The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-05
DIR. HARRISS SINGS
AT WALLIS DINNER
Deputy Police Commissioner
Marbles in Honor of Col
league at Waldorf.

How Frederick A. Wallis. Fourth
Deputy Commissioner of Police and 30
many other things that mere reading o:
the list Of Mis- activities makes one reel.
found time to attend a dinner given In
his honor at the Waldorf last night de-
ponent knoweth not.
But the fact is that there was Mr.
Wallis on the dais In the grand ball
room. with a long row OF well known
men who are his friends to right and
left OF him and out In front 500 more, al
cheering for Wallis, and up in the bal
cony boxes Mrs. Wallis and Mrs. En-
right. the Commissioners bride. and.
Mrs Ellen O'Grady. the first lady OF
the Police Department, and others to an
uncountable extent.
Behind the main guest table were
ranged the Police Glee Club. and when
they sang Sweet Adeline." my Old
Kentucky Home" (Mr. Wallis halls from
Kentucky, Sweet Rosie O'Grady,"
annie Rooney" THE Sidewalk Of New
York" and ever so many other unfor-
gettable classics. they were so much
more engaging than any cabaret that one
wondered why every dinner management
didn't put them on the guest list.
Also there was Miss Anna Fitz!u OF
the Metropolitan, singing THE Star
Spaneled Banner" And not forgetting
decidedly not forgetting The Long,
Long Trail" ~herewith DR.. John A.
Harriss, who IL none other than the
Deputy Police Commissioner In charge
Of traffic. II you please. burst into full
bloom as a public singer. and having as
tonished an audience from which his tai
ent had been concealed heretofore, pro-
ceeded to captivate It.
On the word Of Commissioner En-
right, said right out in public. Mr..
Wallis was earning more than $4,000
year as New York and New Jersey
manager OF the Fidelity Mutual Life In
surance Company when he suddenly took
a Job as Deputy Police Commissioner at
Sc, 900 because he saw a chance to help
the city in its wartime programme.
Under his direction the police sold
more than $4,000, 900 worth OF bonds
OF the last Liberty Loan. He raised
more than 100000 to equip the police
reserves and simply poured money into
the Red Cross campaigns. Because OF all
this and lot more a committee headed
by r. A. c. Smith got UP the dinner. and
as George T. Wilson. vice-presdent OF
the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
was chairman. It wasn't bit more seri-
Gus than It ought to have been.
blessed are the peacemakers. for
they shall see Paris said Mr.. Wilson.
quite irrelevantly. More pertinently
Commissioner Enright assured the COM
pany that Mr.. Wallis had won his way
into the affections OF 1000 men of the
police force. to say nothing of the rest
Of the city. After him talked, among
others, ex-Ambassador Abram !. Elkus
Secretary of State Francis NJ. Hugo
Job Hedges. ex-Ambassador James w
Gerard and the Rev. DR.. William T
Manning.
Others at Top Table.
Others listed at the top table wer,
Capt. Edward v. Rickenbacker. Capt. J
| q. Ransom, Walter lie Mar Talbot, pres
ident Of the Fidelity Mutual Insurance
Company: Rabbi Joseph Silvermar
| Robert l.. Moran. President OF the Boart
OF Aldermen Comptroller Charles /.
Craig, Mgr NJ. ]. Lavelle. Martin Vogel
the Rev DR.. Hugh Black. Borough Pres
ident Rieselmann OF Brooklyn. John r
| Stanchfield, Jacob H. Schin. Darwin =
| Kingsley. Borough President Connoll!
| OF Queens. william A. Barber. Otto II
Kahn. Morgan J. o'Brien and Jesse ID
| Phillips.
Mayor Hylan sent letter saying tina
Mr.. wallis has set a high standard 70
future officials Of the Police Department
| Others who wrote were Gov Smith
ex-Goy. whitman, Charles Il. Hughes
| Carter Glass, Secretary of the Treasury
ex-Secretary McAdoo. Secretary OF Wa
Baker, Benjamin Strong and Gov. A. o
| Stanley OF Kentucky.
| Mr.. Wallis's testimony as to the Police
Department was: Every man ant
woman here knows that ours is the mos
| efficient force of any city In the world"