The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07

ner Of the Bell medal, and Detect We Ser
geant Michael j. Calvin who got the Meyer
medal, stepped forth. Sullivan blushed
all over bis face while he heard the Mayor
tell how he had pulled Campbell Glover,
who cannot swim, out Of the Harlem River
how he had torn his hands 20 pieces against
the rusty nails Of dock, and how, giving
it up, he had towed his man $50 feet TO a
mud fat.
Calvin gets his medal for winning out
in a pistol fight with. Giuseppe Marcello,
an Italian, in a strike riot last May. Calvin
was wounded in the breast, but kept up the
fight until he arrested his man. After the
Mayor had pinned the medal on Calvin
az d the great .volley Of appla Sc he got had
died away IL was noted that a few shrll
voices away up on the stand were keeping
it up. The crowd listened, and heard
this:
-Hooroo for you, papal"
II was Galvin's turn with the blush,
The simple ard impressive prescr tatlon
to the absent ar dying Wilday followed.
Then the procession, horse, foot and hurry
up wagons, swept by N straight rar ks Of
new, summer helmets and white gloves
and shining buttons-the proud traffic
squad first: rext, two brard rev city am
bulan oes, ard then the ten regimen Is Of
plain, hard tram ping footmen, the mour ted
park police, dwarfed by the new regiment
Of cavalry which prar ced before them,
the HarhoT squad ard the bicycle men.
The police hand swung into place, play
ing again The Star Spangled Banner :
whereat the stands uncovered. The en-
thusiasm Of the Tammany push was at high
tide few minutes later when the Seventh
Regiment band famed down the line in
red uniforms playing -Tammany.'
Dan Fogarty, in private life one OF the
theater squad, marched proudly at the head
Of the police hand, swinging the stan Of
drum major. He got the first Rand Of the
afternoon. After that, the police experts
in the stand back, and made comments
and applauded the favorites. The mart ial
looking Brooks was applauded until he
saluted a second time after passing the
stand. Inspector Schmittberger, sitting
very straight on beautiful chestnut horse
came in for a great reception; so did Cort-
right and Titus.
The lesser lights were almost as popular.
When Capt Cottrell marched by with his
men Of the TenderlCin precinct, the most
soldierly body Of men among the footmen,
the stands clapped until he grinned. The
spectators whistled MIR. Dooley" and in
uuired about the health Of the freaks when
the captain Of that name led his Coney
Island squad past the reviewing stand.
Capts. IAngdon and O'Connor brought out
great salvos. Capt. Hayes, roaring front
In a baseball voice out Of the corner Of his
mouth, came in for attention.
They distributed their favors among the
ranks, too. Sergeant James Post Of the
Fifteenth, whose father and grandfather
were on the force. was picked for Teoog-
was applauded until he forgot military dig
nifty and turned to grin. SO did Sergeant
Schulum. acting captain in Chinatown.
As for Inspector McClusky, you could
hear him coming away up the avenue by
the wave OF cheering.
The Brooklyn men as Ehole, although
they marched better than the Manhattan
division failed to soore heavily. Inspector
Wiegand, who could plaster his chest with
medals II he cared TO wear them, got little
more applause than Inspector Cross.
sRubber!H yelled the police experts 10
Capt Kreuscher, a delicate alusion 70 the
fact that he commands away over at Rock
away and that he and his men see tall build
ings only once year, when they come over
Finally, when the bicycle corps pedalled
by, plain patrolman got his. They had
an awful time, those cyclists, in keeping
alignment while riding slowly enough to
keep behind the footmen.. They looked
wilted. In their front rank rode Ajax
Whitman tba Hsckenschmidt Of the torce,
he who juggles freight cans for his diver
sion. Ajax was honored Win me RANK
Of standard bearer, 1or he carried small
American flag strapped TO his handlebars.
There were lots Of others-Capt. Charlie
Wendell. brother Of the man who hoodooed
Mr. Freedman's wedding; Sergt. Jim Robin
son from the Tenderloin, Sergt. Bob
Mcknight, leading a platoon Of fat men,
whose buttons marched proudly before;
Capt. Johnnie Farrell, chipping Front
In a voice too small for his valor-oh'
Il was a great day for the force.
The patrol wagon Of the Fhty-iourth
precinct, the last Of Bourke CoclTan's
tnenitential vehicles which brought up
tie rear Of every regiment, swept by, and
The men scattered FOR plain clothes end
something TO replace the moisture dropped
from their brows In three hours Of steady
Pavement pounding. The crowd surged
in 10 tbe stand and yelled In vain for
speech from Mayor Mcclellan, and the force
called off the martial hero act for another
year.
The two flags presented 70 the tratfo
souad by the Merchants Association
were a national cavalry standard and
soug dron penns nt-a horses head inside
A wheel on a blue ground. The ceremony
took place at noon In front Of the New YORK
life Insurance Building and William +.
King ms de the presentation speech. Com
missioner McAdoo responded for the force.
While the parade was halted on Madison
avenue waiting for Mayor Mcclellan 70
fnish the presentation ceremonies a small
Gre broke out In East Twenty-ninth street.
The enrines running east found that the
crowd blocked all approaches to the avenue
and etopped dead. The commanders OF
the nearest police platoons ordered their
men to fall out and clear the street. In
two minutes they had cut way for the