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Public Document No. 49
FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT
Police Commissioner
CITY OF BOSTON.
Year exdixg Xov. 30, 1909.
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CONTEXTS. ;|
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Report : — fioi
Police work as to crime, ......... 5
Xonrcsidcnt offenders, ......... 6
.\utomobiIe laws, .......... 7
Motor taxicabs, .......... 8 |
Street traffic rules 9
Jurj- work by police, ......... 10 ' ■-
Private business in public streets, ....... II
Juvenile offenders, ..........11 <;
Sunday work, ........... 17 ,' i
"Better police protection," 20 [ ■$
Offences against chastity and morality, ...... 22 { .■;
Houses of m fame 23 j |
Inmates and patrons, ......... 25 >
Night walkers, ........... 27
Significance of ages and birthplaces, ....... 30
"White slavery," 34
Securing evidence, .......... 37
The futility of ci\"il procedure, ........ 39
Suppression of public and semi-public immnraEty, . . . ,42
The police attitude, .......... 48
The Department : —
The police force, ..........50
Signal service, ........... 50
Employees of the department, ........ 50
Recapitulation, .......... 50
Distribution and changes, ......... 51
Police officers injured while on dutj', ....... 51
Work of the department, ......... 51
.\rrests, ........... 51
Drunkenness, .......... 54
Bureau of criminal investigation, ....... 54
iliscellaneous business, ........ 55
Lost, abandoned and stolen property, ...... 56
Special events, ........... 56
Inspector of claims, .......,., 57
Officers detailed to assist medical examinezs, ..... 53
House of detention, .......... 59
Police signal service, ........,,59
Signal boxes, .......... 59
Miscellaneous work, ......... 59
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Harbor service, .......... 61
Horses, 62
Vehicle service, .......... 63
Automobiles, .......... 62
.Ambulances, .......... 63
Public carriages, .......... 63
Wagon licenses, .......... 63
Listing male rcsidet>t« of Boston, etc., ...... 66
Women voters verified, . . . .... .66
Listing expenses, . . . . .... .66
Number of policemen employed in Ibting, ..... 67
Special police, ........... SI
Railroad police, .......... 67
Miscellaneous licenses, ......... 67
Musicians' licenses, .......... 6S
Itinerant, ........... 6S
Collective 65
Public lodging houses, ......... 69
Carrj-ing dangerous weapons, . . . .... .70
Small loan licenses, .......... TO
Pensions and benefit.^, ......... TO
Financial, ........... 71
Distribution of police force, . . . .... .72
List of officers who died during the year, ...... 74
List of officers retired during the year, ...... 75
List of officers who were promoted during the year, .... 76
Number of men in artive service, ....... 77
Officers discharged and resigned during the j'ear, ..... 78
Absent from duty by reason of sickness during the year, . . .79
Complaints against officers during the year, ..... SO
Number and distribution of horses, ....... S3
Arrests by divisions during the year, ....... S3
Arrests and offences for year, ........ S4
Comparative statement of crimes oa to population, .... 98
Age and sex of persons arrested, ....... 99
Licenses of all classes issued, ........ 100
Dog licenses issued, .......... 101
Wagon licenses issued, ......... 101
Financial statement, .......... 102
PajTnents on account of signal service, ...... 103
Accidents, ........... 10*
Male residents listed bj- wards and precincts, ..... 106
Male residents, supplementarj- list, ....... 107
Women voters listed, ......... 108
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REPORT.
Hkadqvarters of the Police Depahtment,
Office of the Police Commissioner, 29 Pemberton Square,
BosTO.v, Dec. 1, 1909.
To His Excellency Ebex S. Draper, Governor.
TouB ExcELLEXCY : — As Police Commissioner for the
city of Boston I have the honor to present, in compliance with
the provisions of chapter 291 of the Acts of 1906, a report
of the work of the police department for the year ended Xov.
30, 1909.
Police Woek as to Crime.
By statute as well as through growth in the population and
the activities of the city the civil work of the police increases
yearly in proportion to the criminal part. On the criminal
side the total number of arrests in 1909 was 71,512, as against
G8,146 in 1908 and 57,078 in 1907. The eight general divi-
sions under which offences are classed show the following
numbers for the three vears: —
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I
OFFENCES.
.\iTesU In
1907.
.\iTeits In
1908.
Amsta In
1909.
Offences against the person,
Offences against property, with \"ioIence,
Offences against property, without \io-
lencc.
Malicious offences against property,
Forgerj- and offences against the cur-
rency.
Offences against the license laws. .
Offences against chastity, morality, etc.,
Offences not classed in the foregoing, in-
cluding drunkenness.
2,979
535
3,0.55
165
50
302
828
49,164
3,591
692
4,048
18.5
76
828
1,141
57,.585
3,156
525
3,783
176
71
769
1,409
61,623
Totals, .....
57,078 68,146
71,512
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POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
The more serions crimes were not so numerous as in 1903,
and the increase in the total this year is more than accounted
for bv the greater number of arrests for drunkenness and the
many prosecutions required to establish the new street traflSc
rules. The penalties imposed by the courts in fines and im-
prisonment were greater than ever before. The following
summary shows the results for three years: —
isos.
IMS.
Persons fined,
Total amount of fines.
Persons sentenced to imprisonment.
Total 3'ears of imprisonmeat, .
15,735
S159,9S2
8,8S3
3,904
17,407
$161,399
9,478
4,130
In the report for 1903 a clerical error was made in copy-
ing into the table corresponding to that just given, the num-
ber of persons sentenced to imprisonment. The figures were
given correctly in the statistical part of the report, and are
correct in this table.
XoyEESEDENT OFFENDERS.
The proportion of nonresident offenders among the persons
arrested continues to increase. When the first police com-
mission was established, in 1878, the percentage was 19.90;
in 1909 it was 39.03. The statistics for the past ten years,
covering arrests for all causes, are as follows : —
Tout Arrests.
XonroidcstL
Pvccatia of
Noer^daU.
1900
33,655
10,314
30.61
1901,
34,500
10,551
30.58
1902,
34,732
10,631
30.61
1903,
43,033
14,644
29.38
1904,
50,265
18,030
3.5.86
1905,
48,358
17,167
35.50
1906,
49,906
18,001
36.06
1907,
57,078
20,982
36.77
190S,
68,146
26,113
38.32
1909,
71,512
27,953
39. OS
1910.]
PUBLIC DOCU-MEXT — Xo. 49.
Taking the arrests for drunkenness by themselves, and
giving the increase in percentage, the changes of the past ten
vears are as follows : —
i ToUl .\rTesls for
i DruakeoDess.
Pareotage of
Xocresidenta.
1900, .
IS.COl
3S.40
1901, .
19,4SS
29.90
1902, .
19,107
39.35
19a3, .
27,757
42.53
1904, .
33,511
43.36
19a5, .
32,29S
43.14
1906, .
32,3S0
44.57
1907, .
37,3S9
45.63
190S, .
42,4GS
47.73
1909, .
45,321
47.62
Almost two-fifths of all the persons arrested in 1909 by the
Boston police, and almost half of those arrested for drunk-
enness, were nonresidents.
Automobile Laws.
The automobile prosecutions in 1909 numbered 2,196, as
against 1,S65 in 1908. The fines in 1909 amounted to
$21,000, as against $19,338 in IOCS. These figures include
prosecutions in parks as well as in streets for violations of
the State law or the park rules, but they do not include prose-
cutions of drivers of automobiles for violations of the street
traffic regulations. The considerable increase in the rates of
speed at which automobiles might be driven, which was al-
lowed under those sections of the automobile act of 1909
which took effect July 1, affected the number of prosecu-
tions.
The first record of an automobile prosecution by the Bos-
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
tou police was made only eight years ago, when the single
offence of the year 1901 was the driving of a motor car in a
public park without a permit. In 1902 there were 33 pros-
ecutions; in 1903, 07; in 1904, 179; in 1905, 102; in 190C,
SOS; in 1907, 961; in 190S, 1.S65; in 1909, 2,196.
Accidents to per.-ons due to the operation of automobiles
are first recorded in the department reports in 1900. Be-
ginning in that year, their number to the present time is
shown in the following table : —
Killed.
Injured.
1900,
1901,
1902,
1903,
1904,
1903,
1906,
1907,
190S,
1909,
1
2
1
7
6
9
19
8
17
24
55
7S
110
105
127
251
Of the 9 persons killed in 1909, 1 was riding in an auto-
mobile and 8 were struck by automobiles. Of the 251 per-
sons injured in 1909, 49 were riding in automobiles and 202
were struck by automobiles.
!MoTOE Taxic^bs.
Motor taxicabs, which came into use in Boston in the sum-
mer of 1903, have so increased in number as to justify fully
the original police rule, that when offered for hire cars and
drivers should be licensed respectively as hackney carriages
and hackney carriage drivers in the same manner as horse-
drawn hackney carriages and their drivers. It was argued
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in the beginning that the licenses and the certificates issued
bv the Massachusetts Highway Commission would secure suf-
ficient regulation, but special police supervision has been
showTi to be necessary. In 61 cases in the year the police
licenses of motor taxicab drivers have been either suspended
or revoked in consequence of convictions in the courts and
fines for violations of law, almost all for overspecding. These
revocations and suspensions do not deprive the driver of the
right to operate ordinary motor cars if under license by the
Highway Commission ; they prevent him for a specified time,
nr permanently, from acting as driver of a motor ta.xicab. In
the first part of the year licenses were revoked after convic-
tion in court, and under ordinary conditions were reissued
within a reasonable time. But under the act of 1000, which
gave to the Police Commissioner the right to suspend any
license granted by him, direct suspensions for a specified pe-
rio<l. usually fourteen days, were ordered. The changing
character of this service is indicated by the fact that in the
past year 456 police licenses to operate motor taxicabs were
issued, as against 186 licenses issued for the motor taxicabs
themselves. Police licenses to use and operate motor vehicles
offered for hire, besides taxicabs, were issued for 15 sight-
seeing automobiles and G6 other motor vehicles.
Street Tbaffic Kctles.
Under the authority of chapter 447, Acts of 1008, the
street commissioners of the city of Boston established in De-
cember, lOOS, rules and regulations for street traffic. They
were advertised extensively in the newspapers, and 40,000
pamphlet copies were distributed to the public through the
police and by other means. When the rules took effect, on
the 1st of January. 1009, instead of immediately prosecuting
the persons who violated them, the police devoted themselves
fnr three weeks to the work of instructing and advising driv-
ers in the streets. In the crowded parts of the city during
that time the police regularly stationed there were re-enforced
bv ."0 picked men drawn from outside divisions, not to pros-
cciito. but to in?-triict.
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After repeated notices, prosecations -were begun, January
26. Thereupon the indifference of many drivers to the value
and the meaning of the rules became manifest. It seemed to
have been assumed that the rules would be a nine-days won-
der, and would then be forgotten. Great numbers of drivers,
despite the opportunities afforded them, had not made the
slightest effort to learn what was expected of them in the
general interest. To prosecute was the only remedy, and for
three months the prosecutions numbered about 500 a month.
Then the good effects of this apparently hopeless work began
to appear. In the next three months the monthly average
fell below 300, and in the succeeding four months to but
little more than 100 monthly, or 3 or 4 cases a day for the
whole city. The rules are enforced more closely than ever,
the drivers have learned them and are obeying them, and
they themselves as well as the whole public are enjoying the
consequent benefit of well-regulated streets and orderly traffic.
The prosecutions for the ten months numbered 2,724. It
is a peculiar circumstance that at all times, and especially in
the past three months, great numbers of prosecutions, often
a majority, were due to the violation of ordinary rules of good
driving, such as taking the left-hand side of the street, or
"cutting corners " when turning to the left into a street, —
a vicious practice, and dangerous to foot passengers as well [
as to vehicles. It is hard to teach a whole community, stran- \
gers in the city as well as residents ; but the course which has
been pursued with reference to these rules has firmly es- :
tablished them, and, though the careless and the ignorant j
Trill always expose themselves to penalties, the number of j
such will doubtless diminish still further.
Jury Woek bt Police. j
Under the provisions of chapter 348, Acts of 1907, the |
Election Commissioners of the city of Boston were authorized I
to call upon the Police Commissioner for assistance in as- |
certaining the qualifications of persons proposed for jury
service. As a result of such call, the police investigated 8,225
citizens with reference to their moral, mental and physical
qualifications or defects, visiting each one personally if living
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in Boston, and obtaining from others to whom he was known
such additional information as seemed desirable. Of the
8,225 persons investigated, 808 were dead or could not be
found in Boston, 223 were physically incapacitated, 58 had
been convicted of crime, 266 were unfit for jury service for
various reasons, and 6,870 were reported as apparently fit in
all respects for jurors.
In addition to this work, details of police in plain clothes
were furnished at the request of the district attorney to ob-
serve jurors in eight important criminal trials. The whole
number of days given by the police to that service was 1,665.
It was delicate work, but so well was it done that no criti-
cism of the police arose from any quarter, and the district
attorney made generous acknowledgment in writing.
Peitate BrsiXESS ix Public Streets.
During the year the department investigated and reported
upoa 1,109 applications made to the street commissioners for
licenses for the storage and sale of merchandise in the public
streets. Of these applications, 1,034 were approved either
fully or with amendments, and 75 disapproved. The law on
this subject, which was passed in 1907, has now been in full
effect for two years. Its purpose was to regulate the use of
the public streets for private business in the interest of the
whole public The use had previously been contrary to law,
and had been greatly abused by individuals. Under the new
system it is lawful as far as permitted, and each individual
holds a license which describes precisely the space which he
is allowed to occupy. Payment for licenses was only an in-
cident of the new system, but, as a matter of fact, the fees in
two years, ranging from $5 to $100 for each license, have
brought to the city of Boston a revenue of about $52,000.
JuTENiLE Offenders.
The statistics of the third full year of the operation of the
juvenile laws, which became effective in 1906, are now avail-
able.- They were prepared especially for the purpose of
showing the number of persons under the age of seventeen
years who were in the hands of the police for any reason in
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POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
the twelve months ended Xov. 30, 1909, their ofFenecs or
misfortunes, their ages, and the disposition of their cases.
These figures will not agree precisely with some of those
contained in the general tables attached to this report, be-
cause in the latter cases the classification is usually with re-
gard to the offences, rather than to the ages of the offenders.
The number of juveniles in the hands of the police in the
three years, at different ages, practically all those under eight
bf-ing among the neglected children, is as follows : —
\GES.
1907.
1908.
1909.
Under eight years,
46
99
147
Eight years, .
78
77
75
Xine years,
143
138
122
Ten years,
238
236
182
EHeven j-ears, .
265
309
276
Twelve years, .
366
452
451
Thirteen years.
413
488
524
Fourteen j-ears.
433
595
554
Fifteen years, .
499
692
567
Sixteen years,
597
743
757
Totals, .
3,078
3,829
3,655
The causes which brought these 3,655 delinquent, neglected
or wayward children into the hands of the police in the three
rears were as follows : —
OFFENCES.
1907.
1908. 1909.
Larceny and attempted larcenj-,
Breaking and entering buildings, cars, ves-
sels, and attempted.
.\siault and batterj-, ....
757
380
296
762
438
302
693
342
239
1910.]
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OFFENCES.
1907.
1908.
1909.
Assault, indecent, felonious, on police, to
rob.
Malicious mischief, . . . .
3
266
8
225
1
121
Gaming on the Lord's Day, and present at, .
152
193
224
Gaming in public streets, ....
-
43
74
Stealing rides,
132
188
131
Throwing missiles in street.
202
182
176
Neglected children,
SI
171
226
Trespass, . . .
1S8
158
151
Fugitives and runaways
4
122
128
Suspicious persons, ...
9
112
72
Stubborn children, .....
110
93
74
Violating conditions of license (newsboy.s),
43
91
244
Violating conditions of probation,
-
15
13
Violating conditions of pardon, .
6
6
15
Violating conditions of parole, .
-
2
1
Discharging firearms and fireworks in the
streets.
Railroads, loitering on property of, .
78
66
47
91
54
Railroads, walking on tracks of.
-
34
20
Railroads, disturbing signals of,
-
2
-
Playing ball in public streets, .
-
44
75
Park rules, violating, ....
10
43
30
Fires, setting, in streets and buildings.
14
41
38
Fires, false alarms of, ... .
20
7
10
Unlawful appropriation of streets.
72
47
87
Idle and disorderly, .....
34
33
28
Disturbing peace, . . . . " .
51
33
36
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POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
OKlh-NCES.
190T.
1908.
1909.
Disturbing school,
-
1
6
Disturbing public meetings,
-
4
2
Robbery and attempted robbery.
11
31
14
Newspapers, selling, on Common, without
license from the mayor.
Newspapers, selling, without license, .
_
29
14
19
Waj-ward children, .....
16
28
24
Drunkenness,
27
28
34
Violating Sunday law Cbootblacks), .
S
20
12
Violating health law, ....
-
7
-
Violating peddling law, ....
-
7
6
Edging in streets, .....
5
17
32
Profanit}", ......
20
16
18
Truancy,
3
13
-
Default warrants, .....
12
12
9
Bathing in public places, ....
3
11
22
Obstructing sidewalks
11
9
8
.\rson and attempted arson, . . .
17
7
-
Carrj'ing dangerous weapons,
7
6
7
Receiving stolen goods, ....
9
5
8
Vagrancy, . . .
3
5
2
Miscellaneous, .....
16
51
38
Totals,
3,078
3,829
3,655
The apparent reduction in the number of children under
seventeen jears of age reported as in the hands of the police
in 1909, when compared with the number in 1908, is hardly
an actual reduction. In the cojirse of the year two of the dis-
trict courts established new policies in part. In one case a
court decided that it would receive no complaints for mis-
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PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 49.
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demeanors against children under fourteen years of age, and
it made but few exceptions. The reason given for this deci-
sion was that, if a case proved to be one in which a fine ought
to be imposed and payment of the fine were not made there
was no provision of law under which the offender could be
committed. The court considered it absurd that offenders
should be brought before it when the only action that could
be made was to discharge, to file or to place on probation.
Another court adopted the policy in many cases of refer-
ring complaints directly to the probation officer, without is-
suing summonses ; and the further proceedings were outside
the knowledge of the police.
The cases in these two courts which would have appeared
in the police record in previous yeart, but do not appear this
year numbered 228, or rather more than the apparent reduc-
tion in the total cases in 1909.
Unusual attention was given by the police this year to viola-
tions of the conditions of licenses, mostly for newsboys,
granted by the school committee in the case of boys under
fourteen years of age and by the Board of Aldermen to minors
above that age. This action was in accordance vnth the ex-
pressed wishes of the Juvenile Court and of the school au-
thorities. The conditions of the licenses are simple and
reasonable, their aim being to assure the attendance at school
of boys of school age, and to protect the health and the morals
of the licensees.
The disposition made in 1909 of the 3,655 cases of delin-
quent, neglected or wayward children, and the disposition
made in like cases in 1907 and 1908, are shown in the fol-
lowing table: —
DISPOSmOS OF CASES.
1907.
1908.
1909.
Probation, ......
On file,
Discharged by court, ....
Discharged at station houses, .
1,116
1,023
104
231
1,129
1,123
396
119
1,003
1,134
326
194
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POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
DISPOSITION OF C.\SES.
1907.
1908.
1909.
1
Fined
156
376
367
Suffolk School
S9
183
126
1
Dcliwrcd to parents, ....
2
110
59
DcUwn<d to unofficial charitable institutions
and societies.
Pcmling.
72
76
98
84
157
76
Coneorxl Rcfomiatorj', ....
35
.54
40
LjTiian School, .....
37
45
49
State Bo.<»id of Charity, ....
13
34
51
Parental School, .....
13
21
IS
Lancaster School,
19
17
21
Defaulted,
8
11
1
House of Reformation
2
6
2
Delivered to police outside of Boston,
4
6
3
House of Correction, ....
2
5
3
Held for grand jurj', ....
-
8
10
Licer.<e3 revoked,
-
2
-
JaiU
1
1
-
Delivered at Xa\y Yard, ....
■-
1
-
Children's institutions department, .
-
-
10
Industrial School at Shirley,
-
-
5
Miscellaneous,
75
-
-
Totals,
3,078
3,829
3,655
It may be said that on the whole the cases in 1909 which
ponuittcd of the imposition of the penalty of fine or of com-
mit nicnt were about the same in number as in 1908. The
ca?es in which such penalties were imposed by the courts in
lOOT, IOCS and 1909 are shown in the following table: —
1910.]
PUBLIC DOCLTMEXT— No. 49.
DISPOSITION- OF CASES
1907.
1908.
1909.
Fined, ....
.
156
376
367
Suffolk School,
S9
1S3
126
Concord Refoimatorj',
35
54
40
Lyman School,
37
45
49
Parental School,
13
21
18
Lancaster School,
19
17
21
House of Reformation,
2
6
2
House of Correction,
2
5
3
Jail, ....
1
1
-
Industrial School at Shirk}-,
-
-
5
Totals, . . . .
354
70S
631
In the three animal reports previous to the present I ex-
pressed the belief that juvenile lawlessness was the most
difficult problem with which the police had to deal, and that
it threatened the greatest danger to the future of the com-
raunitv. That belief I still hoIdL
SUXDAY WOEK.
Chapter 420, Acts of 1909, " Relative to the performance
of work on the Lord's Daj," was in force during the last six
months of the police year.
The enforcement in Boston of the laws regailatinar business
or lalxir on Sunday has proceeded for the past three years on
the following plan: —
1. Chapter 98, Revised Laws, and amendments thereto,
names about twenty-five occupations or kinds of business
which are permitted on Sunday. With these the police have
nothing to do.
■2. The law provides further that works of necessity and
charity may bo performed. But the individual policeman is
not allowed to decide whether or not a particular work not
IS POLICE COMMISSIONER. [Jan,
corerei by chapter 93 is one of necessity or charity. That
is a qiiation for the conrts. The policeman takes the names
of the persons concemc-d, for ordinarily he has no legal right
to zrmt them or to stop the work. The separate cases are
then submitted to the courts and by them decided, ^\^len
court ^ieciiions are given from time to lime which indicate
that p«rticnlar kinds of work are deemed to be of necessity
or charity, the whole police force is informed, and thereafter
such <i«isions govern its action-
Bat no matter how much a proposed Sunday work not
speci££»i in the list allowed by law appeared to be one of
neoessrr. there had been up to the time of the passage of
the EseTT act no authority inside or outside the police depart-
ment "sriiich in advance eomld declare it to be necessary. Xo
permri could be given lawfnlly, and the work could be entered
upon ^Asly in the expectation that the persons performing it
would lie summoned to oomirt for judicial decision.
It wa* at this poict — and at this point only — that the ,
new att became operatire, for it provides that the Police f
Comir25=ioner, or certain officers designated by him, may ."
decide «i proper representation that a proposed Sunday work j
is neeeaary, and may h~jse a permit therefor. ;
The police department, though neither seeking nor desiring |
ihe ainfiority for itself, has exercised it with scrupulous re- j
gard 3A?- the letter aid spirit of the law. A form of appli- i
cation and permit was prepared, which besides embodying the j
cc-nditaons of the law, called for such information as the j
name *A the applicant, the character of the work to be done, j
whe^ttr in a building or &nt of doors, whether noisy or not, j
the reasons for doing it oa Sunday, and approximately the i
time required and the nionber of persons to be engaged,
upon E. The superinteraient of police and in his absence
the dej^ity superinteiKlent in command at headquarters were \
desigiasZfcd in accordance with the provisions of the act as j
the «S«rr3 to receive and pass upon applications. li
A r'/'Ogh classification of the permits issued in six months
is as f^.-flows : —
■i
1910.] PUBLIC DOCIDIENT— No. 49. 19
Railroad companies, ......
Electric and gas companies,
Repairs in manufacturing, mercantile and other buildings,
Carting and storing of perishable goods, ...
Public work by city departments or by contractors, .
Street railway companies, .....
Telegraph and telephone companies,
Discharging or loading steamers, ....
Miscellaneous, .......
189
143
127
78
77
22
19
12
63
Total, "30
Xo permits were issued for the sale of goods. The only
permits for the manufacture of goods were issued to one
concern on two Sundays, when the shortage of surgical
bandages required that its work should not be interrupted.
The permits for transportation of perishable goods applied
to ice in certain emergencies, to the delivery of fresh meats
on board steamers preparing to sail, and mainly to the receipt
and care of poultry arriving on Sundays, especially on the
Sunday before Thanksgiving. The permits to railroads,
street railway, telephone, telegraph, gas and electric com-
panies and to public departments and contractors were for
repair and renewal work which could not be done on week
days without injury to the public service or total suspension
in certain places. Permits for work in buildings covered
for the most part repairs or renewals of pipes, engines, boilers,
tanks, elevators, etc., — work which could have been done on
work days only with serious interruption to business and
some risk to persons.
The provision of the new law that no permit shall be
issued more than si.x days in advance of the Sunday on which
the proposed work is to be done is a wise safeguard, but it
tends to multiply in appearance the number of permits
granted. In many cases a necessary piece of public or private
work continues from Sunday to Sunday, but a new permit
for it must issue each week. .:\mong the miscellaneous per-
mits, for instance, are nineteen which were issued weekly
in order to allow for the removal of garbage from the Xavy
Yard, where many ships of war with their crews were
20 POLICE COMMISSIONER. [Jan.
gathercxl. In this case, as in the vast majority of other
cases, the work done wouM unquestionably have been lawful
at any time; but the benefit of the new law is that it provifles
for a permit in advance, which assures those who engage in
the work that they will not be put to the trouble and expense
of appearing before a court.
The best proof that the authority conferred b}- the new act
has not led to neglect in the enforcement of the ordinary pro-
visions of the Sunday law is found in the following summary
of prosecutions for violations of the Sunday law in the past
five years : —
^XlR. Prosecutions.
1905,
1906,
1907,
190S,
1909,
221
165
770
629
756
" Bettek Police Pkotectiox."
The demand for " better police protection " is often made
by individual citizens and by local organizations. It repre-
sents the supposed necessities of sections, streets and even
separate buildings. Many of those who make the demand
have never thought of the distinction between a watchman
over particular property, with no duty except to see that it is
not injured, and a policeman with a long route to cover, and
responsible, as far as he can be responsible, for all persons and
property thereon. It is a constant struggle to retain the
services of the police for the whole public as against local
and even private demands, and the struggle is successful only
at the cost of hostile criticism on the part of those who are
disappointed.
At police headquarters the relative needs of all parts of
the city are carefully c-onsidered, and on that basis all avail-
able men are assigned to the several divisions. The division
1910.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT— No. 49. 21
commander, in turn, responsible for his whole division and
familiar with its peculiarities, places his men in detail where
they seem to him to be most needed. He must not only
weigh, but balance; for when he decides that there ought
to be a man in a place not now covered, he must, in order to
make the decision effective, find a man doing duty in another
place where he is less needed. It is at that point that the
commander usually fails, and at that point also that the
citizen or the organization, with eyes fixed on one spot,
enters into the case. With the whole number of patrolmen
fixed and limited by law as well as by the needs of the city
in other departments, it is plain that a policeman cannot
be placed at a new post unless first taken from an old post.
Such transfers cannot of course be made on the judgment or
the demand of citizens, however able and honest they may be,
who have given no study to the situation as a whole.
The demands and the criticisms here considered are com-
mon to all police forces and to other public departments as
well. In the case of the police they sometimes follow a par-
ticular assault or street robbery, and every critic at such a
time rejoices when he can say that " no policeman was in
sight." He seems not to understand the simple proposition
that a criminal can choose his own time, and that he never
chooses a time when a policeman is in sight; that it is only
when a criminal miscalculates or is reckless that he acts in
the sight of a policeman or when a policeman is at hand.
Nevertheless, the Boston police made last year nearly 2,S00
arrests for assaults of various kinds and assault and battery,
1S5 arrests for robbery or assault to rob, and 3S6 arrests for
pocket picking actual or attempted.
The general subject of " police protection " was touched
upon twenty-eight years ago, in the annual report of the
Police Commissioners for ISSl, and as an illustration of
the unchanging character of public criticism the language
then used may well be quoted, as follows : —
The Board is well aware that many persons feel that every mis-
demeanor or annoyance, no matter how small, is something that the
police are responsible for and should prevent; forgetting that they
are in a large city, where indiridual rights must often yield to the
22
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
public good and convenience, and where the millenium they desire
could not be obtained, as long as human nature remains as it is,
even though policemen should be stationed on every street comer.
The present force is employed in the way best calculated to carry
out the interest for which it was intended. The men are stationed
wherever in the best judgment of this Board they can do the most
eflficient service.
Offexces .\gaixst Ch-vstity axd Moeality.
The annual report of the Boston police department has
included for many years a statistical table of arrests for
offences against chastity and morality. The normal number
of such arrests in the year represents faithful police work;
a marked increase is proof of exceptional vigilance and
activity. The table which follows gives the whole number
of arrests for offences against chastity and morality in each
of the last eight years, those years being chosen because they
represent not only the present police administration, but
the three next preceding administrations : —
YE\R.
ArresH for Ot-
Chastit/asd
UrnUtj.
YEAR.
Arrests for Of-
fences agiinst
Cbistit; and
MoralitT.
1902,
1903,
1904,
1905.
704
709
876
807
1906, .
1907, .
190S, .
1909, .
895
843
1,165
1,432
This table omits from the total of each year the figures
covering certain small items which are included in the regu-
lar statistical tables, but represent disorder rather than
immorality. On the other hand, all yearly totals in this
table include some offences involving sexual immorality,
such as rape and indecent assault, which are usually classi-
fied under the heading " Offences against the person." As
the figures of all years are treated uniformly, the means of
comparison are perfect.
1910.]
PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 49.
23
A closer view, showing the three great causes of arrest
on account of sexual immoralitv, is given in the following
comparative statement : —
ARRFSTS FOR —
1902.
1903. 1904. 1906. 1906. 1907. 1908.
1909.
Fornication,
138
94
253
284
2C0
279
375
520
Keeping house of ill fame, .
55
80
66
52
65
74
114
112
Night walking, .
259
271
236
190
249
169
249
375
Totab,
452
445
555
526
574
522
738
1,007
With these offences and with conditions affecting them
the matter which follows will deal.
Houses of III Fajie.
The number of persons prosecuted in 1008 for keeping
houses of ill fame was 114, much the largest up to that time
in the historv of the department. The number in 1909 was
112; and because of the diminishing material upon which
to work, the procuring of evidence for the prosecutions in
the second year doubtless required double the effort on the
part of the police that was required in the first year. The
prosecutions for keeping houses of ill fame each year for
mirty ye
ars ai
re sn(
)WU 1
n tne 1
ollowing t
able: —
1880 23
1895, .... 69
1881,
. 25
1896,
. 72
1S82,
. 52
1897,
. 54
1883,
. 63
1898,
31
1884,
67
1899,
. 68
1885,
43
1900,
100
1886,
84
1901,
55
1887,
50
1902,
55
1888,
25
1903,
80
1SS9,
55
1904,
66
1890,
27
1905,
52
1891,
31
1906,
65
1892,
40
1907,
74
1893,
19
1908,
114
1S9J,
40
1909,
112
24
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
The evidence on which to base these 112 prosecutions
was obtained through police efforts of many kinds, includ-
ing 295 searches with warrants in 115 different places.
The lower courts disposed of the cases of persons prose-
cuted for keeping houses of ill fame in the years 190S and
1900, as shown in the following table: —
1908.
1909.
Fined SoO,
49
51
Fined S75,
-
1
Fined SlOO,
7
6
Discharged,
16
13
Placed on file, ....
11
8
Placed on probation,
3
5
Prison at Sherbom,
2
-
Pending,
1
-
House of Correction one year,
7
3
House of Correction eleven months,
1
-
House of Correction nine months, .
-
1
House of Correction eight months, .
-
2
House of Correction six months.
9
5
House of Correction four months, .
4
5
House of Correction three months, .
3
7
House of Correction two months,
-
1
House of Correction one month.
1
-
House of Correction nine months, and SlOO fine.
-
1
House of Correction three months, and SlOO fine,
-
1
House of Correction two months, and S7.5 fine, .
_
1
Common jail,
1
Totals,
•
114
112
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The penalties in 1909 indicate no change on the part of
the courts in their estimate of the gravity of this crime and
the difBculty of securing evidence for convictions.
In 190S the penalties imposed upon 97 r>cr;ons who were
convicted reached a total of $3,150 in fines and one hundred
and seventy-five months of imprisonment, besides 2 persons
sent to the Women's Prison on indeterminate sentences.
In 1909 the penalties imposed upon 99 persons who were
convicted reached a total of $3,500 in fines and one hundred
and fifty-four months of imprisonment.
The maximum penalty under the nuisance act is $100
fine or twelve months' imprisonment, or both. The maxi-
mum line was imposed in I'.tOS in 7 cases, and in 1909 in
C cases: the maximum imprisonment in 1908 in 7 cases and
in 1000 in 3 cases. In no case in either year did a court
impose the maximum combined penalty of $100 fine and
twelve months' imprisonment.
The searches in suspected houses of ill fame disclosed evi-
dence on which were bascJ 20 prosecutions for violating the
liquor law, with the following results: —
Fined S50, 11
Fined SlOO, 1
House of Correction three months, . .... 3
Discharged, ......... 4
Placed on file, ......... 1
Total, 20
IXMATES AXD PaTEOXS.
The searches of houses of ill fame resulted further in the
arrest on the premises of 135 men and 167 women, other
than the keepers of the places, who were either actually
engaged in the commission of crime or were open to prose-
cution as idle and disorderly persons. The manner in which
these cases wore disposed of in the lower courts, all the
men being released on payment of fine?, is shown in the table
which follows, in comparison with the disp^^sition of similar
cases in the year 1908: —
26
POLICE COMmSSIONER.
[Jan.
1»M.
1«09.
Fined S20, .
Fined SI 5, .
Fined SIO, .
Fined one cent,
Placed on probation,
Placed on file.
Discharged, .
Defaulted, .
House of Correction one 3'ear,
House of Correction six months,
House of Correction four months,
House of Correction three months,
House of Correction two months,
House of Correction one month.
Prison at Shcrbom,
JaU three months.
Jail fifteen days, .
Lancaster School, .
Held for grand jurj'.
Totals, .
135
3
9
S
- I
216
12
2
24
15
6
3
1
3
8
1
7
o
205
302
The birthplaces of the 167 women prosecntefl in conse-
quence of having been found in hoiue? of ill fame were as
follows : —
United States,
Canada and British Provinces,
Ireland, ....
England, ....
Russia, ....
113
22
19
3
4
1910.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT— No. 49. 27
Scotland, 2
Austria, .......... 1
Germany, .......... 1
Total, 167
The ages of the women prosecuted in consequence of having
been found in houses of ill fame, given under the heads of
native-born and foreign-born, are shown in the following
table: —
AGES.
Born In
United Suta.
Foreign-born.
ToUL
17, -
1
I
1
1
19, .
6
1
7
20, .
9
2
11
21, .
12
2
14
22
11
3
14
23, .
11
2
13
24, .
5
I
6
25, .
7
1
8
26 to 30,
26
15
41
31 to 35,
l.S
12
25
36 to 40,
5
11
16
41 to 50,
G
2
S
Above 50,
1
2
3
Totals, .
113
54
167
NiGHT W.\I,KERS,
The work of the police for the suppression of open ira-
nioralitv in the streets took the form of prosecution of
common night walkers and of women and girls not properly
to be classed as common night walkers, but nevertheless
guilty of immoral acts and conduct. The persons prosecuted
28
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
as night walkers numbered 375, and their cases were dis-
posed of in the lower courts as follows, comparison being
made with the year 1908 : —
1908.
Probation, ....
On file
Defaulted, ....
Fined, .....
House of Correction one year,
House of Correction sbc months,
House of Correction four months.
House of Correction three months,
House of Correction two months.
House of Correction one month,
Prison at Sherbom,
State Farm, .
Lancaster School, .
Jail four months, .
Jail three months,
Discharged, .
Pending,
Totals, .
90
9
6
1
2
7
42
36
10
2
30
4
1
172
8
12
1
12
52
44
11
1
45
10
2
1
2
o
249
375
The birthplaces of the 375 persons prosecuted as common
night walkers were as follows : —
Uriitfd States,
Canada and British Provinces,
Ireland, ....
Ru.«ia, ....
Austria, ....
266
52
22
7
5
1910.]
PUBLIC DOCUMENT— No. 49.
29
Sweden,
England,
Germany,
Xonvay,
Italy,
Spain,
France,
Hungar>',
Poland,
Scotland,
Total,
o
4
3
3
2
2
1
1
1
1
375
The ages of the persons prosecuted as common night
walkers, given under the heads of native-bom and foreign-
bom, are shown in the following table : —
ipra Bom tn
•^°^- jCniUslSuta.
Foreign-bora.
ToUl.
16,
1
-
1
17,
1
-
1
IS,
6
3
9
19,
12
3
15
20, .
11
3
14
21, -
27
5
32
38
11
49
23, .
38
13
51
24, .
15
14
29
2.5,
16
5
21
20 to 30,
62
24
se
31 to 35,
21
19
40
36 to 40,
12
7
19
Above 40, .
6
2
8
Totals,
266
109
375
30 POLICE COMMISSIONER. [Jan.
Women and girls arrested in the streets but not properly
to be classed as common night walkers numbered 4C, and
the disposition of their cases was as follows: —
Discharged at stations, 3
Delivered to parents, ........ 1.^
Delivered to Board of State Charities, ..... 3
Delivered to private institutions, ...... 3
Placed on probation, ........ 11
Sent to Women's Prison, ....... 6
Sent to State Farm, 1
Fined, .......... 2
Pending 2
Total, -io
These persons, though conducting themselves in an im-
nioral manner in the streets, were in most cases hardiv
more than delinquent or wayward children, as the ways in
which their cases were disposed of indicate. Their birth-
places were as follows : —
United States, ......... 41
Canada and British Pro\-inces, . ..... 2
Russia, .......... 2
Austria, .......... 1
Total, 46
SiGxiFic.vxcE OF Ages axd Birthpl-vces.
I now bring together for purposes which will appear later
certain fresh information concerning the ages and the birth-
places of women and girls prosecuted in Boston in a single
year for specific offences of three kinds against the laws of
chastity and morality. There is a prevalent belief that the
women and girls who so offend are of immature age and in
most cases of foreign birth. This belief has been created
largely and fostered mainly by persons whose pecnliarity of
temperament, lack of information or interested motives lead
them to exaggerate what may be called the humanitarian
aspect of vicx', as distinct from the legal aspect.
1910.]
PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 49.
31
In 1909 the Boston police prosecuted 167 women and
girls who were found in places resorted to for prostitution,
though not the keepers, and in a majority of instances not
even residents, of those places. They prosecuted 127 women
and girls for fornication committed in other places, such
as ordinary lodging houses or even the public parks and
streets, which could not be proceeded against as houses of
ill-fame. They prosecuted 375 women and girls as common
night walkers. These three classes of prosecutions involved
a total of CG9 women aTui girls, and it is with them that this
information deals. The first table relates to the matter of
birth, as follows : —
BIRIUPLXCE.
.^.-Tested in
Resorts
of Pnxtitn-
tioti.
Arrcst«J for
Fomicatioo
inOthtr
Pla«5.
Arrtsted as
Cow woo
Nigbt
-
ToUls.
United States,
.
1
113
93
266
472
Canada and British Proi
•inces, 22
12
52
S6
Ireland,
1
19
15
22
56
England,
5
2
4
11
Russia,
4
2
7
13
Scotland,
2
-
1
3
Austria,
1
-
5
6
Germany,
1
1
3
5
Hungao',
-
1
1
2
Poland,
-
I
1
2
Sweden,
-
-
5
5
Xorway,
-
-
3
3
Italy, .
-
-
2
2
Spain, .
-
-
2
2
France,
-
-
1
1
Totab, .
107 1
1
127
375 i
i
669
32
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
The following table gives the ages of the G69
under consideration, those of the native-born and
foreign-born being stated separately: —
[Jan.
persons
of the
.VGIS.
UaitjdSatCT. Foreign-bora.
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21, .
22, .
23,
24,
25, .
26 to 30,
31 to 35,
36 to 40,
41 to 50,
Above 50,
Totals,
1
1
3
9
20
23
44
62
35
20
24
109
47
26
IS
1
472
3
4
9
7
15
16
17
6
49
41
22
4
4
197
ToUh.
1
1
3
12
24
32
51
77
71
46
30
158
SS
48
669
The following considerations are appropriate to the stndv
of the foregoing figures : —
1. At twentj-one years of age or under, the native-bom
in the second tzMe number 101, the foreign-bom 23; but
between thirty and forty years the native-born are 73 and
the foreign-bom »>3, Herein is no suj^estion of exceptional
youthfulness among the foreign-bom-
2. By the censtis of 1905 it appears that of the women
1910.] PUBLIC DOCmiENT— No. 49. 33
in Boston between the ages of eighteen and fifty, both in-
clusive, 4C.C3 per cent, are foreign-born. Of the women
offenders of the same ages treated in the foregoing tables,
20.20 per cent, are foreign-born. Assurance is thus given
that there is no excess of foreign-born among oflFenders of
this character.
3. The whole number of arrests in Boston in 1909 for
all offences was 71,512, and the arrests of the foreign-bom
were 45.77 per cent. Of the 669 women arrested for the
particular offences under consideration here, the percentage
of the foreign-bom was 29.45. It appears, therefore, that
when foreign-bom women become law breakers their offences
do not show an excess in the direction of sexual immorality.
4. The- census of 1005 shows that of the 109,416 foreign-
born females in Boston 102,535 had been residents of Massa-
chusetts more than two years, and S5,277 more than five years.
The percentage for two years' residence is 93.71 and for five
years' residence 77.94. The foreign-born women in the fore-
going tables number 197, and according to the above facts
1S4 of them would have been residents of Massachusetts
more than two years and 153 more than five years.
5. Of the 197 foreign-bom women, 156 were natives of
English-speaking countries, the birthplaces of half of thera
being within a day's journey of Boston ; so that on the day
of their arrival they wotild have displayed no peculiarity
of language, dress or manners to distinguish them from the
mass of the settled population. Of the 669 women, but 41
of any age or of any length of residence here were natives
of non-English-speaking countries.
It should be remembered that these 669 women were
arrested separately and from time to time through a period
of twelve months; that they were presented to the courts,
and with few exceptions were convicted ; that they were real
women, gtiilty of real offences; and that an aggregate thus
obtained is far different from a result produced through the
multiplication of one "pet" case by ns many hundreds as
the imagination of the multiplier will sanction. The facts
as to ages, birthplaces and terms of residence herein set out
34 POLICE COMMISSIONER. [Jan.
should be an assurance to the people of Boston that the im- |
moral life of their citv is not sustained by the feeding to it i
of young and helpless foreigners. '
" White Slavery."
This topic follows naturally upon the foregoing matter.
The term " white slave," as applied to a particular phase of
prostitution, was coined many years ago, probably in London.
It was meant at first to describe a girl or a woman who had
been enticed from her home in a foreign country, placed in
a brothel without suspicion on her part as to what she was to
become, and there kept against her will. Soon it was made
to include any girl or woman who passed from one country
to another and entered a similar resort, even though she
were of depraved character and fully understood her situa- ;
tion. i
Careless use has carried the term far beyond its first j
or even its second meaning, and into the region of the in- {
definable. Sober-minde<l persons employ it as a convenience, f
often with an apology; but because of its sharp appeal to '
popular imagination it has become a plaything for persons
of a different type, who use it to stimulate as well as to ex-
press a certain form of hysteria. So effective is it in shock-
ing the innocent and in moving the benevolent that no
opportunity for its use is passed over, whether the " white
slave " be a rowdy girl walking the streets, or a mature
woman of hardened character and many criminal convic-
tions.
There is no ground for even reasonable suspicion that in
Boston M'omcn and girls are forced into an immoral life
or compelled to remain in it under physical coercion or re-
straint. If such a case were known to the police, the victim j
would be released at once and her keepers arrested. A per- J
son who knew of such a case and failed to inform the police i
would be as black a criminal as the criminals themselves; and }
a person who pretended to such knowledge without possessing |
it might fairly be set down as an irresponsible gossip. Single j
cases arise from time to time in which it appears that a j
woman is induced to lead an immoral life bv the threats or
1910.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 49. 35
persuasions of a depraved husband or so-called " lover ; "
but rarc-h- in such ca.-es is it her tirst experience in mercenary
immorality, and release from the life is open to her whenever
she chooses to leave the man.
In the great majority of cases prostitution is practiced
in Boston by women and girls who do not depend upon it
exclusively for a livelihood and do not live apart for the pur-
pose. They are prepared for semi-professional immorality
by lack or disregard of religious training; by early contact
with the vicious in speech and action; by the craving for
means to buy better clothes than they can afford; by flashy
public entertainments and reading matter, which rouse their
bad instincts, teach them the forms and methods of vice,
enlarge upon its rewards in money and luxury, stimulate
vanity, idealize the unchaste, and by coarse picture and
printed sneer degrade the home and caricature the relations
of husband and wife. The transition from a virtuous life
to a life devoted wholly or in part to mercenary immorality,
the only kind with which the law and the police have much
to do, is rarely sudden. Almost always there is a prelimi-
nary corrupting process of the kind just described, with long-
ings for luxuries, excitement and '' good times; " and the bad
road is much more likely to be taken at last xmder the
guidance of a girl or a woman who has already travelled
upon it than through the persuasions of men.
Boston, like all large cities, attracts many loose or un-
fortunate women and girls, who come to it from other places
of their own free will ; and if they pursue an immoral life
here, it is not because thev are forced to it by men or bv
other women, but because they are vicious, or eager to spend
more than they can honestly cam, or, in the aspect most
favorable to them, are drawn to it through their necessities.
It is not of much use, however, to expend sympathy upon
a woman or a girl who is too proud to ask assistance from one
of the scores of private benevolent organizations which
alx)und in Boston, but is not too proud to solicit strange men
in the streets, or to sell the little virtue that she ever had to
chance acquaintances.
Benevolent men and women in and about Boston have
36 POLICE COMMISSIONER. [Jan.
]atclv befn shocked and imposed upon by means of a circular
issued under the name of a chartered organization, soliciting
subscriptions of money. The circular asserts that young
girls are " sold " in Boston for immoral purposes, and " kept
by heinous methods from their freedom ; " and to this it
adds: " We believe the annual traffic in human souls in this
city [Boston] amounts to hundreds."
From a like source and printed in Boston newspapers of
large circulation I find such assertions as the following: —
There are at present in Bosion, according to a recent canvass,
4Sf63 women gaining a livelihood altogether or in part for immoral
purposes.
The life of a " white slave " is on sa average five years, and where
there are nearly 5,000 siich women, it follows that their ranks must
be recruited by 1,000 each year. Where do they come from? I find
that the Provinces supply the largest quota.
The last sentence is as grossly libellous upon a worthy
element in the population as the preceding sentences are
absurd. It has been shown already in this report that of
the C69 women and girls arrested in Boston last year for
any of the offences which might connect them with " white
slavery," in even the most fanciful use of that term, 472
were natives of the United States and 86 were natives of
Canada or the British Provinces. And yet this authority
finds that " the Provinces supply the largest quota." The
" recent canvass " which produced exactly 4.963 as the num-
ber of women in Boston gaining a livelihood altogether " or
in part " by immoral means is clearly a myth, and the
calculations based upon it are equally mythical. Xot all the
agencies in Boston combined, the police department included,
could make a canvass of such a character that would be worth
the paper upon which it was recordefl.
Such assertions as these would be unworthy of notice but
that they are used in soliciting money; that they secure pub-
lication in Boston newspapers, which are read by hundreds
of thousands of persons who have no means of detecting the
folly and the falsehood ; and that they are copied and com-
mented upon in all parts of the country.
Because of these considerations, I felt it to be my duty to
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the city of Boston to secure through the newspapers, under
my oflicial signature, the widest possible circulation to the
following statement : —
A report of the United States Immigration Commission,
relative to the " importation and harboring of women for
immoral purposes," was presented last week to Congress,
and parts of it were printed in the Boston newspapers.
This is the so-called " white slave traffic," and as many per-
sons have been led to believe that Boston was deeply in-
volved, I have obtained from Washington and examined
carefully a full copy of the repoit. Though it consists of
01 printed pages, the name of Boston is mentioned but four
times, always in the most casual manner, as, for instance,
that it is one of the dozen cities in which investigations were
made, and that it is among the seaports through which women
who have been sent back to their own countries may some-
times re-enter the United States. There is no suggestion of
the existence in Boston of conditions which prevail in some
other cities and are fully described in the report. While
so many persons and organizations are endeavoring to pro-
mote the material welfare of Boston, its good name, which is
better than " great riches," needs to be protected from the
assaults of societies and individuals whose recent use of the
" white slave " as a means of stimulating subscriptions has
been varied, persistent, and, I think I may justly say, un-
scrupulous.
SECURrN'O EviDEXCE.
In my last report I explained the difficulty of securing
evidence strong enough to convict for immoral practices,
especially in the case of keepers of houses of ill fame, even
though appearances M-ere sufficient to convince an ordinary
observer. The police, moreover, stand at a disadvantace
in so far as results are concerned, for they are compelled to
keep within the bounds of both law and morals; they are
allowed to enter suspected places as police officers with search
warrants, or individually, under orders, to observe and re-
port, but on no account to take part in immoral acts, or so to
place themselves as to bo open to the charge of immorality.
Any private organization, however, with no official respok-
3S POLICE COiDIISSIONER. [Jan.
sil)ilitv and eager to make a case, is free to hire men and
Avonien by the day or the week who may go to any lengths
for the sake of procuring evidence. They sometimes betray
their employers, sometimes invent or exaggerate in order to
earn their pay, and with juries have the standing which
they deserve. But the police department cannot use its men
in such ways, and would not if it could. The men of the
police forc-e are required to be manly and moral, and what-
ever they can do under their official obligation in a moral
and jiianly way for the suppression of vice they will do, —
nothing more. They have not the gift of impersonating de-
generates, and none among thorn would be allowed to spend
his days and nights with degraded men and women for the
sake of securing a conviction.
In some other cities the practice is different, and in sup-
port of the attitude of the Boston police department, though
it needs no support, I may properly q»iote a single mild
passage from a long and searching criticism uttered from
the bench by !Mr. Justice Crane of the Xew York Supreme
Court, and reported in August, 1909 : —
" Such work," he says, " is revolting and should not be
countenanced for a moment, much less compelled. A police-
man may be obliged to do many disagreeable things, but he
is human, and should not be subjected to such temptations
or debasing influences, and I am confident this community
does not demand or expect it. To close a disorderly house |
we liuve not gr.t to degrade young men. It is said that the
evidence can be procured in no other way. In this I must
differ, for such places have frequently been closed either upon
testimony of occupants or else upon what can be seen going |
on daily. One does not have to take poison to discover its
deadly effects. I trust this word of warning from me will ,
stop such practices." |
The Boston method has its compen'sation in the fact that |
police testimony has high standing with the courts. Of 112 1
persons arrested in 1909 for keeping houses of ill fame. 90
were convicted: and the 13 discharges represented usually
those cases in which two persons, such as husband and wife,
15
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1910.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT— No. 49. 39
are arrested at the same place, and the individual respon-
sibility can be determined only on hearing in court Of
302 persons arrested in houses of ill fame, other than the
keepers, only six ^ere discharged ; and of 375 night walkers
arrested, only two were discharged.
TuE Futility of Civil Procedure.
Surprise is often expressed by lawyers and others that
the police do not have recourse in the pursuit of houses of
ill fame to Revised Laws, chapter 101, section 8, which is
as follows : —
The supreme judicial court or the superior court shall have juris-
diction in equity, upon an information filed by the district attorney
for the district or upon petition of the board of police or police
commissioners, or other authority having control of the police, or
of not less than ten legal votere of a city or town, stating that a
building, place or tenement therein is resorted to for prostitution,
lewdness or illegal gaming, or is used for the illegal keeping or sale
of intoxicating liquors, to restrain, enjoin or abate the same as a
common nuisance.
The Boston police long ago tried this law, and found it
wanting. It is a rule of the department that when a convic-
tion has been secured the owner of the real estate involved
shall be notified by the commanding officer on a printed
form provided for the purpose. In consequence of such
notice or of representations made to him personally, an
owner who is a good citizen will remove an offending tenant.
But unfortunately many such places are owned by persons
who are well aware of the uses to which they are put, who
derive large incomes from them, and will do nothing towards
removing nuisances except under legal compulsion. At this
point the law should come in, and its weakness may oest
be illustrated by means of a case which actually arose within
the year.
The secretary of a private society represented that he had
secured sufficient evidence against a particular house, and
asked the police department to apply for an injunction
against the owner of the property. A petition was made in
40 POLICE COMMISSIONER. [Jan.
the name of the Police Commissioner, the person proceeded
against offered no defence, and an injunction against that
person specifically -was granted.
The situation then vrzs this: if it could be shown that the
house was resorted to for purposes of prostitution after the
injunction had been issued, the owner of the real estate
might be punished for contempt of court; but to show such
use would require sul«5tantially the same kind and quantity
of fresh evidence that would be needed to secure criminal
conviction of the keeper of the house.
The injunction became operative September 14, and the
police continued their se^rchcb and surveillance of the place.
Then the expected happened, just as it had happened in all
previous cases of civil procedure within the experience of
the police. The title of the real estate was transferred,
and the injunction, except under legal conditions which
probably would never arise, became worthless. The proceed-
ings had cost about $75, and would have cost a great deal
more but for the fact that the legal preparations and the
|i appearances in court were made by the commissioner's sec-
retary. It was worth while, however, in order that a fresh
test of the futility of dvil procedure might be given.
In the enthusiasm of the few days which elapsed between
the issue of the injunction and its overthrow by the simple
but expectc-d process of a transfer of the title of the property,
the secretary, at whose request the police department had
begun proceedings, issued in print to the members of his
society and the contribators to its fund, several of the Boston
daily newspapers also publishing it, the following account
of the affair: —
At the cri'ont request of the pastor of an institutional church
situnted in the danger-zone in the South End, your secretary under-
took the task of patherrcT the necessary court evidence against an
immoral honse alleged to have continued unmoteted for twenty-two
years. Sinjilar repeated appeals to the police by that pastor had
been fniitlfc=s. Tlie poli<Te eaplain of the precinct confessed to your
secretary that he was f-jm-eries^ to close this house. Yet in ten
days our agents had galiiered overwhelming eridence of the extent
and character of the illegal b-jsiness. We instituted an equity action
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under a law which allows an injunction to issue to restrain and
abate the nuisance. The injunction was allowed and a decree issued
which if not obe}-ed will bring the offenders into court for contempt.
If the authorities will now station officers in front of the place as
they have in other instances been placed before immoral houses
not under injunction, the remedy will be effective. If this is not
done, the society will have to see that the court decree is enforced.
It would seem that the public could expect at least such ser^-ice from
the police, especially when the dignity of the court is in question.
The fantastic assertions and snggestions made in this state-
ment have already been answered in part; the official po-
lice record of the house itself for the two years ended Nov.
30, 1909, will dispose of the remainder. The house was
searched with warrants Dec. 6 and 15, 1907, Feb. 22, !^^arch
13, 19 and 21, April 17 and 2.5, :S[aj 23 and 26 and Aug.
13, 1908. In the same period it was visited, imder orders,
but without warrants, by policemen from other stations, in
citizens' clothes, Jan. 28, Feb. 16 and 28, Zklarch 4, 10
and 15, April 5, 15, 18, 22 and 25, June 25, and July
9, 21 and 22, 1908. No single search developed evidence
sufficient for a prosecution; and the policemen in citizens'
clothes were either refused admittance because of suspicion
as to their identity, or, if admitted, failed to obtain evidence
because restricted in their action by their orders and by their
personal sense of decency. But by combining all possible
points of evidence a case for the court was prepared, and Aug.
13, 1908, the keeper of the place was tried and convicted.
What was the result ? A fine of $50, which was paid with-
out a murmur, and the nominal proprietorship was passed
on to another woman.
FolloK-ing this, and before the sale of the property in
October, 1909, the house was searched three times and was
visited twenty-one times by policemen in plain clothes. They
failed to secure the evidence which the private agents secured
in ten days, for the .sole reason that if their acts had qualified
them to give the testimony which the agents gave in court,
they would have been discharged from the police force.
This house is closed now for the same reason that scores
of other houses of long standing in that and other neighbor-
42 POLICE COMMISSIONER. [Jan.
hoods have recently been closed ; and the reason is that the
persistent but lawful course of the police has so alarmed
keepers, inmates and patrons that the business in those places
has ceased to pay. There is nothing peculiar in the case of
this one house, except that it presents the single instance in
two years in which the police in the prosecution of keepers
of houses of ill fame received assistance in any form from
anv source other than such as their own efforts developed.
In the same street, which is short but for more than a
generation has been notorious, nine other houses have been
nnder constant surveillance.
Houses A. B and C have boon sciuchcd, but no evidence of
immoral business has been found.
Houses D and E were searched, but, though the evidence
found was insufficient, the keepers took warning, moved out,
and respectable tenants took their places.
Honse F was searched, and four arrests for fornication
were made; a warrant for keeping a house of ill fame was
refused by the court, but the keeper move^l, and the house is
now occupied by respectable tenants.
House G, lodging house, keeper convicted of keeping a
house of ill fame, was fined $50, and the immoral business
has been stopped.
House H, apartment occupied by man and wife; wife ar-
rested Jtily 4, 1909, as a common night walker, and case
placed on file; July 7, 1909, two persons arrested for forni-
cation; July 9, 1909, husband arrested for keeping a house
of ill fame, and fined $50 ; moved away, and place now occu-
piefl by respectable people.
Honse I, keeper arrested for keeping a house of ill fame,
fined §50 and moved away; under new tenant four arrests
for fornication were made, but warrant for keeping a house
of ill fame was refused by the court, and the house is still
watched.
SrppREssiox OF Public axd SK^ri-PCBLic Immoealitt.
The last annual report described fully the work of the po-
lice for the suppression of public and sonii-publie immorality
during the year which ended Xov. 30, 190S. It was the first
1910.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT— No. 49. 43
time in the thirty years of police control by commissioners
that the subject had appeared in an annual report otherwise
than in the general statistical tables of crime. The -work
was entered upon two years ago with deliberation, and has
since been carried forward and will continue to be carried
forward in accordance ^vith a well-considered plan. In ex-
planation of the plan upon which the police are acting, this
passage may be quoted from the report of 1908 : —
Public clamor will never close a bouse of ill fame; but it will
spread demoralization tliroiiirh the community. The people who live
by this business care nothing: for public opinion. They can be
reached only throujrh the silent, relentless work of the police.
And again : —
I am not so simple as to suppose that any combination of effort
by courts and police can ever drive vice of this character from a
city which has 020,000 inhabitants, and, for police purposes, almost
double that number. It is tryinj and thankless work, which falls
mainly upon the police of three divisions. They have been faithful
and energetic, and will so continue; not in the expectation of ac-
complishing: the impossible, but with the determination to make the
business of y\ec so hazardous and unprofitable that as many as pos-
sible will be driven out of it and others will be deterred from taking
it up.
Xothing has happened in the past year to change either
the plan or the point of view. Police action has not been
delayed by the hostility of prosecuted criminals and their
friends; neither has it been hurried by the impatience of per-
sons of good intention who do not understand. It is a pecu-
liar circumstance that manifestations of both feelings became
public in the second half of the second year in which the
police had done more than ever had been done before in Bos-
ton for the suppression of public and semi-public immorality.
It would be unfortunate for the city if either kind of attack
were to divert a Police Commissioner from an effective and
permanent course of action upon a subject so important and
yet so difficult.
The one duty of the police in this matter, and the wisest
policy as well, is to enforce the laws. No attempt to trans-
44 POLICE COMMISSIONER. [Jan.
form a house or a neighborhood -which is devoted to vice for j
the sake of the money which it earns can be of permanent j
benefit unless founded on law. If houses of ill fame can be J
closed on a large scale, and immoral women can be driven I
from the streets bj mere threats on the part of the police,
that circumstance is in itself a reasonable indication that the
business had previously been tolerated, and that when the |
spasm of reform has passed it will again be tolerated. People
of this character understand the kind and the quantity of
evidence needed by the police to obtain a conviction, and how
hard it is to secure it ; they regard lightly the sentences usu-
ally imposed ; they know their legal rights, and are assisted
in maintaining them by expert attorneys. They will give up
the business only when convinced through constant but lawful
pressure that it has ceased to be profitable, and that their
chances of gain and immunity are better elsewhere. Their
old plan of removal from one police division to another is now
of no avail, for the police pressure is equal in all parts of the
city to which they would think of migrating.
Here is the illustrative record of one woman, with the
street numbers omitted: In the summer of 1908 she occupied
an apartment in Bennot Street, and let rooms to night walk-
ers; searched Aug. 8, 1908, but evidence was insufficient to
prosecute. Sept. 1, 1908, she moved to Harrison Avenue,
where she opened a lodging house; searched Nov. 29, 1908,
and four arrests for fornication made ; arrested Dec. 2, 1908,
for keeping a house of ill fame, and fined $50 ; appealed, but
withdrew appeal and paid fine, i^foved off the division, but
in Jnly, 1909, reappeared in an apartment in Broadway Ex-
tension, where she let rooms to night walkers ; searched July
24, 1909, and liquor seized ; evidence insufficient to prosecute
for keeping a house of ill fame, but convicted Sept. 2, 1909,
for violation of the liquor law; fined $50, and vacated the
premises, ^^^lere this woman, who is a type of many, will
reappear cannot be foretold; but wherever it may be, the
police will mett her.
In the last annual report allusion was made to a police
movement in 1894 to which a great deal of publicity was
1910.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT— No. 49. 45
"^iven at the time, and in the report surprise was expressed
that the recorded results in the form of prosecutions were so
meager. I have examined again the department records of
that period and have consulted with officers who were in posi-
tions of authority at the time, and I find that results were
obtained bv police threatenings rather than by process of law.
As a consequence, the persons who closed their places and
scattered soon recovered their courage and resumed the busi-
ness, knowing that they could be punished only after con-
viction of an offence against the law.
In confirmation of this belief, I quote from a letter ad-
dressed by a clergyman to the chairman of the Board of Po-
lice in the July following the general agitation of 1894. Con-
cerning a particularly bad neighborhood, the letter speaks in
part as follows : —
The time has now come for the law as ■well as the GospeL They
are paralyzing all our efforts to do good here. Some houses are
worse than others, and I send herewith a list of the most notorious,
which I desire to have cleaned out immediately. I am especially
anxious that the keepers of the places are caught and convicted.
Only in this way can the evil be eradicated. You did a fine work
here some months ago. But they are back again, as brazen and bad
as ever. The only thing to do is to keep them on the move. I realize
the difficulty your force has to get con\ncting eddence, and shall be
glad to render them any assistance in my power.
The houses and the persons of the character described, in
that neighborhood and elsewhere, have now been kept under
constant but legal pressure for two years. Some of the re-
sults of the work are shown in the tables and the reading mat-
ter already presented in this report ; but they present only a
suggestion of the detail.
If it were proper to publish the addresses, a remarkable
list of notorious houses lately closed could be given. One in
particular, situated in what is now a business street, had been
carried on as a house of ill fame for fifty years, with the e.x-
ccption of the period between June 1, 1883, and Aug. 1,
1880. It was searched often, and convictions were some-
times obtained; but as a different woman was put forward
46 POLICE COMmSSIONER. [Jan.
on each occasion as the ostensible proprietress, the penalties j
■were fines of $50 or $100, which were merely charged to j
profit and loss. At the time of the police movement ot 1S94: '
the inmates of the house were sent to live in rooms outside,
but business was continued by the proprietress through as-
signations made by telephone. In a few months, the storm
having blown over, they returned, and matters went on as
before. The record of the past two years shows that nine
searches were made with warrant.«, and that officers from other
stations were sent to the place twenty-six times, without se-
curing entrance, as only persons kno\vn in the house were
admitted. But the business was so disturbed that the search
of Oct. 22, 1909, showed that but two women were living in
the house, that there was no liquor to be found and very little
food. Three weeks later, Xovember 12, the house was va-
cated, the telephone taken out, most of the furniture sent to
an auction room, the rest removed and the doors were locked.
Lawful pressure on the part of the police had made the busi-
ness unprofitable, and when the proprietress became con-
vinced that the pressure was to be continued, she gave up.
The following is the record for two years of a house which
has not yet been closed : twenty-three searches and two liquor
seizures; se%'en different women put forward as the proprie-
tress, representing a change after each of the following con-
victions: March 3, 1908, violating liquor law, fined $50; May
12, 1908, liquor law, $50; Aug. 12, 1908, keeping a noisy
and disorderly house, $50; Jan. 29, 1909, liquor law, $50;
March .3, 1909, liquor law, $50; March 26, 1909, liquor
law, $50.
A notorious house was closed after the following prose-
cutions in three months: violating the liquor law, fined $50;
liquor law, $100; liquor law, discharged by court; house of
ill fame, fined $100; hou=e of ill fame, new ostensible pro-
prietress, finrd $50; liquor law, dischargetl by court.
Another house was closed in July. 1909, after a siege of
eighteen months, in which there were fifteen searches without
result, and the following prosecutions: house of ill fame,
fined $100; house of ill fame, disscharged by court; house of
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ill fame, placed on probation; four women arrested as idle
and disorderly, fined each $15 ; again, five women arrested on
the same charge, fined each $20.
Another house in the same street which closed also in July,
1009, was searched four times without result, but ac other
times evidence sufficient for the following prosecutions in less
than two years, involving seven different keepers, was ob-
tained: violating liquor law, fined $50; house of ill fame,
fined $50 ; liquor law, $50 ; house of ill fame, $50 ; house of ill
fame, $50; house of ill fame, $50; house of ill fame, dis-
charged by court. Though the house is closed, a new war-
want is still out for a former proprietress once fined $50, who
has disappeared.
Scores of similar cases might be cited, but these will
suffice to show to the uninformed but impatient citizen that a
rap on the door and an order from a policeman will not close
a house of ill fame; that liquor warrants must be obtained,
plans laid and searches made by groups of policemen ; that
the disappointments in securing evidence are far more numer-
ous than the successes; that even when the police think ihey
have evidence enough it often proves in the sight of the courts
insufficient to convict; and that the penalties on conviction
are not such as to close a place which is doing a profitable
business.
It is a fact, moreover, that Boston in its treatm.ent of what
is commonly called the " social evil " is peculiar in one im-
portant, perhaps vital respect. Boston is almost the only
city of its size or perhaps of half its size in the United States
in which the police refuse to set apart prescribed localities
where houses of ill fame may be carried on without penalty
or interference: and Boston is right. All law breakers here
are liable to the penalties of the law and the la.st who should
be exempted are those who make a business of vice. But in
other cities the localities in which vice is free are as well
known .^s the Common is known in Boston. In a report re-
cently published by the chief of police of a city of moderate
si/e in the middle west, he cites as proof of his severity
towards evil doers the fact that he has ordered the keepers
-•i ?( (I.K l: ( I '.M.MI<.<IuX1:Pw [Jan.
■■•: :.;v.-ci= '■£ ill tamo ::: iho privileged tcrritoiy to take the
zic.::.-: plates ott their ucv-r- tnJ remove their red light.-.
I rv'-eixcd lately froni a United States coiniui.-iioner a
.-.■•Lvlrde of que-tiou-- i'k-ntical with tho-e nent to all other
citiv--?. It was made i:p in the belief that the toleration of
vioc :n iiarticiilar loe-a".Ltie= e.xisted here as eUewiiere. J'lit
the c"-/--tions were so foreign to all conditions in JJoston that
pric-ti'-allv none cou'.] I-;- an-wered. and I was obliged to say
in rr.y rejily : —
71.e sitnaiii'ii in Bo.-t..:; •- t. :ii!ly (lirierciit from ihat existiiijr in
(••:r.rr (iiir's. as indicatvd by t!.e schedule of questions received by
nic-. I:. I'.o.-lnn there is nerher in law u^m- by undei-slandin;,' aiiv
.v:-c::-;c. set aiiiut witiiin ■vvl.;..--; prostitution may Ije praelicod without
leal liability. Rec-a'.atiic. ar.d registration in the sense implied in
yizr S'ji.ednle are thc-rt:\'re i:.. possible. All persons engasin? in the
h-.:rl.-es5 or cniEmittinc nc:s f-.'.rrani- to law are ]..ru.scciitcd wherever
'ouT.d and whenever s'.::l^ie:.t evidence can be obtained.
T;;]; Police Attitcdk.
The aii'tude of the i;'..?"'.n police department towards pub-
lic :::.■; -(-uii-public s-.\-.;.il immorality and some oi the etTects
of ;:- -.vork in tw... y^ ar- !.;;ve lieen shown in part in this ro-
:-or" and in the repi^ct f'-r 1005. The pi-'lice have producf-d
re--;'--, a- it is tluir d"\v :•'• do. but they are not re-p'^nsildc
:-r -'Z.'- di-fip of the p i- ■:.'!!- stream of de-cription and speeii-
lation T^iu-hing the •"!]•:-: sr.bjeot ^'n earth \\diich lately has
]}f(Ti T-'jured thr^jtiih -••::;e nf-wspap^er colunms into thon-ands
f.f ^•■■";=''-]iolils. It i- the dr.ry of the police to do this work.
ha--:-.] as it is to n.ai.'.y men: and they do it faitlifnlly as
-worn '■.i'ncers of the law. r.'-'t a; vrdunteer- ^vifh a taste fi'ir
ir. J^y iiK-linati'''n. ::)':-:-over. as well as imder orders, they
V.-. .rk in silence, yev.-.c .-.f searches and arre-ls for viola-
tior. <■■: tIio laws a^'ain-t i::i!:.'-.rality i- tK^t fnrni-bed ly the
pol;.v-. ;iiid the new-pa" vr r' p^rts. r-r.raic r.r =eii>;;tiri!;al. fnr-
merly ba-ed there<-.n. :.o l.-.nc:er appear. Paid auetits of
?,-,(-.;.---;..: fiji,] amateur " -■•'■i''I'-'C:ists." s^'^me sincere but nnwi-e.
'■rb- r- 7i]>"-r'-(-iKiry ;::. : :•■••!■;:■--. arr- f-iidrav..i-iiig t^-" uW tla-
b'lar.k tIiii- creati-d. T!.-- latir-er which tiny i>:-int serve- oidy
To .r :•(■ the dancer^ 'r.- ':-::ri>''-ity '"•f the i;iii'>c('iit. ti> ^rra'ify
1910.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT— Xo. 49. 49
the prurient tastes of the depraved, and to supplement appro-
]iriately the lascivious printed and pictured suggestions which
occupy adjoining pages and constitute for thousands of boys
and girls their first and progressive lessons in vice. The po-
lice prosecute only liecause the laws are violated. Thac is the
extent of their official right and obligation; but as citizens
thc-y rejoice in good work by whomsoever honestly carried on,
which tends to preserve the innocent from participation in
vice or to reclaim them should they fall.
Respectfully submitted,
STEPIIEX O'MEARA,
Police Commissioner for the City of Boston.
oO
PiiIJCK COMMIS.<I<>\ER.
[Jan.
.o-.vs ;
TIIK DKrARTMKNT
The ]■■'.':<■>■■ ilc-]>;irliii( lit i> iif iiivrf-r.t c<.ii>Ti:!;tc-(l as fol-
I'i.!ii>' ('(lInnli^^io!l(■r.
>u;'(-riii!'-:.
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C.'iptiiiii-.
lu.-lH-c-Ior-.
I:i~i>cclfir '■:
u-!iarit .
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irn;:i:'.-s Iii-u-
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1 l'titro:rav:;
24 R'-<f-rvf :::
.•■;u
T.,:al. .
\.V7,:,
l-'l
1.439
Dirc-cior, ... 1 I.in'-rnf-:..
.\>-istriiit ';:.--'V.r. 1 iJrivf-r.
Ft'rcrnan. ... 1
."■i;::!:ilrii<-:.. . (i T'»tal.
Mfcliaiii'-. ... 3
•-•'J
fkrk-. .
."^u-a'i.u'ra;J.'-
Matrcn^ '.:' :
Tifi:i.
Mairoiis I,:
Firc-iDcii '•:: r
V;:;i drivir-.
r'^p.-iiian '.:'
.■; .\--i.-tr;r!: .-•(•wap: •■!' citv
7 T'!'-;'hor.^ ■ ;>frat'>ri.
'•'■ .-Ii-a::i'i-
■I".
13
1
1
P'.:i<<. (V,rr
P..!ic.:- for-
^:<:::al^.■,•.
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.4:>.'
•JO
< .ra
1..".4--
1910.]
PUBLIC DOCU^IENT — Xo. 49.
51
DlSTEIBCTIOX AXD ChAXGES.
The distribution of the force is shown bj Table I. During
the year 150 patrolmen -were promoted from the reserve men,
and 02 reserve men were appointed] ; 4 patrolmen discharged ;
13 patrolmen and 4 reserve men resigned; 2 captains, 1
lieutenant. 1 sergeant and IG patrolmen retired on p>ension;
1 captain and 9 patrolmen died. (.See Tables III., IV.,
v., VI.)
Poi.K K OfFICKKS IXJIRKD WlflLE OX DcTY.
The following stnteiiirnt shows the number of police
officers injured while on duty during the past year, the num-
I>or of duties lost by them on account thereof, and the causes
of the injuries: —
now INJIRED.
Xumber rf
Men InjuTfd.
OstieslosL
In arresting prisoners, .....
In pursuing criminals, .....
By sto[)ping runaways. .....
By cars and other vehicles at crossings, .
\'arious other causes, .....
19
13
2
5
32
160
728
143
437
Totals, .......
71 1 1,468
WOHK OF THE DeP.VETMEXT.
A tresis.
The total numl>cr of jx^rsons arrested,
arrest as that of a separate pers^'m, was
CS,14f; the i>rfceding year, iK-ing an increase of 3,366. The
percentage of increase was as follows: —
counting each
71..T12, against
OfTpiiccs a:;ainst th" jxTso'i, . . . .
OfT-^nccs against pr(>i>,Tty. committed with vio-
lence, ........
OffiMices against pni|>crly, committed without \-io-
bnce, ........
Malicious ofTenccs against property,
Fo'-g^rj' anil ofTcnces against the currency, .
Off 'nc'cs azain-^t tlie license laws,
OfTcnces against chastity, morality, etc.,
Offences not include*! in the foregoing.
PwCent.
Decrease, 12.11
Decrease, 24.13
Decrease,
6.55
Decrease,
4. 86
Decrease,
6.57
Decrease,
7.12
Increase,
23.48
Increase,
7.01
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan,
There were 6,128 persons arrested on -warrants and
56,480 without warrants; 8,904 persons were summoned by
the court; 69,086 persons were held for trial and 2,423 were
released from custody. The number of males arrested was
64.385 ; of females, 7,127; of foreigners, 32,736, or, appro.xi-
mately, 45.77 per cent.; of minors, 8,101. Of the total num-
ber arrested, 27,953, or 39.08 per cent, were nonresidents.
(See Tables X., XI.)
The nativity of the prisoners was as follows: —
United States
f
. 38,776
British Provinces,
. 5,602
Ireland,
. 13,908
England,
. 1,784
France,
160
Germany,
556
Italy, .
. 2,648
R«f5sia, .
. 3,176
China, .
474
Greece, .
378
Sweden,
1,271
Scotland,
923
Spain, .
45
Xorway,
378
Poland,
357
Australia,
21
Anstria,
186
Portugal,
89
Finland,
209
Deiunark,
96
Holland,
21
Wales, .
33
East Indiffl, .
7
West Inifips, .
78
Turkey,
78
South .\merica.
11
Switzerland, .
15
Belgium,
53
Armenia,
26
Africa, ,
6
Hungary,
33
Asia,
11
Arabia,
1
Mexico,
8
Japan, ,
17
Sj-ria, .
66
Rouroania,
4
Cuba, .
2
Egj-pt. . -
1
Philippines, .
4
Total,
71,512
The number of arrests for the year is 71,512, being an
increase of 3,366 over last year, and 15,513 more than the
average for the past five years. There were 45,321 persons
arrested for drunkenness, being 2,853 more than last year,
and 7,260 more than the average for the past five years. Of
the arrests for drunkenness this year, there was an increase
of 6.66 per cent, in males and an increase of 7.25 per cent.
in females from last year. (See Tables XI., XII.)
Of the total number of arrests for the year (71,512), 842
were for violations of the city ordinances; that is to say, 1
arrest in 84 was for such offence, or 1.17 per cent.
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Fiftv-five and ninety-one hundredths per cent, of the per-
sons taken into custody were between the ages of twenty and
forty. (See Table XIII.)
The number of persons punished by fines was 17,407, and
the fines amounted to $161,399.84. (See Table XII.)
One hundred and two persons were committed to the State
Prison, 6,5CG to the House of Correction, 1C5 to the Women's
Prison, 254 to the Reformatory Prison and 2,391 to other
institutions. The total years of imprisonment were 4,130^^2 ;
the total number days' attendance in court by officers was
49,674: and the witness fees earned by ihom amounted to
$14,218.39.
The value of property taken from prisoners and lodgers
was $112,802.39.
Fifty-seven witnesses were detained at station houses;
35 persons were accommodated with lodgings. — a decrease
of 37 from last year. There was a decrease of S.09 per cent,
from last year in the number of insane persons taken in
charge, an increase of about 3.84 per cent, in the number of
sick and injured persons assisted, and an increase of about
33.72 per cent in the number of lost children cared for.
The average amount of property reported stolen in the city
for the five years from 1905 to 1909, inclusive, was
$147,108.81 ; in 1909 it was $167,065.96, or $10,897.15 more
than the average. The amount of projicrty stolen in and out
of the city, which was recovered by the Boston police, was
$242,549.84, as against $217,589.67 last year, or $24,900.17
more.
The average amount of fines imposed by courts for the five
years from 1905 to 1909, inclusive, was $126,896.20; in
1909 it was $161,399.84, or $34,503.64 more than the
average.
The average number of days' attendance in court was
39,908.4; in 1909 it was 49,674, or 9,765.6 more than the
average. The aver.nge amount of witness fees earned was
$11,733.05; in 1909 it was $14,217.39, or $2,484.-34 more
than the average. (See Table XII.)
54 POLICE CO^IMISSIONER. [Jan.
Drunkenness.
In arrests for drunkenness, the average number per day
-nras 124. There were 2,853 more persons arrested than in
190S, — an increase of 6.71 per cent.; 47.62 per cent, of
the arrested persons were nonresidents and 49.42 per cent,
were of foreign birth. (See Table XI.)
Bureau of Criminal Imestigation.
The- " Rogues Gallery " cow contains 32,632 photographs,
— 2.'>.S29 of which are photographs with Bertillon measure-
ments, a system used by this department during the past ten
years. In accordance with au act passed by the Legislature,
March 28, 1899 (chapter 203, sections 1 and 2), we are
allowed photographs with Bertillon measurements of all con-
ricts now in the several prisons in this State, and of those
who hare been confined there and who are measured under
that ^stem and photographs taken, — a number of which
have already been added to our Bertillon cabinets. This,
together with the adoption of the system by this department
in 1S03, is and will continue to be of great assistance in the
identification of criminals. A large number of important
identifications have thus been made during the year, for this
and other police departments, through which the sentences in
many instances have been materially increased. The records
of 1,-^36 criminals have been added to the records kept in
this Bureau, which now contains a total of 32,396. The num-
ber of cases reported at this office which have been investi-
gated during the year is 13,474. There are 20,27.5 cases
recorded on the assignment books kept for this purpose, and
rer>orts made on these cases are filed away for futtire refer-
ence. Letters and telegrams to the number of about 2.614
yearly are now filed with the numbered reports to which they
refer, so that all the papers pertaining to a case can be found
in the same envelope, thus simplifying matters, when infor-
mation is desired on any case. The system of indexing,
adopted by this Bureau for the use of the department, now
contains a list of records, histories, photographs, dates of
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PUBLIC DOCUMENT— Xo. 49.
55
arrests, etc., of about 120,000 persons. There are also
'■' histories and press clippings," now numbering G,131, by
this Bureau, in envelope form, for police reference.
The finger-print system of identification, which was
adopted in June, 1000, has progressed in a satisfactory man-
ner, and with its development it is expected that the identi-
fication of criminals will he facilitated. It has become very
useful in tracing criminals and furnishing corroborative evi-
dence when serious crimes have been committed.
The statistics of the wi:«rk of this branch of the service are
included in the statement of the general work of the depart-
ment ; but, as the duties are of a special character, the follow-
ing statement will be of interest : —
Number of persons arrested, principally for felonies, . 1,071
Fugitives from justice from other States, arrested and delivered
to officers from those States, ...... 43
Number of cases investigated, ...... 10,564
Number of extra duties performed, ..... 1,SS3
Number of cases of homicide and supposed homicide investi-
gated, and evidence prepared for trial in court, ... 73
Number of cases of abortion and supposed abortion investi-
gated, and evidence prepared for court, .... 12
Numl)er of d.ays *pcnt in court by officers, .... 4,431
Amount of stolen property recovered, .... $139,707.46
Number of years' imprisonment impo.sod by court, S.33 years, 9 months
Number of photographs added to "Rogues' Gallerj-," . . 2,7S4
Miscellaneous Business.
1906-07.
190T-0S.
190S-09.
.\bandoned children cared for,
25
33
S
.Accidents reported, ....
2,S30
2,579
2,978
Huildings found open and made secure, .
2,509
2,559
3,420
Cases investigated, ....
21,559
24,397
25,6.56
Dangerous buildings re))ortcd.
60
29
11
Dangerous chimnevs rcjjorted.
50
41
6
Dead bodies cared for.
336
279
343
Defective bridges re])ortcd, .
5
5
7
Defective cesspools reported.
211
133
199
Defective coal holes, ....
o
9
1
Defective drains and vaults reported,
4
3
3
Defective fire alarms and clocks rc])ortcd.
6
9
S
Defective gas pipes rei)ortcd,
45
40
79
56
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
Miscellaneous Business -
- Concludt
>d.
190S-0T.
1907-08.
1908-09.
Defective hydrants reported.
&4
87
104
Defective lamps reported, .
9,1S7
8,928
13,247
Defective manholes, . . . .
—
—
11
Defective fences, . . . .
19
31
10
Defective sewers reported, .
41
28
103
Defective streets and walks reported.
8,572
8,726
9,669
Defective trees, . . . . .
-
14
16
Defective water gates.
-
3
20
Defective water meters,
-
3
Defective water pipes reported.
157
250
177
Defective wires and polM reported.
39
7
30
Disturbances suppressed.
555
650
1,253
Extra duties performed,
46,937
34,206
31,874
Fire alarms given, ....
2,136
2,236
1,962
Fires extinguished, ....
796
700
735
Insane persons taken in diaige, .
403
419
385
Lost children restored.
1,498
1,637
2,189
Missing persons rejxirted.
318
267
305
Missing persons found.
152
155
140
Persons rescued from drowning, .
13
28
61
Sick and injured persons a^s^ted,
4,618
4,234
4,397
Stray teams reported and put up.
201
131
132
Water running to waste reported.
254
322
377
Witnesses detained, ....
88
60
57
Lost, Abandoned and Stolen Property.
On the 1st of December, 1908, there were 241 articles of
lost, abandoned or stolen property in the custody of the
property clerk ; 809 were received during the year, 221 were
sold, for which $258.69 was received and paid over to the
city collector, and 21 delivered to owners, finders or admin-
istrators, 82 to the Chief of the District Police, leaving 726
on hand.
Sfeciai. Events.
The following is a list of special events transpiring during
the year, and gives the number of police detailed for duty
at each : —
1909. UoL
Jan. 17, Fire old Pro\ndence station train shed, . . . 104
Jan. 20, Police ball 90
Feb. 17, Firemen's bail 56
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PUBLIC DOCUMENT — Xo. 49.
57
1909. Mfn.
Mar. 14, L.-itxir meeting, Fancuil Hall, ..... 213
Mar. 17, Evacuation Day, ....... 26.5
A|)ril 10, C'rossK-ountrj- run, Cathe<lral Y. M. C. A.. . .110
.\pril 17, Har\ar(l-Coliimbia bo.it race, . . . . 50
.\pril 19, -Marathon race, ..;.... 305
May 2S, School regiment parade, ...... 404
May 31, Work horse parade, ...... 104
Jlay .31, KitipHtiEc Bros, circus parade. ..... S.5
.June 7, .\ncient and Honorable parade. .... 2.5.5
.luiie Hi, The "niglit before." in Charlestown, . . . 218
.lunc 17, .\niiivcrsari-, battle of Hunker Hill, .... G.50
.lune 22, Performance of .loan of .\re. ."^tadium. Brighton, . 9G
.lunc 27, Holy Family Tenijierance League parade. . .10.5
June .30, .Silver iubilr^e of ,\rc]'.bishcp O'CV.niiell at Catlicuml. . Si
June 30, Recejition to .\rchbi^hop O'Connell at Mechanic's
building .3a5
July 31, Funeral fif ("apt. William J. Lowcn,-, . . . 67
Sept. 14, Visit of President Taft, .325
Sept. 15, Visit of President Taft, 241
Xov. 2, Bulletin boards, State election. .... 325
Nov. 6, Harvard-Cornell football game. . . .5.3
Xov. 13, Harvard-Dartmouth football g.ime, .... 102
Xov. 20, Harvard- Yale Football game, ..... 19S
Xov. 20, Bulletin boards, Harvard- Yale football game, .115
Xov. 20, Special detail at Division 4. football night, . 323
Xiiwbcr of Police Officers employed as a Lifting Detail Each Day during
the Listing Seofun.
v«.
1.073
-May 1,
May 3,
-May 4,
May 5,
May 6,
1,090
76S
2S0
77
UVc'sPKCToi; OF Cl..\I.M.«.
The officer detailed to assist tho coniniittcc on claims and
law doiinrtnunt in invosticating daini.s against flic citv for
alleged damage of various kinds reports that he inve-tiiraled
44S eases. 9 of which were on aeeoniit of damage done liv
(logs, resulting in the killitig of 90 hens and 2 <hicks: 1 ease
heing on aceonnt of damage done hv a wild deer.
5S
POLICE COM-MISSIONER.
[Jan.
Other Serrices performed.
Xumlx-r of ca.?cs investigated,
Xumber of witnesses examined,
Xumbcr of notices served,
Xumber of jiictures taken, .
Xumber of permissions granted,
Xumber of da3-s in court,
Xumber of da)-s at the committee on claims,
44S
3,360
1,002
106
2,400
60
30
Officers df.tailed to assist Medical Examinf.es.
The officers detailed from the Bureau of Criminal Inves-
tigation to assist the medical examiners of Suffolk County
report having investigated 977 deaths, 751 of which were
males and 226 females, and attended 193 inquests, as fol-
lows : —
Causes of Death in Cases inrestigated.
Abortion, .
Accident, .
Alcoholism,
Asphyxiation (gas),
Automobile,
Bums,
Drowning,
Electricity,
Devator, .
ExjK)siire,
IL\haastion,
Homicide,
Manslaughter,
4
169
16
1
12
44
63
1
16
1
3
7
16
Murder, .
2
Xatural causes,
. 392
Poison,
. 30
Rabies,
2
Railroad accident.
51
Stillboni, .
9
Strangulation, .
i
Street railway accident,
28
Suffocation,
3
Suicide, .
100
Total,
Causes of Death where Inquests were held.
Abortion, .
Accident, .
Automobile,
Drowning,
Elevators,
Electricity,
Explosion,
Falling iron.
Falls,
Falling lumber,
Falling stone,
19
3
3
Fire engine,
Homicide,
Hose wagon.
Machinery,
Manslaughter, .
Xatural causes.
Railroads,
Railway (street).
Teams,
Total, .
977
1
4
2
2
2
6
66
36
20
193
']
I
■ I
!
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PUBLIC DOCUMENT— No. 49.
59
House of Detzxtiox.
The liou~e of dcteiuion for wonun is located in the court
hou^e, Somerset Street. -Vll the women arrested in the city
proper are taken to the hou^e of detention in vans provided
for the purpose. Thev are then held in charge of the matron
until the next session of the court before which they are to ap-
pear. If sentenced to imprisonment, they are returned to the
house of detention, and from there conveyed to the jail or in-
stitution to which ihey have been sentenced.
DurinfT the vcar there were 5,74G women committed,
For drunkenness,
For larceny,
For night walking,
For fornication, .
For insanity.
For being idle and disorderly.
For assault and batter^".
For adultcn-.
For violation of the liquor law.
For keeping a house of ill fame.
For witnesses.
For county jail, .
For nuinicipal court. .
For various other offences, .
Total,
3,07S
428
366
223
124
50
38
13
2.5
56
2
1,032
142
169
5,746
Police .S;<.-\.\r. Sehvice.
Signal Boxes.
The change in the signal bo.\es during the year consists
of installing one new box on Division 14. The total number
of bo.xes now in use is 462. Of these, 271 are connected with
the underground system and 191 with the overhead.
Miscellaneous Worh.
Duritig the year the employees of this service responded
to 1,03." trouble calls; inspected 4C2 signal lx).\es, 15 signal
desks and 021 batteries; repaired SO box movements, 16
60 POLICE CO.MMISSIOXER. [Jan.
reiriMcr-:. 17 polar box bell?, 57 locks, 10 plnngers, 14 time j
stainpr:. 4 eongs, 3 stable motors, 2 stable rr-jristers, 5 vibrator
bells. b4-si*!es repairing all lx-11 and electric light work at head-
quarters and the various stations. There have been made -t
bells, 34 line blocks, 20 plungers, 10 eomplete box fittings,
and a large amoimt of small work thai cannot be classified-
Eichitt-n time stamje of a new and improved type were
onlere*!, the old ones having been in serricit- more than twenty
years.
The underground work done during the- year consisted of
laying ali^mt 37,000 feet of cable and pl».-ing 10 post boxes
in the iJrighton district ; and placing a small quantity of
cable (300 feet) at Grove Hall and Eliot S^juarc.
There are in use in the signal scr\"icie 2»» horses, IS patrol
wag«>ns and 13 pungs.
During the year the wagons made 41.107 rims, covering
an asan-gaie distance of 3."».917 miles. There were 43,553 {
pris^>ners c*^»nveyed to the station houses: '••'»7 runs were made
to take injured and insane persons to statkm houses, the hos-
pitals or their homes; and G40 rims were made to take lost
children to station hous<-s. There were C>72 nms to fires and
51 runs for liquor seizures. During the year there were 4G2
signal V»3tfe? in use. arranged on GO circaits: 517.454 tele-
phone TOfsssages and 3,347.769 " on-<lnty *' calls were sent I
over the lines.
The following list c^jmprises the prc.fjerty in the signal
service at the present time: —
i
15 signal desks.
45 manhole?.
60 cjrruh*.
1 buggr.
462 strtrt signal boxes.
1 line iragnn.
14 staWk;' rail boards.
1 express wagon.
4S test J)*>»s.
1 mugiruiaip wagon
921 etJb of J»attcr>--
1 travtise (Hing.
7S miVr* rir»derground rable.
2 small sk%h.*.
04 mil*-* overhead cable.
1 caravan.
7i milfc* ruf duct.
1910.] PUBLIC DOCUilENT— No. 49. 61
Habror Service.
The special duties performed bv the police of Division 8,
comprising the harbor and the islands therein, were as fol-
lows : —
Value of property recovered, consisting of boats, rigging, float
st.igos, etc., $14,320.40
Xiimlx'r of vessels from foreign ports boardc<l, . 742
XuiiiIht of vessels ordered from the channel to proper anchorage, 1 ,.372
XuiiilK-r of vess<'ls n'moved from the channel by |X)lico steamers, 09
XiimlK-r of c.'ises of assistance rendered, .... 118
Xunil)cr of cases of assistance rendered to wharfingers, . . 13
Xuniber of permits granted vessels, in tlie stream, to discharge
their cargoes, ......... 48
Xunilx-r of obstructions removed from channel, ... 15
Xumljor of alarms of fire on the water front attended, . . 127
X'umber of fires extinguished without alarm, .... 1
Number of boats challenged, ...... 1,703
Sick and injured persons assisted, ..... 18
Cases investigated, ........ 733
Dead Ixxiies recovered, .... ... 38
Res<-ucd from drowning, ....... 32
Number of vessels ordered to put up anchor lights, . . 25
Xumlx-r of vcs-sels .assigned to anchorage, .... 1,254
Steamers escorted, outgoing and incoming, .... 216
The total number of vessels that arrived in this jwrt dur-
ing the vcar was 11,027. Of this nuniljcr, 0,i;OS came from
domestic ports, 777 from ports in the British Provinces and
742 from foreign ports. Of the latter, G03 were steamers, 10
shi]-s. 11 barks and 2S schooners.
The j>olice boat " Ferret " was in commission from June
20 to October 1 in Dorchester Bar. She covered a distntice
of .'),:;0S miles; made 4 arrests for larceny and 1 for drunken-
ness; recovered property value<l at $4-3-3; rcscuetl 12 jiersons
from disabled boats and 2 from the water; made secure 3
yadits that had broken away from their moorings; quelle<l
28 disturbances; investigated 2-3 case?, and notifietl ".0 owners
of i>(.wer kiats to have mufflers attached to their exhausts.
62 POLICE COMMISSIONER. [Jan.
HOESES. j
On the 1st of December, 1908, there -were 88 horses in the
service. During the year 5 -were sold, 7 purchased, 1 shot
on account of being disabled and 3 died. At the present time
there are 86 in service, as shown by Table IX.
Vehicle Service. ;
Automobiles. ,
Automobile Xo. 2222, a steam runabout, has been in ser- I
vice since June, 1905. It was on duty 137 days, and covered ;
a distance of 7,672 miles in the West Roxbury district. This
machine went out of commission and was replaced on May '
10, 1909, by a new Ross steamer, 'So. 14567. It has been on j
duty 156 days, and covered approximately a distance of f
9.3G0 miles in this district. The operating patrolman made ;
20 arrests, returned 2 runaway boys to the Parental School, r
assisted in 96 arrests made for violation of the automobile J
law, and many operators were cautioned by him in regard (
to speed limit. He responded to 17 alarms of fire, investi- p
gated 98 cases and served 102 summonses in criminal pro- j
ceedings. j
Automobile Xo. 2223 went into commission April 17, 1909, i
being in service ISO days, covering a distance of 7,200 miles J
of streets on Division 11. The operating patrolman made
2S7 arrests, conveyed 25 prisoners to the station, 6 lost
children to their homes and 4 to the station, 1 man to the
City Hospital, responded to 16 alarms of fire, investigated
59 cases and cautioned 73 chauffeurs. jj
Automobile Xo. 2224. a steam runabout, was purchased
and put in commission June 29, 1907; was on duty in the
parkways 299 days during the year. The operating patrol-
man made 93 arrests, and cautioned many automobile opera-
tors regarding the speed limit.
Automobile Xo. 2225, a steam runabout, was purchased
ai:d put in commission July, 1007 ; was on duty in the streets
and parks in the Back Bay district 310 days during the year.
The operating patrolman made 405 arrests for violation of lij!
I
I
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PUBLIC DOCUMENT— Xo. 49.
63
the automobile law, and cautioned many automobile opera-
tors regarding the speed limit.
Automobile Xo. 17182, a steam runabout, has been in ser-
vice since June 11, 1900. It -was on duty 152 days during
the year, and covered a distance of 7,C00 miles in the streets
of the Brighton district. The operating patrolman responded
to 6 alarms of fire, investigated 25 cases and made 25 arrests.
He cautioned many automobile operators regarding the speed
limit.
Automobile Xo. 2221, a steam touring car, has been in ser-
vice since June 9, 1908. It is used for the general work of
inspection b}' the officials of the department.
Cost of running Automobiles.
Pay of officers,
Repairs,
Tires, .
Gasoline,
Oil. .
Rent of garage.
Total, .
U,0-'>(> 91
1,42S .30
8.56 97
7.5.5 74
119 03
S7G S4
. .SS,093 SS
Ambulances.
The department is now equipped with 10 ambulances,
l(K-atcd in the following jwlice divisions: 1, 4, C. 7, 10, 11,
13, 14, 15 and 16.
During the year the ambulances resjwnded to calls to
convey sick or injured persons to the following places: —
City Hospital, ......
City Hospital (Relief Station, Haymarkct .Siiuare),
City Ho.>ipital (lUlief .Station, llast Hoston), .
Calls where scr\iees were not required,
M.is.-i.ichusetts General Hospital, .
Home,
Morgue,
Police station houi«es.
Lying-in Hospital,
Faulkner Hospital,
Caniey Hospital,
Kinergenry Hosjiital,
Children's Hospital,
S74
623
267
ISl
113
72
26
21
13
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4
3
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POLICE COiMMISSIOXER,
[Jan.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirman-,
From fires,
Cambridge Hospital, .
Homccopathic Hosjjital,
St. Marj-'s Infant .\sylum, .
Private Iiospital in Cambridge,
Total, ....
List of Vehicles vscd hy the Department.
2,21.5
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Di\-L¥ion 4,
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6
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2
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6
13
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11
8
6
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65
Plblic CAKRr.\(;K.«.
Diiriiic: the vcar there were 1.777 c-arriape Iktnses granted,
boinir an increase of 124 as conipare<l with last year; 2G7
motor carriages were licensed, being an increase of ICG as
compared with last year.
There has hocn a decrease of 41 in the nunil>er of horse-
drawn licensed carriages during the year.
There were 3 carriages rejected on first inspection, lint
tlie defects being slight and having bec-n remclictl, they were
suliscquently reinspccted and passe<l.
There were GO articles, consisting of umbrellas, coats, etc.,
left in carriages during the year, which were turned over to
the ins]iector; 20 of these were restored to the owners, and
the balance placed in the keeping <>{ the lost property bureau.
The following is a detaile<l statement concerning licenses
for public carriages and for drivers of hack.s and cabs:
Number of ."ipplications for carriage licenses rorpivo<l.
Number of applications for carriage licenses refusc<l.
Number of carriages licensed, ....
Number of licenses transferred, ....
Number of licenses cancelled or revoked.
Number of carri.ages inspected, ....
Number of carriages rejected, ....
Number of carri.agcs reinspecte<l and pa.-we<l, .
.\pi)lications for drivers' licenses rp;>ortcd uiKin,
Nuniber of complaints against drivers inve-iligated.
Number of warrants obtained, ....
NumlxT of days spent in court, ....
.\rticles left in carriages, reporte<l by citizens,
.\rtic1es found in carriages, reporteii by drivers,
Drivers' applications for licenses rejectcti.
1,779
1,777
113
41
1,776
3
3
l,Sfi2
114
5
6
22
69
1
Wagox Licexse.s.
Licen.*cs arc granted to persons or cor i>f<rat ions to set up
and use trucks, wagons or other vehicles to convey merchan-
dise from place to place within the city for hire.
During the year 5,447 applications for such licenses were
receive<l, r>,4;]o of which were granted and 12 rejected.
\
66
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
Of the licences granted, 20 were subsequently cancelled
for nonpavnaf-nt of the license fee, 63 for other causes, and
CI transferred to new locations. (See Tables XIV., XVI.)
Listing Male Residents of Bostox, etc.
Ylaji.
Mij Can Tan.
Supplemenlal
Application.
Refused
Certificates.
Granted
Certificates.
Total Men
listed.
i9a3,
181,045
3,412
53
3,359
184,404
1904,
193,195
1,335
55
1,2S0
194,475
19a5,
194,.>47
705
S
697
195,244
1906,
195,446
775
24
751
196,197
1907,
19.5,900
7S2
2S
754
196,6.54
190S,
201,255
1,302
57
1,245
202,500
1909,
201,391
S04
29
775
202,166
i9a3,
nm,
1905,
1906,
1907,
1908,
1909,
Women Voters verified.
14,611
15,633
14,591
13,427
12,822
11,915
11,048
(See Tables XX, XXI, XXII.)
■ Listing Expenses.
The expen-^es of listing residents, not including the ser-
vices rcndertfl bv the members of the police force, were as
follows : —
Printing, . , . . .
. 515,436 14
Clerical .ser\'ice, ....
6,G07 59
Cards,
1,.566 07
Interpreters, ....
977 15
Stationcrj-, ....
245 CO
Tc'lciihoncs, ....
. ■ . . 124 83
Total,
. 824,057 44
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67
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Xumber of Policemen employed in Listing.
Mayl
1,073
May 3,
1,079
May 4,
•. ... 768
Mayo
280
May 6,
77
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Special Police.
Special police officers are appointed to serve without pay
from the city, on the written application of any officer or
board in charge of a department of the city of Boston, or on
the application of any responsible corporation or person, such
corporation or person to be liable for the official misconduct
of the person appointed.
During the year ending Xov. 30, 1909, there were 596
special police officers appointed; 6 applications for appoint-
ment were refused for cause, and 1 appointment was revoked
for intoxication.
For city departments, ........ 141
For State departments, ...... .7
For railroad corporations, ....... 136
For other corporations and associations, ..... 105
For theatres and other places of amusement, .... 133
For private institutions, ....... 60
For churches, ......... 14
Total,
596
Railbo.uj Police.
There were 210 persons appointed railroad policemen
during the year, 11 of whom are employees of the !N"ew York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 142 of the Boston &
;Maine Railroad and 57 of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
Railroad.
MiSCELLAXEOrS LiCEXSES.
The total number of licenses issued of all kinds was
25,353; transferred, 234; cancelled and revoked, 2,639.
The officers investigated 344 complaints arising under these
licenses. The fees collected and paid into the city treasury
amounted to $51,714.25. (See Table XIV.)
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68
POLICE COMillSSIONER.
[Jan.
MusiciAXs' Licenses.
Itinerant.
During the year there were 2<;7 iii)i>lication.s for itinerant
musicians' licenses received, 228 of which were trranted. 24
rejected and 15 are pending: : o were sul>s<t]uently cancelled
on account of the nonpayment of the license foe; 3 were sur-
rendere<l and cancelled, and others issued in their stead. Of
the total nuinlier granted, ~'/ have l)een jiaid for; l.">:> granted
Xovember 30 were not paid for when the rep'»rt was made up.
The officer detailed for this special srnifx- rej^rfs that
durinir the vear he examined 10,"i instruments, as follows: —
In«prctcd.
P.««L
Condemned.
Street organs,
j 55
.>3
2
Hand organs,
! ^"
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1
^'iolins, .
i 12
12
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Harps,
I 0
9
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Flutes, .
1 4
4
-\ccordeons,
1
1
-
Guitars, .
• 3
3
Bagpipes,
j 1
-
Banjos, .
i '
*
-
Mandolins,
1
-
Ocarina, .
1
-
Totals,
105
102
3
C'olUclire.
Collective musicians' licenses are granted to bands of per-
sons over fifteen years of age to play on mn>ical instruments
in company with designate<l prrK-essions, at stated times and
plac-es.
1910.]
PUBLIC DOCUMENT— No. 49.
The following shows the number of applications made for
these licenses during the last five j-ears and the action taken
thereon : —
Year.
Applications.
Granted.
Rejected.
i9a5
118
112
6
1906
157
156
1
1907,
154
152
2
1908
172
172
-
1909,
178
176
2
Public Lodgixg Houses.
Every building in the city of Boston not licensed as an
inn, in which 10 or more persons are lodged for twenty-five
cents or less each per night, is a public lotlging house, under
chapter 242 of the acts of 1904 ; and the Police Commissioner
is authorized to grant licenses to such lodging houses after
the inspector of buildings has certified that the building is
provided with proper exits and appliances for giving alarm
to the inmates in case of fire, and the Board of Health haa
certified that the sanitary condition is satisfactory. Under
this law 21 applications for licenses were received, 20 of
them granted and 1 is pending.
The following shows the location of the lodging houses and
the number of persons lodged in each during the year: —
Locinos.
Number lodged.
69 and 71 Beach Street,
19 Causeway Street,
164 Commercial Street,
194 Commercial Street,
234 Commercial Street,
238 Commercial Street,
242-246 Commercial Street,
17 Davis Street,
42 Ea.stem Avenue,
39 Edinborough Street,
120 Eliot Street, .
37 Green Street,
187 Hanover Street,
11,859
10,064
21,160
38,037
12,989
17,952
7,577
35,983
26,527
15,534
48,518
36,028
48,222
70
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
[Jan.
laCATIOS.
Number lodged-
67 Pk-asant Street,
SS6 Washington Street, .
1025 Washington .Stre«-t. .
1051 Washington Streft, .
1066 Washington Street, .
1093 Washington Street, .
1202 Washington Street, .
Total,
22,245
80,SSS
14,573
39,578
14,479
29,232
26,294
558,339
CAEErrxG D.YXGEROCS Weapoxs.
Under the act of 1906 which authorized the Police Com-
missioner, in common with certain other officials, to grant
licences for the carrying of loaded pistols or revolvers on the
person, the following action has been taken by him : —
Applications.
Granted.
Bcfused.
1907
190S
1909
681
1,020
871
625 ' 56
882 ; 138
800 71
These licenses are granted in large measure to express and
bank messengers, watchmen, special policemen and others
who>e occupations and characters establish a prima facie case
in their favor.
Small Loax Licexses.
During the year there were 31 applications received for
secured small loan licenses; 21 were granted, 4 cancelled and
G disapproved.
There were 67 applications received for unsecured small
loan licenses; 59 were granted, 2 cancelled, 5 disapproved
and 1 withdrawn.
Pexsioxs axd Bexefits.
Dec. 1, 19C8, there were 208 pensioners on the roll. Dur-
ing the year 16 died, viz., 1 captain, 2 lieutenants and 13
patrc.Inien and 21 were added, viz., 2 captains, 2 lieutenants.
1910.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 49. 71
1 sergeant, 16 patrolmen and 1 fireman, leaving 213 on the
roll at date, including the •widows of 11 and the mother of 1
policeman, who died of injuries received in the service.
The payments on account of pensions during the past year
amounted to $133,443.53, and it is estimated that $135,-
472.50 will be required for pensions in 1910. This does not
include i)ensions for 1 inspector and 4 patrolmen, all of whom '
are sixtv-five years or over, and are entitled to be pensioned '
on account of age and term of service.
The invested fund of the police charitable fund on the
thirtieth day of November last amounted to $207,550. There
are 63 beneficiaries at the present time, and there has been
paid to them the sum of $7,442 during the past year.
The invested fund of the Police Relief Association on the
thirtieth day of November was $122,022.54.
FiXAXCIAL. j
A requisition was made on the city council for the sum
of $2,166,492.39 to meet the running expenses of the de- 4
partmeut, including the pensioned police officers, house of de- Jj
tention, station house matrons, listing persons twenty years |
of age or more, and police signal service for the financial i
year.
The total expenditures for police purposes during the past ;
year, including the pensions, house of detention, station house |
matrons and listing persons twenty years of age or more, but f
exclusive of the maintenance of the police signal service, ?
were $2,030,506.78. I
The total revenue paid into the city treasury from fees for
licenses over which the police have supervision and for the
sale of unclaimed and condemned property, etc., was $53,-
016.66. (See Table XIV.)
The cost of maintaining the police signal service durinir
the year was $57,262.53. (See Table XVIII.)
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Table III.
List of Officers retired during the Year, giving Age at the Time of Re-
tirement and the Number of Years' Service of Each.
Xa«e.
C»n«e of Age »t Time Years of
HetiremeDt. of Retirement.! Service.
Brewer, George E.,
Incapacitated,
' 48 j-ears,
21 years.
Chase, Fremont, . ...
Incapacitated,
49 years.
IS years.
Chick, Samuel B., .
Age, . .
CO years.
28 }-ears.
Clark, Thomas R., .
Age, .
60 years,
1
29 years.
Cleveland, Lindell,
1 Incapacitated,
43 years,
' 18 years.
Cross, James A.,
Incapacitated,
45 }-ears, j 21 j-ears.
Donovan, Dennis, .
Age,
65 }-ears,
' 32 years.
Everbeck, Gorham H., .
Age, .
60 jcars.
35 years.
Faniham, Jewett, .
Age, .
60 jears,
29 years.
Garland, Monroe T.,
Age, .
60 years.
30 years.
Holmes, Robert S.,'
Age, .
63 years.
25 years.
Marsh, Reuben,
Age, .
60 jears,
34 years.
Murphy, Timothy J.,
Age, . .
62 years,
28 years.
Mackinnon, Edward C, .
Incapacitated,
34 years.
7 years.
Norcott, John P., .
Veteran,
60 jears,
18 years.
Nugent, Michael J.,
Age, .
65 jears,
32 years.
O'Brien, James E.,
Incapacitated,
44 years,
20}'ears.
Ryan, Thomas E., .
Age, .
63 years,
36 years.
Savorj', George E.,
Veteran,
65 years.
36 years.
Stevens, Ira W.,
Age, .
61 years.
35 j'ears.
Sugrue, Timothy F.,
Incapacitated,
37 years.
9 years.
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[Jan.
Tablk IV.
LUl of Ojjlccrs tcho irere promoted above the Rank of Patrolman during
the Year ending Xov. 30, 1909.
Date.
Name and Rink.
May 17, 1000,
May 17, 1000,
May 17, 1000,
May 20, 1000,
Xov. 24, 1000,
Xov. 24, 1000,
May 20, 1000,
May 20, 1000,
.Sept. 4, 1009,
Dec. 17, lOOS,
Det". 17, lOOS,
.May 20, 1000,
Sept. 4, 1000,
Xov. 24, 1000,
Xov. 24, 1009,
Dee. 17, lOOS,
Dec.
17,
190S,
Dec.
17.
lOOS,
Mav
20,
1000,
Sejjt.
4,
1000,
Xov.
24.
1000,
Xov.
24,
1000,
Xov.
24,
1000,
Chief Inspector William B. Watt.s to the rank of dep-
uty superintcntlent.
Capt. Philemon D. Warren to the rank of deputj"
superintcndc-nt.
Capt. Laurence Cain to the rank of deputy superin-
tendent.
Capt. Joseph Dugan to the rank of chief inspector.
Ins|)ector John H. McGarr to the rank of captain.
InsiXH-tor .\in.«Iey C. .\rmstrong to the rank of cap-
tain.
Lieut. George C. Garland to the rank of captain.
Lieut. James P. .Sullivan to the rank of captain.
Lieut. Joseph Ilarriman to the rank of captain.
Sergt. William H. Pclton to the rank of inspector.
Sergt. Thoma.s J. Xorton to the rank of in.«poctor.
Sergt. Michael J. GofT to the rank of lieutenant.
Sergt. George H. Guard, to the rank of lieutenant.
Sergt. William J. .Shcehan to the rank of lieutenant.
Sergt. Thomxs F. Goode, Jr., to the rank of lieu-
tenant.
Patrolman Joseph F. Loughlin to the rank of ser-
geant.
Patrolman Sumner .S. Foster to the rarik of sergeant.
Patrolman Eklgar F. Palmer to the rank of .sergeant.
Patrolman John J. McCarthy to the rank of sergeant.
Patrolman John C. Muqihy to the rank of sergeant.
Patrolman John W. Pyne to the rank of .sergeant.
Patrolman .Martin H. King to the rank of sergeant.
Patrolman Michael J. Sullivan to the rank of ser-
geant.
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Table V.
Number of Men in Each Rank in Active Service at the End of the Present
Year who were appointed on the Force in the Year stated.
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Table X.
Xumbrr of Arre-^U, by Police Divi.sions, during the Year ending Nov. 30,
1909.
DnisioS3.
Males.
Females.
Totals.
Headquarters, .
950
258
1,208
Division 1,
12,341
1,037
13,378
Di\-ision 2,
5,2S2
2S7
5,569
Division 3,
6,705
1,238
7,943
Division 4,
6,S27
941
7,768
Di\-ision 5,
6,179
1,171
7,350
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4,034
321
4,355
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2,023
183
2,206
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47
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2,3SS
340
2,728
Di\-ision 10,
3,215
456
3,671
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2,359
119
2,478
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1,152
90
1,242
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1,S33
136
1,969
Di\-ision 14,
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914
Division 15,
5,620
420
6,040
Division 16,
2,548
98
2,646
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64,385
7,127
71,512
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Water and ice,
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Printing and stationery.
Care and cleaning station houses and city prison.
Repairs to station houses and city prison,
Repairs and supplies for police steamers,
Rent and care of telephones and lines.
Purchase of horses and vehicles,
Care and keeping horses, harnesses and vehicles,
Carting prisoners to and from stations and city prison.
Feeding prisoners, .......
Medical attendance on prisoners, ....
Transportation, .......
Pursuit of criminals, ......
Cloth for uniforms and uniform helmets,
Badges, buttons, clubs, belts, iasignia, etc.,
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Rent of buildings, .......
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81,721,672 37
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E-xpenses of house of detention and station house matrons, 9,936 89
E.xpenses of signal senice (see Table XVIII.), . . 57,262 53
Total,
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For dog licenses (credited to school department), . 30,223 00
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Rent and care of buildings, ....
Purchase of horses, harnesses and vehicles,
Stable supplies and furniture.
Repairs on buildings, .....
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Fuel, gas and water, .....
Miscellaneous, car fares, etc.,
Signalling apparatus, repairs and supplies therefor.
Underground wires, .....
Printing, stationer)', etc., ....
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5,003 64
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A.
PAGE
AccidenU S, 55, 104, 105
persons killed or injured in streets, parks and squares . . 104, 105
number of, reported ......... 55
Ambulance service ....... . . 51
Arrests 5,6,7,51,55,84,98
age and sex of .......... 99
comparative statement of . . . . . . . .98
for offences against chastity, morality, etc. .... 22, 23, 31
foreigners ......... 52, 84-97
insane persons .......... 56
minors ........... 52
nativity of .......... 52
nonresidents 52, 84-97
number of, by di\isions ........ S3
number of, punished by fine ....... 53
summoned by court ........ 52, 84-97
total number of ......... 51
violation of city ordinances ....... 52, 92
on warrants ......... 52, 81 07
without warrants ........ 52, 84-97
Auctioneers ........... 100
Automobiles 7, 62, 104, 105
accidents due to ......... 8 .:
laws ........... 7
motor taxicabs ......... 8
police 62, 63
public ........... 65
prosecutions .......... 7
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Benefits and pensions ......... 70 -^a
Bertillon s>-8tem .......... 54 '/^
Better police protection ......... 20
Bridges, defective .......... 55
Buildings ........... 55
dangerous, reported ......... 55
found open and made secure ....... 55
Bureau of Criminal Investigation ....... 54 -M
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Carriages, public 65, 100
articles left in .......... 65
automobile .....'..... 65
number licensed . . . . . . . 65 100
112 INDEX.
PACE
Cases investigated .......... 55, 61
Cesspools, defective, reported ........ 55
Children 11,55
abandoned, cared for ........ 55
lost, restored .......... 56
juvenile offenders ......... II
Chimneys, dangerous, reported ....... 55
City ordinances, arrests for \noIation of ..... . 52, 92
Claims, inspector of ......... 57
Coal holes, defective ......... 55
Collective musicians ........ 6S, 100
Conunitments .......... 53, 59
Complaints 67, 80, 100
against police officers ........ SO, SI
against miscellaneous h'censcs ...... 67, 100
Courts 52, 53
fines imposed by ........ . 53, 9S
number of days' attendance at, by officers .... 53, 55, 9?
number of persons summoned by ...... 52
Criniin5d Investigation, Bureau of ....... 54
arrests ........... 55
finger-print sjstem ......... 53
photographs .... .... .51
records ........... 54
nines' gallery .......... 54
Criminal work . . . . . 5, 9S
comparative statement of ........ 9S
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Dangerous weapons ......... 70
Dead bodies, cared for ......... 55, 61
Dead bodies, recovered ......... 55, 61
Deaths 58
by accident, suicide, etc. ........ 58
of police officers ......... 51, 74
Department, police .......... 50
Detectives, private .......... 100
Distribution of force ......... 51, 72
Disturbances suppressed ......... 56
Dogs 57, 100
amount received for licenses for ...... 100, 102
damage done by ......... 57
number licensed ........ 100, 101
Drains and vaults, defective, reported ...... 55
Drivers, hack or cab ........ 65, 100
Drowning, persons rescued from ....... 56, 61
Dnmkenness .......... 7, 54, 93
arrests for, per day ......... 54
increase in number of arrests for ...... 52, 54
nonresidents arrested for ....... 7, 54, 93
total number of arrests for ...... 52, 54, 93
INDEX. 113
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Employees of the Department ........ 50, 72
Events, special .......... 56
Expenditures 71, 102, 103
Extra duties performed by officers ....... 55, 56
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Fences, defective, reported ........ 53
Fmancial 71, 102, 103
expenditure 71, 102, 103
bouse of detention ........ 71, 102
pensions .......... 71, 102
signal ser\-ice 71, 102, 103
receipts 71, 102
miscellaneous Ucense fees ...... 71, 100, 102
Fines 6, 7, 9S
average amount of ......... 53
amount of ......... 6, 53, 9S
number pimished by . . . . 6, 53
Finger-print system ......... 55
Fire alarms ........... 5o, 56
defective, reported ......... 55
ntmiber given .......... 56
number on water front attended ...... 61
Pircs 56,61
extinguished . . . . . . . . 56, 61
on water front extinguished without alarm ..... 61
Foreigners, number arrested ....... 52, &4-97
Fugitives from justice ......... 55
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Gaming, illegal .......... 93
Gas pipes, defective, reported ........ 55
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Hack or cab drivers ........ 65, 100
Hackney carriages 65, 100
Hand carts ........... 100
Harbor ser\->ce, special duties performed ...... 61
" Ferret " in commission ........ 61
Horses . . . 62, 82
bought, sold, etc. ......... 62
distribution of .......... 82
number in senice . . • . . . 62, 82
House of detention ......... 59, 71, 102
Houses of ill-fame, etc. ......... 23-49
Hydrants, defective, reported ........ 56
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Iznpswyament, number of tcats o4 , ..... 6^ 55, 98
p«noQS sentenced to ........ 6
Incoo* 71, 102
Tr>«iiT>^ p«cM>a§ taken in char;ge ....... 53, 56
Inspector of claims .......... 57
tatta investigated . . ... .55
lujuntDt cnosicians ........ 68, 100
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Jonk ^»p keepers .......... 100
Jury work by police ......... 10
Jaraaie offenders .......... 11
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^ifi'ns^—j cntsceUaneous ........ 67, 100
Listixi; male residents ......... 66
ccstifieates refused ......... 66
exjtttaes of ... . ..... 66, 102
maber ct. male residents listed ...... 66, 106
sqiplanentary list of male residents ..... 66, 107
veiisea voters verified ....... 66, 108
oombtr of policemen easpioyed in ..... . 57, 67
Loan*, snail 70, 100
Jt<A^yn at station bouses ........ 53
Lodpa; brMises, public ........ 69, 100
ajipGcations for licenses ....... 69, 100
astbonty to b'ceose ......... 69
locatKa of 69, 70
snmlKr of persons lodged in . . . . 69, 70
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MfdVyl exazniners' assistants ........ 5S
■aqcexts attended ......... SB
czxaes of death ......... 55
cades oa which inquests were held ...... 5B
yUaxs, cnscDber arrested ........ 52, S4-97
ySjaoMaataas business ......... 55, 56
MiwiBineians licenses ....'.... 67, 100
oxB^hiaXa investigated ....... 67, 100
Bomber woed* ......... 67, 100
■ transferred 67, 100
incelled and revoked 67, 100
: of fees collected lor 67, 100
Mjas3^ pezsoas .......... 56
• reported ......... 56
found ..........56
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Motor taxicabs .......... 8
Musicians, itinerant ........ 68, 100
applications for licenses ........ 68
instruments examined ........ 68
instruments condemned ........ 68
instruments passed ......... 68
Musicians, collective ........ 68, 100
Nativity of persons arrested ........ 52
Nonresidents, number arrested ...... 6, 84-97
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against the person ........ 5, 84, 85
against property, with violence . . . . . . 5, 85
against property, without \nolence . . . . . 5, 86
against property, malicious . . . . 5, 87
comparative statement of ........ 93
forgery and against currency . . . . 5, 87
against license laws . . . . . . . 5, 88
against chastity, morality, etc. ..... S, 22, 89, 90
juvenile 12, 13
miscellaneous ......... 5, 91—96
recapitulation .......... 97
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i accidents reported in ....... 104, 105
I Pawnbrokers 100
Pensions and benefits ......... 70
estimates for pensions ........ 71
number of persons on rolls ....... 71
! payments on account of ........ 71
j Police 67
I railroad ........... 67
special ........... 67
Police charitable fund, number of beneficiaries .... 71
Police department .......... 50
how constituted ......... 50
distribution of .......... 51
officers appointed ......... 51 #?J
date appointed ......... 77 M
t complaints against ........ 80, 81 g
I died 51,74 «
(discharged .......... 78 :3
injured .......... 51 '^
f promoted .......... 51,76
I resigned 51, 78 .i
\ retired 51,75 if
absent sick ......... 79 ' '■'^.
' arrests by .......... 51 \
I detailed, special events . . . • . 56, 57
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horses in use in . . . . . . . . . 62, S2
vehicles in use in ......... &4
Police Relief Association, invested fund of ..... 71
Police signal seirice 50, 59, 72, 102, 103
cost of maintenance .... .... 71, 102, 103
payments .......... 103
signal boxes .......... 59
miscellaneous work . . . . . . . 59
property of .......... 60
Private business in public streets . . . .11
Private detectives 100
Property 53, 56, 100, 102
lost, abandoned and stolen 56, 100, 102
recovered 53, 55, 9S i
sale of condemned ........ 100, 102
stolen in city 53, 98
taken from prisoners and lodgers ...... 53
Public cartiages 65, 100
Public lodging-houses 69, 70, 100
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Railroad police .......... 67
Registration (see Listing) ........ 66
Rogues' gallery .......... 54
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Second-hand articles ......... 100
Sewers, defective, reported ........ 56
Sick and injured persons assisted . . . . . 53, 56
Sickness, absence on account of ....... 79
Signal service, police 50, 59, 72, 102, 103
Small loan licenses ......... 70, lOO
Special events .......... 56
Special police ........... 67
Station houses .......... 53
lodgers at .......... 53
witnesses detained at ........ 53
Stolen property, va.'ue of ....... 53, 55, 9S
Street railways, conductors and motormen licensed .... 100
Street traG5c rules 9
prosecutions under ......... 10
StreeU 56, 104, 105
accidents reported in ....... 104, 105
defective, reported ......... 56
pri\-ate business in ......... 11
Sunday work ...... ..... 17
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stray, put up ..... ..... 56
Trees, defective .......... 56
INDEX. 117
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Vehicles 62-64
ambulances .......... 63
automobiles .......... 62
in use in police department ....... o4
public carriages ........ 65, 100
wagons 65, 100, 101
Vessels ........•-•• 61
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Wagons 65, 100, 101
number licensed by diwions . . . . . . .101
total number licensed ....... 65, 100, 101
Water pipes, defective, reported ....... 56
Water running to waste reported . . . .... 56
Weapons, dangerous ......... 70
"White Slavery" 34
Wires and poles, defective, reported ....... 56
Witnesses 53,56,98
number of days' attendance at court by officers as . . . 55, 98
fees earned by officers as . . . . . . ... 98
number of, detained at station houses ..... 5.1, 56
Women committed to House of Detention ..... 59
Women voters verified ........ 66, 108
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