New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Leon Ostereich. Belgian attache, and

Leon Ostereich. Belgian attache, and
many others.
The rule was that there were to be
no speeches, Deputy Commissioner
Wallis merely introducing those at
the guest table to the other diners.
However, when Mayor Hylan was pre-
scented there was so insistent a de-
mand for a speech that he uade
brief one, devoted to hearty praise of
the police and commentator Of their
work
Commander Towers, Of the NC-3, and
Lieutenant Commander Bellinger, of
the NC-1, came into the dining room
and were introduced They were en-
route to Hazelhurst Field whence they
and the crews of their airships flew to
Sheepshead Bay in army airplanes.
Commander Read, who piloted the
NC-4 across the Atlantic, was to have
flown to Sheepshead from Lake George,
but the weather prevented.
When Speed Is Winked At
Sixty automobiles of the Police Re
serve Motor Transport Corps, drivca
by their owners, most of whom al
w'ell-to-do business men and all c
whom wore the regulation blue uni
form, took luncheon party to Sleeps
head. Mayor Hylan rode in the first
car.
If anybody thinks New York traffic
cop can't wink at speed violations when
the occasion justifies, he should have
had place in that motor procession.
Nought save a wide smile and an on
ward sweep Of an often heavy hand
at every corner down Fifth Avenue
from Thirty-fourth to Ninth Street
met the twenty seven mile-an- hour rate
OF the autos. And so, down past Police
headquarters, over Manhattan Bridge
where bewildered autoists, who had no
magic tallsman in the shape of police
reserve emblem on their winds Shields
wore drawn up alongside the ratings,
and through the startled borough of
Brooklyn. swept the privileged cayal-
cade.
Not One Dull Moment.
AT the Speedway there was some
thing exciting doing every minute. ex-
cept during the too rainy intervals, and
the events were of a variety calculated
to delight young and old. From mighty
Matt McGrath, the hammer thrower, to
Captain Speedy, who lived his circus
days over again by diving from the tor
OF 100-foot ladder into a shallow tank
OF water; from the daring and skilful
mounted men, who singly rode two
then, pyramided five high. chung with
sure feet to the feetest of their steeds
IN Roman chariot formation; through
the hair..raising speed of the racing
motorcyclists, the bicycle race, remi-
niscent Of generation gone; the hur-
dies and high Jumping and all the rest
of 1T. there wasn't one dull moment
So, when the police band struck UP
the air and the Peoples Liberty Chorus
hat 70
what wonder the grandstand Joined in
Hail, hail, the gangs all here"-
Still Happy Enough to Sing
And when, now and then. Jupiter
Pluvius did utilize heavy enough ar
tillery to chase the unsheltered ones tt
the rear of the grandstand, they gath
cred in groups, men and women, ane
sang, IT'S a Long, Long Traiw ane
other favorites, and were as chummy
and comfy about it as could be, the
whole 10000 Of them.
shortly after the army planes came
swcoping down from the sky with
Towers and Bellinger and their com
rades, the officers and crews Of the air
ships that made the historic figh
across the Atlantic were escorted by
q picked body Of policemen to thu
front of the reviewing stand, wher,
A>HA ~ III duulc obcu IHcIII
The days biggest thrill was the par
achute drop of Lieutenant Hiram w
She 1idan, U: S. A., from the wing O
an airplane 10000 feet in the air. Sher
idan fell fifty feet after jumping from
the plane before the parachute opened
Then it caught the southwest win,
and drifted downward with him, tn
aviator landing on the eastern edge O
the field near clump Of trees.
But one minor accident resulted
Otto, Edwards, Of 1913 First Place
Brooklyn, q police reserve Of the 90ti
Precinct was blinded temporarily
when blank cartridge exploded as h
was extracting it from his rife. II
, was attended by police surgeon.
When the damp but happy thron
] at last broke up md made for autos
trolley cars and al" trains they wer
still talking about the grand tim
they'd had They agreed that New
York policemen had nothing to lear
! about putting on a show, and Their
was moro than one who promised t.
take in the second and last perform
ance next Saturday.
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