Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-30

policeman die at his post Of duty
which is always that of honor. Cor
bitt had been a soldier and he had the
soldier spirit in his police duty. II
he had been asked how he would like
to pass to his final account, Chief
Corbitt would have replied AT the
post of duty And he died that way.
All honor to all men that die at the
post of duty. They have the manly
soldier spirit"
Mr.. Smith then praised Chief Long
and concluded by saying the man
who has steadily pursued his way
from the rank of patrolman to be
chief of police of great city like
Newark and who finally attained that
distinction by merit only. Is a man
TO be deseryedly honored as we to-
night honor Chief of Police Michael
T. Long. BY the qualities he has ex-
hibited which have put him at the
head of the Newark police department
he would, If a member of the army,
attain a generals position as did Gen.
eral Nelson A. Miles, who came up
from the ranks step by STEP"
All during the course of the eve
ming when the speakers referred to
Newark with compliments, the diners
responded with hearty cheers, and
when Mayor Haussling, at the acon-
which he leveled much praise on both
I the new chief and his department,
presented to Chief Long a beautiful
silver service, the climax was reached.
"Three cheers for the new chief,
our chief, Michael T. Long" was pro-
posed and they were given with
vim and vigor.
In few words Chief Long modestly
thanked his friends for their kind
ertff hnnR6
they would have no cause to ever re-
greet their great friendship. He was
cheered repeatedly as he again took
his seat beside the POSTMASTER.
Declaring that there was as high q
type of men in the police department
as there is in the banking houses,
George d. Porter, commissioner of
public safety at Philadelphia, made
one of tho hits of the evening with
his address. Since | have assumed
my present position 1t has been my
ambition to educate the average citi-
zen to give the policeman the credit
due him. The trouble with the av-
erage citizen is that he paints the po-
liceman black when he Is really all
white"
In response to toast, James NJ.
Reilly, secretary of the Board of
Trade. said in part:
you and will all agree that New
ark is good, and each of us will agree
that we want to keep 1t good and
make it better. We want Newark to
be Just short of heaven, because it
is the place where we work in and
live in. Every loyal Newarker feels
proud of Newark because it Is a city
worthy of being proud of. 1t knows
How" and we want to keep up the
spirit of progress and to show the
world that we do know how. No good
| Newarker will ever agree to a stand
still policy" or a "do-nothing policy,
or a "let-us alone policy"
Possibilities of Police Force.
I'VE know that our schools are the
greatest agency. but the police force
can be valuable auxiliary and II
wisely directed can perform a splen-
| did service. If you use this force, II
! will not be said of YOU as of many
| others IN the past, that YOU never
| did anything to be remembered OIL
! said anything TO be recalled, an cpl
taph Of those who were and who are
now forgotten.
What a splendid field you have II
which TO render service. Think of 1t
this city of magnif1cence with close t.
100000 inhabitants within 'se limits
with more than 100000 others around
it's borders-think of the army o
rs. 900 men and women who leave theil
| homes in the early hours TO toll II
the $500 workshops and factories
think of the 10000 persons engaged II
other fields of activity, all under tn
care and protection of the fore
within your control.
''Think again of the 10000 boys an
girls who attend our privat
and public schools of learning
each one a ready, apt and perhap
willing scholar to- pick up ways o
habits for good or bad, to be seen o
heard In their environment.
"Again, think of the $4,000 home
under the protection of the polio
force. Every one of them to be safe
guarded against the contamination @
the vicious. 1t is great respon
sibility. 1t is one that every citize
shares in, but upon the public officis
and upon you particularly. the create
| responsibility rests.
, 1T believe you are going to max
use of the power of your office for tn
: good of all of the people of the cit
| of Newark, that you are going
adopt q policy that is going to strik
: terror to the brutal, and to the III
, just; and that you will drive out {
: | this city those forces of evil wherevt
t they exist"
! Among the other speakers of tn
r evening were John L. O'Toole, Inspe'
tor Faurot. of New York; Deput
! Commissioners Dougherty, of Ne
| York: CITY Counsel James r.. Nugen