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query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EFD3F5412738... SEES POLICE FLYING AFTER AIR BURGLARS " Mile-a-Minute" Murphy, the Department's Only Licensed Pilot, Talks of Aero Sleuths. SCOUTS TO PROTECT CITY Expects Robbers to Take to Aeronautics as Soon as the Profits Look Promising. New York Times August 14, 1914 The use of the aeroplane as an instrument of war, which now has been proven in a spectacular way by the European belligerents, furnishes another convincing argument for Charles M. Murphy, better known as "Mile-a-Minute" Murphy, who is trying to demonstrate how these machines are undoubtedly going to be used by the police, sooner or later.

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Minthorn_Murphy

TVL 1970 and Richard Arthur Norton--Thank you for the colorful story of "Mile-a-Minute Murphy" and his idea of police using airplanes to catch criminals. We will add some of it to the image description when we update.

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This is a wonderful shot!


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The machine on the picture is a design of Giuseppe Bellanca , actually his third design - a parasol wing construction - dating from the fall 1911, built in New York. The machine was used as a trainer, that is the trainee was in the plane actually flying and the instructor was on the ground (!), as the machine was a single seat one. A pupil became later very famous, Fiorella H. LaGuardia in later times the mayor of New York. Reference: Spencer, Jay P. 1982. Bellanca C.F. The emergence of the cabin monoplane in the United States. ISBN 0-87474-881-X. p. 12-15. A Smithsonian production. This study shows two other pictures (one in flight !) of the machine. Kees

According to www.retronaut.com/2013/05/police-diet-squad/ "12 volunteers from the NYPD who for a period in 1917 ate meals costed at 25c per day, as a test for dietary advice to be given to the urban poor. Most of them had put on weight after two weeks."
See also books.google.com/books?id=KOzYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA36&lp... and Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume LX, Number 76, 11 January 1917 [spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=...].

The Spectator article links the diet study to the researcher, Miss Marian F. Walker, seen in the next photo.

The NYT of Jan 30, 1917 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E0CEEDA173AE433A... reports on the study.

The Times of January 9 notes that the rookies on the Diet Squad are all bachelors, with "ten Catholics and one Jew, with no profession of faith by the twelfth man." Another NYT Article on the 14th points out that the group went to pains to avoid ever having 13 people at the table. The 25 cents/day challenge was a response to an earlier experiment where rookies of the Chicago Police Department were able to eat for 40 cents/day.

Thanks swanq and Seuss. The New York Times published articles regularly while this was going on. It would even list what the men ate and their weight change.

That would be $5.85 in 2014 inflation adjusted prices. You can but a whole, fully cooked, rotisserie chicken at Costco for $5.00.

Edward Everett McCall (1863-1924), former New York Supreme (Trial) Court Justice, unsuccessful New York Mayoral Candidate, and here in January 1915 Chairman of the New York (State) Public Service Commission, making an appearance at the disaster site. According to the Political Graveyard site, he was "chair, New York State Public Service Commission, 1913-15; removed from office in November, 1915, because he owned stock in a company under commission jurisdiction." politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccall.html

artolog: thank you for the additional information. We will update the record.