Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-10-07
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Total ........ ..........$1, 10000
Police Department
We recommend the following es-
timates, required to meet the expense
of the Aberdeen Police Department
for the ensuing year:
Salary of the Chief of Police
and Department for MAIN
tanning regular Police
force .......... ST.. 100000
Maintaining Office, station
cry, supplies & incidentals 10000
Maintaining City Jail, includ-
ing meals for prisoners. 100000
Maintaining Signal system,
batteries, wires, lights, etc 10000
Payment due on police sig.
nal system, 1914 ........ 1,294.38
Total ......... $16, ,694.38
The committee begs to report that
investigation of the police force
shows the following: .4r
That from twelve o'clock noon un-
til two p. M, and from twelve o'clock
midnight until two q. M, there is
but one uniformed officer on duty;
That the district from H street on
the east to L street on the west and
Heron street on the north to the wa
ter front on the south is practically
the only district in the city patrol
led. with the following exception
that one man patrols from four o'clock
in the afternoon until about two in
the morning all of East and South
Aberdeen, thus leaving the remain
der Of the city without police patrol,
except such as is given by the plain
clothes men.
We also find that the plain clothes
men are working from twelve to four
teen hours per day, and that the un-
iformed officers are on duty ten hours
per day.
We suggest that, with the excep-
tion of the Chief of Police, at least
a certain number of hours during
their time on duty, the plain clothes
men be assigned to duty in districts
which are not patrolled at the pres
ent time. such districts to be desig-
mated by the Chief of Police.
We eliminate the salary of the City
Electrician from the Police Depart
ment, for the reason that this office
does not belong in this Department.
Fire Department.
The Committee recommends that
the Fire engine and horses now in
South Aberdeen, be sold, or such dis
position made of them as seems most
advisable. o
We further recommend that the
small auto machine now located IN
the City Hall, be transferred, togeth-
er with it's labor force, to South Abb
erdeen. We recommend that this
change be brought about on or be-
fore January LIST, or at such time as
the pavement on East Heron street
is completed. The committee feels
that this change can be brought about
without impairing the efficiency Of
this department. and the recommen-
dations and reductions in the bud
get of this department appear reason
able to it, and are made for the pur.
pose Of eliminating what appears to
be unnecessary at the present time.
A careful review Of the expendi-
lures Of the Fire Departmnt, which
we find to be in high state Of EN-
cheney, seems to show the following
facts:
That since the introduction Of mod
ern apparatus the promised economy
in operation cannot be proven; that
with the installation Of our modern
fire apparatus our salaries have in
creased, taking the past four years
as an example, upon which our fg-
ures are based.
The fire apparatus and department
that we have at the present time is
equal to, II not better than, any city
on the Pacific Coast of like size,
and this committee wishes to be
placed on record as not approving
Of any move that would in any way
affect the efficiency of the Fire De-