REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT POLICE, FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1892. INCLUDING THE RESULT OF THE INSPECTION OF FACTORIES BOSTON : 18 POST OFFICE SQUARE. 1893. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF THE DISTRICT POLICE, BOSTON, Jan. 1, 1893. To His Excellency WILLIAM E. RUSSELL, Governor of the Commonwealth. GOVERNOR :- I have the honor to submit a report of the duties performed by the District Police for the year ending Dec. 31, 1892. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, RUFUS R. WADE, Chief of District Police. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. REPORT. In accordance with the statutes of the Commonwealth, it becomes my official duty, as the chief officer of this department, to report in print to the governor on or before the first day of January of each year, in relation to factories and public buildings, with such remarks, suggestions and recommendations as I may deem necessary. In the performance of such duty, I have the honor to submit my fourteenth annual report, which constitutes the record of the inspection and detective departments of the district police. The number of officers in both branches of the force, including the chief, is now thirty-seven, of whom twenty-six are detailed for service in the inspection department, leaving eleven designated for detective duty. This division of work between the two branches of the district police, which was provided for by chapter 113 of the Acts of 1888, as might reasonably have been anticipated, has produced the best results. The original purpose of the Legislature in establishing this department has not been weakened in any respect; for, while it provided that no member of the inspection department shall be called upon to perform any other duties than those pertaining to the office of inspector of factories and public buildings, yet the services of the entire force may be commanded by the governor in suppressing riots and in preserving the peace. Such exigencies are liable to occur at any time, for we can scarcely hope to wholly escape these occasions of tumult and disorder, which have recently stained the annals of some of our sister States. The riots at Homestead have suggested in high official quarters in Pennsylvania the advisability of a |