Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations for 1906 and Prior Years, on Urgent Deficiency Bill (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...or thirty years. They have the old-fashioned brick prison cells with bad plumbing appliances and with no way of keeping them ventilated nor hardly clean. Within the last two or three weeks I went with the citizens' committee, Major Sylvester, and the several inspectors to every station house in the District and inspected each building and every man on the police force. The old cells were especially condemned by the citizens' committee. Mr. Gillett. How many station houses are there? Mr. West. Ten. If you go into the old station houses where the brick cells are, you will see that they are so badly ventilated and so dark that when they are swabbed out in the morning the whole day passes before they are dried out. In the new ones we have modern steel cages. If you could go into these places and see these old cells, you would at once conclude that they ought to be taken out and modern ones put in. We would be glad to show them to you. i FIRE DEPARTMENT. Mr. Gillett. " Fire department." page 133. Mr. Macfarland. You will see an increase in the number of men required by the new houses, in accordance with the suggestion of the fire board. That is all explained in the note, and I do not think it is necessary to add to it. ENGINE HOUSES. As to the item "Repairs and improvements of engine houses and grounds, ' we strongly desire the full amount of the estimate. I have made the rounds of the fire department again this year, the other Commissioners have been to a number of houses, and the citizens' committee, which awards the trophy for best inspection and discipline, visited the houses and made an independent report as to their condition. Their observation shows that many of these houses are very old and require repairs because the conditions in many pla...