The New York herald., 1922-05-05
Enter Training School to
BE Turned Out for Patrol
Work in Two Months.
ANOTHER STATION CLOSED
Historic Elizabeth Street Pre-
cinct Wiped Out Under
New Enright Order.

executive committee, the Chamber Of
Commerce of the State Of New York at
its annual meeting yesterday adopted
resolutions declaring that the police
force of the city of New York is nu-
merically inadequate and ought to be
materially enlarged at the earliest pos
sible moment. The resolution else
called for Federal legislation which
would create a national bureau to as-
semble the history of criminals in the
form of court records and flngerprints
and supply it to municipal and State
authorities. 1t was urged that civic
organization having no official con-
nection with any existing commercial
or civic body be organized 10 promote
efficiency in the police organizations
Of the city,. county and State.
The resolutions empowered tho ex-
ecutive committee to take such acton
az it might deem necessary.
In the discussion. Joseph NJ Price,
who brought the question to the atten-
tion of the chamber a month ago. criti-
cized the committees failure either to
He said the chamber ought to take a
bold definite stand the one way or the
other
He characterized Commissioner En-
right as plausible, suave, agreeable
gentleman. whose forte was in making
speeches. The Commissioner is the pos
SCISSOR of a comprehensive fund of sta
tistics bearing on crime and police pro-
tection in foreign cities, declared Mr..
Price. but his statistics on the number
and details of crimes committed in New
York city are worthless.
Speaking in behalf of the executive
committee, Irving T. Bush replied that
its members had carefully considered all
angles of the issue in drawing up the
resolutions and that they had not been
carried away by the Commissioner elo-
quence.
Five hundred men who passed civil
service examinations for the position Of
patrolman will receive to-day their first
ira ming school instruction. The course
will last two months The group will be
broken up in two classes one receiving
instruction from s A. NJ. to p. VI. and
the other from p. M. to midnight.
Capt Charles II. Schofield will be in
charge. Mental training will he given
in the old West Twentieth street station
and physical training at Police Head
quarters. Tho students are expected to
have their uniforms tailored and to learn
enough to do duty as probationary pa
trolmen. After six months of proba-
tionary work they become full fledged
patrolmen.
Elizabeth street station Closed.
The Elizabeth street police station
closes to-day at noon. and with it passes
the old Sixth Police Precinct in years
gone by one of the most colorful dis
trlcts in the city. 1t took in Chinatown,
Mulberry Bend, Chatham square, the
Bloody Angle and the Five Points.
The order abolishing the historic Sixth
vas issued by Police Commissioner En-
right Yesterday. The station house it.
self will be ured as a training school for
recruit policemen. This makes the
twelfth police precinct abolished by Mr..
Enright. The territory will be consoli-
dated with the Fifth Precinct (Oak
street,. and the uniformed and plain
clothes personnel will be almost equally
divided between Oak street and Clinton
street stations.
The Elizabeth street station was built
in 1881. The ground on which 1t was
tLilt was leased. not owned. by the city.
The abolished precinct was created by
General Police Order No. 1. issued July
25. 1S45, under the administration of
Mayor William +. Havemeyer. 1t took
IN that section of the city bounded by
Parw row and Broadway to Spring
street. to the Bowery. to Chatham
square. to Park row.
Benjamin Austin. police captain at
Elizabeth street station. will assume
charge of the West 152d street station.
Capt William Day Of that station has
been made deputy inspector.
New Precincts Defined.
The Oak street station, in taking over
the Elizabeth street territory. was re-
,eved Of the territory it acquired when
the old Madison street precinct was
abolished about a year ago, The old
Madison street precinct will now he
covered by tho Clinton street station
(the Thirteenth precinct) under COM
mand OF Capt. Michael Il. Kelly.
The boundaries of the two precincts.
as announced in the police order, are az
follows:
Clinton street. from Houston street
south on the east side Of the Bowery to
Bayard street. east on Bayard street
TO Market street. south on Market street
TO the East River and along the East
River front to Houston street.
Oak street, Fulton street at Broadway.
north on Broadway to Spring street. east
on Spring street to the Bowery, south on
the west side OF the Bowery TO Bayard
street. east on Bayard street to Mar
l<et street and south on Market street
to tho East River.
DR.. Aaron Adelman 2s. a dentist. OF
23s Main street, Paterson, y. j., was
arrested yesterday in front of the Grim
ina Courts Building on a warrant
charging the theft Of an automobile
owned by Leon Bonach Of SO Bridgs
street, Paterson. on March 30. He was
released by Judge. Mott in $1,000 bail.
promising TO appear June to plead on
The indictment.
Tho arrest resulted from statements
made by Alexander Krieger. Benjamin
Sllverstein and Edward Schlinck, all Of
Paterson, before the Grand Jury. Sill
verstein swore he went to DR.. Adelman's q
Office March 20 to have some work done
He told Or. Adelmsn. he said. that he
had no money. but the dentist declared
that would be all risht IL he would steal
a car for him. An agreement was
reached IL was alleged, and Or. Adel-
mar promised to meet Slverstein and
the two others In the Pennsylvania Hotel
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