New-York tribune., 1922-10-12
Police Parade
/ Marks 4tll Day
! Of Safety W eek
March to Central Park,
Where Enright Presents
Medal to Winner of the
Heroic Rescue Prize
Only One Fatality in Day
There We're Eleven Deaths
Due to CareIessness ON
Same Date Last Year

Police Day, the fourth In the weeks
campaign of the Safety Institute of
America to cut accidents to the un-
avoidable point, was observed yester-
Day not only by the police but by two
oI tne clty's most important business
groups and by the elementary schools.
Inc police paraded up Fifth Ave-
f nue. and switched at Seventy second
shae ssseet into the park where, on the
ssheep, meadow, Police Commissioner
Enright presented the Safety Insti-
tute medal for the patrolman who had
performed the most notable deed of
the last year, that of saving the life
or child under exceptional circum-
stances, to Patrolman Albert Granzer,
OF the Glendale police station, Ridge
wood
Judge Ebert H. Gary, chairman Of
the board of the United States Steel
corporation, in addressing the annual
luncheon meeting of the New York
Board OF Trade and Transportation at
its rooms, Al Park Row, said that the
United States Steel Corporation was
now spending annually for accident
prevention S1,00O,0O0, while general
welfare disbursements-total between
$8,00O,O00 and $9000,000 a year. Irv-
ing L. Bush president of the New York
State Chamber of Commerce, also ad-
dressed the board on accident preven-
tion. The same subject was discussed
by Marcus A. Dow, general safety
agent of the New York Central lines,
at luncheon of the Kiwanis Club at
the Hotel McAlpin.
Only One Fatal Accident
Qualification was expressed by the
leaders Of the Safety Week drive that
up to late. yesterday afternoon only one
fatal accident had been reported, as
against the eleven for the same day
last year. This makes total of twelve
accidents for the first four days of the
campaign, as compared with the total
Of forty-four for the corresponding
days in 1921.
Before awarding the medal given by
Arthur Williams, president Of the
Safety Institute Of America, to Patrol
man Granzer, Police Commissioner
Enright read the police record of
.Granzer's heroic act. He awoke a
houseful Of tenants when he discovered
fire at the three-story tenement at
174o Myrtle Avenue, Ridgewood, on
June 20, 1922. He carried down to the
street a Mrs. Rosenbaum, who had
tainted, and returned to the aid of
Patrolman Frank Back, also of the
10th Precinct, whom he had noticed
lying unconscious on his way down
with Mrs. Rosenbaum. When he
reached the street carrying Back with
the aid Of another patrolman, he re-
turned to the house for Mrs. Rosen-
baum's six-year- r-old daughter, whom he
found in a room on the second floor
and brought her out of the fire. He
then made tourniquet and saved the
life Of Mrs. Rosenbaum, who had been
hurt.
Gary Tells of u. S. Steel Work
Judge Gary, in discussing accident
prevention, told the members of the
Board Of Trade and Transportation
that some sixteen years ago the mum
Der Of accidents in the various plants
of the United States Steel Corporation
increased so rapidly that Safety de-
partment' was organized and since
then it had grown to be so large that
of the 5000 men employed in general
welfare work $50 are employed only on
safety work.
Teachers in the elementary schools
paid particular attention yesterday to
warning children against "hitching."
They told them that jumping on a
moving trolley car, automobile or
wagon is dangerous. You may lose
your footing and be thrown under the
wheels, or you may fall on the pave.
ment and fracture your skull or break
an arm or leg.
Jumping off is also apt to cause you
injury or death. Not only are you apt
to fall and be run over, but also you
may run in front of an automobile