The New York Police Department Carnival (1914)
This carnival, held at Brighton Beach Race Track, June 26 and 27, 1914 gave rise to considerable comment. The public was made to realize in the most graphic fashion possible that the police force was composed of something else than a lot of uniformed martinets whose sole mission was to make things uncomfortable for everybody in general. From a purely athletic standpoint, the New York Police Department could probably make things distinctly interesting for any athletic organization in the world. Included in its ranks are several world's champions in their respective events on track and field. Several interesting pictures of these men in action are shown. A l00-yard dash for men who have been 2.5 years or more in the service fills us with the assurance that he must be a nimble thief who might hope to escape these fleet-footed veterans. The hobble skirt race is filled with laughter-provoking incidents although it is a little hard to see the exact benefit the contestants hope to derive therefrom unless they are preparing to march in the annual suffragette parade. Of the "thrills" with which this picture abounds, the most interesting arc the race of motorcycle policemen, the charge of a squadron of mounted police, the novelty race between an automobile policeman, a motorcycle policeman, a mounted policeman, a bicycle policeman and a policeman on foot, and finally the rescue scene in which a mounted policeman saves a woman on a runaway horse, and two mounted policemen stop a runaway carriage. The exhibition by police recruits will surprise many who do not realize with what thoroughness aspirants for the force are trained. The fire-escape climbing and the handling of desperate prisoners are both scenes of great interest. Among the other noteworthy features of this reel may be mentioned the drills of the Honor Legion and of the mounted squadron, the close views of the celebrities attending the carnival, and the exhibition by police dogs. In all, six kinds of policemen are shown: mounted, on foot, motorcycle, automobile, bicycle, and finally latest of all restraints on criminal activity, the aero-policeman.
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