Show II r Veterans Insulted I II I Now York May 29 Police Police Commis Commis- Commissioner Commissioner Bingham found another blue ia law lawon lawon on the statute book to today d a and as a result not a 0 sound of or music will bo bc heard in this city tomorrow Thousands Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands of or veteran soldiers and bailors will march to to tho the graves of or their dead comrades but not a noto note will be heard to mark their footsteps This Is tho the effect of or a decision of ot Mayor McClel- McClel Ian Inn and the tho police commissioner to put into execution section No 76 of or orthe the tIre penal code which forbids music on Sunda Sunday Except where a body is being carried to tho grave gravo not a drum beat must be bo heard The Tue decision has stirred tho the deepest anger in tho the men who vho tomorrow will turn lurn out to honor their dead In n whore where the tho garrison of ot tho the arm army and nav navy union will turn out strong eight bands wUl march with th the mourners but without playing It is the most piece of or business that has ever been attempted in this elt city toward veterans said Charles W W. Brown Drown president of or tho the memorial and executive committee and grand marshal of ot tho the parade parale We never dreamed that Such euch action could I even cVen be contemplated by the chief executive of or a great ell city As for tor tho the police commissioner it is tho smallest I of or all tho small things to which he has hal stooped Mr Ir Brown Drown blames the mayor maor di directly directly dl- dl for their predicament When rhen ho learned on May 18 IS that the only wa way they could get around the pena penal code was ens by appealing to the tho board of ot aldermen aldermen alder alder- I men a resolution was introduced Tues Tries day permitting them to havo music This r resolution was passed last Tuesday Tues day nut and ami would have become a law immediately im Un- mediately had tho the mayor signed it IlIst Instead ad of or that he left tho the city Friday night for Princeton and the resolution still sun remains a dead letter until ho he ro- ro i turns Tuesday 10 1 I For twelve y years ars said Mr Ir Brown we wo have havo paraded on Decoration day dav but this Is the first time wo will doso doso do doso so without music I r am amazed that tho the ma or could deliberately snub a I bod body of ot veterans among amon whom are i I 0 S Sc I 4 0 c ct t 0 COMMISSIONER some of the best host known citizens of New York There Thero Is a garrison In our division l named after the mayor It contains policemen and is headed haded by bO James Fitzgerald of Queens It is IN only to protect these men that we wr will not retaliate on the mayor maor Monday by the 7 Ono breaking tho the line lino of march In front of or tho the mayors mayor's reviewIng review review- ing stand |