New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19
Parade Minus Gray Helmets.

Parade Minus Gray Helmets.
This years parade contained three
major innovatlons-the delay aforenen-
toned. the preliminary review by the
Mayor and Commissioner Waldo. who
drove through the lines drawn up on
either curb I'm solid phalanxes from
Canal street to 18th street, and the aboli-
ton Of the familiar gray helmet Of for
mer years. The helmet has gone for
good unless some successor of Rhine
lander Waldo as Commissioner chooses
to reinstate it. In its place yesterday the
finest" displayed a sea of blue military
caps such as they have been in the habit
| OF wearing throughout every winter, but
| adapted in weight and material for mid
summer.
The delay was almost entirely the
| fault of the Mayors preliminary review.
escort waited for him In front Of the
J City Hall. In the mean time the head
| Of the marching column. which had
rested ut Chambers street. bad started
along on schedule time at noon, fol-
| lowed by It's long tall reaching almost to
the Battery.
And according to schedule, also. when
| Chief Inspector Max Schmittberger and
! his staff had led the marchers as far as
31th street and Fifth avenue they halted
and the ranks parted. lining the curbs
and facing each other across the street
! for the Mayor and the Commissioner TO
speed between. But the execution OF this
manPuvre took time. so that when the
Mayor received the telephone message
| that everything was ready an hour or
more had elapsed.
! Tho Mayors automobile gave his
mounted escort the run of their lives up
/ from the city Hall When they reached
the reviewing stand tho painting sides of
! their brown stecds showed streaks OF
! lathcr Til" inarChcrs closed ~ again
behind the Mayor. giving him only time
enough 30 climb into the stand and shake
a few guostr By the hand bcfor" the ar
rival Of the honor company demanded
/ his services.
This years honor men include Charles
:. CorraO. acting detective sergeant Of
the FIRST grade. who received honorable
mention. tho medal Of the department
and the Rhinclander medal for capturing
Black Hand artist. who was in the act
Of setting on bomb in the doorway o.
tenement house. Sergeant Michael j.
Mulhall. Of the hsrbor precinct. honor
able mention, medal Of tho department
and the Bell medal for rcscuing a little
boy from a sewer and a dockhand from
tho North River; Patrolman William H.
Eynon, 32d Precinct. honorabl" mention
medal or the department and Meyer
medal for capturing the negro murderer,
John Cain. who had run Wild In a crowd
at Columbus avenue and 10Th street
and for defending his prisoner from a
mob.
Patrolnan Edward T. NcCarton is
another Of the little band. McCarton
who ~ attached TO the 6lst Precinct, re-
ceived honorable mention. the medal OF
the department and the Automobile club
of America medal for causing the capt
IRE Of five burglars who had broken into
store in The Bronx. other members are
Patrolman James +. Byrnes. list Pre-
cinct, honorable mention and medal or
the department; Patrolman Daniel +.
Hart. 39th Precinct, honorable mention.
and Mounted Patroman Thomas Arm
tagc. communication and THE Brooklyn
Citizens" medal.
Byrnes rescued man from the East
River under unusual circumstances call
ing for the greatest bravery; Hart dis
armed a murderous negro after follow
ing him into a hallway; Armitage
stopped a runaway team of horses.
Robert Adamson blamed the delay
partly on the inability Of the police as
signed to duty along the route To clea;