The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-11-07
WRIT BACKS
UP BOARD S
ACTION
Rumor That Supervisors Resent
Recommendations of Civil Ser
vice Commission in the Fire De
paItment, Calls Forth q Reply
from Chairman.
CFrom Thursday Advertiser.J

(From Thursday AdNeruser)
1t may be that there will follow n
parting of the ways between the civil
service commission and the board of
supervisors, due to certain reeommenda
tions which the commissioners made re-
Gently relative to the necessity for GER
tain equipment in the fire department
and other things.
In this connection Chairman Writ,
of the civil service commission, after
the session last evening, stated that be
understood that the supervisors have
not taken these recommendations in
good part and that it would possibly
be inclined to criticize the commission.
But the commission made the rec
concentrations, six of them, in the best
interests of the city and the fire de-
partment, and it viii stand by its rec
concentrations, feeling that the citizens
of Honolulu look to the commission to
do the best that they know how and in
good faith, remarked Chairman Writ.
Upheld by Thurston.
Their the chairman appealed to Fire
Chief Thurston as to the value of the
recomme ndations made and Chief
ThurstOn emphatically upheld the
commission.
There were a number of citizens pres
ent when Mr.. Writ made the state
ment and all of them were interested
in the matter and those who spoke up
held the commission as having acted in
a public spirited manner far removed
from partisan politics.
g II the case should ever get into the
courts ! am sure that the people of the
city will uphold the recommendations
made by the commission was the
closing statement of the chairman
The meeting of the commission was
| busy one last evening, the most i'm
portant action taken being the adoption
| of the recommendation of Sheriff Jar
rett that Patrolman Sizemore be sus-
| pended for one month without pay,
from October Is to November 10. under
the charge of using undue force in the
arrest of Korean prisoner.
Sizeniore Makes Statement
Sizemore, who was present, was ask
ed to give statement of his side of
| the ease and acknowledged that he had
| struck the prisoner two or three times
but under great proyocation, and told
of the provocation. Chairman Writ
asked if he had ever been reprimanded
| by the sheriff before and was told that
he had not, nor had he ever used his
club ON prisoner prior to this occasion.
The recommendation of the sheriff was
then adopted and Sizemore will he re.
stored to duty on November -.
communication was received from
Sheriff jarrett giving the names of all
those who held special police badges
and later the sheriff stated that he had
taken back about n dozen of these
badges. The list was returned to him
with the request that he elaborate it,
giving the addresses and occupations Of
the holders.
There was considerable discussion re-
garding the question of fire badges.
Chairman Writ held to the principle
that except for the chief engineer and
the assistant engineers, all the badges
should be exactly alike, but with con
secutive numbers OH them. lie stated
that he believed that the badges should
be numbered for the men of the depart
ment according to seniority in the SER
vice.
Merit System to Come Later.
''The system of merit will come
later he announced.
Chief ThurstOn was authorized to
make two appointments on six months
probation of two hosemen from three
certified men who have passed the ex
animation before the commission One
of the temporary appointments failed
to pass and will have to leave the ser
vice at the end Of the month.
Sheriff Jarrett was also authorized to
appoint two patrolmen from three men
certified to him by the commission, also
one receiving clerk and one detective,
the two latter, preferably, being pro.
motions.
Chief Thurston reported that the Ere.
men who were injured recently were
doing well, aud that Doctor Jackson,
chief surgeon Of the Queen q Hospital,
had reported that Fireman Campbell
had a good chance now for life, in the
ratio Of about three to two.
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