New Britain herald., 1917-02-15

great success there Is tr,. Juble. He believed there should be no jockey ing' with prices At th1 $ point Su- pernumeraries Souney an u kerin re- gretted that anything pen sonal should be brought into the dl ,cussion and that the committee does not want to be misinterpreted as q isliking their chief and other guperioH s.
 Supernumerary Piersf on presented the request that provia ions be made so that men of this bs anch may be provided with eQuipmSnt for target practice, receive instru4 tion in proper police work and have i.their fashlight batteries re-charged alt city expense. He contended that the re is no reason why the same conditions should not prevail as with the rGsgular men, es- pec1ally when the Htupernumeraries 1 take the places of re gular men.
 Chief Rawlings Asked that the questlon or pay for :Fupernumeraries should De charlhed att once, prevent Ing future d1ffereK4 4ces aand misunder- standings. The cornmAttee announced that the men willy bf satisfied with s2:75 the first year, s3 the second year and thereafter. { Thirty-five cents an hour is asked for private duty, when not paid byt kthe city. Super numerary Kerin dE,kplained that man had been detlailed to a Main I street store duringA the holiday rush l and asked for td hty-f1ye cents an hour He received, twenty-eight cents an nour, he said, a kter the store man. agement had calleJd up headquarters and asked the rea:ular rate. He said that the officer v-Eorked three hours 1 a night at this rs ite received eiehty- l four cents for light and was disap- 1 polnteo. The rn ian was looking for the detail and IEas willing to take It, commented c hptain Grace. Com 1 ilissloner Steele believed that su 1 pernumerary sht )uld not be expected
 70 don unifor1 n unless there is pay or at least, $1. This was agreed to | oy Chief Raw1ir .gs who said that this 1 procedure has been customary.
 Supernumera ry Kerin said this is an argument fe ,r the rotary system" l Aealn Captaln { Grace explained that it
 IS lmposs1ole relative to hall and l tneater asslgm ments, but that it is in
 eHect, as Tar as street work is con-
 cerned- Supe rnumerary Pierson said
 the supernurn leraries will be glad to
 DOCK out Fstem and present it for
 future consId eration.
 | 1"AiO 1APpIOsCu
 The follow ting schedule of nav was
 approVeo' tand concerts, $1; we'd
 alhss, chrlS senings, dances etc., $25o
 Tor the DO licemen and soc for the
 cly' prlVau duty, 35c per hour; base
 Dali ana I Dotball games within the city nmltsj / $1.50; theaters, $2 until
 11:lo and overtime thereafter with
 ooc revertt ng to the city; pay of $2.75
 the nrst ear and $3 the second year
 and therei liter. Supernumerary Pier
 son conte nded that the supernumer-
 aries Tn M teriden get $3 and contended
 that he land Superintendent Souney
 interview ed Lieutenant McGovern o1
 the Merlc len police and got the figures
 They ge t more than the regular men
 then, commented Captain Grace
 Ch1ef Rs iwlings simply called attention
 to an hicial communication from
 Merlderi authorities in which s2.75
 was qW oted.
 me monthly report of Chief Raw
 lnss Y or January was received ant
 acceptt bd. It shows that there ha.
 been ID iuch sickness in the departm ent
 eulo gy was given relative to the late
 Police dnan William Grace The re
 port of Chief Robert M. Dame wa,
 not tt lken up as he said that there ar,
 feuv important details relative tc
 fire losses lacking. It will be taker
 up q another meeting Tuesday night
 whail the annual budget and requisi.
 tionsj will be discussed
 II; was voted to request the common
 cou ltcil to authorize the purchase o1
 n timber of new fire alarm boxes from
 the Gamewell company. Chief Dame
 rel orted that there are more than a
 sce'fe of applications for boxes to be
 int jailed. A communication from the
 Gss ssnewell company was to the effect
 tH at the price per box will be in-
 or'eased after March 1 but that the old
 yprtce will be in effect until then.
 j Tt was reported that the Western { Union Telegraph company will take
 tevr the electric clock service for
 nerly conducted by Spring & Buckley ] Chairman Babcock was authorized to |yHgn the new contract in behalf of the | city. The service will be used with the ! electric clock in the city court room. ], Approval was given of the purchase , of new pen punching device, at a :, E cost of $350, for the police signal { system at headquarters. Chairman l Babcock reported that Geo. M. Lan- I ders has informed him that the New
 Britain General hospital officials are |, taking steps to secure an ambulance 7. for that institution. There were ex- I l pressions of approval.
 3 Policeman as Arbiter.
 l | Charges preferred against Police 7 man Frank J. Moore by Jacob Teresky, | tailor of 245 East Main street, were re- l ferred back to Chief Rawlings for any . action that he may see fit on the . ground that there are not sufficiently < serious to warrant action by the board. , According to the reports of Captain T. 7 w. Grace and Policeman Moore, John | Michaels of 23S Broad street bought a pair of trousers at the Teresky shop
 for $2,25. He claimed they did not fit and wanted the money back. Police
 man Moore was called in and, finally Teresky gave the money back and took