Sentence:  A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police <WSD>superintended</WSD> by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To administer the affairs of something or someone.