Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-11-14 | Page 28 | Pay of Officers to be Increased

PA! OF OFFICERS Firemen and Policemen Both! Are io Be Better Taken Care Of. WEIGHT SEALER AND POUND KEEPER ARE INCLUDED General Increase Among Firemen Fire-men and Patrolmen "Will Be $15 a Month. As tho result of a caucus of the American members of tho city council, coun-cil, ordinances will be introduced soon increasing the salaries of Iho members of tho polico and fire departments of the city and also of the sealer of weights and measures, oil inspector and city ponndkeopcr. Councilman T. K. Black will introduce the ordinance in relation lo tho polico department -and L D. Martin will introduce the ordinance relative to the fire department. depart-ment. It is (he intention to make the increase in salaries effective January I next. Following is tho schedule of increases in-creases in fhe police department: Patrolmen, Pa-trolmen, from .-?Su lo .f 100 a month; mounted officers, from $100 fo $115; sergeants of police, from $J00 lo $110; detectives, from $105 to $110; lieutenants, lieuten-ants, from $1120 to $1'J5; secretary of the department, from $75 lo $100; matron, from $10 to $50. New patrolmen will be required to work the first six months for $85 a month, the second six months for $00. and after that they will rcceivo $100 a mouth. Firorucn's Increases. The increases proposed in flic fire department re as follows: Firemen, fioui $85 fo $100 a month; lieutenants, from $90 to $105; captains, from $05 to $110; engineers, from $00 to $105; secretary of the department, from $90 to $100; superintendent of alarms, from $100 to 12a; assistant chief, from $120 to $135; chief of department, from $175 to $200. The salary of the scaler of weighls and measures and city oil inspector, combined in ono ofiicer, will be increased in-creased from $50 to $f0 a month.