New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-25
POLICE RECEIVE
CHRISTMAS CHEER
Time Off, Promotions, Jobs and
Communications, Commits
siOner's Gifts.

Commissioner Arthur Woods spread
Christmas cheer throughout the police
force and among numerous idle city
employees as well yesterday by means
of an order that gives half holidays to
many Of his men and promises employ
ment for others.
The Commissioner announced that
after the first Of the year ne would be
able 20 give employment to twelve
clerks dropped from other departments
through lack OF appropriations and NJ
teen laborers, formerly oilers and stok-
ers in tho Harbor Squad.
Anything that was lacking in the
general Christmas spirit was made up
by the announcement that four patrol
men had been promoted to the rank OF
sergeant, as follows: william f. Voss'
of the Telegraph Bureau; James F.
Smith. Of Traffic A; Daniel J. o,Sulli-
van. Of Traffic B, and James NJ. Byrne'
Traffic c.
Detective Sergeant Amedeo Pulig-
Eano. Of the Detective Bureau, received
honorable mention because Of "meri-
torious police duty" in connection with
the bomb conspiracy against 81. Tat
ricks Cathedral on March ?.
The patrolmen who received common
dation for good police work In making
arrests, stopping runaways and heroic
rescues, are:
william IL DAILY. jr.. and Maurice J. RYAN. both
sttsched 20 tho i4sih Precinct. Arrested t,o gun
- raefa
Avenue. Brooklyn ~ Jan. Is. discharged REVIEWERS
w1iiis@ ] M.A "a. 'T@ Precinct STOPPED
FTsncls B. casey. SSH Precinct and william
Daley l3l Precinct Arrested Jeremiah paterson
after ne had shot man a. u West 1874 street. on
'' Francis lt P. HUGHES. Traffic Z stopped rinA-
Wy Ta .s,,f 4 smith b. B II Squad formerly at
t,-bsd 70 =, Precinct Arrested tao burglars FEB.
I ana recovered property stolen from the premises
burslsrized
The next grade Of award, Excellent
Police Duty" was conferred on:
serresr, Alexander G. Anderson. lst Precinct
H1i lyo ne6 m1 Inn Collins ffsric Z Stored a
r,ineWev horse on Feb IS. HcnD schwsh. l5Vth
Arrested Peter lesgo IN attic Of rear I ILL.,
stack b n H. Squad. Rescue al ere. req. ~
Jc,cph l. Brown. .Slsi. while OF lvN " S1i1'
drf.s stopped runaway hose. feo. y VIZ A,n
Butier jr lJ2d st0pie-. runaway hoFse o.
March samue! Hirsh, 2.6th rescue u, al IRE 3.
Mach 3 james F. Smith. Traffic ton.rY a.
tachsd 70 list arrested Pster Bressi charged WIN
shooting John Benuelu. FEB. u; lA0nas I@HA9-,.
a. si1Dusi 4 runaway team o. horses, req. }. .
igsiI Eikons and Martin J. HsT.'on. TON a., a.
fached 20 goth aroused tenants ana rrcleN .ltll
f~ors he burning building. Jan. %. feef H1l.a
CHAN 32d. stopped runaway horse JaL. ~, - so
10 Kcrpon ioih SOgTr-d runaway horse jan. ~
William wc.ssheer, ljOth stopped rii.a"ay nj
Fab 2. John A LDyst, .Nlsi. s-Cipd = l-..a,'15
horse FEB 8 Mounted Ptlmn. william tl'zse'a4d
Isric d. stopped a runaway horse. Jan. ~.
For making suggestions that tenGed
TO increase the efficiency OF the PoIlce
Department, "meritorious police duty
an award created several months ago
bv the Commissioner, was given to the
following: v;.
6lst; Detective Sergeant. Charles u
Flaherty. Patrolmen-Andrew V. Nc
Donald. l56th; Frank T. Manwaring'
277th; Isidor Violin, 42d; Harry Z.
Sanderson. Traffic B, and Frank In
stone, 150th.