The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-02
5000 BLUECOATS IN LINE.
LAST PARADE OF THE PRESENT
POLICE FORCE.

Mclaughlin Gets the Most Applause - 1t
Moves Up Breadway-HarIey's Battslion the
OnIy Ope e squeeze Between the STANDS
at S1adison square In Coed shape.
Tho New York police paradcd up Broadway
nearly 5000 strong yesterday, and wcro re-
viewed at the Worth Monument by Mayor
Strong. 1t was a notable occasion. as 1t was the
last time they would ever parade as New York
policemen, and Mayor Strong Is TO be the last
Mayor OF the present New York. Before tho
next June I comes around tho Greater New
York will have absorbed both police and Mayor,
and II there be u parade of police It will proba-
bly, no IA gathering from every part Of the
greater city. With the growth OF his forces to
nearly 1000 men, Chief Peter Conlin was able
TO bring into the ranks Of tho parade a larger
number than had ever before paraded. The
parade was formed at tho foot Of Broadway.
The seven battalions Of patrolmen, each with
rs band OF music, gathered at Battery place,
tho newly formed bicycle corps at Bowling
Green, and the array of patrol wagons In State
street. Chief Conlin and his stan met at Bat
terry place. near State street, and at 2 o'clock
the array was ready and the march began up
Broadway, and all traffic was stopped on that
great highway below Twenty-sixth street for
tho hours of the parade, and the battalions
marched in company fronts. sixteen files across.
with n guide on each flank. and hllod the wide
street.
Besides file closers and guides there were
thirty-two men in q company, and ten compa-
mics in each battalion. In tho lead. In right Of
line. marched tho senior Captain of each bat
TALON; the next senior held tho left, or rear, and
the third Captain in official ago led the color
company, which marched fifth in line. Tho Chief.
his staff, and each battalion commander and his
Adjutant and sergeapt.maj3r were mounted.
the Chief riding the horse Prince, which has
carried tho loader of mnny n DOlice parade,
Crowds of people lined the entire route of the
% Iaisnds. T MSo e sppiysu %sn a RSof eSb%Gasn Sypp pGa I'D
n. bicycle EScIs CORPS rpns and there MrlS was nG part wa OF n 1ne
the First battalion, appearing thus for tho hrst
time since he was relnstated and freed from the
long in connection with the LeXow charges.
McLAughlin's, friends also applauded Capt.
Opposite the reviewing stand at the Worth
Monument was another stand Of the same size.
compression ut that most important part of the
route, and none but the steadiest marching COM
IRssIns t GsT s,r nSls to sss By By , iss m sompsn y'i ilns..
Acting Inspector Harlcy's, battalion was the
only one which sho proved Snans steady nf;b enough th to get Ss by
good steady marching companies in each Of the
other battalions.
Mayor Strong arrived at the reviewing stand
at 1887 o'clock, accompanied by. Police Commits
sioners Moss and Andrews. They were soon
Joined by Commissioner Parker. and after n
time by Commissioners Grant, who was greeted
with even more applause than had met the
many Of the City Magistrates and Commission
ers were among those who Joined the Mayors
party or sat near them.
street before. the Mayor arrived at the stand;
The procession turned east there and moved
across to Madison avenue and up TO Twenty
ninth street. In Twenty-ninth street the array
gathered in mass, waiting for the order to move.
This came at 1 o'clock, when the line began to
pass down Fifth avenue and march before the
Mayor.
First came eight mounted men abreast, and
then the bicycle corps, forty-two strong, led by
at a walking gait. and without a break in their
lines or distances. Chief Conlin, Deputy Chief
Cortright. and a trumpeter followed, and then
came the Chiefs staff. led by Chief Surgeon 7.
&. Cook. Behind them u horscman bore the de.
partmcnt colors, accompanied by a mounted
color guard.
ing to the music Of the Seventh Regiment Band.
thur colors carried by Capt. Chapman's COM
Ppanny1a H.; Chapman ,5nI, was Recognized mi e BY every body:
Nicholas Brooks and his men, the Ninth Regi-
ment Band preceded Acting Inspector Harley's
by Acting Inspector Walter L. Thompson, Capt.
Theron s. Copeland, Capt. Thomas Killilea, and
Acting Inspector McCnllagh. to the music Of the
and Twenty third regiments.
Behind the battaliops Capt. Henry Frers rode
at the head OF SIX platoons or the mounted squad,
and then came the fifteen patrol wagons and the
Aiiaire.
Past the stand. the march was down Fifth ave-
nue.. and the column broke into the side streets
below Twenty-second street, and, moving to the
west, dispersed.
chief police officers at his house. at 130th street
and Fifth Avenue last evening. Chief Conlin
and most Of the other higher officers of the do.
tendent McKelvey. Assistant Superintendent
Mckellar and sixteen Brooklyn Captains, and
Capt, Woods of the Long Island City depart