The sun., 1918-05-12
BRAVE DISPLAY
MADE BY FINEST
IN LONG MARCH
Mayor Hylan Tramps With
Police in Best Showing
Of Department.
SIX HEROES REWARDED
Women Share Honors as Big
Procession Moves Up
From Battery.
SIX HEROES REWARDED


or clattered along on satin skinned |
charsers. the wings Of an airplane |,
reached from curb to curb. medals were |
presented at the rate Of ten to one as
compared to other years. tho weather
vas the most ecstatically beautiful in
Gag foated In the faces OF Officers Kelly
and Burke and Shea and was welcome,
high hated gentlemen In faultless morn
Ing coats paraded. a Police Commits
s:oner from tho ranks walked the whole
route, a glee club composed Of blue clad
COPS
Pausing long enough merely to take
deep breath. II may be shouted aloud
that never before in the memory Of
present generation. which means never
before in 'Manhattan's history. has there
been police parade SO magnificent, 30
filed with brand new features or 30
variously interesting az the mighty pro-
cesson Of blue clad policemen which
held the attention Of the business end
OF Manhattan from late forenoon until
midafternoon yesterday.
And although the marchers and the
Tags and the bands and prancing
rharsers decided between 3 and I o'clock
In the afternoon. 80 far as the parade
proper was concerned. to call 1t day.
the aftermath OF police dinners at the
Waldorf and other festive centres. the
special performance for almost 1000
traffic men at the Winter Garden by Al
Jolson anh his 'Sinbad'' sinbadders and
supper parties and hullabaloos In gen
eral all over the fve boroushs kept tho
celebrators ripsporting In high action
until hours after yesterday had become
to-day.
Hi.sonner Hippoorays.
1t was the first time lower Broadway
had seen a police parade since the days
Of Inspector Byfnes. Perhaps never be-
fore had the city seen its chief executive
leading the way afoot-and leading II
50 enthusiastically that at times his
Honor's secretary had to break ranks
and tro, UP the street 50 that no could
pull The Mayor back into the parade by
.he honorable ecattaiis. But with such
Q procession >ea4s- the. Aayoee- hesss
a!zzonner we'll could be pardoned IL oc-
cas,onaIly a feeling Of hiphipfooray yish-
ness caused him TO get too far ahead
81 The solid goldened.silvered nickel
plated Police Department Brass Band.
Needless to eay that even In the
course Of a police parade Of the unusual
qualities OF the procession OF yesterday
the greatest moment came when SIX clear
eyed stalwart young men marched to
the reviewing stand In Madison Square.
.or they were the elk young gentlemen
unatraid who in the course OF their
duties during the last year had faced
death uniinchinGly under circumstances
where they might almost have been par
kaA LONG
enough to call for help.
They were. and will be for all time In
tho annals of the department. the honor
men. And not one Of them did pause
when the big moment came. not ever
,ong enough to blow a blast on whistle
which might have brought the compan'
ions one likes to have at ones elbow
when death has to be faced. Instantly
they had jumped forward Into &c,
waters to save the drowning. straight
,ovard the blazing pistols Of murderou'
criminals. leaping at the bits OF runawa!
horses laundering down upon them-ant
in spaces OF time reckoned in second:
had accomplished each in his brave wa,
The thing that the coward could not do II
lifetime.
Women share H0nOrs.
Ell throughout a police parade tina
was studded with unusual happening
even the six honor men had to face tn
unusual for the first time In police pa
rade history the little squad that nat
won tie medals for unusual bravery ha'
70 share the biggest rounds OF applaus
with ether !narchers in line. the same be
'ng the first women that ever ha
marched In an annual parade OF the 10
Ice Department.
a
most, perhaps quite, as much applaus
as the SIX young heroes OF the depart
n!cnt wasn't a cause for complaint, eve
from the six new honor men. against IN
hundreds Of thousands Of standees tina
lined the line Of march from the Batter
20 For,y-first street and back agar
Even the honor men were ready TO ao
init that If the jammed sidewalk
cheered the women police" as much q
The crowds hollered approval OF tn
Finsst's hravest, the worst that could o
said about the phenomenon was that IN
creates, city teens with gallantry
vel as pride in its police heroes. Ais
the suggestion was made that New for
"a so accustomed to seeing its force fac
death bravely that the city has take
police bravery for granted. which surel
cannot he construed as any reflection o
the police
Under circumstances that naturail
tended TO disrupt the entire daily p'
licing programme OF the municipality.
Is worthy OF note that the city. vii
hore than half OF its guardians theoret
eally or duty. carried of the big pr
css,ion with only one accident, and th'
was slight one. caused by, an ovsrsl
husiastic citisen and a polfceman's M
torcycle trying unsuccessfully to put
dent into the axiom that two bodies
matter ennot occupy the same space
The same time. And 40 to the proce
sion Itself. not q thing happensd to M
Us Perfection. except that for the hr
ume New York police parade did n
se' started on the dot OF the TN
scheduled.
The delay In starting. howevsr. "
no fault OF Police Commissioner =
nsht, Acting Inspector John DAILY or q
othsr police ofhcials In charge OF the
uhsements. The fact that the procs
son was Just . shade less than half
Scur in getting under way down
cevlinE Green was solely bscau
..syor Fylan did not arrive In the b
Wy Park region on time. At the Ma