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BREATEST POLICE PARADE MAKES SMILE LANE FOR MAYOR'S. REVIEWIN AUTO i, Hoarnission WHEN UMPIRE BARS COBB FROM GA WEATHER-Fair to-night. 7,770 in Line that Atmy Ex- 4 Pronounce Best in History. « ili! —_——— Hundreds of Thousands Cheer as Blue Phalanxes Pass Between. Police! Police! Police! F F Police! Police! Police! Thousatds of police—7,770, to be ‘exact—amiles of police, columns of po- lee, police on foot, policé on horse- back, police .on bicycles and motor- eycles, an army of brawn and eelf confidence in blue and gold that Marehed uptown to-day past cheer- fag thronge in the biggest and best Police parade ever held. Regular army officers on the review- fag etand assured Mayor Gaynor and Commisioner Waldo that the 7,770 cops who filed by im- perfect alignment for pearly two hourg constituted the finest ‘Meoking body. of men they had ever seen—not only tn physical sense, bat in respect of evident intelligence. These officere have witnessed reviews and parades of trained troops and police organizations all over the world. GAYNOR PINS HONOR MEDALS ON SEVEN HEROES. The head of the parade started promptly at noon from Chambers Street. The line of march lay along ‘Broadway to Twenty-third street and ‘thence up Fifth avenue to Fifty: treet. Th fewing stand and stand for guests were along the Public Library plaza and terrace, between Fortieth and Forty-second streets. | The review this year was a sort of | double event. Mayor Gaynor reviewed the parade twice—once at rest and once jn motion. Whew the head of the Parade reached Thisty-eighth sAreet the rear was just leaving Chambers Street, ‘The line was halted and the Policomen fell back and formed along both ides of the s.reet in front of the giowds, Then Mayor Gaynor and Com- qalssioner Waldo, in an automobile, started from the’ City Hall to pass through the lines, Following the Mayor's automobile was another bearing his secretary, Mr. Adanseon, and Gov. Emmett O'Neal of Alabama, who was the Mayor's guest for the afternoon. Memoers of the Mayor's Aamily occupied unother car, The Mayor was escorted’ by a de- tall of mounted policemen. It was 230 o'clock when the Mayor ana his party reached the reviewing stand. The parado formed again anl marched on unill the little company of heroes of the year reached the stand, Mayor Gaynor, Commissioner Waldo | ana Deputy Commissioner McKay, with the Mayor's ¥tUe daughter, Ruih, left the ‘reviewing stand: and walked fo where the seven men to whom medals had been awarded were stand- ing at attention. SPECIAL HONOR FOR BROOK. LYN MERIT MAN. ‘With 8 word of encouragement and congratulation, Mayor Gaynor ‘sinned on the medals, When he came to troiman Arm! the only Brooklyn man in the medal list, he shook hand, with the comment that he Wée giad to sce that Brookiyn could Produce police heroes, too. FIXED COP OF NAVY WILL WARN LINERS OF ICEBERG DANGER Secretary Meyer Orders Scout Cruiser Birmingham to Per® manent Patrol Off Banks. ALL NATIONS GUARDED. Nightly Reports to Steamers at Office Here. For the protection of ships of all ne- tions plying the Atlantic steamer tracks | the United States Navy is to atation a Vigilant maval policeman in the path of ‘the descending Arctic ice floes, which caused the dicaster to the Titanic and the loss of 1,000 lives. The swift scout cruiser Birmingham, Commander Charieg F. Hughes, will leave this port unde orders of Secretary of the Navy Meyet to take up her position at the southern Umit of the ice fields and there remain to warn the swift liners until the ad- vancing season removes the cause of danger. The sudden decision of Secretary Meyer to impose upon a vessel of the American Navy the task of guarding the steamships of all the nations against repetition of the incident which blotted out the Titanic was conveyed to Commander Hughes to-day. To-mor- row the speedy scout will le: to take up her new duties as fixed post cop of the Atlantic, and by Tuesday night she. will be on the job reporting to Central, which will be the Hydrographic Office at Washington. In effect the Birmingham will serve as an advanced branch office of the hydrographic service By her wireless radius of more than 1,000 miles she will be constantly in touch with the wire- less station at Newport Navy Yard and through that with the offices at Wash- ington and New York, DANGER. On the sea the Birmingham's tips about the movements of tho {ce will be sent at a regular hour each night to every eastbound and westbound ship within the call of her spark, She will be the distributing centre of all mari. time gossip about the lurking danger of the white ghosts of the sea. According to Secretary Meyer's or- ders the Birnringham wilt patrol to the south and east of the Grand Banke, seeping always in touch with the slowly drifting bergs “and floes ready to flash warnings when those menaces to traffic cut across the steamer lanes. Fach night at 9 o'clock, ship's time, the Birmingham wil! flash to the hydrographic offices at Wash- ington and New York a full report of the day's movement of the ice, lo- cation of the larger masses and thelr relation to the steamer tracks, The office in New York will remain open all night hereafter, and as soon as the wireless bulletins come in they Will be given out for publication to a Returning to the stand, ihe Mayor re- mained until the long column had id by. ‘Among the guests of the city in the reviewing stand were A, P. Sherwood, Commissioner of Polige of the Do:nin- fom of Canada; Major Sylvester, Chief of Police of Washington; Gen, Tasker H, Biles, U, 8. A.; Gen, R. K, Evans, | | ‘A; Col. William A, Mann, U. 8, Benjamin Alvord, Col, Dan- Major Fra fel Appleton, |the newspapers and forwarded to al! maritime interests and shipping offices ‘which desire the information, ‘This ser- vice will be done without charge, It ts Jexpected that many of the steamship | offices will put the nightly bulletins on ‘ables to France, Germany and England for the guidance of the ship about to leave ports In those | 11 Voting for Bishops. APOLIS, May 18—The fourth for bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the result of which % L. V. Hoppin, > N Y¥.; Chi ate William G, McAdoo, Fire Johnson, Water Com: nh 8, mpson, Ado Ochs, | missioner‘ Herman Ridder, James yer Otto) | Kahn, Lispenard Stewart, I. J, Oukley | Rhinelander, Philip {hinelander and W. R. Sheehan. To-day's parad Way announced this morning, resui:e4 in no ¢lection, W. O, Shepard of Cir- » received 486 votes, Necensary to 328, aE TICKEY OFEIO! Bouds Ameri Aravellers 'thecks a I ebieck room, __ NEW YORK, SATUR DAY, POLICE PARADE. AT GROADWAY AND DRUGS RESTORE RICHESCN: NO COAL STRIKE, CALM TC-DAY IN DEATH CELL MINERS VOTE FOR eeu Fearing Another Collapse, ~NEW WAGE SCALE) * Result Received with Cheers, and. Work Will Be Resumed Next Wednesday. WILKBS-BARRE, Pa., May 18—The Convention | WILL SEND GOSSIP OF ICEBERG | this afternoon ratified the agreement en- | tered into by a sub-cominittee of the miners and operators and the miners will go back to work after an idleness Anthracite Mine Workers’ of seven weeks. The vote was 323 tn favor of ratifica- tion to 64 The result of the vote was announced amid cheering though it was manifest long béfore the vote onded that the agreement had been carried by a large | majority. The debate had been on for five days. A motion was passed to authorize the miners’ subcommittee to sign the new agreement along with the coal operators, ‘The convention adopted motion or. to work next The men quit The repairmen dering al) men back Wednesday, May 22. work on March 31. are to return to work Monday, pi aia CARPATHIA CREW REWARDED Rescuers ef Titanic Survivors Get Extra Month’s Pay. The crew of the Cunard liner Car- pathia, which picked up the survivors and brought them to extra for thelr work Jin con is an- nounced at the offices of the line here of the Titanic New York, will month's pay nection with receive an the disaster, 1 to-day. ‘The announcement read as follows: The following cablegram pare to Prevent Scene on Way to the Death Chair. BOSTON, May 18.—Clarence V. T. |spiritual adviser, Rev. Dr. Herbert 8. Richeson slept until nearly 11 o'clock per Bore ot the Warren Avenue A. M. to-day under the influence of} peas Pe pba: Poel basisig A He ie the drugs administered last night) ary an hour before Richeson eroused after a violent outbreak in his cell./pimsatf sumMciently to talk. The prison officials fear the sightest excitement will terminate In another collapse and are taking precautions to see that he fs not disturbed. No one except the Rey. Dr. Jonnson, his spiritual adviser, and Dr. McLaugh- jun, the prison physician, visited the death chamber during the forenoon. Dr. McLaughlin found the con- demned man much better. tl Attendants who have officiated at alin of Massachusetts’ eleven electrocutions and at several hangings vefore the chair was introduced here, say Warden Bridges has made carefully detailed plans for ths execution such as are made only when @ man Is expected to give way in fear as his short walk to death begins, COLLAPSE DUE TO A NATURAL REACTION, 8AY8 DOCTOR. “Richeson is not suffering from ‘gen- eral collapse, mentally or physically,” eald Dr. McLaughlin, “His attack last night was really a natural reaction. He had been buoyed up by the im- pression, consclously or sub-consciously, that the death senténce would be com- muted to one of life imprisonment, and when he realized that there was no hope he was overwhelmed, His sound sleep has improved his condl- | ton,” The collapse of iast night came while the condemned man was alternately be- nearly noon, Dr. Johnson had diMeculty in convincing Richeson it was so late, Richeson thought it was almost mid- night, There death chamber and the ttle jayliant obscured by the rays of an electric lamp, which is kept lighted day and night when the apartment Is occupied. ‘The condemned man has little appe At noon he partook of light ment. Rev. W. H. Stebbin: prison chaplain, is devoting his time to Rioheson's comfort and occuples a cot in one of the three cells of the chamher during the night and early morning | hou Rev. Dr. Johnson sat by Riche- ron's cot during the forenoon and when he left, said the condenined man was perfectly rational and very quiet. “Tilcheson awoke very much refreshed, physically, and I suppose mentally,” said Dr. Johnson. Numerous letters and notes bearing on the Richeson case are being re- celved by Warden Bridges. Some of addressed to Richeson, A number of them express sympathy, but others are uncomplimentary. The Warden will not deliver any of the correspondence to the prisoner. HOUR FOR THE EXECUTION NOT MADE PUBLIC, The hour of the execution known by @ny person except Warden Fridges and his,assf¥tants, and under the law they are not permitted to an- nounce the time, The general opinion « that the condemned man will be in not jceching hia counsel ‘o have ‘iin body | @ectrocuted early Monday or Tuesday Inarred. hoelde that mother in| morning, the law providing that exe- ee licen nie. Cad beater Me aver | Cutions ‘shall occur between midnight and sunrise of any day within @ stated received by the Cunard Steamship |the fancied persecution ef the two! week, Line from thelr Liverpool office to- | guards forming his death wateh, Application for the brain of Riche- day, “The Cunard Line directors Some one of thore who entered the| son after his death, to be examined in have decided to award one month's | qgeath chamber told the prisonev his| the a Of aerated rears to- every ber o! “ , to have the > day to the a rities by Dr. extra bay to every member f the | father did not care to have the body] Gy to the, authorities by Dr. Eimer crew o ‘arpathia for the ser. taken to Virginin (or burial, Richeson| goo) Tt has been one of the con- vices rendered n connection with ) at onve gave way to his emotions and! jumned man's worst feara that his the rescue of the Titante surviv- | implored his counsel, William A. Morse,!pody would be dissected after his a FOR BASEBALL SEE PAGE 7, Hil Travel ara uaa i ‘ that arrangements be made so that he| death, and on several occasions he has might Ue deside his mother In the] mentioned this to his advisers, family lot. Dr, Southard secured tho brain of ‘The condemned man was in a wea John Sehidlofaki, who met death in the chair in 1909, but his application condition when he awoke to-day and It for the brain of Charles Tucker, elec was some time before he recalled the trocuted for the murder of Mabel Pag occurrences of the evening. Richeson's in 1906, was refused yroria | are no windows in the! whtch enters through a small skylight is | the! the letters are from women and are| MAY 18, 1912. "eae of the Great Police Parade as It Passed _ Through the Crowd at Chambers St. and Broadway {tthaca, Junt a When he recognized the features of crowd watching from shore that the Dr. Johnson he anked what time it was “diver” was off the bar the big haws: and was surprised to learn hai tt was}on which the Lebanon was sraining | j SUBMARINE HAULED NEARLY OFF BAR WHEN | THICK HAWSER SNAPS Rescue Ships Hope to .Have Tuna‘in Deep Water Before Night. (Bpecial to The Evening World.) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 18.—The mbmarine Tuna, which grounded ‘on @ sand, reef off Longport early Thursday was partly freed from the grip-af the bar at noon to-day by the collier Lebanon ‘and the revenue cutter {t seemed to the great WRATHER-—Fair to-night. $5,000 would not be allowed to play they eighteen strong. —— NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT CINCINNATI. Snapped. As soon as another haweer could be paid out the struggle was re- newed and word was flashed ashore that the submarine would be hauled into deep water before night. The sand dunes all along shore were black with wa.chere throughout the day, and whenever It sepmed that the Teecue boats w gaining the crowd cheered. Through lookout's glasses in the Great Harbor station jt could be dia- tinguished at 11.20 that the Tuna had been dragged sround from heading almost directly west until her nose pointed due north, While she appeared to be buoyant qnough, her stern was | apparently fast in the quicksand, but | her head was free and in deep water. After cleaging her bow the vessel went under water unt! just the top of her conning tower was visible. The Collier cont:xued to tug. Her prop sont a sheet of bolling water into the alr that shot a lane of foam behind her. Seconding her efforts, further out NN eea, the Itasca strained on her lines, between them they were slowly wiciee against the grip of the quicksand. Now and then the nowe of the submarine spilt the crest of a wave for a brief in- stant and then was submerged by the double pull at her bow, When the foot thick hawser suddenly parted the ends curled high in the air. ‘The ond nearest the Tuna snapped over the heads of the Atlantic City crew of ix life savers, who risked thelr Aves in the storm Thursday to rescue fourteen of the submarine's crew. The Uttle lifeboat went completely out of sight in the »plash, then reappeared a Roy of 14 Rep Over K While playing ball ront of his home, No, 472 Greene avenue, Brooklyn, this afternoon, Harry Levins, fourteen, missed a high fly, and tn chas- ing the ball dashed directly under the wheels of a dellvery wagon The boy was taken ty Dr. Rivers to the Bush- wick Hospital, where he died on an op- erating table. Joseph Hesler of No, 91 | First street, Manhattan, the driver, was not arre BiG BASEBALL WAR MAY FOLLOW TIGERS STRIKE: 10 AD Detroit Regulars Quit Field and Jen- nings Is Forced to Play Team _ of Scrubs to Save BAN JOHNSON STANDS PAT ON PLAYER’S SUSPENSION Crowd Cheers Eighteen Men and Bleacherites Demand Their Money Back at the Gate. (Special to The Bvening World.) PHILADELPHIA, May 18.—With the entire Detroit baseball teagn on strike Hughie Jennings, the manager, won we ead against the Athletics this afternoon with a scrub nine n wait thd fou tughca, Wraia: ant Seeae Velie toe fica We Ct ene I A ae Athletics in an exhibition game at the opening of the season. Tift Detroit players appeared on the field in uniform ha fore ttime for the game. When informed by the umpire that Ty. Cobb’ Baseball Scores To-Day Fine. half an hour marched from ba 5 “The crowa scrted. GIANTS— watched the Detroit team leave, 100 — | horse play and fooling usually seen: oe Ing the practice interval was not serie tC — Bl {aay atten the Tirers tate the and it eer iouat’ Battertee—Ghathowson and Moyers, "| Sievery Tomar ine ation iy AT CHICAGO. REGULARS GAVE THE BROOKLYN— TEAM THE UNIFORMS. 00 ! haba "ig aeeniae bed Cg we Ot end not! janager Jenn! CHICAGO— they would not play, he ordered 03 — |into the dressing room to take their uniforms, Jennings had ble AT PITTSBURGH. aquad of scrub players there ready te TON take the fleld, and as the strikers dis+ 012 — |carded thetr sults ‘the voluntesrs donned them an@ went on the field. TTSBURGH— _ | Manager Jennings announced thas 040 —' |every man who played for him to-day te would be given a $50 bill {f he te net. |n amateur. AMERICAN LEAGUE. The strikebrakers lineup 13.08 followss, AT NEW VORK, | Dataplt BB mers i HIGHLANDERS— 0030 — |e Batteries ~ Mitchell! and Easterly; Quinn and @weeney. AT PHILADELPHIA, DETROIT— wee 0:3 0 “~ }the scrubs, more than two at fans left the bleachers. In the first 300084 — ‘inning of the game the Athletics Batteries —- Travers and McGuire; runs on .he Detroit scrub Coombs and Lapp. and in the thitd inning, with the bases full, McInnes, the Athletics frst y AT WASHINGTON. man, bit the ball for three bags, | st. LOUIS— exhibition of ama.eur ball playing s® 100 — affected the bleacherites that they TON— \ In a body and made for the wae 0 at thetr money dealt, trike in the + |bistory of the national gaime, it te AT BOSTON. Ikely to have an effect on the sport far CHICA more widespread than the players Whe 000101 —~ |inaugurated 1c have imagined. It apy pears to be the opening welge toe py — dition dangerous to discip $08 0.0.8 will take some first cass managerial brains to hanile the sitnation, The striking Deirgil players are sende 7 IN + FURN@SS, England, |ing messages to Wolk May 18—The new Japanese battle cruiser Kongo wes launched here to-day trom! Vickers yard in the presence of the yanese Ambastador and many of th jvrewn naval attaca well am thou sands Gf the general pul The Kongo displaces 27,50 tons and is the heavi battle crulser ye built, She is one of four sisterahips. She carries eight at inch guns and sixteen Ginch gun {a fitted with turbine engines ef timated to develop & apeed of 28 Kuote, [formation of ryan! tion \Players for # prod getting encourashys 16 ites from the country. An effort by the Amérionn | League authorities to discipline the Dee jtroit team for insubordination magi 5 \ bring on w strike in both leagues: | Jonn Cobb was quite a biow to the trott player They pay ee be allowed to play pending

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