The sun., 1908-05-10
RRAAP, TRAMP TIE POLICE
HGRSE AND FOOT THET .uaRCH
~ I9dS PIRiDE.

Medals for the UrnNc- Centaufs IN
j. RlOt Urlll-I ardlnal JOgue and MARX
Twain Gutsls- Anil discipline Teils,
=. The sun stabbed a way through The rain
loaded clouds and broke brilliantly over
Madison Suualc just ot moor yesterday
while 5000 Of Col MCClellan's horse and
,foot wcro swinging rast the gay reviewing
'.aand by the Worth monument. The light
flashed through the clean new leaves Of the
trees in the park and sparkcd bravely
against the metallod trappings OF men and
;L,scs. Tne kids high up among the
branches whore the bustlinG cops couldn't
get 10 them yelped with joy
Then the Old Man Of the Force, Chief
Inspector Moses " Cortright Of whom
Gen Bingham said once 10 a collection Of
knockers, He's my right hlnd man and
too damned valuable 10 I've retired danced
lis big boy past the stand his inspectors
thton pointed stily IN s1he. And then
there vas furious caunOrading Of cheers
from the tightly isnned stand and along
the avenue. aud all At once a dozen bands
lei 20 with dozen different tunes,
You might have been seeing police
parades for a score Of yeaus and you might
have known that one police parade IL as
like another p,liJe parade as the buttons
ON y cops uniform coat, but you would
have swatted your pair Of hands together
and hoorayed and hoorayed again and
shoudered your neiGhbor aside 10 get
better look
Nou see, the big broad shouldered peace
preservCrs you sight every day or night
IN your section of the town hustling bum
d growing about the rain or untangling
'rafho knots Or lording 1t over the vociterous
'tuckmen and cabhe- and street car con-
ductUrs had lost their own individuality
good or bad-.yestcrday. and were merged
into a fine military machine 500 soldiers
Of the Army of New York, able to lick their
weight or double their weight at any old
time or in any old place-that army dis
played yesterday evidences Of the discipline
and drill and attention 10 detail which Gen.
Bingham has impressed upon II.
Why, said one Of the old timers in the
pand--John W. McCullagh, Chief OF Police
ton years ago--"let me pick six regiments
from the men ia that parade, old fellows and
Kids, and l'll guarantee to wipe whole
army division oH the earth. Id put 'em
against the Japs or the Dutch or the British
redcoats. and when the smoke had lifted
you'd see the hattiee right there, growing,
| reckon, because there wasn't any sugar
ID sight
That's about the wav the police parade
appealed to most people. 81. Patnck's
successor in the Bishopric Of Armagh,
Cardinal Logue. standing with Archbishop
Farley and Mark Twain and the Mayor and
a great company Of notables in the front
IL the stand, turned toward Col. Mcclellan
and Gen. Bingham when about half Of the
force had tramped past
MIR Mayor, said he, and Commissioner
L want to congratulate you and this city
{ never saw finer body Of men anywhere.
They carry Themselves like well drilled
soldiers It's a grand sight!'
Then he added with pleasant tWinkling
~ the eye, But ! see most Of them are
irish They're the best fighters In the
world and | suppose they make the finest
policemen.
: The size Of the crowd which massed along
Broadway from Astor place where the
uarade took mp its march, to Twenty-thlrd
street, and on Madison avenue tO Forueth
street and then along Fifth avenue back TO
Madison Square perhaps has never been
Exceeded on any police parade day. People
tbOk chance on getting rain soaked 70 view
the men in their fresh summer unltorms.
b whoop it up for old favOrites and TO
guy captains and cops against whom old
grldges may have endured.
There was the same curiosity that is
manifest every year as to what important
changes twelve months had brought about
with shakeups and transfers and promotions
and demOtOns, as TO how the new laspec-
tors would carry their hOnors and how the
few that had been bereft of their blue and
gold cuffs would stand the gah
II was decidedly noticeable yesterday
more apparent than in auy year recently,
the old timers remarked--that while there
was plenty Of enthusiasm for the general
fine showing and appearance Of the men
there was less Of approving uproar and
personal cheering for individuals. But, as
was said yesterday, the old fellows are
dropping out one by one and men whose
sces are new have taken their places; and
there was further explanation that per-
sistent criticism of the police by what one
indignant eN-Cop called dem reform guys
had lessened the once. familiar demonstra-
ton.
The parade started with military pre-
"isOn right on the minute OF lO3l In
'peetor tOrtnght, sitting his old bay horse
ledl which has seen long service in the
department, flung out his right arm, waved
8 Vanished baton and shot out the order
"for-r-ward marrrrch,'
The command sent along the brlgades
nd regiments 10y the gold laced inspectors
rnd captains and sounded clearly by the
cavalry hugles. ran swiftly along the lines
into Bond street and Broadway and into
The side streets where the blue coats had
heep shutting lmpItlenty. They used to
beEn the march down At Bowling Green.
hut Commissioner Bingham changed that
when he came to gn Mulberry. The walk.
on hot days especially wgs too long and
yrduous and took too mucn out Of a man
particularly II he was tst man who
'ad TO get out ofhis fancy flxings and 60 to
w0tk right after the show
SO this year as las, there were no long
rartcues OF brokers tape iuttering from
yintiows high Ifp IN the skyscra pers and
dropping snakily 60 scare the nervous
lOrses
Al Eighth street and Broadway and in
Unipn Square where the crowd was oen-
lred thickest there were flowers thrown
TO Inspector Cortright and 10 several OF
his iieutenants by girls VINO mad twisted
their way to the curb and were ensconced
there for the very pnrpose OF, bOmbarding
the commanders.
There wasn't much business along Broad
way while the parade passed. The door
ways and windows Of the Office buildings
framed folks who had seized these espec-
ially good stands early in the day. The
Flairon was just wedge thrust into a
mass Of people and the square itself was
Overrn with pushing. crowd which gave
he wOrkaday cops plenty toHc Inspector
CoTtight led his men cas- TO Madison
avenue and then mouth to tvrtieth street
The long column moving like well oiled