Year: 1873

At a meeting OF the Board OF Police held yester-
day afternoon b resolution was passed giving Com
missioner Gardner, Chairman of the Committee on
station Houses authority to purchase a floor In
the house adjoining the Nineteenth precinct sta
tion house for the accommodation OF the extra
men to be detailed for the precinct. Commissioner
Durfee Is hard at work organizing the military idea
to be introduced into the Depar rtment. In company
with superintendent Matsell he visited the Mayor
yesterday and laid the subject before His Honor,
together with the benefits to be derived from this
movement. Governor Dix is said to be strongly
impressed with the great moral support this intro
duction OF arms among the police Will give the
men, and is reported to be ready to give 1t his
support. The interview with the Mayor yesterday
probably decided the first important step, and the
second Will be concluded upon by the Recorder
and General Duryea at Saratoga to-day. The
main object of the instruction of the police in the
manual Of arms and the providing them with
weapons is to the public expense at times of
danger, protect property and save life. When o
riot breaks out great deal OF time is generally
1ost in calling upon the militia and citizen soldiers
have rarely shown themselves able to act with that
readiness and GOODNESS required for an excited
mob The bringing into use this branch Of the SER
vice is besides very expensive and entails q
loss OF time on the individual members the
police were


B ARMED AND DRILLED TO ARMS,


General Duryea thinks there would rarely be a
necessity to call upon any other assistance to
maintain the public peace Roughs would always
be aware that guns could be brought to bear upon
them at a few moments notice, and they would
entertain q more wholesome dread OF the police
than they do now 1t would give the men them
selves moral support that nothing else could ele
vate them to, and it would nip in the bud many
dangerous demonstrations. The work Of pre-
pairing the police is already begun. Those in the
kraining school now are diligently learning the
military drill. and sergeants and captains are
brushing their memories up to be ready to make a
the requistion for 16oO stand OF arms with swords
BELTS pistols and other necessary accOutre-
%Vos at ness e DAY. n ne
passes away the public may expect to see large
proportion Of the police force marching down
keeping time to the music with true military ease
and grace. Captain lyman, OF the Eighteenth pre-
have charge OF the first division be sent to exer-
else, and the others will be placed under their re-
spective captains; sr,vrr c,,.x,xo


matters occupied large portion OF the attention OF
the Board yesterday. The Commissioners and that,
with the money at their disposal, 1t is Impossible
for them to keep the streets in clean ana healthy
condition. Such piece Of machinery. composed
sSsse 0ssans sna the Board dsSs ssms to to


q s1S nc
because the Commissioners are looking for reH-
able capable men to take the elephant OF their
will be settled. The city Is to be divided into four
districts, and each section will be contracted out


Sc make N ss ns
broadway being the dividing line. All the remain
Ing portion Of the city nom Sixteenth M street up,
nue. being the dividing line The carting OF street
dirt from the streets will also be contracted out as
warehouses. 1t Is likewise in contemplation to en-
ploy separate cartmen to reMQye ashes an9 gar
6age and the whole OF this branch Of the business
rract Tor any part or branch Of the business will be
held to strict countabity by the Board, and the
moment any derefctiOn OF duty is discovered the
offending party will be removed and more com.
petent and trustworthy person put into his place.
Captains of police will continue to make reports
ppOn the condition OF the streets, as they do now,
and the officers OF the Board Of Health will also
more expense than is dealt out now. Several per-
sons are looking for the contract TO


REMOVE THE DEAD ANIMALS,


which Is in the gift OF the Board OF Police. The
present holders are the Rendering Company, and
dent Of the Board Of Health, at its last meeting.
that the company could not carry the Offal out Of
me city limits as s the dock " was ed With rubbish rub
dering OF 0ffal by this company on the 10th inst,
and II they allow the nth to accumulate on the
will be placed in other hands. The President Of
the Board Of Health informed the manager OF
khey failed to carly out the contract the
Board had parties waiting who were ready to do
80. Professor Chandler evidently forgot that the
only power in the Board OF Health is that OF being
able to stop the money for the transfer of the dead
animals; the Board OF Police has the privilege Of
The Rendering Company have not cleared their
docks; they will have to stop rendering on the
10th instant One day Will make terrible accu-
mutation Of ofial, and the Board Of Police will in
all probability, have appointed new contractor
dby Friday next