Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-09-01
BOARD IGNORES MAYOR
Police Commissioners Hold Meeting
Without Inviting His Honor to
nj ~
be Present. aE8

Small differences wnlch nave e''i''-
ed for some time between Iayor
THOMAS A. Fisher and the beard OF
no]ice commissioners over details OF
IKE management of the police force ot
Alexandria were famed into blaze
al a special meeting Of the board OF
n; ;,re commissioners held last night.
When the mayor, who is chairman OF
the board, called the meeting to order
he read the following statement:
| 'T desire to say that at star cham
her session of the board OF police
! commissioners, held Monday night at
the residence of the secretary, Mr.;
shinn, all of the commissioners were
present and as the mayor is member
of that body he fails to understand
why he was rot invited to take part.
Such actions on the part of the board
will be strenuously resented by the
mayor. He fully understands h.:
rights and shall insist upon having
!, then"
!; The meeting to which Mayor Fishe:
!, refers was held Monday night fof the
!, purpose of selecting the five police
men who were elected 1T last ni%ht's
meeting. 1t is understood that At
that time the slate va. fully agreed
upon and when it came to vote the
c.. mmissoners wee as unit Gron
all five of the SUGGEST ] ones. IL e
;,aS no time lost IL tie selection, less
than one minute time heing required
to examine the candidates. ThrouS:-
out the meeting ther, was decided
chill in the atmosphere ard few WORDS
were wasted between the mayor ana
the commissioners At the conciu-
sion of the meeting il was unofficially
agreed by the commissioners that :lley
would take no notice Of the statement
made by the mayor.
!, There were 33 applications for the
; five vacancies and Of the numhc-' Il
appeared for examination last night
! The men elected were James L. Pow.
or. Andrew 4. Zell, Raymond W.
Smith, w. w. Campbell, Jr. and }.
LEROY hewitt. Their ages range
from % to 40 years.
The following applied for positions
James T. Smith, Raymond W. Smith
J. F. digger, w. F.. Schafe; c. c,
Berlin: F. L. Hall; C. S. Underwood
J. F. Henderson, Joseph N. Rowland
C. F. DeMoll, Robert Lynch, Andrew
Zell, Henry Murphy, Henry SESSION
w. G. Sutphin; Benz. Allen. W. F..
,, Stonnell, Charles Holmastin, }. +.
Waddey; w. w. Campbell. Enocf
Davis, Joseph l.. Power, W. c. Tay,
lor; Everett Rodgers; Roy hewitt
Henry NJ. Meeks, Marshall J. Cook
Roy P. Henderson; Fred Higgins; J
Frank Sampson former member o.
the force), John T. Evans, D. NJ
O'Brien and Arthur SESSION.
Sergeant B. F. Belts, the veteran
of the force, rendered his resignation
at last nights meeting and made ap,
plication for election to the force as
private. Commissioner Knight
stated that Sergeant Bettis's age
would prevent him from performing
certain duties which had been lain
down for the sergeants and it was
said that he hoped to be assigned to
duty as a station keeper. Mayor
Fisher asked that action on the resig-
nation be deferred until he could
discuss the subject with Sergeant
Belts. and the board unanimously
agreed to this action.
Mayor Fisher presented communi
cation he had received from the Grand
Order of Odd Fellows (colored) which
met in this city last week expressing
the thanks of the organization for
the protection afforded by the police
and the courteous manner in which the
members of the order had been treat
ed by the Alexandria authorities.
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