New-York tribune., 1909-09-29
ORDER MARKS PARADE
SPLENDID POLICE WORK.
Great Good Natured CrOzcd Sn7C the
First Land Pageant.

cant understand it why that durn hyin' ship don't
move" He was in one of the many stands jammed
with spectators Of the great historical parade. !
Above was box kite steady in the sweep Of !
the wind if fixed there by bolts and bars The |
vast crowd that went TO the long artery down
which the floats and marching passed was
not all made up OF equally unsophsticated cOun-
trymen.
There were visitors from the suburbs by the
many thousands. They began to come in early
as o'clock Thence onward from all points OF
the compass streams of people focused for the
parade route. 1t a more less IeisUrely on
coming, in marked contrast to the homegong. The
police had little 10 do Up to noon The stands were
filling, sidewalks crowding and windows were
showing heads here and there. The railroad lines
were running extra trains. that there was not
much congestion at tho stations. the ferries or
in the tubes
Steadily the lines moved and steadily the num-
hers in them increased. More and more busy were
the police. The men in charge OF these active
guardians made police history yesterday. There
was no emergency which they did not meet prompt
ly. but there were few OF these, for emergencies
were not on their programme of allowable things
Working like a great machine. we'll oiled. bearings
all perfect, the force. with Commissioner Baker
there 20 see that all we'll and stayed that
way. moulded the spectators not in stands into
orderly. broad. ribbon-Iike strips OF humanity
ing the parade course. There were occasional un-
duatons here and there but these were the emer-
sences that met
oVERSoLD STANDS REQUIRE POLICE TACT.
Wait until tho parade passes" said a spectator
who was closely watching the police work He
pected trouble then. but that was Just the time
when system Of handling masses OF people gently
and preventing semblancs OF stampede was put
into practice and was not the least matter of in
terest IN the days doings. II stands where
tickets for seats we're oversold that the most tact
ful work WAS necessary. These people felt that
they had a grievance. and expected police sympa-
thy. They got ths sympathy, but had submit
TO the moulding process
But. Mr.. Policeman heTa ava t{rLets
a tall farmer looking man. with a Greved and at
tho sama time bewildered air. HIS wife was carry
ing two-year-od child. and the father had the
hand OF boy and a girl. We paid 81 for them
hs continued holding out the pieces OF cardboard
II was They turned sadly away into the
dense crowd. and no heard 20 say: Never
mind. purity. we'll Try TO way" And
just then teamster q rather battered wagon
| leaned and without remuneration took that
/ family up out Of the swirl. and where there had
| been sadness there was Joy.
Commissioner Baker said that there were five
thousand policemen on tho parade line. and nearly
every Inspector the force was on duty. Soon
| after noon the fine work necessary 10 prevent
trouble was begun. on streets like 69th. 42d. Esd
and l4th the crowd was Kept half block away
| from the lire. This permitted the running OF the
| crosstown cars at stated intervals Boys and men
with boxes TO sell and 10 bobbing up all
along the line and good prices paid for these
movable vantage points. The windows and roofs
along the route began 20 I'LL. The crsninE up the
line was begun soon after l o'clock.
| 1t was wonderful TO many what people would do
TO get look at the parade on one Of the copings
ot the Metropolitan tower. at a dizzy height.
score OF and women we're sitting swinging
their feet as nonChalsntly II sitting a curb.
Near I'D street the pleasure Of many persons in
the parade was msrred by the spectacle of a little
| girl sitting on the cOrnce OF a window eight
| stories up The cornice was Just below window
near which mar was sitting. The child
| more than FIVE years old. She might have been
precipitated into the street by an untoward move
ment. but she sat there safely throughout the spec
| tacle
| PALS or WATER CLEAR sTooP.
! on a stoop near a small crowd had
made itself comfortable hour before the parade
passed. The occupants the house started TO take
possession. but one would move. Arguments
were OF no avail Threats didn't move the usurp-
ers but several we'll directed pals of water cleared
the way. There were several incidents of this kind
! ell along the route. One house on Fifth avenue
was protected by barbed wire. II was go placed
that IL was a menace to spectators who were not
intrudnG- Some stoops were covered with planks
| others were fenced in Window lodges boarded
and other obstacles TO intrusion on private prem
ises were to be seen The crowd like an overflow
| ing river, sought the unobstructed places and
those where the police could not interfere
Down In Washington Square there we're all of
thirty thousand persons. including many unattended
| children. The place was the orderly on the
| whole route. Foreigners were In the ma torlty and
they stood stolidly waiting the great pageant
There, as elsewhere all along the route. the spec
tators were the spot before the luncheon hour
and many had eatables with them In Central
/ Park the lawns covered with the naner and
other refuse incident TO careless picnic parties
The police kept all persons away from the danger
Gus cliffs I'm the park and also auav rroD, n.
| fence.
There was a great clutter at 10th street and
| away up the Harlem River before the parade
started. The participants in the pageant were In
| the side streets and the crowds were everywhere
/ Vr.r~
with four hundred men, and when the signal for the
start given the beginning OF the route was
| clear Inspector McCafferty. his aid. Lieutenant
Dunn snc two policemen In an auto made periodic
runs up and down the course before the parade.
1 and as the start was made all was in readiness
II when the last of the line left 10th street
that the police began their checking tactics which
prevented stampedes. Like soldiers executing a
| manoeuvre. they formed wedges at the places where
congestion might prove a menace and held the
| people In check while those below where the last
of the line was proceeding might get away
POLICE WEDGE AvERTs CRUSH IN REAR
The block was executed with telling effect at 4sd
street. 26th street and above Union Square At the
| Court of Honor Inspector McClusky made flank
movement east on 42d street. north on Madison
avenue and west on 4Sd street to Fifth avenue As
the end of the parade passed his swung into
the avenue from curb curb. the police along the
line 10 42d street held the crowds on the sidewalks
/ and there was no rush. The people In 49d street
were shooed away to the subway elevated sta
tions and surface cars. These were tammed for
nearly half an hour. but there was no danger
The police Gordon held the crowd isd street for
fifteen minutes.
Tactics OF the same kind were employed IN 18th
street. where there more danger OF a crush
There the police went up the avenue under Inspec-
tor Herlihy right in the face of rush and IN a
twinkling immosahle wedge was formed and
J the crowd held in check untn the great. stands