New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-17
1900 Men in Annual Fifth
Avenue Parade Cheered
by Throngs.
MAYOR PRESENTS
EIGHT HONOR MEDALS
Recruits Illustrate Emergency
Tactics and Mounted Squad
Drills at Plaza.

The annual May walk Of 100 mem
bers OF the Police Department filed the
sunn!est part OF yesterday afternoon
along the best OF Fifth av.
1t was a convincing spectacle. Those
who had never seen police parade be-
fore were amazed at the number %
men in lire and at their fine appear
ance The inspectors, captains ana
lieutenants were imposing. with thei'
square Jaws and straight fronts, and Of
the sergeants and patrolmen one young
man remarked that they looked as
snappy and clean as a new patent
leather shoe.
The walk was started at Washington
Square and ended at 65th st. Private
residences, hotels. stores and office
buildings on the route were adorned
with flags, emblems, pretty women,
handsome men and cute children. Only
one policeman got out Of step. and
that was because he was wearing a
pair of new shoes in honor Of TIE oc-
casion. something no probably Will
never do again.
The reviewing stands at the park
plaza were SO well occupied that not
even traffic policeman could have
found room for another person.
The stand 10 the south Of 53th 81.
hold tho dictipg,,icba5 pl,ostS--NaVOr
Mitchell, Police Commissioner Arthur
Woods, Deputy Commissioners Nc
Clintock, Rubin. Cooley and ODaniel;
former Police Commissioners Mckay.
Cropsey. Bingham and Greene; Briga-
der General X. X. Evans, commander
of the Department OF the East,
l.. 6. A.; Captain Albert Gleaves, COM
mandant Of the New York Navy Yard;
President George McAneny Of the
Goard of Aldermen; Borough Presi-
dents Marks of Manhattan, Mathew
son of The Bronx, Pounds of Brooklyn,
Connolly of Queens and Mccormack OF
Richmond; Henry II. CurEan, chair
man of the Finance Committee Of the
Board Of Aldermen; former Mayor
Ardolph l.. Kline. Chief Magistrate
William McAdoo Bishop David ii.
Greer, Monsignor Lavelle. OF st. Fat
rick's Cathedral: Rabbi Ii. Pereira
Mendes, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Joseph
II. Choate, Ebert II. Gary, Otto T.
Barnard, Colonel Daniel Appleton of
the 9TH Regiment. Norman Hapgood
and George d. Porter, director of the
Department of Public Safety Of Phila-
delphia.
The stand to the north Of 59th st.
held-oh, look in the City Directory.
Starts from Washington Square.
Aboard his ancient charger. Frank,
Chief Inspector Max Schmittberger as
senibled his young men about Wash
ington Square at | O'Clock, and less
than half an hour later he weighed
anehor-if you can do that sort of
thing with and on a horse. particu-
larly horse as old as Frank is-and
the 1914 parade began.
The Mayor and the Police Commits
sioner, in Mr.. Woods's carmine car,
minutes in advance of the leaders OF
the procession, and everybody in the
stands and in the neighborhood raised
a cheer of such volume that hundreds
Of persons who didn't know that q
parade was on hurried over to Fifth
av. All vehicuar traffic was kept off
Fifth av. south Of Goth ST.
Basking in the presence of Chief In
spector schmittberger were his aids,
Captain Jacob Brown, traffic sub-divis-
ion A, chief Of staff: Chief Surgeon
Marvin r. Palmer. Chaplains Duncan
NJ. Gems, Francis j. Sullivan and Will
lam Morrison: Michael r. Brennan,
SUPERINTENDENT of telegraph; Captain
Dominick Henry of the 18th Inspection
District. and Lieutenant Thaddeus NJ
Jones. of the Commissioners Office.
Behind the band came the eight
heroes of the department for the year
ending yesterday. They were accom-
panied by a special escort, and as they
moved along the spectators on the side
walks and in the windows cheered them
heartily. The men couldn't acknowl-
edge the greeting. The order was
Eyes front"
When the honor men reached the re-
viewing stand, Mayor Mitchell stepped
down, and the eight ranged themselves
in a straight line facing him. There
were thirteen medals. eight of them
from the departments. The other five
were given by Philip and T. J. oakley
Rhinelander, Mrs. Edward Bell, Peter
F.. Meyer. the Automobile Club Of
America and The Brooklyn Citizen"