The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-08
All Night Long Officers
Move Equipment Into
Old County Jail.
MORE ELBOW ROOM
Instead of Two Inadequate
Rooms, Police Now Have
a Whole Building.

Monday night, but it was the blue of
blue jeans topped off by police cap
and shield, for all night long the men
of the "force" were working busily
in overalls transferring their goods
and chattels from the old police
headquarters on the second floor
of the city hall to the new ones in
the old county Jail.
For most people the act of trans
ferring from one home to another is
knowing day." but for the police it
was moving night" for they could
not disrupt the rest of the city hall
or interrupt the regular round of
police activities by doing all their
moving in daylight hours, SO by dawn
today the biggest part of the loading
and unloading had been done.
More Room for All.
Police Captain Clausen has been in
charge Of making alterations in the
old Jail quarters to prepare it for the
arrival of the police. Only the most
necessary alterations have been made.
The expansion will bridge the interval
between now and the time, not per-
haps so very far off, when the police
will have new and adequate police
headquarters somewhere in the civic
center plan.
In the meantime, instead of having
only two rooms, there will be dozen
for the police to occupy. For many
years the police have had to content
themselves with one big Office, which
has been information desk, squad room
and record room together, and small
Office for the chief of police. The
chief, however, had no privacy, for
there was a gangway through the
room from the main Office to the
Jail downstairs.
Begin Making Repairs.
In the alterations that were made,
one wall was knocked out on the first
floor, making larger room where is
housed today the information desk,
telephones and switch board for the
box calls. All the walls in this Sec
ton have been painted a sunny buff,
and in time the wallpaper will be
and this color painted throughout,
making the walls more sanitary and
inviting"
Anyone seeking the police Office
will come in through the front door
not through the side door as of old,
as this will be the prisoners arcade;
the wagon" bringing the prisoners
stopping just outside this west door.
The "front porch" was sore spot
with Chief Logan, as he could not
imagine himself or any Of his men
taking sun-bath thereon. If the
police remain in these quarters for a
long time, the porch will be taken off
and cement step substituted.
Now Have Squad Room.
As you enter the front south door,
the first door to the right is the chiefs
Office, but it can not be entered by
those seeking the chief except through
the Office of the police secretary, Ser
geant Leo Buchanan whose Office is
just north of it. The secretary's
office is also where the records
will be kept.
Again as you enter the front door,
the room to the left is the Office of
the assistant chief, John A. Cyzak, and
the Office of the police captain, Emil
Clausen. Hitherto, they have had to
be content with a wire basket in the
chiefs own Office, and there was
not room enough in that for full
sized cat to crawl inside.
Again as you enter the. front door,
and directly opposite it, is the desk
of the desk sergeant, who receives
all corners, and usually, no matter who
is on duty, with a sturdy smile. The
desk sergeant has near at hand the
telephones "1-2" and $780," and also
near at hand, and any number of cells
the switch board. He has also gun
ready for occupancy just behind him.
Farther down the hall, in the sher-
ifs former kitchen, is the squad room.
The officers coming in to answer roll
call enter through the east door and
can come and go without disturbing
the usual routine of the place. This
doubtless makes for efficiency, but
perhaps some of the old-time COM
eradery will thereby be destroyed.
You can't put your name on your
door on brass plate without los
ing something thereby.
The Tower Room.
Up the stairs and to snug little
room in the tower, and you come to
the place where the tears will fall
from time to time with the musical
drip of water fountain. For this
room, furnished with the wicker
furniture which Judge Belden once
selected himself" for the first jury
women who came to serve in his court,
is the office of Beulah Mcneil, who
is in charge of the police service
bureau. The tears will never be
counted or put on report to be
bound and filed away, for the police
woman regards all the confessions
made in this Office, as personal and
private unless made by those who
have seriously transgressed the law. :,
Across from the tower room is the
room of the detective division, whose
chief is Lieut.. Charles r. Rock, who
has a hard bright humor that can not
be matched, and who penetrates mys-
teries with common sense. His aides
are Sergeant Meissner, who contrib
utes the picturesque and adventurous
side, and Detectives Frank McCluskey,
John Breidt, Walter Chase, and Perry
F. Tusler.
A s'spare room" on this floor was
retained by Captain Clausen when he
made the plans for the new quarters,
as such. 1t is an emergency room,
where a visiting officer from another
town who comes for a prisoner, can
be put up for the night in a pinch,
or where a sick person could be
placed temporarily.