Show FIRE ANn POLICE BOARD A Carnival Visitor Claims lie Was Roughly Handled CAPTAINS ARE CONFIRMED THE PROMOTIONS WITHOUT INCREASE CREASE IX SALARY HOWEVER Welch Will Get His Back Pay NCVF Rules Submitted Tlie Two Chiefs Object to Getting Only Ten Days Vacation Encl Year Adjourned Until the First aionduy in August The board of fire and police commissioners commis-sioners held a somewhat lengthy session last night Noble being absent William Jennings a resident of Ogden made some charges against the captain of police for rough treatment while here during the carnival days In substance the charge against Cap I tain Donovan was that he prevented the complainant from crossing a street durIng dur-ing the progress of the carnival procession proces-sion I Complainant alleges that on the afternoon after-noon of July 4 he started to go to the Hoy Cross hospital that in attempting I to cross the street when the procession was going by he seized by was a policeman police-man Complainant explained he had to catch a car for the hospital but the ofli cer seized him by the collar and put him back to the sidewalk Mr Jennings told tho officer whom he learned vas Donovan Don-ovan that he would be compelled to report re-port the matter at headquarters whereupon where-upon the captain ordered an officer to arrest ar-rest him The complainant willingly accompanied ac-companied the officer to the station stton I Donovan followed and told the desk sergeant ser-geant that he did not desire t put any charge against the arrested man in reply re-ply to which the desk sergeant said if he Jennings would say nothing about the occurrence no charge would be entered en-tered against him In view of all this he asks that the board take proper steps to censure the police captain for treating complainant like a sneak thief and a pickpocket The clerk was ordered to serve the parties par-ties concerned with a copy of the charges and cite them to appear before the board at the first meeting in September On the presumption that a full board will then be present Commissioner Cohn reported favorably on the appointment of W H Bywater and A McCarthy to the rank of captains in the fire department In explanation to questions from the chair Chief Devine I said i made no difference in the salary The promotion of McCarthy was made for the simple reason that he did not desire de-sire to appoint any one over him in authority au-thority I was simply changing the rank from lieutenant to captain in both instances of which the salary was the same Chairman Varian was not so sure such a chance could be made without rules from the board I was his idea that the board should designate the number of captains The report however was adopted A communication from the city recorder I re-corder notifying the board of the councils coun-cils request that Liberty Park Keeper Williams be vested with special police i I power brought forth the comment from I Mr Varian Now the council is taking a singular action in this matter They persist in holding the whip over this bard Cohn did not Question the good mot mo-t e of the council but he thought that the park required a man who could give all his time to looking after those who persist in fast driving and similar offenses of-fenses On motion of Jennigs the board declined de-clined to accede to the demand of the council Relative to the councils request that the fire department be requested to flush the glitters in garbage district No 1 the board after some informal talk passed the matter without any action Commissioner Cohn reported favorably on the claim of Fireman Welch for back salary from September 1S9J to February 1SU5 during which period he was suspended suspend-ed from the department The commissioners commis-sioners recommontion was based upon an opinion from the city attorney who held that the case was a parallel one with these of the other firemen suspended suspend-ed about the same time and awarded pay by the courts Chairman Varian submitted a draft of several new rules governing the fire and police department One was to provide that each member be granted a leave of absence for ten days each year Applications Applica-tions for such vacations must be made to the superior officer and board two I weeks before hand Another rule provided that such applications for leave of absence ab-sence be considered in executive session by the board and the names of those granted vacations not given out I Chief Devine registered a kick agaisnt allowing him only ten days leave of ab senco each year Chief Pratt did the same Mr Devine pointed to the fact I that he was always required to be on duty I was a difficult matter for example ex-ample to attend a fire chiefs convention in the east during the brief period of ten days I The suggestion w favorably acted the upon and a provision Incorporated to effect that the chief engineer the chief of police assistant lire chief and the captain cap-tain of police may be granted leave of absence at the discretion of the board Another section provided that no member i mem-ber of tho fire department shall reside I more than four blocks away from the fire station This met with some opposition and was laid over for further consideration tion ton Other rules with a few immaterial modifications modi-fications were adopted Councilman Callister was present and spoke relative to an electric light inspector In-spector I was the desire of the improvement I improve-ment committee to have the fire chief act a such According to the contract with the HgfttSng company the inspector would be required to visit the distributing station and see that sufficient power was furnished fur-nished Does the city expect to pay the chief anything for that extra service asked Chairman Varian Oh yes we expect to pay him ten or fifteen dollars a month replied Callister Jennings wanted to know if Mr Callister Calster didnt think a contract involving about 2SCOO would warrant the employment of a regular Inspector to look after the lighting Callister said all the city would require would be for the chief to keep a record of all complaints and order lights on dark nights I The commission saw no objection to having the chief perform such duties and I the general understnding was that the commission would acquies in the appointment appoint-ment Monday The board In August then adjourned until the first I |