Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-15
BROOK LYn POLICE To
HOLD FAST To JOBS
Quit if Pay Isn't Raised? Pshaw!
We're Only Joking, They
Declare.
SURE THEY'LL ASK FOR MORE.
But Already There Are RumOrs of 0p-
position by Taxpayers and the
Strike Threat SINNERS Down.

'Pshaw!" Ne were only Joking
Anybody ought TO know that we were
only Joking We don't intend to quit if
our pay isn't raised. But we are going
TO try 70 get the raise"
Thus. in effect. say the nine men who
make up the Police Department Of the
Broollyn-Curtis Bay district. Thus
che cold gray dawn and the dark brown
taste Of the morning after. They real
ly don't want TO throw up their jobs
and so to work for the new Industrial
plants al Curtis Bay
They want to remain policemen, and.
the politicians of the county willing.
policemen they viii remain even at
their present low" salaries. even if
they are paid no more than the school
teachers Of Anne Arundel county
The cold. gray dawn and the dark
brown taste seem TO have begun their
process of evolution last night. follow
ing hurry call for Chief OF Police
Thomas W. Irwin, to come TO see John
g. Potee, former Sheriff OF Anne
Arundel county, and at present a mem
her Of the Democratic State Central
Committee That was at 10 o'clock
Irwin said he would not be able TO
come tili II O'Clock That made no
difference to Potee
Come now; Irwin came
Mr. Potee, State Senator Duyall and
DR. George Wells are the Democratic
leaders in Anne Arundel
'If DR.. Wells, DuvalI and Potee agree
to the proposed increase, Wen get Il
whether the taxpayers want us to have
It or not they won't even be consider
ed. Irwin said yesterday. we are
going to push the bill
This rnorEiny the story was different.
The bill has already been drawn up
and the policemen are going to pre-
sent it to Wells, DuvalI and Potee for
their approval If they do not approve
it. it will be dropped without more ado.
The bill proposes to increase the pay
OF the Chief Of Police from S65 to 50
a month, of the assistant chief from $50
to S75. and of the seven patrolmen
from $50 TO $65 A bin with the same
provisions was introduced in the Gen
eral Assembly of 1919. Il passed both
houses. but was vetoed by Governor
Goldsborough.
The Taxpalers' Association of Anne
Arundel County, according to prom
inent members Of il. viii, in al prob
ability fight any such increase as the
policemen propose. Already the asso~
citation is trying to reduce the number
of public offices in the county. IT
wants the County Road Engineer and
three district foremen removed. This
would save some SO. 600 a year A fur
ther proposal to reduce the present tax
rate Of Anne Arundel is to incorporate
Brooklyn and Curtis Bay as one town.
There is opposition to the proposed
increase in the teachers salaries on
the ground that it would add from to
cents to the tax rate The total
yearly increase proposed by the police
would amount 10 s1,740.
Magistrate James II. Fowler, fFho is
a Republican, and who pySsIdes over
the destinies OF the Byooklyn Police
Station, says that, despite the fact that
the county is pleading poverty. the sal
aries of the police Gould be raised,
He adds, however, that certain Of the
policemen should work a great deal
harder than they do. and that they
should spend more time working for
the department and less for outside
interests.-Ba Baltimore Evening Sun.