The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-05
10000 ENJOY FETE :
OF RESERVE POLICE
Sports, Speeches, Parades and
Acrobatics, All Make Cele-
bration Joyous.
GIRL COPS DRILL FINELY
Officials, Civilians and Blue
Coats Cheer Winners Of
Prizes at Sheepshead.

The boys and girls. numbering about
10000 souls and ranging in age from
somewhere near four months to four
score and then some years. who jour
neyed to the great speedway grand
stands at sheepshead Bay yesterday
afternoon to see what the programme
described as the Mobilization and Pa
triotic Celebration Of the Police Reserves,
Police Department. City OF New York
Rodman Wanamaker, Special Deputy
Police Commissioner. Commanding"
found nothing. once shay had got to
Speedway Park. to see and hear except
the following things:
The Police Department brass band,
Hizzonner the Mayor. another brass
band, Police Commissioner Dick Enright.
Special Deputy Cmish Rodman Wanna
maker. blue skies that were fecked only
with fieecy clouds and a silvery dirigible
balloon and buggy looking airplanes.
hoofs pounding the turf as satin skinned
hunters raced the length and breadth OF
the far spreading green carpet of the
Speedway inield, more brass bands, the
lice Department Glee Club. prize silver
cups shimmering In the brilliant sun
light, far vistas OF tumbly blue waters
that frothed at the wave tips. earth
rocking cheers, swapping flags dyed In
the colors OF Uncle Sam and all his
cousins across seas. acrobats Courtesy
Of the United Booking Offices and
Charley Dillingham;, hipnapping all
over the motor track, much but not too
~
Wanamaker Cadet girls In natty blue
and white. rookie police girls all in
white. hair raising rough riding exhibit
tons bottles Of pop and Ice cream cones,
regiments OF motor cars and the deuce to
pay generally.
A Most Ecstatic Picnic.
But despite the fact that the Police
Reserves had not a thing to offer except
the items just listed and twice as many
more. the crowds that filed out of the
Speedway toward sunset seemed to be
, obsessed with the notion that their cele-
bration OF the Fourth had been the most
ecstatic picnic OF all the many kinds OF
shindigs celebrated yesterday by New
York and the nation at large.
Perhaps Il should be said in passing
that also on exhibit were about 5000
khaki clad police reserves. who were the
be all and the end all Of the whole rip
roaring hullabaloo And side by side
with these were the equally patriotic
young men and women. all police re-
serves also. who were clad IN sassy uni
forms OF dark blue. the whole effect
topped with the raklsh aviator" caps of
blue which first came Into being be-
meath the roof OF the Wanamaker estab-
lishment, and now has come to be the
distinguishing mark Of the snappiest !
looking organization Of semi-military
bodies OF young men and women in the
country.
The whole organization OF reserves,
foot and mounted men and women. not
only looked as II they had learned the
intricacies OF their amateur Job OF being
professional cops. but also went to the
trouble OF proving on track and field
how thoroughly and quickly they had
learned the fine points OF their Jobs.
The cavalry sections staged exhibition
ruraways and snatched troubled ladies
safely and neatly of the saddles OF fiy-
ing chargers: they stood up. Roman
style, on the backs OF galloping horses
in a way that would have caused John
or All Ringing to sign up any one OF
them for the circus for all time.
Girls March Like Veterans.
The infantry girls marched in review
in fau,tless alignment. the old muzzle
loading rifles they carried as shiny as II
the ancient arms had been made the day
before instead o. being modelled half
century ago, and every rifle part Of
line as perfect as a paper OF pins.
Also there were other companies Of
perfect girls at so raw a stage OF rook-
mess that they were still dressed in pic
r,cky looking frocks. not yet having
been measured for the uniforms which
they soon will wear; but all OF them,
thanks to Drilmaster (Police Lieut)
Charley Schofeld and their own indus
try, as we'll drilled in the manual OF
arms and field movements as the Ma
tional Guardsmen in the old days ct
peace.
The whole programme OF exercises
had been planned merely as part OF
the many sided safe and sane lndepen-
dence Day celebration OF the great city.
Really II proved to be - even tAouSs
those responsible for the Inspiring sight
had not consciously set out - do an"-
thing but observe the great dAy-a TRIP |
ute to the eNcellences Of the Police Re
serve men and women themselves, to
the Police Department. 10 Commissioner
Enright, Special Deputy Commissioners
Wanamaker. Police Inspector John F.
DIVER, Police Lieut. Schofeld, Col Will |
lam F. Wood who is Special Deputy
Wanamaker's chief OF stan, and all the
rest OF the men and women, officials and
civilians. who have labored to make per-
feet the Clty's army Of volunteer cops
and copperesses.
Commissioner Enr!ght, all bedecked |
In his hard worked three quart tile, |
morning coat and trimmings, came early |
to the reviewing stand. and so did Dep |
uty Commissioner and Mrs Rodman
Wanamaker, Col. Wood, Inspector Dwycr |
(who had discarded his dark blue and !
velvet cuffs for the more military look !
ing KHAKI! garb which his Job OF uni |
formed boss OF the Police Reserves calls |
for). Chaplain Pierce OF the reserves and |
many more notables.
Crowd sight in Itself.
They saw a crowd assemble that in |
itself was worth JOurneylng 70 Sleeps |
head Bay in crowded cars to see. And |
they watched the rough riding. the drills |
and the whole uproar generally with in !
creas!ng interest from soon after mid |
day until tho day was almost over
with patriotic and waTlike enthusiasm.
Then, late in TIE afternoon. when il |
seemed that the enthusiasm could go no |
further, into the big fuss came none