamed for not having made
the necessary provision for the safety of
the public.
Resolution Passed.
The following was the resolution adopted.
To the Mayor and City Council-Ientle-
men: Calls are so constantly being made
upon the chief OF police for police OfIic-
ers TO stop automobile speeders and other
violators of the law and as the department
has only about seVenty-siN men divided
into three shifts to cover twentytour miles
OF territory and as the men now on the
force will absorb the police fund levy for
1910 and the board is without money to
employ additional men and the emergency
exists, we respectfully ask your honorable
body to set aside the sum OF $4,000 so that
the police department can be enlarged, that
forty additional men can be appointed to
assist in police work.
PENDING action by the council on this
resolution, the request of the taxpayers
at Fourth street and Lincoln avenue for
u police and fire box submitted to the
board last night by Paul Liebers was
placed on file
Arising out of the investigation of COM
plants against firemen for failing to OBJ
serve the rules Of the department, Com
missioner Hunter directed the attention of
the board to the fact that the rules for
the regulation of both fire and police de-
partments were more or less antiquated
and not sufficiently explicit.
They might have answered the pur-
pose" said Commissioner Hunter, twenty
years ago, but we all know the changes
that have taken place in the city since
then and the progress 1t has made"
The board decided to act upon the COM
Inissioner's suggestion and q committee Of
the whole was appointed to revise the
rules In cooperation with Chiefs Donahue
and Sater. " ~
The question of wearing apparel for Off
cal purposes by the members of the two
departments was also discussed and it was
decided to advertise for uniforms and over
coats for firemen. apd policemen for three
years from Januarys1 1911.
Patrolman Oscar THORNTON was fined $40
for neglect of duty ip failing to discover
the burglary at theakt9re of F. l. Smith,
2O5 North SixteenthnRtreet. Edward Hay
duk. fireman.. was lfined $40 for being late
in reporting for duty 1t was his second
offense. Hans Kaufman was fined SIS for
derehction of duty, and Ira Henderson, |
who left the department some weeks ago
and did not send in notice OF resignation, |
was formally dismissed