The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
Big Athletic Carnival at
Brighton Beach Race
track Next Friday and
Saturday for Benefit of
Honor Roll Police Fund
N athletic carnival for the bene-
\ At Of widows and orphans Of
members of the police force

4 members Of the police force
killed in the performance Of
duty will be held Mt the Brighton Beach
racetrack on Friday and Saturday
next, June IS and "a. The purpose Of
the carnival 10 to aid in raising $780,
900 for the Police Honor Roll Relief
Fund.
The honor roll relief committee
has been organized to raise a perma-
nent fund. the interest from which Is
to 10 used to assist tho widows and
orphans OF members OF the police force
Killed in tho performance OF duty, or
others dependent upon them, SO they
may receive immediate aid.
Tho policemen of New York city have
contributed generously for this pur-
pose IN times past, but for them to
continue TO do so Is a great drain on
small salaries. 1t Is hoped to create
q fund large enough so that the bene-
ats can be paid out Of the income.
Many prominent men have purchased
boxes at $500 each. and there was
generous response as soon as tho idea
OF holding the carnival was made
known.
Commissioner Woods wishes 1t to be
made known that policemen are not
permitted to sell tickets for this event.
"Wo are not willing" he said, TO
give a possible peg on which could
BE- hung suspicion of anything i'm
proper. We want to make the police
man realize that the town Is with him
and back OF him IL he tries to do right
even more strongly than It will pro-
coed against him II he does wrong.
We want to make the man on the
stree: feel that when the call OF dan
ger comes, IL he meets 1t, as he always
does, this big city OF ours Is big and
human and sympathetic enough to do
lts share toward making little more
easy the life OF those he leaves behind
him. 1t is a pretty tough thing for @
man TO so into certain danger"
No adequate provision Is made by
the city OF New York for the relief
OF the families OF policemen killed on
duty. Ten members OF the force have
been so killed in the pas; year. Thir-
ty-six Thousand dollars has been raised
among the uniformed members OF the
department IN the past year for the
relief OF widows and orphans OF men
who have los. their lives in the per-
formance OF duty.
The members of the force have besa
raising money every year for the fam
lies of slain policemen because no
provision was made by the city for
their assistance. The sum OF s+,270 40
was raised by members of the force for
the widow OF James OConnell. a long,
shoreman. who was killed while trying
10 apprehend the murderer Of PATROL
man Edward Murtha Of the 147th
Precinct, Brooklyn. A permanent FUND
will put q stop TO collections among
policemen and insure adequate relief
for the families OF men who are killed.
The athletic carnival at Brighton
Beach will be one OF the greatest out
door events OF the kind ever staged
], will include full programme OF
field sports. running. jumping and
throwing events. in which Olympic
stars and worlds champions in the
department will participates: bicycle
motorcycle and horse races, and a halt
mile relay race for the championship OF
the city, In which teams from all the
city departments will compete. Ex-
hlbtions by champion athletes from
various clubs will also be given. as
well as an infantry drill by battalion
Of cadets from the New York City Re-
formatory under Capt. l.. NJ. Dillon.
The Boy Scouts OF America under
the command of Boy Scout Commits
s!oner Lorllard Spencer will give an
exhibition drill and first aid to the in