The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-22
ROCKIES TOLD TO USE
CLUBS BY mitchell
Weld Them on Gangsters to
Defend Citizens and Them
selves, He Says.
NOT TO BEAT LAW ABIDING
Mayor Sees New Policemen Use
Jiu-Jitsu and Boxing
Tricks.

Mayor Mitchell saw for himself yester-
day what New York's new policemen are
taught in the way OF defending them
selves and citizens and gave advice TO
a squad OF recruits about the judicious
use OF clubs.
Mr.. Mitchell went to Police Headquarters
At $50 L. NJ. and was escorted by Com
missioner Mckay to the drill room on the
fourth foos. where for:y-two young. finely
muscled lads were being put through set
ting up and lmberng exercises by Lieut.
Charles II. Schoield. All of them were
under twenty Ave years Of age. They
were typical of the clean limbed. active
youths who are rapidly supplanting the
Old time heavy footed patrolmen.
Standing by Commissioner Mckay and
Inspector Cahalane the Mayor watched
keenly the tricks of defence that the new
policemen have learned.
BY twoS the recruits leaped upon .
wrestlers mat One personated a tough
bent on murder or vicious assault. The
other acted the part of a policeman de.
termlned to subdue the tough. Attacked
from behind. from the side or the front
the recruits put into practise their Jiu-
jitsu instruction. tanning upward the
noses OF their assaiants twisting wrists
or ankles or bearing so hard on vulner-
able nerve centres that they were quickly
masters of the situation.
After a short military drill and an in
spection the new policemen listened 10
an address by the Mayor. Mr.. Mitchell
said:
You men are now going out TO do
duty on the streets OF this city TO maintain
order. 1 think that the exhibition this
afternoon leaves no doubt about your phy-
slcal fitness TO do the work that Is going
to devolve upon you or of your capacity
raa1y nr QVllnat
violence from the criminal classes.
think too Il shows that YOU will be able
to do that with ihe use OF your own
hands and without the employment of
those clubs which are given TO you neither
as a badge of honor nor for indiscriminate
USE but for the protection or yourselves
and the citizens of this city.
a good deal has been said recently
about the use OF clubs. I want to EN-
phasize again to you now the importance
Of what was said in that respect by Mayor
Gaynor and impressed so thoroughly upon
the force--that the club Is not for use
upon the citizens OF the city-but ! want
YOU TO feel too that where your lives or
the security of your persons or the lives
OF persons of the citizens OF this city
may be threatened by violence by those
criminal classes that are known as gun
mon and thugs you may protect your
selves or the citizens by the means that
are placed IN your UdfluS Wy LILO INV
The work Of this school for recruits Is
ono OF the things that I am most inter-
ested in. We have seen this afternoon an
exhibition upon the physical side. This
school gives the recruits OF the department
"a mental training as well. and l hope
during this administration TO see that de-
vcloped even beyond the point to which
It has been until the men who come here
as recruits will go to their duties in the
department thoroughly we'll equipped on
both sides for the work that they are
called upon to do
IL want to see the training Of policemen
in this city developed and the standards
Of this department developed until every
policeman In the employ OF the city will
feel thorough and complete respect for
himself and for his work and feel that II
is an office OF moment to the city and OF
dignity believe that We are coming
to that very rapidly. and think when
We attain II many OF the difficulties that
have been experienced in the past inside
this department and between this depart
ment and the citizenship OF the city will
be wiped out l congratulate the school
on the exhibition this afternoon. l con-
graduate the Commissioner and the
teacher"