The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-18
POLICEMEN PARADE
AS THE RAIN POURS
City's "Finest" Disdain Ele-
ments and Bands Ironically
Play "How Dry I Am"
HEROES ARE REWARDED
Smith, Hylan and Enright
Stick to Reviewing stand,
but Spectators Flee.

II was lust about o'clock yesterday
afternoon when the headquarters band
O, the Police Reserves marched by the
reviewing stand in the police parade.
their uniforms clinging soppily to them
and the rain streaming from their in
struments. Some soul among them re-
fusng 10 be squelched by the baptism of
water, had suggested their marching
song, and they swung gamely past to the
tune of How Dry AM
GOV. Smith, Mayor Hylan and Com
missioner Enright, who with the deputies
Rad stuck to their positions through the
whole parade, cheered up and roareo
with laughter. The silk hats OF the
Governor and the Mayor and the other
reviewers will never be worn again (;
they were limp and wabbly and alto
sether disreputablc 1t was the tough
est marching day the police have had in
years.
The heavens opened just after the
head OF the parade had passed the re-
viewing stand at Eighty-second street, in
front Of the Metropolitan Museum. Fol
some time big black cloud had been
coming up over the museum and anxious
eyes were cast at it, but 1t was not until
the Mayor had pinned medals on the
honor men and reviewed the honor squad
that a sharp crack of thunder ripped the
canopy and let through the downpour.
Up against the black sky could be
seen two airplanes. dark birds of the
storm, which turned and circled Just
under the wind driven clouds. the ma
chimes OF the police aviation force. They
could have climbed we'll above the cloud
banks and gained the upper air Of COM
parative comfort, but they banked and
zoomed their way along over the parade,
the song Of their engines sometimes
reaching down through the wind, until
The storm became SO violent that 1t
drove even these roaring birds to cover.
Becomes Endurance Contest.
The rain almost spoiled the parade.
turned It into an endurance contest in
stead OF showing of a peace army on
the march. When the first downfall
came the people in the stands scurried
for cover and above Fifty-ninth street
the men in blue marched past deserted
seats and empty sidewalks. 1t was
dlspiriting and blow to the whole force,
but the bands kept their spirits up to
some extent by the ironic strains of
How Dry I Am" and Hail, Hail. the
Gangs All Here"
It started we'll. Mayor Hylan with
his secretary, Grover Whalen, and
Lieut.. Billy Kennel, tfe dTIneu BudTu VI
the City Hall, led off from Fifth avenue
and Twenty-slxth street n few minutes
after o'clock. Behind the Mayor
marched the Board of Estimate and the
Deputy and Special Deputy Commits
soners. John A. Leach, William ].
Leahy Augustus Drum Porter, Fred
erick 4. Wallis, Mrs. Ellen A. O'Grady.
John A. Harriss. who gave a club on
Riverside drive to the Department;
Rodman Wanamaker, head Of the re-
serves Allan A. Ryan. John NJ. Shaw,
Edmond A. Guegenheim and T. Coleman
du Pont.
After they had reached the stand, the
Official reviewing party left the line OF
march, and when the honor battalion
came along the Mayor pinned medals on
IRE men who had won them during the
last year. Those decorated we're:
Detective Bertram Maskiell. the De-
partmeut medal OF honor Capt. John d.
Coughlin. commander of the Detective
Bureau Of Brooklyn and Queens the
Rhinelander medal: Patrolman Michael
Enright, the Isaac Bell medal: Detective
Gustave Schley, the Peter f. Meyer
medal Mounted Patrolman John E.
OBricn the Automobile Club of Amer
lea medal. and Patrolman John Scha-
waroch. the Brooklyn citizens medal.
The Mayor told them that what the
Croix de Guerre and the Legion OF
Honor mean TO the French soldier. the
Victoria Cross to the English Tommy,
and tho Congressional medal to the SOL
d'ers OF our army. the police medals
mean 10 the heroes of the New York
Police Department" He congratulated
TIE men on behalf of the people Of the
city and gave his thanks to the whole
army in blue"
NotabIes View the Parade.
Some OF those who saw the presenta-
ton, although their numbers thinned
when the storm began, were Major
Gen Thomas II. Barry, Sir Thomas
Upton, Major-Gen. and Mrs. John f.
Organ, Major Leonat of the French
army, Francis NJ. Hugo, Secretary OF
State and Judge Edwin l. Garvin Of
the Federal Court. Many of them were
driven to cover in the museum, but the
majority stayed TO the bitter end
The honor men had swung TO the
SIDE OF the avenue and the main body
q the parade began TO pass just AS
to first muttcring OF the storm came
fow the big. black cloud. II was
headed by Chief Inspector John DAILY
and his staff. including Borough Inspec-
t'r Thomas II. Murray, Inspector Al
ired W, Thor, Inspector Thomas V. I'm
oeTh.l Inspector James S. Boan. In
s'ector John ]. Cray, Inspector Joseph
a. Faurot, Inspector William F. Fen
Ie!!y, Inspector Joseph A. Conboy, DR..
Iatrck j. Murray. the Rev. John j.
toogan and the Rev. John A. Wade.
eAaplains, Michael X. Brennan. super
iltendent Of the Telegraph Service. and
CHARLES T. SchOfeld, acting Captain.
CAPT Michael J. Reidy commanded
t'e Honor Battalion, with Lieut.. James
=. Skehan as Adjutant. and Capt. Will
IAN +, Peabody and Capt William j..
'iafEe In command of the two COM
panes' The First Regiment followed
mem and then the long lines Of men
IN blue, sprinkled at first and drenched
uetore they had gone far. passed by
u'e stand, their hands to salute at the
Nzors OF their dripping caps.
some or the officers were men who
naNe been known to the city for some
eApiot or other and would on better
uays nave been hailed from the side
""'N ny their friends, while others were
nose Who have come up from the ranks
81 more recent years. when their per-
n"nty has been hidden by the over
Whelmlng interest in other events. II
was evident that there Is not the per-
na4 knowledge of the department that
was IN former days. the result of
Gradual change in the life of the city.
me Hospita! Relief Unit was one OF
VIC features recently added to the de-
!aIument' as was the Machine Gun Bat
noh' which followed the Seventh Regi-
LEM and was comma nded by Capt.
,"Atd j.. Bourke. Back OF them came