The evening world., 1911-05-10
CR0PSEy PICKS
MEDAL WINNERS
ON POLICE FORCE
Sixteen Men III the Highest
Class, Fourteen of Them
Being Patrolmen.

Commissioners Cropsey announced TO-
day that the lists of policemen who are
to be awarded medals and honorable
mention ,n the police parade next Sat
urday have been mad up. There are
sixteen men ln the highest class to re-
ceive honorable mention and be COM
mended for personal bravery These
ant and a sergeant.
The winners OF the Departmental.
Rhinelander. Bell. Meyer. Automobile
Club and Brooklyn Citizens medals will
be selected from this list. and the men
In IL viii also get credits OF three points
zach IN their civil service examinations.
In the hist singled out for commenda-
ton alone there are one captain. one
lieutenant. three sergesnts and forty
patrolmen. For honorable mention for
excellent police service one lieutenant,
one sergeant m s~cvcnty-seven patrol
men have been selected.
Names Kept Secret.
The names OF the medal winners will
be kept secret until they are called out
OF the line to be honored by Mayor
Gaynor.
Several new features have been
planned for this years parade. One Ia
q supplementary dress parade OF 1872
picked men. who will execute fancy and
riot m~anoeuvres In front OF the grand
stand. Another will he a drill by a
squad of thirty-two men under Lieut..
Breen and serEt. Troy. formerly OF the
United States army.
The following members Of the force
have bean awarded honorable mention
and commentator. the cir circumstances in
each case being deemed to constitute an
Individual act OF personal bravery:
observation-disclosures NJ. Wheelwright.
Shield No. $50. goth precinct. for rescu-
ing a man and II woman from drowning
In Jamaica Bay during a violent electric
| storm, June IS. 1910.
Patroimen Who Are Commended.
Daniel ]. O'Leary. Shield No. slis,
First precinct. for the rescue OF a man
from drowning In Fast River. Pier II,
Sept. 9. 1910,
Dennis o'Meara. Shield No. 1868. Sec
ond Precinct, for the rescue OF a man
from drowning at the Battery Park Boat
Landing. Dec. 10. 1910.
August schimp, shield No, 675s, ninth
precinct, for the rescue OF women and
children at a fire at No, lOi Forsyth
street. Manhattan. March II. 1910.
Martin $. owens. shield No. 1894, ninth
pre,inct. for the rescue Of ONE and
children at "A fire at No. ll Forsyth
street. Manhattan, March II. 1910.
James g. Haggerty, shield No, 39ie
seventh precinct, for the rescue OF a boS
from drowning In East River, at Eas'
Tenth street, July 10. 1910,
Edward A. Conrad, shield No, 5sli
seventeenth precinct, for efforts mad,
In attempting TO save II boy iron
drowning In East River, foot Of Fourtl
street. Sept. 20. 1910,
James ~Geoghegau. shield No. 2Si2
thirty-ninth precinct. for the rescue OF
three and . ~Anlf-year-old girl from
drowning IN East River, foot Of Ninety
sixth street July -, 1910.
Martin r.. Zeidler, shield No 1928. ON,
i Hundred and sixty-third precinct. 20
the rescue OF a boy from drowning II
Newtown Creok. MAJ n. 1910
Edwin J Laahy, Shield No. ~.
Two Hundred and Seyeuty-nnh Pre-
cinct. for the rescue ~ u man at a nr
~ so II Marion street. Loug Isluu,
CITY, Sept ., 1910
dustsye DoldermaH, shield SO. sia|
Hsrbor Precinct station a, ion the rec
cue ~ a man from drowning at INV Bat
tefy Jan. o.. 1910
Andrew psldsrmsH, fhlsld so 500
Ons Huhdrrd ana finy- slKih prsohri
fpr a." prvppi arilOu lshrn ~ rcf,uIul
49, sirhisep months Old si1 from beln.