New-York tribune., 1908-05-10
WHOLE CITY ARRESTED
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sign that he wants to know all that I do
since he watches every time I appear the
street and sometimes follows in casual
gumshoe sort of way
Before the parade started Mark Twain and
Cardinal I4ogue had a long conversation together.
and though the crowd in general could not hear
what was said the laughter of both men seemed
IN indicate that the Irish wit and the American
humor were being rubbed together and We're
throwing off sparks.
Afterwsrd Mr.. Clemens said. Il found his
erninence a very nice old gentleman. He told
me he had read my books He didn't say that
he approved Of them. but didn't need to have
him tell me that. He looks like an intelligent
man. l take II for granted he approves %
high class literature"
While these pleasantries going on. the
police 10 the number OF six thousand were
forming in the streets about Astor Place
and Broadway. the starting point Of the parade.
There were the mounted men and bicycle corps.
the harbor squad and the police dogs-6 count
'em. 6-led by chains and kept harmless by
muzzles
But before the parade really started all
eyes had been drawn TO the squad of honor men,
commanded by Lieutenant Frederick Stahl OF
the 18th precinct These men, whose deeds
counterbalance the charges Of graft" and in
subordination among a very few OF their fellows.
were 1orfneQ opposite the reviewing stand IN
Fifth avenue
THE MEDAL MEN.
Then as preliminary TO the parade proper
there stepped forth from the ranks of the honor
ma the three who this year receive recognition
Mayor Mcclellan, standing bareheaded. read the
general order Of the Police Department TO them
and then gave each in turn the medal he had
earned. First was the Isaac Bell medal.
awarded to PatrolTnan Henry l. Lobdell. of the
Sd Precinct, who early last Christmas morning
jumped into the ice filed East River at sd
street and rescued a drowning man.
The Peter F. Meyer medal went to Patrolman
Walter MacDonough. also of the Sd Precinct
MacDonough on October rescued a would-be
suicide who had leaped into the North River
from Pier 80.
An even more thrilling feat commemo-
rated when the Brooklyn citizens medal
given to Patrolman Patrick Reilly, of the 160th
Precinct He. in arresting pistol fiourishing
Italian IN crowd the Masonic Temple in
Brooklyn. was obliged to fight about one hun
dred Of the mans friends.
The Rhineander medal and the medal OF the
Automobile Club OF America were not awarded.
In the reviewing stand none was more inter
ested in these ceremonies than Patrolrnan James
Farley, the oldest the force. Ten blue
service stripes on his arm showed his nifty years
of service, and he sat in seat Of honor In the
marching lines that tramped by he saw his two
sons. a sergeant and the other patroman.
'.Oid Jim" or Uncle Jim he is variously
known is now on duty in st. Marys Park in
The Bronx. He said the proudest moment of
his life was when he was presented to Cardinal
LoEue and Mark Twain
And then the great annual show began. Moses
". Cortright, chief inspector, led on his aged
but energetic horse Jed, twenty-one years old
and thirteen years in the department The
course lay from Astor Place up Broadway 10
23d street and then up Madison avenue. around
by 10th street and down Fifth avenue past the
stand.
AS Katie said after II all over: It's GER
tainly a good thing to show the town that
girls who are related to the force have fine
and solderly lot OF men folks be found
anywhere. What7'