The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-16
POLICE HEADS,
 ON ADVICE, ARE
 GOING TO STAY
Commissioners Will Make What Appointments They
 Can Saturday Night. POLITICAL PROMISES
 MAY BE HARD TO KEEP Birmingham Will Resign When He feels Inclined, But
 Won't Be Forced Out.


 Supt. Eugene Birmingham and Capt. George H. Arnold of the police de- partment along with ten or more of the other men with long service to their credit in the departm are not going to yield to pressure, and apply for pensions to accommodate the pow CTS that be.
 The clique that dominates the po- htical affairs 4of this city intends to increase the size of the police force by ten members. and possibly eleven as permitted by the ordinance now in effect.
 But the clique has promised places on the police force to many more than eleven young men, no one knows how many, and hence the desire to force the older members of the force to take advantage of the police pension. PoH- tlcians are judged by the average that they are able to make as promise keepers .and next Saturday the date scheduled for the making of the ap-Y poin tmenas is the day of Judgment for ises.
 tI has been figured that at least g promises could be kept if the ssOld Guard would retire, but from the best of authority it is learned that the older men on the force have taken 1.-the stand that they cannot be smoked out without charges being brought against them.
 In any event, unless something In- forseen happens, the Police Board will make a number Of appoin tments next Saturday night. and the number at the most is not likely to exceed H.
 From a reliable authority it was learned today that men who have been somewhat hunniIfated by the rr1- mors and stories that have foated about, have taken legal advice in the matter and they feel firm that they can remain in their present places as long as they desire, and that the only way they can be removed, by the bringing of charges, and proving
 supt. Bir7ning gha1n, 1t is stated on the best of authority will resign sotne- time, but not before next January, and when he does resign he will prob ably set the date that it is to take | effect He may resign to take effect January 1. 1S17sor he may resign to take effect in May 16 immediately after the next annual spring parade in fact, he may decide on most any other date as the day that his res l fgantion is to take effect It is a sure thing that the superintepdent is not going to resign this year to take eff feet. this year. And there you are.
 AS far as Captain Arnold is con- cerned those who are in the know say that the thing furthest from Nhe thoughts is offering his resignation, but if the superintendent, should re- sign and the commissioners should desire to make the captain the super I intendent long enough to retire him on half pay of the superintendent, there is little; doubt but that the cap tain would gladly comply with the re- quest.
 During the past four years, some of the older men in the department. such as the superinteHdent. the cap tain of detectives, Lieut., John Qutn- livan, Captain William Anderson, Of f1cers Sullivan, Lush. Glennon, Cam pana, Fisher, Farnan, Larkin, Hal
 pin, Benham, Ffnnegan, and others have been approached with sugges- l lions from the powers that be that I they take a pension and make room | for young fellows at the bottorn. In 1 no case have they received an official notice or a. suggestion from any
 who was in authority. Everything
 has borne an air of yelled mystery, and perhaps less tin1id men would have thought that they might better withdraw while the going was good.