The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-18
c. {. PARNELL
DISMISSED BY
SAFETY BOARD
POLICE OFFICER Is FOUND
GUILTY ON CHARGES AGAINST
HIM-BoARD AWARDS CON-
TRACT FOR PURCHASE OF 1000
FEET OF HOSE FOR FIRE DE-
PARTMENT.

After consuming about two hours
time in the investigation of the
charges, Officer c. E. Parnell, of the
police department, was dismissed from
the department by the board of public
safety at a meeting held yesterday af-
ternoon at $3.50 o'clock. The officer
was charged with being Intoxicated
while on active duty on November 4th,
and the investigation included the tes-
timony of fourteen witnesses besides
the statement Of the officer himself.
Five of the witnesses testified against
the officer while the other nine testi-
fed in his behalf. Among the wit
nesses against the officer was Chair
man Hargis. of the board, Vice Chair
man Friedrichson presiding at the
trial.
The charges were preferred by
Deputy Marshal Anderson, who testi
fled that he had removed the officer
from his beat because he was intoxi-
Gated and because he had seen him
with his arm around the neck of a
drunken man, this being deemed con-
duct unbecoming an officer. Other Of
ficers testified that the officer had
been, apparently, intoxicated on the
date referred to.
The witnesses testifying in behalf
Of the officer were people with whom
he had come in contact on his beat
during the day, all of them testifying
that they had seen the officer and
talked to him at various times and
had not considered him intoxicated. A
number of them stated positively that
he was not under the influence of
LIQUOR on the day referred to.
The minutes of a meeting in Sep
terlter showed that the officer had
been advised that if he should be
guilty of an offense of this nature at
any future time, he would be dis
missed from the service and the only
question for the board to determine
vas as to whether or not he was
guilty.
2. :. Williams made a motion that
the charges be dismissed, stating that
he did not think the charges had been
sustained, but he failed to get second
to his motion. E. P. Preston then
made a motion, seconded by Joseph ].
Johnson, that the charges be sustain
ed and the officer dismissed from the
department. The motion was adopted,
Williams voting against it.
Purchase Fire Hose.
Bids were opened for the furnishing
OF GOO feet of fire hose, there being
three bidders. and after hearing from
the representatives of each Of the
companies and discussing the matter
at length, the bid of the Fabric Fire
Hose Co, to furnish 1000 feet of War
wick wove hose at $500 per foot, with
a discount of 2 per cent for cash, was
accepted and the contract awarded to
that firm. The appropriation allows
the expenditure of $1,000 for fire hose
and 1t was decided to use the amount
Of the per cent discount in the pur-
chase OF that much additional hose.
The bids submitted were as fol-
lows:
= Manhattan Rubber Hose Manufac-
turing Co, Economy 80 cents per
foot. No discount for cash.
Eureka Fire Hose Co, Red Cross"
$1.00 per foot; Eureka Multiple
Jacket" 80 cents per foot. Two per
cent discount for cash.
Fabric Fire Hose Co, Climax" 90
cents per foot; Warwick Wove" $1.0O
per foot. Two per cent discount for
cash.
All of the samples submitted by
each of the companies were guaran-
teed for three years and guaranteed
to stand 400 pounds pressure.
Discussed Humane Laws.
Chairman Hargis called the atten-
ton Of the board to the shabby and
dangerous condition of many Of the
public cabs and hacks in the city and
to the condition of some of the horses
driven to these hacks. The chairman
said that some of the hacks now be-
ing driven around Pensacola had been
in use for the past forty years and
that many of the horses being worked
day and night were fit only for the
bone yard.
Other members Of the board agreed
with Chairman Hargis and the chief
of police was instructed to have the
ordinance relating to the treatment Of
horses read to the men in ranks and
that the officers be instructed to pay
more attention to the enforcement Of
this ordinance.
Chief Sanders said in this connec-
ton that there was no law preventing
the use of the hacks referred to, but
that he would see to the enforcement
of the ordinance SO far as it applied
to the treatment of the horses.
Other Details.