South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-23
We " YORK POLICE
REGULAR SOLDIERS
Are Being Drilled in Use of Ma
chine Guns and Rifle.
Have Rookie Camp.

NEW YORK. Nov. 23.-New York's
10000 policemen are fast becoming a
military body They can now turn
rapid fire guns on malefactors over
either land CT water, wigWag sailor
wise II the telephone Is cut. and
handle rife as we'll as a billy The
latest step is open air training camps
for recruits. or rockies"
Here the young huskies Will be
taught rigid army discipline. 10 adj
vance in a skirmish line when faced
by an armed mob, and 10 take part i'm
complicated evolutions
The idea is one Of the fruits of the
Plattsburg encampment Commission
er Arthur Woods and about a dozen
Of his men spent their two weeks with
thousand young business men. law
yers, doctors. AID idle rich. under
Uncle Sans regulars last summer.
They came back filed with enthusi-
asm not only for national defense. but
for out-Of-doOrs instruction in police
duties. which TO some extent parallel
those Of the soldier.
The site Of the new camp" has not
been selected, but New York has a
dozen wild places available in the city
limits. Pelham Bay park is suggested.
tt probably will not be possible for
the recruits to actually camp day and
night at present. But spending all
day in the sun or rain will compare
favOrably with the present gymnasium
Ike instruction.
Here, too, the new rockies" will
learn a lot OF things that not every
policeman Of 10 years standing in the
force now knows. They will learn TO
drive an automobile, and ride a mo-
tOrcycle. all about horses, and the ms
and outs of motor boats and sailbOats.
All these are useful in the quick pur-
suit Of criminals. Often a bluecoat
could have caught an escaping crook
If he had been able 70 commander q
handy motorcycle. Being unfamiliar
with the gasoline bike he had TO de-
pend on his feet and was dfstanced
There viii be an attempt too, to
teach the art Of commanding men.
That is a necessity for the higher
police offices. Five hundred police
men guarding a big confiagration. for
instance, require a leader Of cOnsid-
cradle executive ability.
Button is Sought.
A button with the number "55" on
it-hundreds Of amateur historians
and archaeologists of Manhattan
never go for a walk in the fields OF
the upper part of the island, now rap
idly sprouting apartment houses,
without looking for this object
The man who finds il yill have a
treasure. He will have discovered a.
button OF the only British regiment
encamped here in the Revolution
whose buttons have not been picked
up.
Forts George, Tyron and Washing
ton were the scene of battle in the
Revolution and troops were encamp-
ed In that neighborhood throughout
the long struggle. No less than 80
British regiments and more than 10
Hessian regiments bivouacked there.
An amazing number OF historic |
relics have been unearthed in the last |
IS years. The sites Of more than go |
soldiers huts or barracks have been /
dug up and bar shot and chain shot !
have been found in many places.
The soldiers buttons. each with a /
resimental number on il, which have /
been discovered, number several /
thousand.
A solid silver belt buckle was
brought 10 light near Broadway. 1t /
bore the initials &c. r." and the in
scriptiOn "2Sth regiment" on the /
back w. l.. Carver. local enthusiast |
on the subject of Revolutionary relics, /
found that the initials y E" had /
been scratched
From London the military records !
OF the 2Sth regiment were obtained \
and they show that James Edwards /
zatiOn. was injured at the battle Of |
the Brandywine, and left the service I
In 1879. ii was undoubtedly his but |
ton.
a picture of this button and it's /
story appeared recently in the English I
Army and Navy Journal British Off |
GERS are much interested in the re- !
searches going on here. for some of (
these same regiments are fighting in l
Flanders today.
Sick Man is Hero.
How wounded soldiers summon /
seeming superhuman strength to res |
cue other wounded men on the battle |
field, can be understood from what |
happened a few days ago when a cry |
of Help came from the East river |
near Bellevue hospital.
IN the hospital grounds 81 dozen |
poor tuberculosis victims were sun /
ming themselves y tinsmith had fallen /
into the water from an anchored boat /
and was evidently unable TO swim. /
Oscar Poulein. one OF the unfortu- |
mates sitting blanket-wrapped on the |
benches. spTang to the pier and with |
out a MON entS hesitation plunged |
90 the rescue. The tinsInith threw his /
arms about the i'll mans neck and al |
most strangled him. Both went down. /
The other patients were crying for /