WANT FORTY MORE POLICEMEN.
Commissioners Petition Board for
Money to Maintain Them.
The police commissioners petitioned the council last night to appropriate $400,339.84 to the police department for the fiscal year for maintenance of the department. Forty additional patrolmen are asked. The request was referred to the finance committee. The expense of maintaining the present force is $371,539.84 a year, and the salaries of the proposed extra forty police are estimated at $28,800 additional for the first year of service.
