The sun., 1919-01-21
ENRIGHT HINTS AT
LIFT FOR SERGEANTS
Police Head Tells Them at
Dinner Substantial Re-
ward Is on Way.
SAYS CITY GROWS BETTER
Twenty Per Cent. Reduction i'm
Lawlessness During the Last
Year, He Reports.

Sergeants OF the New York Police
Department-members Of the Order of
the Chevron-heard themselves lauded
last night by Police Commissioner En-
right and half a dozen other speakers at
the fifth annual banquet of the organiza-
ton at the Waldorf-As There
were 200 or 500 present. What struck
the sergeants as more to the point, and
the same may be said OF the wives of
couple of hundred or more of them
who occupied seats in the balcony. was
the Commissioners prediction that be-
fore many months were passed there
would be something more substantial in
the way of appreciation for their SER
vices forthcoming than mere oratorical
enconiums.
Gov. Smith and Mayor Hylan were
to have been guests of the sergeantS,
but neither official was able to be pres
ent and both sent messages of regret.
Mayor Hvlan came in for lot of com
plimentary references from Sergeant
Joseph Courtenay, president of the or
ganiZation, who acted as toastma ster ;
Commissioner Enright Borough Presi-
dent Connolly of Queens and others. who
referred to the occasion as the first in
the history of the organization in which
member of the uniformed force was
present as head Of the department
Commissioner Enright and job f..
Hedges paid tribute to the memory of
Col. Theodore Roosevelt IA former
head of the Police Department.
There are men in this room to-
night" Commissioner Enright said,
who got tleir first real start in the
| Department by reason Of the civil SET
, vice ideas instituted by Col Roosevelt.
Like everything elise he did he did that
well and his work in that respect in
the Department will endure"
Commissioner Enright thanked the
| SergeantS for the cooperation they had
| given him since he took charge of the
| department. and said that he wanted
| the public to know that despite reports
to the contrary there had been re-
| duction of 20 per cent. in crime and
! law!essneSs in the past year.
IL would like to have the public know
! the COMMISSIONS said. that the records
! show that there has been reduction of
! - per cent. in the four important crimes
/ in the past year. During that time you
/ have been without the usual agencies
! for the sounding Of your praise, but il
Is only right that the public should
know what YOU have accomplished. In
the past year the men Of one rank of
the department have been rewarded by
| better hours ana better remuneration.
and ] am satisfied that before many
! II ouths have passed other ranks will he
| similar remembered for the class OF
| service they have performed. At the
| City Hall and at Police Headquarters
| there Is closer sympathy and under
standing with the uniformed policeman
| than there has been heretofore.
| Commissioner Enrght secuted the
| idea thai there was to be any reign OF
| terror in New York through the spre al
| of BolshcVism AS long as a single New
| York cop remains alive
| Borough President Connolly told the
scrG"ant~ that il was his opinion that
/ no future Mayor ~ %uW Work would
+ have tho 'e0erltv 10 appoint q man head
/ Of the Police Department who had not
/ been through the MN of police expert
( cn,e hin self
| L,eu,-col Charles W Whttlesey