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had been on the police rolls since sep
TENDER 20 1903, when he was APP
pointed. He was a native of Ireland,
had been a cleaner, and was married.
Joseph Guarnieri. the young detective
sergeant, died April >. after six and
one-half years of service in the depart
ment. He was a fearless and popular
officer. He was shot in the eye while
in a dark room on the upper East Side
in search of a thief, and was instantly
killed. His assailant was quickly shot
to death by Lieutenant George Haerle,
ir.. his companion, who was right be-
hind him when he fell. and stepped
over his dead body to perform the act.
This was not the first time the two
policemen had figured in an affair of
this kind. Less than three years ago
Guarnieri went after a man and was
shot four times. He was unconscious
when Haerle appeared and shot his as
sailant. Two bullets took effect, and
the man died a week later. Guarnieri
was in the hospital three months.
Guarnieri was born on July "a lsSd'
in this country, and had been driver
He was married and lived in the Bronx
His appointment was dated November
20 1907.
Kiley. the last to give up his life'
was the Oldest of the eight, having
been born on March %. 1857. He had
been a packer before his appointmeh,
on January I, 1890. He was married
and had been commended on December
30 1896. for his prompt action in capt
uring a burglar
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He was married and lived at No. III
Prospect place, Brooklyn.
His companion in death was an older
man and had been on the force since
June Is, 1901. Patrolman Teare. who
was born in the United States on
October o. 1876 was brother of Fire
Captain Robert Teare of Engine Com
pany AZ, on Sedgwick av., the Bronx.
He was unmarried and had been a
clerk before his appointment to the
police force.
on the night of August /, 1913, Pat
rick Cotter, another prObationer, who
would have finished his term within
few days, having been appointed on
February 10 in company with Heaney,
was slain in the Bronx by an Italian.
The latter had previously fired two
shots at a girl with whom he was
ouarrellng. When COtter came up
after the girl had been fired upon. the
Italian ran. Cotter gave chase. and
was close upon him when he turned
quickly, facing the pursuing patrolmani
and fired three times. The young po-
liceman fell with two bullets in his
right breast and third in his brain.
He died while being placed on the
operating table. The only apparent
motive for the shooting was the fear
Of the fugitive that he was about to
be captured. Cotter had been in the
army in the Philippines before his APP
pointment to the police force and had
also been a motorman. He was born
in Ireland on December IL, 1856. and
was single.
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And when every ship pointed her stem
toward the Gulf every reporters mes
sage went forward TO his paper-sim-
ply. "On duty"
The assignment of men TO the ships
taken care of, managing editors began
to bring up their second line of offence,
the men picked to go to border points.
Galveston then became the objective
and quick connections were imperative
in order to catch the transports taking
on General Funston's forces Wires
were loaded with urgent messages to
the War Department at Washington,
and as the news gatherers dropped off
trains at Galveston their credentials
were waiting for them-passports 20
Vera Cruz with the first United States
troops to put foot on Mexican soil
since 1916.
In the meantime telegraph editors
had thrown in the high speed clutch
and correspondents stationed i'm Mexico
City, Vera Cruz, Tampico, Juarez,
Chihuahua, FL Paso Laredo, Browns
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

N the course of the year that has
elapsed since May 1. 1913, eight
l. men wearing the uniform of the
New York Police Department have
given up their lives while attempting
to preserve the peace They died IN
the course Of duty and there is little
doubt their names will all go on the
memorial tablet attached to the walls.
of the main entrance hall at Police
Headquarters.
The list of additions to the honor roll
since May l. 1913. is the longest for
twelvemonth in many years, If not IN
the history of the department. The
last TO be added was that of Patrol
man Michael j. Kiley. Of Brooklyn,
who was killed early on the morning
of May 1 by burglar he was endeav-
oring to arrest. 1t was an interesting
coincidence that a few hours after
Patrolman Kiley died William Bressen,
who shot and killed Patrolman Thomas
q. Wynn, of the Gates av. station
on March 6. was sentenced 10 die in
the electric chair on June II. Wynn
was another of the eight whose uni
forms bear the scar of a knife or
bullet.
The list chronologically is headed by
two names. William b. Heaney and
Charles ]. Teare, patrolmen, who were
shot within sight Of st. Patrick
Church on Mulberry ST. late on the
night of May 3. 1913. The bullets
which felled them were from the pistols
of Italian gangsters, which were turned
in their direction when they ran TO the
scene Of the shooting of another Italian
named Rizzo. Heaney was instantly
killed and Teare died in st. Vincent 5
Hospital a few hours afterward. This
tragedy aroused Commissioner Waldo
TO the necessity for prompt concentra-
ton of his forces on the gangsters. The
whole police force was stirred up over
the deaths of the two men, and every
available plainclothes man was put on
the case.
Heaney was only a probationer, haN-
ing been assigned TO temporary duty
on February TO- 1913. He was twenty
six years old and had his record yet
TO make Apparently his would have
been a record worth while. for he was
ready when the call came from the
next block in the form of pistol shots.
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medals. He was married.
Patrolman Edward A. Murtha, Of the
Butler st. station. was the next victim
of a gunman's weapon. Murtha. who
was thirty-one years old, and had been
on the force seven years, having a fine
record, was ON his post at Bond and
18th SITS. Brooklyn, on the night of
February >. 1914 when he saw an
Italian on the opposite side of the
street scowling at him. He crossed
over and asked the young Italian what
he was doing there.
The Italian growled unintelligibly.
Il think I'll just look YOU over" said
Murtha. as he began feeling the mans
pockets. Arino, for that, it was
drew back swiftly and. drawing a re-
volver, shot Murtha. The policeman,
mortally wounded, started toward the
fleeing man, but was able to stagger
only a few feet. He blew his whistle,
and then sank unconscious to the
ground. his whistle dropping from his
lips. Other patrolmen heard the
whistle, and soon were in pursuit.
Arino was captured. The services Of
the Butler st, reserves were required
to protect him from the mob which
quickly gathered Murtha, who was
single, died the following day.
Exactly a month later Thomas Wynn,
a patrolman, was shot by Bressen.
Wynn had interrupted him in his
efforts to commit burglary Wynn did
not die until March 81 He was born
on October 23, 1878, was married, and
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Colombian S2j,O00000 indemnity and
so-called apology second. As to the
accomplishments of the faunal natur-
alist and his discoveries. those matters
can very well wait.
In the capitals of the powers the
staff men regularly attached to news
paper bureaus were sounding the
prominent men of England, France,
Germany, Italy and Spain. At Monte
Carlo, the ex-dictator, Porfirio Diaz,
a man after Huerta's own pattern,
was disturbed by the insistent reporter,
and the world informed Of his move
ments. Ex-President Diaz had said
that he would return to Mexico only
in the event of war with the United
States, so it was important to put on
MIN what in newspaper parlance is
known as the death watch. In Japan
correspondents were following the
threads of events and selecting with a
nicely those Incidents which would
show how the Mikado's people might
lean in the event of war. Even Picking
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
THESE ARE LIVELY DAYS For REPORTER AT THE FRONT

Congress on April %. the ready action
of the House Of Representatives on the
resolution justifying the President IN
employing the armed forces OF tho
United States TO enforce his demands
and the intense fight in ,he Senate by
the senior Senator from Massachusetts,
for a more frank statement OF the
Presidents purpose.
How exactly the newspapers had
weighed events was convncingly de-
monstrated on the following day tAprl
2D, when the order went to Rear Ad-
miral Fletcher to seize the custom
house at Vera Cruz and prevent a large
shipment Of arms and ammunition
from Germany from falling into the
hands Of the Mexican Federal army
That same night, at 6:2J O'clock, ths<
telegraph instrument recording the bull
letins from The Associated Press
licked off the ominous message. -Four
American marines killed; sixteen
wounded on landing at Vera Cruz
A few words, with the eloqucnce 80
arouse a nations patriotism. And from
that moment American newspaper en-
terprise has shown how il can scale
new difficulties, can attain heights un-
dreamed Of in the history Of the press.
Mexico has since held all the space
available on the first page. TO the eN-
clusion OF all other important news
crowding out even SO tremendous an
industrial war as that in he mining
district Of Colorado. Mexican news
has filed pages upon pages with cable
and telegraph dispatches, stories ~
connecting interests in New York ana
the important and Informative descup-
tive writings Of local STATS. There 5
the news first, then the splendid photo
graphic reproductions Of scenes OF ac-
ton. Never before did the newspapec
reader get go complete or so accurate
view OF a world event.
Money is being spent by the newspa-
pers in fortune lots 10 get the news.
Regulations that mean great futures
for news writers are being made; re-
porters of this day will be the big 81
itors Of few years hence, and the N
side view OF things Mexican will sup
ply magazine material for years to
come. But in newspaper offices these
incidents are not food for thought. be-
cause every mans effort Is centred on
getting the news and getting il aheaI
of the other fellow II possible. And
it is this intense competition that is
making the great newspapers.
To-day. when the reader pays d cent,
or two, or three cents for his paper h.
is putting his pulse on the world, ana
particularly on the Invest thing In It
the printed record Of the efficiency Oh
the American press. But II you meet
an editor don't tell him this. II might
excite him more than would the oull'-
tin, War declared"
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nave not been made known until ths
lapse Of time had robbed it OF It's ireS"-
ness.
When the fleet was ordered to vera
cruz and exciting things began To nap
men Mr. Daniels forgot at Intervals
that he was Secretary OF the Navy aho
became the managing editor OF the
Wilson administration. His newspaper
training told him that the people were
hungry for news of Mexico, and he AT
once set to work to give 1t To them as
quickly ne possible.
He at once organized his force as the
managing editor Of daily newspaper
would He made Howard a. Banks
his private secretary; H. Nell. Howe,
private secretary to the Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy. and Frank Smith.
his confidential clerk. associate editors
charged with the task Of distributing
the news as quickly as it arrived there
To the group Of waiting newspaper men
Admiral Fletcher and Admiral Badger
and the officers and sailors OF the
American feet were made the report
ers. and 1t wasn't very long before com
plete and detailed accounts Of what
was happening in Mexico were being
distributed from the Navy Department
The system for distributing this in
formation was interesting Most of the
news so far has come from Vera cruz,
which i 5000 miles away from WASH
ington: but the system for receiving
and distributing it was so complete
that one could almost converse with the
admiral on the other end Of the wire.
\ telegraph office is just outside the
door Of the Office Of the Secretary OF
the Navy. Within two minutes after
telegram is received it is turned over
to either Mr. Banks. Mr.. Howe or Mr..
Smith who take turns on watch.
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The Secretary of the Navy and Trained Newspaper
Men on His Staff Have Evolved System That
Has Resulted in Speedy Transmission to the
Public of Official Neus from Mexico.

from Admiral Fletcher or Admiral
Badger at the telegraph office and the
distribution Of copies OF it to the news
paper men has not been more than fif-
teen minutes.
While. of course. Mr.. Daniels's expe-
rience with the newspaper men has been
the reason for this excellent service 1t.
nevertheless. would not have been so
successful had it not been for the as
sistance of Mr.. Banks and Mr.. Howe,
both of whom are trained newspaper
men. and of Mr.. Smith, who had con-
siderable experience in publicity work
at the Denocratic national head
quarters. i'm New York. Mr.. Banks
was at one time editor Of the Hickory
Democrat" n North Carolina, while
Mr.. Howe covered Albany for a New
York newspaper.
II am glad to know" said Secretary
Daniels. when he was complimented
on the way he has been handling the
news from Mexico for the Washington
correspondents. that my efforts are
appreciated. ! told the President at
the time he did me the honor to make
me his Secretary of the Navy that |
supposed he wished me to be the man
aging editor Of the navy | find my
newspaper training has been of great
value TO me in this position, and find
myself constantly looking upon every
incident in the stirring events of the
present time in Mexico from the news
paper viewpoint. ! am constantly
thinking after this man or that comes
in and gives me information which he
has concerning Mexican affairs, or
when the bulletins are coming in from
Admiral Badger, or Admiral Fletcher.
or Admiral Mayo, or Admiral How
ard-what there is Of news value in
all this, and | feel that the people Of
this country are just as anxious to
know the contents of these dispatches
as | am or as the President is.
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Italians, two Of them who had in
suited two girls on a Second av. ele-
waited train. were responsible for the
death of Sergeant Joseph NJ. McNier-
ney on October 3. McNierney was at
tached to the East 5lst st. station.
He and Patrolman William j. Deneen,
of the Union Market station, who was
also stabbed by the enraged foreigners,
were OFF duty on the night of September
20 and on their way To join theatre
party. They tried TO protect two girls
whom couple Of nashily dressed
Italians were insulting. The Italians
drew stilettos, and McNierney was
stabbed in the abdomen below the belt.
They've got me. Billy" he said as he
Deneen leaped at the asailant Of Nc
Nierney and bore him down, but the
latter succeeded in cutting his right
hand after lunging twice unsuccess-
fully at his abdomen.
McNierney, who was taken to Belle
vue, lived until October ;. He was
born March /, 1868. in the United
States, and had been on the police
force since November 9, 1898. This
was not his first act to entitle him 10
special honor. He had been commend
ed on July II, 1900 for rescue work
at fire when he was injured. on
June 6. 1903, he received honorable
mention and the medal Of the depart
ment for saving a boy from drowning.
and also the Peter F. Meyer medal for
the same act, the last mentioned being
one Of the three important department
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mimeographed by the hundred copies
as quickly as possible. In a very short
time after | myself receive the re-
ports they are flashed over the wires
to all parts Of the United States and
the news contained in them is being
cried by the newsboys as they hawk
the extras through the streets.
Admiral Fletcher. when he went
ashore at Vera Cruz to take command,
evinced all the qualities Of a trained
journalist. He put the news features
To the front in his stories from Vera
Cruz. and seemed to bear I'm mind the
great concern of the American people
to know what was Transporting, ana
forwarded the facts in such form that
his stories could be Immediately given
out to the press. He never once had an
editorial scrambled up with his news
and you know it takes about five years
TO break the average newspaper man
of that habit. Fletcher is the ablest
member of the editorial staff of the
navy He would have made great
managing editor if he had gone into
journalism"
In the midsummer Of 1907 The
Philadelphia Record" found that its
local staff was rather short of trained
men. and yet it needed to send an ex-
pert to Wilkes Barre to report a big
event. in which President Roosevelt
John Mitchell. the labor leader; John
Weaver, reform Mayor of PHILADELPHIA
and Cardinal Gibbons all spoke from
the same platform TO crowd Of 10
coo people. "Try the new man. SAID
the city editor, and Howard A. Banks
was assigned to the story. He had
Just come to "The Record from The
Charlotte Observer" There was a
panic in the enormous crowd, which
Mr.. Roosevelt quelled The new man
won his spurs with the story he sent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
THEY WAIT FOR A WORD FROM
THE COLONEL.

And yet, in all this intense concen-
tration on the one plan to get all the
news of the Mexican developments,
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was not
overlooked. Gable messages to Manaos,
Brazil went to that town 500 miles
from the coast, by the score, and sew
eral of the important newspapers dis
patched men who had been members
Of President Roosevelts party in
Africa to South America to meet the
colonel when he emerged from the
wilderness to get his views and opin-
ions on the Mexican war FIRST, and the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

Wilson he made Mr.. Banks his secre-
tary.
OF course, if it hadn't been for Joseph
p. Tumulty. secretary TO President
Wilson, a lot of the news which has
reached the newspapers would have
been very much delayed. if made
known at all. Mr. Tumulty is not 2.
newspaper man, but he is what might
be called the contributing editor Of the
administration, and has shared equally
with Secretary Daniels in seeing to 1t
that information Of interest TO the
people be given out promptly.
Many "A perplexed newspaper man
has gone to Mr.. Tumulty in the pres
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
TO AND FRO.

Massie Harmsworth. the literary agent
OF New York. said the other day,
Poetry does not succeed. Maga@ias
and other poets may say what they Ike;
It is very difficult to make living out OF
poetry.
Il once undertook u find a publisher
for a new poet The task was long anu
arduous. The poet dropped IN on me one
day and said. eNcitedly:
My poems. they tell me at the pay
ers, are actually going"
Yes. | said, they're going all ush''
but they're returning all right too.
There are no Venetian blinds IN Nehs'
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the reporter right where the news was
to break and at the right moment
On April 10 General Huerta promised
Charge dAffaires O'Shaughnessy to sa-
lutte the flag, if assured that return
salute would be fired. Official Wash
ington then seemed to regard the sit
uation as reassuring. In newspaper
offices where men who knew Huerta
and Mexican character were directing
the movements Of members of the
staff at the front or nearing the scene
of the salute incident, efforts were re-
doubled to make certain that news
points should be covered. 1t showed
that newspaper judgment was the more
accurate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
HOWARD A. BANKS SECRETARY 70 SECRETARY DANIELS

cnt crisis and asked for his help in get
up at one Of the departments Il Mr..
Tumulty considered the request legti.
mate and felt that the news desired
belonged to the public he took up the
matter at once and obtained the in
formation for the applicant.
There is also another way in which
news is distributed. This is at the
Monday morning and Thursday after
noon conferences with President vii.
son. He receives the newspaper men
at these times and he is cross examined
pretty thoroughly as to the happen
ings of the day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
NEWS GIVEN OUT WITHIN A
FEW MINUTES.

1t is then turned over TO Captain
Mark l.. Bristol and Commander Will
lam d. Leahy, the censors, who go
over it very quickly. They hold out
only that part of the telegram which
may concern strategy or something OF
that kind and in a few minutes it is
turned over to a stenographer, who
quickly monographs it and hands 1t
to the newspaper men. The average
time between the receipt of a telegram
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
JOSEPH DANIELS StcRt1ARH- OF WAR;

II was only one Of many little con-
versations of the kind that have oc-
Cured there since the conflict between
Mexico and the United began two or
three weeks ago. and they all go to
prove the survival of the newspaper
man in the Tarheel State member OF
President Wilson's official family
ii it hadn't been for Josephus Dan
ielS. Secretary of the Navy and man
aging editor of The Raleigh News OBJ
server. the greater part Of the infor-
nation which has been given promptly
to the American people concerning con-
ditionS in Vera cruz, Tamptco and
other ports would. in all probability,
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o,,-o ,,e ru,Nrn o,,r nv THEN DANIELS APPROPRIATED
o0r'-' Tus uHNneen SERVICES.

This was Mr. Banks's suspicious IN
PRODUCTION to metropolitan journalism.
He went back to North Carolina
bought The Hickory Democrat.
caught the eye Of Josephus Daniels,
editor of The Raleigh News and OBJ
server" and when Mr. Daniels was Of
fered the Navy portfolio by President
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

1T t.kes only a moment of thought
to sift that which must be kept conf
Dental from that which it is possible
TO make public, and just as soon as
can blue-pencil the confidential parts
of the reports the bulletin is taken by
some one Of my assistant editorial
force-so to speak-and stencilled and
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vile and Nogales, were ordered TO
watch for breaks" of live news Ha-
vana was practically deserted by cor
respondents. all available men being
assigned to catch the first steamer for
Vera Cruz, while Key West had to
shift without a single reporter at
tached TO a big city paper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
THE REPORTER-THE SOLDIER
OF THE PRESS.

Cruisers, battleships and supply YES
sells were leaving Boston, Philadelphia,
Norfolk and New orleans. the torpedo
fleet at Pensacola was ordered to stand
ready for sailing orders, and from the
big cities reporters were hurrying to
the Atlantic coast like crowd of be-
lated commuters scurrying to a ferry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
THE DAYS OF QUIBBLlNG AND
TESTING.

Then came the days Of quibbling'
President Wilson'S ultimatum putting
the time limit for the salute at q p. m.
on Sunday, April 10, General Huerta's
refusal. the Presidents message 10