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Show Chief of Police Sheets rightly received the cooperation co-operation of the council in his first move toward the reconstruction of the police department, even though his decapitation specialty did not meet with the approval of a certain contemporary 3 which has worn sack-cloth ever since the pitched 3 battle between Apostles Smoot and Penrose re-I re-I suited in' the evacuation of the mayoralty chair by ' R. P. Morris. Th- police department has been conspicuously incompetent for a number of years. This has been due largely to the fact that the chief of police has not been the choice of the executive, ex-ecutive, that many patrolmen remained in office against the wishes of the chief, and that proper discipline and efficiency were impossible in consequence. conse-quence. The appointments submitted to the council coun-cil on Monday night give the chief of police a thoroughly competent staff, and it now looks as if the department for once in its history would be a harmonious organization. The contemporary l referred to was particularly tearful over the re- moval of Fire Chief Bywater, whoe strenuous yfork on behalf of the Democratic ticket last year was naturally duly appreciated by the unterrified rgan. v Still, the new chief has a first class record as a fighter of fires, and there is no reason why he should be a paralytic in that position because of the creditable performances of Mr. Bywater. There is every reason to believe that the changes in both departments will have a very salutary effect, ef-fect, even though the spectacle of the new installation in-stallation be dimmed by the fast-falling tears of disappointed politicians, i |